In this course you will explore what is meant by fashion and dress and how these meanings are informed by and challenge diverse social-cultural and aesthetic practices and histories. The course will give you a foundation for understanding the ways in which we theorise and engage with fashion and dress, and it will allow you to critically engage with these concepts as part of the fashion system. Through project work you will analyse and reflect on the diverse contexts that inform your own participation in fashion and dress, to research a garment, image or object within a historical or contemporary context, and to reimagine past or present fashion and dress design narratives for new contexts.