Students are required to make THIRTY (30) ‘cultural connections’ between the Past and the Present, demonstrating their analytical understanding of the political/economic/cultural and/or psychological impetus behind them. At least ten of their ‘cultural connections’ MUST be based on fashion, while others may include songs, movies, books, commercials, celebrities, etc. Both the ‘then’ and ‘now’ must have an accompanying illustration. Students are required to identify and describe both items/images, followed by a personal analysis of why they believe this ‘connection’ is being made. for example, Frida Khalo was a very influential artist and a picture is used in vanity fair clearly inspired by Frida Khalo, so we can say that because of people’s love of latin- inspired fashion and art, vanity fair chose to base a photo shoot on Frida Khalo. one picture of each scenario (then and now) needs to be attached on powerpoint side to side so its easy to compare. another example is a picture of a soviet constructuvist propaganda poster circa 1920 and sacks fifth avenue who had a shopping bag in spring 2009 which was clearly influenced by this. This mean 30 times a pair between something cultural from the past which can be found today or in recent years. since I only have 8 slides please put about 3 comparisons per slide (they will be small) together with a line of text under the pictures, a line explaining each picture and then one explaining why its a good cultural connection.