Fashion History
Each student will be responsible for researching and learning about various terms related to fashion, fashion history, and the fashion industry that appear in the Dot Magazine article and answering a question about each. Some of your answers may be found within the article itself, others will require research online.
When you download the article, you’ll notice a yellow highlight on several words, indicating important terms, people, places, and events. Using the highlighted article as a guide, each student will be responsible for doing research into each of these terms to gather a basic understanding of and grounding in the fashion world.
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QUESTIONNAIRE：（use your own world to interpret the terms)
1. What is meant by the terms “Fashionism†and “Post-Fashionism� Who came up with
these terms?
2. Who was Edward Steichen?
3. What was “Pictorialism� Please describe.
4. Who was Baron Adolph de Meyer?
5. What is meant by the term “Orientalism�
6. Who was the person known as Condé Nast? What is his legacy?
7. Describe the three publications known as Vogue magazine, Vanity Fair magazine, and
Harper’s Bazaar magazine (US editions). What do they have in common? What’s different?
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8. Who was the person known as William Randolph Hearst? What is his legacy?
9. Who was George Hoyningen-Huene?
10. Who was Coco Chanel? What is her legacy?
11. What is meant by the term “Androgyny�
12. Who was Martin Munkácsi? What is his legacy?
13. Who was Carmel Snow? What is her legacy?
14. Who was Diana Vreeland? What is her legacy?
15. Who was Alexey Brodovich? What is his legacy?
16. Who was Richard Avedon? What is his legacy?
17. Who was Christian Dior? What is his legacy?
18. What was “The New Look†in fashion history?
19. Describe the image Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris,
August, 1955. Who made this image?
