Unit: “Clothes/Fashion/Style”.
Theme: “Fashion victims”.
Problem: Factors that make people buy things they don’t need. Factors that make people to look ordinary, like anybody else.
Idea of the project: If someone wants to change the world by buying clothes it doesn’t work. It’s better to change his/her personality to be in harmony with others. While trying to be fashionable, people loose themselves and become fashion addicted (so called “fashion victims”). It’s better to dress in the way they like, but not just to follow the crowd.
Aim: to attract people’s attention towards existing problem, to have it solved, and to find the way out.
Objectives:
* To research different resources about fashion; * To make a discussion about fashion and inspire a sustainable response to it; * Find the causes of appearing this problem; * Find the negative impacts; * Try to find the solution of this problem.
Competences: lingua – cultural, socio- cultural, professional – oriented (informative – searching, analytical, forecasting, creative modeling, reflexive – developing).
Stages:
* Describing what means “fashion victim” mean; * Typical signs of a fashion victim; * Victims of fashion history; * Famous fashion victims; * The causes of the phenomenon; * Fashionable vs. stylish; * How to become fashionable and stylish; * Literature.
Solving the problem: * Doing the right research: fashion magazines, blogs. * Taking someone’s look as a general idea, but not copying all the details; add something from you. * Picking the trends that you like for that season and adapt them to your own style. * Going shopping with friends and listening to their opinion. * Learn how to do the make-up.
Result: make a project work.
Additional themes: * Being fashionable * Different trends-different styles * Fashion designers
Fashion Victim is a term claimed to have been coined