16.3 Fashion designers - hv12

16.3 Fashion designers - hv12

Fashion designers

Introduction

The subject of this period is fashion designers.

  • Form groups of three or four pupils.

Discuss the following questions in your group:

  • How important is fashion to you?
  • Why do you think it is important? Why (not)?
  • Do you know who (Coco) Chanel was?
  • Would you like to own clothes by famous designers? Why (not)?

In this period you are going to learn about the grammar subject conjunctions, you are going to talk about designer clothes and you are going to write a factsheet.

  • Conjunctions:
  • Talk about designer clothes:
  • Write a factsheet:

What is your current level with these subjects? Grade yourself. Give yourself a score between 1 and 10.

Step   activity aim time

 

introduction

Think about what you have learned.

 10

Step 1

listening
Fashion

You can understand a song about fashion and answer questions about it.

 15

Step 2

reading
Fashion designers

You can understand a text about Coco Chanel and answer questions about it.

 15

Step 3

vocabulary

You can understand and use a vocabulary about fashion.

 15

Step 4

grammar
Conjunctions

You can understand and use conjunctions.

 15

Step 5

speaking
Tell me about designer clothes

You can have a conversation about designer clothes.

 10

Step 6

writing
A factsheet

You can write a factsheet about a famous designer.

 15

Step 7

evaluation

Reflecting on what you have learned.

 05

Step 1 - Listening

Fashion

You are going to listen to Fashion by Lady Gaga.

  • Watch and listen to the video and do exercise 1.
  • Listen again and do exercises 2 and 3.

Questions

  1. What does Lady Gaga sing about designers?
  2. What does Lady Gaga sing about clothes?
  3. What about fashion models?
  4. Which French words are in the song?
  5. What can fashion do to people?
  6. What do we all love?
  7. What about shoes?

Exercise 3

Listen to the song and read the lyrics and answer the last question.

video: Fashion

I am, I'm too fabulous
I'm so, fierce that it's so nuts
I live, to be model thin
Dress me, I'm your mannequin

j'adore Vivienne habillez-moi
Gucci, Fendi et Prada.
Valentino, Armani too.
Merde I love them Jimmy Choo

Fashion
Put it all on me
Don't you want to see these clothes on me
Fashion
Put it all on me
I am anyone you want me to be
Fashion
Put it all on me
Don't you want to see these clothes on me
Fashion put it all on me
I am anyone you want me to be

Oh oh
La la la
We love designers

I need, some new stilettos
Can't walk, down the street in those
You are, who you wear it's true
A girl's just as hot as the shoes she choose

J'adore Weitzman, habillez-moi
Louis, Dolce Gabbana, Alexander McQueen, et oh
Merde I love those Manolo

Fashion put it all on me
Don't you want to see these clothes on me
Fashion
Put it all on me
I am anyone you want me to be
Fashion
Put it all on me
Don't you want to see these clothes on me
Fashion
Put it all on me
I am anyone you want me to be

Oh oh
La la la
We love designers

Step 2 - Reading

Fashion designers

You are going to read two texts about famous fashion designers.

  • Skim the texts and do exercise 1.
  • Read the texts and do exercise 2.
  • Read the texts again and do exercise 3.

 

 

Text 1 Coco Chanel

Text 2 Mary Quant

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was born in France in 1883 and died in 1971. She was a pioneering fashion designer who revolutionized women’s fashion. She designed modern and simple clothes that were often based on menswear. She was so important that she was the only designer named in ‘Time’ magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

Chanel had a very poor upbringing. Her mother worked in the poorhouse where Gabrielle was born. She died when Gabrielle was six and then her father abandoned her. She adopted the name Coco while she was a café singer in 1905. Two lovers funded her first store in Paris in 1910. They also helped her hats become popular with rich women.

In the 1920s, Chanel rose to become Paris’ top fashion designer. Her comfortable, yet elegant clothes were popular across Europe. Women found her mannish clothes to be liberating. In 1922 Chanel introduced her perfume, Chanel No. 5, which is still highly profitable. Her famous Chanel suit has also stood the test of time and is part of the modern woman’s wardrobe.

At the beginning of World War II she moved into the Ritz Hotel in Paris, which became her home for 30 years. During the Nazi occupation of Paris she had a lover, a German spy. This relationship made her unpopular for a decade after the war. Her 1954 collection did badly in France. Today, however, her name is the biggest in fashion.

 

Mary Quant was born 11 February 1930. She is an English fashion designer and fashion icon. She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements. She was one of the designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hot pants.

In November 1955, Quant teamed up with a photographer and former solicitor to open Quant's first shop on the corner of Markham Square and King's Road in Chelsea, London.

Quant decided to design and make more of the clothes she stocked, instead of buying-in stock.

The miniskirt, described as one of the defining fashions of the 1960s, is one of the garments most widely associated with Quant. Quant later said: "It was the girls on the King's Road who invented the mini. I was making easy, youthful, simple clothes, in which you could move, in which you could run and jump and we would make them the length the customer wanted." She gave the miniskirt its name, after her favourite car, the Mini.

Through the 1970s and 1980s she concentrated on household goods and make-up rather than just her clothing lines.

In 2000, she resigned as director of Mary Quant Ltd, her cosmetics company, after a Japanese buy-out.

An influential fashion journalist of the 1950s and 1960s, wrote: "It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in the right place, with the right talents. In recent fashion there are three: Chanel, Dior, and Mary Quant."

Step 3 - Vocabulary

  • Study the vocabulary. (10 minutes)
  • Do the exercise.

Woordenlijst Fashion designers

Step 4 - Grammar

Conjunctions

Study conjunctions in the toolbox (kennisbank). 
Do the exercises.

Now you are ready to do the following exercise.

Step 5 - Speaking

A debate about designer clothes

Work together with 3 classmates. You have read two texts about fashion designers and watched a video about the impact of fashion on the environment. Now you are going to debate about the subject.

  • Read the statement.
  • Divide the roles.
  • Prepare the roles using key words (5 minutes).
    When preparing your arguments, try to think of the counterarguments as well.
  • Debate.
  • Listen to what the other has to say, respond respectfully.

Statement: People should only wear clothes designed by top designers.

Role A
You are going to lead the debate. Prepare the introduction of the statement and give some extra information (use the texts: Coco Chanel and Mary Quant, use the video: the true cost of fashion).

Role B
Prepare at least three arguments in favour of the statement. One statement needs to deal with the environmental impact of fashion.

Role C
Prepare at least three arguments against the statement. One statement needs to deal with the environmental impact of fashion.

Role D
You are going to judge which arguments are the most convincing, use the rubrics. Help the leader (role A) preparing the introduction.

 

Rubrics

 

Yes

A little

No

Three arguments were given in favour / against the statement.

      

One statement dealt with the environmental impact of fashion.

      

Listened to what the other had to say.

      

Responded respectfully.

      

 

Step 6 - Writing

Creating a factsheet

Create a factsheet about a designer of your choice. You choose from the designers mentioned below.

You can choose from the following British designers: Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Victoria Beckham or Thomas Burberry.

  • Research online:
    • birthdate and birthplace.
    • career highlights and significant contributions to fashion.
    • signature styles or designs.
    • famous collections or fashion shows.
    • any interesting personal anecdotes or facts.
    • two photos of people wearing your designer’s clothing.

Factsheet Components:

  • Create a two-page factsheet / or factsheet poster (size A2) with the following components:
    • personal information about the designer.
    • a timeline from when they became famous till now.
    • pictures of outfits designed by them, including your description of the outfits. In English.
    • interesting personal anecdotes or facts about the designer.
    • your opinion of their fashion.

 

Step 7 - Evaluation

You graded yourself on 3 topics during Introduction. Which grade would you give yourself now?

  • Conjunctions:
  • Talking about designer clothes:
  • Writing a factsheet:

Compare these grades with the grades you gave yourself at the start of the period. Did you improve?

 

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    Toelichting
    Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollectie voor Engels voor havo en vwo, leerjaar 1 en 2. Dit is thema 16 'Shopping and fashion'. Het onderwerp van deze les is: Fashion designers. In deze les staan modeontwerpers centraal. Coco Chanel en Mary Quant worden genoemd als voorbeelden van beroemde modeontwerpers. Ook wordt gesproken over designer clothes en een factsheet van een modeontwerper gemaakt. In de grammaticaopdracht worden voegwoorden (conjunctions) besproken.
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