In this program students will focus on:
- expanding their knowledge of product development and design knowledge relevant to fashion industry needs
- advanced pattern cutting and associated manufacturing techniques
- advanced fashion industry digital design applications
- fashion industry management expertise
- depth of research for proposed fashion industry opportunities.
Through this program, they will expand on methods of researching, designing, pattern cutting, and garment realisation to achieve finished fashion concepts relevant to industry needs.
They will gain an in depth knowledge of how the global fashion system operates and how you can work effectively within it.
The learning and teaching approach of this program emulates how you would work in a professional role in a commercial fashion enterprise.
Students will work in the state-of-the-art Fashion Design Studio, allowing them to study in a real fashion enterprise setting, and they will work on industry-standard machines and use computer applications such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
The program extends their understanding of fashion design in relation to the processes involved with research, design and product development realisation, market positioning and industry relevance of fashion concepts with alignments to real-world scenarios.
This will give them the opportunity to design with a view to the long-term market positioning and growth of a fashion brand and equip them to be team players in a fashion organisation.
This program will equip students with the professional, design and management skills necessary to succeed in the challenging national and global fashion industry.
- An awareness of industry mechanisms and potential future opportunities.
- Relevant professional expertise in design presentation.
- Proficiency in 2D design processes and 3D and production skills with emphasis on technical product development.
- Professional and appropriate strategies for realising industry relevant propositions.
- An understanding of contemporary fashion systems and consumer-product interaction.
- An understanding of the broader context in which fashion ideas are situated.
- A grasp of innovative fashion product opportunities that are commercially viable.