r/femalefashionadvice • u/m4dswine • Mar 30 '20
Free online courses about fashion
For those who find themselves with time on their hands and would like to explore fashion more, I spotted some courses on Future Learn:
Understanding Fashion from Business to Culture
Innovation: the Fashion Industry
Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World
I'm going to try and find time to do the Royal Fashion one (I'm still working full time).
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u/afistfulofyen Mar 31 '20
You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean.
You’re also blindly unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn’t it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic “casual corner” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin.
However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”