16.3 Fashion designers - hv12

16.3 Fashion designers - hv12

Fashion designers

Introduction

The subject of this double 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)?
Step   activity aim time
  introduction Find out what you already know. 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 texts about fashion designers and answer questions about them. 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
A debate about designer clothes
You can debate about designer clothes. 10
Step 6 writing
An article about British fashion designers

You can write an article about British fashion designers.

15
Step 7 evaluation Reflecting on what you have learnt. 05

Step 1 - Listening

Fashion

You are going to listen to the song Fashion by Lady Gaga.

  • Watch the video and do assignment 1.
  • Read the questions.
  • Watch and listen again and do assignment 2 and 3.

Assignment 1

Answer the questions (on your own) and discuss the answers in your group.

a. What does Lady Gaga sing about designers?
b. What does Lady Gaga sing about clothes?

Questions

  1. What about fashion models?
  2. Which French words are in the song?
  3. What can fashion do to people?
  4. What do we all love?
  5. What about shoes?

Assignment 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.

  • Read the texts and do assignment 1.
  • Read the texts again and do assignment 2.

 

Assignment 1

Download the worksheet and fill in the grid (on your own) and discuss the answers in your group.

Worksheet: 16.3 Fashion designers - Reading
Maak een kopie van het werkblad in je eigen omgeving (Bestand - Een kopie maken...) of download het werkblad (Bestand - Downloaden als).​

Texts

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 hotpants.

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."

Assignment 2

You are going to write questions about these two texts. There are four tasks:

Task 1             Write 5 true/false statements about text 1: Coco Chanel.

Task 2             Write 5 questions about text 1: Coco Chanel.

Task 3             Write 5 true/false statements about text 2: Mary Quant.

Task 4             Write 5 questions about text 2: Mary Quant.

  • Each one of you takes a task.
  • Give your statements and questions to your group members.
  • Answer the questions.
  • Check the answers.

You could also swap your statements and questions with another group.

Step 3 - Vocabulary

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

Woordenlijst Fashion designers

Step 4 - Grammar

Verbindingswoorden

Have a look at:

Verbindingswoorden

Now you are ready to do the following exercise.

Step 5 - Speaking

A debate about designer clothes

You have read a two texts about fashion designers. Now you are going to debate about the subject.

  • Read the statement.
  • Divide the roles.
  • Prepare the roles using key words (2 minutes).
  • Debate.

StatementPeople 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).

Role B
Prepare arguments in favour of the statement.

Role C
Prepare arguments against the statement.

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

Step 6 - Writing

An article about British fashion designers.

You are going to write an article about British fashion designers.

Before writing

Use the Internet to find information about:

  • Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney.
  • Concentrate on when they started working and what kind of clothes they design.
  • Find pictures of their creations.

In your article

  • Introduce the subject.
  • Give some information about both designers. (Keep it short).
  • Describe the pictures.
  • Compare the two designers.
  • Conclude with your opinion about their designs.

Ask you teacher how many words you have to use.

Step 7 - Evaluation

What have you learnt in this double period?

Answer the following questions:

  • What was the easiest part of this lesson?
  • What did you already know?
  • What was the most difficult part?
  • What was new to you in this lesson?
  • What do you have to ask your teacher?
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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 wordt genoemd als voorbeeld van een beroemde modeontwerper. Verder bespreekt het materiaal de kleding en andere voorwerpen die modeontwerpers ontwerpen. In de grammaticaopdracht worden voegwoorden besproken.
    Leerniveau
    VWO 2; HAVO 1; VWO 1; HAVO 2;
    Leerinhoud en doelen
    Engels;
    Eindgebruiker
    leerling/student
    Moeilijkheidsgraad
    gemiddeld
    Studiebelasting
    1 uur en 40 minuten
    Trefwoorden
    arrangeerbaar, conjunctions - voegwoorden, designerkleding, engels, fashion, fashion designers, hv12, modeontwerpers, stercollectie