First color lecture this week was really interesting.
Every Tuesday, there are the lecture about color and design. (not yet fully understand if this lecture is always about colors or textile?
I wouldn't write everything about lecture (because it was so much to cover!) but little bit about what i found interesting in her lecture...
Anyways, the first lecture was about talking a lot about black.
How black has been conceptualized and history behind of it.
First of all. black was associated with non present of human life, or representing something people should scared of, so Black was associated with kind of fair for people.
Then, 17 to 18 century
Black was one of most difficult color to dye in fabric
So wearing black was luxury and black was used as ''show off'' their wealth and power.
Also mind and body is separate, The idea of Newtons era emerged around this time too.
The story of color black goes to how black was not color for women, and muscle but yet little black dress was introduced by Channel (however, this introduction may not just been from Channel) and talking about even 80's Rei Kawakubo.
Professor was observing many different perspective in black.
In the end, black can mean everything, because it has refers to so many things.
Super interesting way to learn meaning of colors and history of fashion/ textile and also arts!! I felt huge differences of how I have learned. I have studied in Fashion in Tokyo and Textile in New York. So I have learned history of fashion and textile and art history over and over yet, it was nothing like in Chelsea.
In Bunka fashion college (which is in Tokyo)
We went though Textbook and how Fashion was started from ancient and how it has meaning but more like giving students to knowledge about how to call the garment pieces or what was wear in what era. Nothing to discuss about, more about it has been like that and this style was popular.
Professor sometimes gave us background about why the style was popular at time from context but that was pretty much it.
In FIT (which is in NYC)
There were two courses I needed to take for learning history of textile. Both of them were textile history and both understanding and learning different method of making textiles. How I learned textile history in here was somewhat more close to how I learned in Bunka, but still following and memorizing what is what.
However, there are few required art history classes to learn art and context of the times. This was something close to lecture at chelsea. Professors discuss and question about art and history, also politics too.
Here in Chelsea, Professor was talking about history and culture and politics, popularism and so much more, and bringing or opening discussion about color.
I really liked how she brought up color (this time specifically black) means just not color.
she also did not give us generalization of color (like we see in one of those color theory books) talking about history of usage and discussing about the color with trend and fashion and even more.
Still there are a lot to learn and interesting way to learn about textile.
Happy to be here, and lucky to be able to learn something I love.
Every Tuesday, there are the lecture about color and design. (not yet fully understand if this lecture is always about colors or textile?
I wouldn't write everything about lecture (because it was so much to cover!) but little bit about what i found interesting in her lecture...
Anyways, the first lecture was about talking a lot about black.
How black has been conceptualized and history behind of it.
First of all. black was associated with non present of human life, or representing something people should scared of, so Black was associated with kind of fair for people.
Then, 17 to 18 century
Black was one of most difficult color to dye in fabric
So wearing black was luxury and black was used as ''show off'' their wealth and power.
Also mind and body is separate, The idea of Newtons era emerged around this time too.
The story of color black goes to how black was not color for women, and muscle but yet little black dress was introduced by Channel (however, this introduction may not just been from Channel) and talking about even 80's Rei Kawakubo.
Professor was observing many different perspective in black.
In the end, black can mean everything, because it has refers to so many things.
Super interesting way to learn meaning of colors and history of fashion/ textile and also arts!! I felt huge differences of how I have learned. I have studied in Fashion in Tokyo and Textile in New York. So I have learned history of fashion and textile and art history over and over yet, it was nothing like in Chelsea.
In Bunka fashion college (which is in Tokyo)
We went though Textbook and how Fashion was started from ancient and how it has meaning but more like giving students to knowledge about how to call the garment pieces or what was wear in what era. Nothing to discuss about, more about it has been like that and this style was popular.
Professor sometimes gave us background about why the style was popular at time from context but that was pretty much it.
In FIT (which is in NYC)
There were two courses I needed to take for learning history of textile. Both of them were textile history and both understanding and learning different method of making textiles. How I learned textile history in here was somewhat more close to how I learned in Bunka, but still following and memorizing what is what.
However, there are few required art history classes to learn art and context of the times. This was something close to lecture at chelsea. Professors discuss and question about art and history, also politics too.
Here in Chelsea, Professor was talking about history and culture and politics, popularism and so much more, and bringing or opening discussion about color.
I really liked how she brought up color (this time specifically black) means just not color.
she also did not give us generalization of color (like we see in one of those color theory books) talking about history of usage and discussing about the color with trend and fashion and even more.
Still there are a lot to learn and interesting way to learn about textile.
Happy to be here, and lucky to be able to learn something I love.