Seminar in Media and Communication Arts: Fashion Journalism

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Fashion journalism has flourished in print and on the web the last few years: from The New York Times T Magazine to style.com and Twitter. Where there's style, people are reporting, critiquing and devouring it voraciously. How does it compare with other cultural writing like art or movie reviews? In this class we identify and learn different types of fashion writing (runway reports, trend pieces, service articles, fashion news writing, the personal fashion essay and the designer profile). Classroom texts consist of various current magazines like The New York Times T Magazine, New York Magazine, Vogue, Wallpaper, Nylon and, in some cases, their web components.