Academy of Technical and
Art Applied Studies Belgrade

Costume design 1 Course code: KOS 115033 | 6 ECTS credits

Basic information
Level of Studies: Undergraduate applied studies
Year of Study: 2
Semester: 3
Requirements: The students should have a grasp of general culture, history of art, drawing and painting, as well as the psychosociological aspect of clothing, so that they could perceive and understand all the changes present in the evolution of clothes.
Goal: Introducing students to the evolution of apparel forms and textile from their beginnings to this day, with a particular focus on the changes of the basic outlines in costumes from different periods due to different social, cultural, economic, political or religious circumstances.
Outcome: Upon fulfilling all of their pre-exam obligations and passing the exam, the students should be able to independently perceive all the changes in the evolution of costume throughout the ages, to recognize authentic costume forms of a certain epoch, its details and ornaments, and use transposition to apply them in contemporary garment design.
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
  1. Introduction to Costume Design 1.
  2. Costume of the Ancient history: Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Persia, Egypt
  3. Costume of the Ancient history: Minoan-Mycenean and Greek costume.
  4. Costume of the Ancient history: Etruria, Rome.
  5. Costume of early Christianity and Byzantium.
  6. Costume of the European peoples during the Middle Ages: from the X to the XIII century.
  7. Costume of the European peoples during the Middle Ages: from the XIII to the XVI century.
  8. Costume of the European people throughout the Renaissance.
  9. Costume of the European people throughout the Renaissance.
  10. European costume of the XVII century.
  11. European costume of the XVIII century.
  12. European costume of the first half of the XIX century.
  13. European costume of the second half of the XIX century.
  14. Costume of the first half of the XX century.
  15. Costume of the second half of the XX century.
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
  1. Studying silhouettes and apparel forms of each respective era; producing sketches for each in a chosen artistic technique.
Textbooks and References
  1. Vasić P., Odelo i oružje, Umetnička akademija u Beogradu, Beograd, 1994.
  2. Grupa autora, Moda, Vulkan, Beograd, 2015.
  3. Boucher F., Histoire du costume, Flammarion, Paris, 1965.
  4. Laver J., Costume and Fashion, a concise history, Thames & Hudson, London, 2002
  5. Braun & Schneider, The History of Costume, Dover Publications, London, 1975.
  6. M. G. Houston, Ancient Greek Roman and Byzantine Costume and Decoration, Adam & Charles Black, London, 1947.
  7. M. G. Houston, Medieval costume in England and France, Adam & Charles Black, London, 1965.
  8. Holscher J., Beukel van den D., Roojen van P. (ed.), Fashion design 1800-1940; The Pepin Press, Amsterdam, 2001.
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures: 2
Practical classes: 2
Other types of classes: 0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
Points
activities during lectures
0
activities on practial excersises
0
seminary work
0
colloquium
0
Final exam
Points
Written exam
0
Oral exam
0