Clothing History

A brief history of clothing

History of clothing (a sequence of term definitions)

Sense and Nonsense in Fashion (part 1)

Sense and Nonsense in Fashion (part 2)

Making shoes by Salvatore Ferragamo

Clothes & Fashion

Dizionario della moda

Piccolo dizionario della moda

Un altro dizionario della moda (con termini in inglese)

Something about garbage

Reverse Garbage

Tre amici s’incontrano e decidono di affrontare insieme, con creatività, le difficoltà lavorative… nasce così una collaborazione artistica che li ha portati a realizzare la loro prima mostra, dal 3 a 23 dicembre 2012 a Torino, che non può definirsi semplicemente “collettiva”, ma un felice connubio di falegnameria, restauro e pittura.

A concept map

Before the preparation of the final text, for telling the Story of the Thing, on the basis of the found materials and with the connections (links) to the blog posts, it is necessary to prepare a concept map that reveals the cipher used to present the work done.

A concept map (mappa concettuale), as that proposed in this blog, is a graph that shows the 5-7 basic concepts around which the investigation can be developed. The connections between the concepts give evidence to the relationship among the focal points, and will be used to develop the final text.
A suggestion for the identification of the "names" for the concepts is:

- select abstract nouns
- select object nouns
- select attributes (characteristics, colours, ...)
- select people names
- select geographic places
- select a series of images
- select a series of books
- ...

e.g.

• Postcard: greetings, places, travels, notification, advertisement, travel report,...
• Electric bulb: Edison (the enterprise), Cruto (the inventor), Edy (the fantasy), Picabia (the Dada art), Marenco (the music of the progress), Philips (the industry),...
• Bottle: Coke, Milk, Water, Poison, Sins (Pandora's bottle)
• Bottle: red, white, blue, green, black
• Playing cards: Ace, the Queen of Hearts, the Joker, 7 of diamonds, 2 of clubs, the Juggler (tarot)
• Key: to open, to protect, to consolidate (an arch), to tune (an instrument), to upload (a clock)

Interesting readings

Honoré de Balzac, Il cugino Pons

Three exercises

Assign to the selected Thing ONE of the "deadly sins"

Assign to the selected Thing an ODOUR

Join to the selected Thing a POSTAGE STAMP that represents the subject.

Smell

Smell. Vizi e virtù nel mondo degli odori

un saggio di VIttorio Marchis

Torino : Utet, 2006.

anche su Google Books (con link alle parole più usate)