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Week 7 : New fashion centres: China, Belgium, Amsterdam, Spain, America, Italy, NZ, Japan.
Individual help to design research proposals

Week 8: TFC futures for the Australian fashion industry.
Research proposals due

Week 9 : Individual feedback on research proposals.

Break

Week 10: Innovation : designers from China, Belgium, Amsterdam, Spain, NZ, Japan.

Week11 : The role of the designer: Designing design.

Week 12 Branding: New consumerism fashion retail design.

new fashion catalogue FYI

http://www.bergpublishers.com/Portals/0/Fashion%20Catalogue_UK%20and%20RoW.pdf

This is Berg's new fashion catalogue -- check out teh cover -- it's my new book!

Sub cultures

Today's lesson on subcultures verified that fact that in today's society subcultures are more widely accepted and not so taboo. As with the past decades where each subculture was more prominant in a particular decade, today subcultures are integrated into everyday society with many subcultures present at once.

Relating to the Sexpistols for example I think the reason they made such a huge impact of society of the time was the fact that the politcal stance of the country was in disrepute. Therefore the youth of the time weren't of huge importance politically and we're able to speak out and make a stand.

Subcultures today seem more subtle and not so prominant, this being that the world has come to accept differnce.