Title: Identify highlights of fashion history.
Course: Introduction to Fashion Careers (19201-36) > Section: Examining the Fashion Industry

Identification should include examples of the following from different centuries:

- Fashion cycle
- Fashion movement
- Long-run and short-run fashions
- Recurring fashions (e.g., trends, fads)
- Classics, traditional
- Examples of fashion following the stages of the economic cycle of influential designers

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How do historical influences affect current fashion?
- How do influential designers, past and present, affect current fashion?
- What factors play a role in the fashion movement?

Communication

- How can the Internet be used to research fashion history?
- How do economic conditions and factors affect the history of fashion?

Leadership

- Who are the influential leaders throughout fashion history?
- What personal, professional, and/or artistic qualities are associated with fashion leaders of the past?
- How have fashion leaders influenced the fashion cycle?

Management

- What have been the effects of war, disaster, or crises on the fashion industry?
- How can a knowledge of fashion history be useful to a current fashion designer?