Fashion DVD or podcast suggestions?
I’m teaching a two day a week lecture course on an overview of the fashion world which is required for the apparel and retail students, but is also a university-wide elective for social science credit as an “ethics” course. There are about 70 students in a lecture hall.
So, I’m dealing with jobs and the industry, production and sourcing, body image, cultural values, media, etc etc. They’re freshmen and sophmores and it’s at 8:30 am so to keep everyone interested I think a lot of media would be ideal. I’ve got some dvds I’m excited about via digging through Netflix and my own collection, as well as some podcasts I will show weekly, but I wanted any suggestions on other things I could show.
I have seen a million historical documentaries which I adore, but it’s not really biographical/historical class, it is more an introduction to the world of fashion including its ethical complications.
Any thoughts?
-Monica
Julia said,
January 6th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Dunno if this is available on DVD yet, but it looks fascinating:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/thread/blood-sweat-tshirts/
(Might be available through more questionable sources…)
Monica Sklar said,
January 6th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I went to that site and although it looks like the full film isn’t available, there are a lot of ethical fashion short films that I can play from the site which are great Thanx!
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January 9th, 2009 at 5:03 am
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