Program Overview:
This course includes an 8-day study abroad experience and seminars at MSU, with readings and written assignments. The course will examine issues surrounding the historical and contemporary roles of Paris and Antwerp in fashion, with focus on the late 19th-century Art Nouveau style and the late 20th- early 21st-century context of each city in the global fashion system. Paris is the center of multi-national corporate ownership of designer and luxury brands, while Antwerp is considered the most cutting-edge fashion center.

Visits may include:
In Paris:
Trendunion (Eidelkoort) fashion forecast         Louis Vuitton Museum tour
YSL archives visit                                             Perfumery     
Montmartre walking tour (late 19th C. Impressionists’ environs) and fabric district
Important retail settings and merchandising:
Department and concept stores, famous markets (vintage) 
Half Day City Tour
Museums:  Musée d’Orsay, The Louvre               
Cathedrals:  Notre Dame, Sainte-Chapelle

In Antwerp:
Fashion walking tour by the ModeMuseum
Antwerp Diamond Museum tour
Retail concept stores

Faculty:
Dr. Abby Lillethun, Associate Professor in the Art & Design Department at Montclair State University, will be the faculty for this course. She has taken students to London and Paris three times previously and to Italy. Her research interests include the geography of fashion, or the process of fashion change in relation to localized culture.

Academic Requirements:
All students register for the following:
ARTX 345: Fashion Study Abroad: 3sh
The course will meet for seminars in Montclair prior to the trip as preparation for the site visits in Paris and Antwerp. Students will read texts providing background on the characteristics of environments fostering fashion change, scholarship on retail environments, on the relationship between fashion and art, and in preparation for museum tours. Students will serve as daily guide assistants to the professor to develop leadership in new environments and to understand travel processes. Quizzes on the urban districts and fashionable spaces and the fashion process in these cities will take place before travel during the seminar classroom periods.  After the field experience in Paris and Antwerp, each student is required to write a 5–8 page paper on the experiences. The paper will include background research and analysis of the two cities in the global fashion process. Prerequisites for the course are ARTX 122 and ARTX 220.

Accommodations and Meals
Participants will stay in centrally located hotels in double or triple occupancy rooms with private bath. Breakfasts are included throughout.
Single rooms may be requested for an additional $400.

Estimated Program Cost: approximately $2,900
The program cost includes
Roundtrip airfare             Local transportation        Museum entrance fees
Double or triple occupancy 3 star hotels with continental breakfast
All lectures, tours
International student id. card
Local cell phone with virtual US and local numbers
Program costs are based on 15 participants and current exchange rates and are subject to change.

Application Procedure and Payment Schedule
All participants are required to have an interview with the faculty director, Prof. Lillethun, plus one reference form completed by any other faculty member, plus the $100 administrative fee. The minimum GPA considered will be 2.75.
Once accepted into the program, the payment schedule for program costs is as follows:

For further information:
Contact the Global Education Center at 973-655-4185 or email simonW@mail.montclair.edu.
Contact Dr. Abby Lillethun at 973-655-5713, or lillethunA@mail.montclair.edu. 
Or visit us on the web at www.montclair.edu/globaled

Forms
Pre-Enrollment Form

Faculty Led Short-Term Study Abroad Institutes Forms

For further information:
Contact the Global Education Center at 973-655-4185 or email simonW@mail.montclair.edu.
Contact Susan Kerner at 973-763-3744 or email kerner@comcast.net.
Or visit us on the web at www.montclair.edu/globaled