How

would you describe your personal style?

If you are a girl: Do you tend to wear a lot of makeup, little, or none?
Why?





What is your favorite place to shop? Why?
If you had an unlimited amount of money, how would that effect wear you shop and what
your personal style would be?





Do you find that fashion is limited to people who can afford an unlimited amount of things?






Who is someone you look towards as a fashion icon/idol? OR What time period of fashion
do you find the most appealing to you? Why? (you can choose to answer one or both of
these questions)







What is your biggest insecurity (appearance of not appearance wise)?
Does the way you dress get effected by this insecurity/ do you dress to hide this insecurity?





Do you think that today’s fashions and cultural atmosphere cause these insecurities?







What is am asset about yourself that you find the most unique, interesting, or appealing?
Do you consider a unique asset to be different from an appealing asset?

What is the goal of this project?


Throughout this project I will interview different subjects (one to two a week) and ask them
questions relating to their person style, their insecurities, how their insecurities play into their
fashion choices, and how modern fashion culture plays into their personal style and their
insecurities. I plan to conduct photoshoots along with these video recorded interviews. In
these photoshoots I will take pictures that reflect the subjects personal style, then some that
enhance their insecurities, to show that their insecurities are what make them unique and not
something they should be worried about. At the end of the program I plan to have the videos
and photoshoots completed, as well as a blog that I am using to document my progress. I will
have also completed three or more books related to the subject I am studying in order to do
further research. Along with that I have agreed with my mentor, to visit three or more
museums or art establishments over the summer to explore what other artists are doing or
have done. I hope to continue my research after the program is over in order to create a book
of the images I took, the interviews, and the research I conducted.

My Plan:

June 5th: First Meeting & Mandatory Ethics Meeting

June 5th- June 12th:
- Conduct first two interviews and photoshoots
- Make selections on the books I will be reading for the summer
- Start first book

June 12th- June 19th:
- Travel to Boston to conduct the next round of my interviews
- Finish the first book
- Visit art museums in Boston

June 19th- June 26th:
- Conduct the next round of interviews in Southern New Jersey
- Read second book
- Visit an Art Museum

June 26th- July 3rd:
- Conduct the next interviews in New York
- Visit an art museum

July 10th- July 17th:
- Conduct more interviews in New York
- Visit another art museum
- Start the third book


July 17th- July 24th:
- Conduct interviews in Delaware
- July 23rd: Mandatory Speed Research Lunch

July 24th- July 31st:
- Trip to California
- Continue reading books
- Working on photography
- Visit art museums in San Diego and Los Angeles

July 31st- August 7th:
- Final interviews
- August 1st symposium abstract due to undergraduate research office
- August 3rd finalized oral presentation due
- Complete a trailer styled video using footage from all of the interviews to complete a
summary video of the entire project

August 8th:
- Upload powerpoint for symposium between 3:00 and 5:00

August 9th:
- Undergraduate research and Service Celebratory Symposium
- 8:00am to 5:00pm

After the program is over:
- trip to Florida: conduct more interviews and work on photography
- work on book
If I have more time throughout the duration of the program:
- Read more books and visit more museums
Books I am choosing from the read for the Program:

Susan Sontag’s On Photography

Roland Barthes’ The Language of Fashion

Mark Tungate’s Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara

Mary G Wolfe’s Fashion

The Visible Self: Global Perspectives on Dress, Culture, and Society

Roland Barthes’ Picture Industry: A Provisional history of the Technical Image

Roland Barthes’ The Fashion System

Emma Jane Taylor’s Naked Happy Girls

Chris Gatcum’s Light and Shoot

Bill Viola’s Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

Suzi Gablik’s Has Modernism Failed?

Nato Thompson’s Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art

Art Venues that I will try to visit:

The New Museum

The MoMA

The MET

FIT’s Fashion Museum

The New York City Skywalk: The High Line

The Museum of Moving Images

Whitney Museum of American Art

Deutsche Bank Private Art Collection

Museum of Fine Arts – Boston

Institute of Contemporary Arts – Boston

San Diego Museum of Art

San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art

Timken Museum of Art in San Diego

The Broad in Los Angeles