In this class students will explore the relationship of fashion, time and memory through the visual and material analysis of fashion in dialogue with theoretical perspectives on concepts such as newness, acceleration, authenticity, and the technological transformation of the dynamics of memory and the experience of temporality. Setting a particular focus on the contemporary consumption of the past, researching and analyzing fashion revivals, youth cultural retro-styles, the rise of vintage fashion and heritage branding, and the mediation of memory in popular culture, students will delve into various meaning dimensions of the fashioning of memory and time that go beyond readings of “retro” as culturally regressive, towards more nuanced understandings of the multiple temporalities of fashion, and the modalities of memory and nostalgia. Readings include the work of authors such as Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Fred Davis, Caroline Evans, Elizabeth Guffey, Maurice Halbwachs, Andrew Hoskins, Daniel Miller, Simon Reynolds. Please note that some seats in this course are reserved for incoming Fashion Studies students.