Professional Fashion Practice

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how to identify and apply the skills you will need to practice professionally in the fashion and creative industries
• how to apply fashion concepts, techniques, and processes
• contemporary fashion practice
• an in-depth understanding of your specialist pathway encompassing design, industry practices and theory

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply enquiry and reflection enabling you to critically evaluate your work
• identify the skills you need to practice professionally in fashion design
• establish a personal design identity by critically assessing your realised outcomes
• make independent critical judgments in the selection and use of ideas, materials, and techniques
• challenge the conceptual and technical practices of fashion design

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• study independently and produce work to set deadlines
• use learning, library and digital resources effectively
• communicate ideas professionally and effectively in a variety of formats including digital
• demonstrate relevant interpersonal skills

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• confidently use specialist machines and equipment
• identify an individual approach to fashion design through the realisation of practical work
• select materials, techniques and processes relevant to Menswear or Womenswear
• resolve conceptual and technical problems in the production and realisation of garments and products
• professionally apply materials, techniques and processes to realise practical outcomes

Professional Fashion Practice builds on your experiences in Part 1 and 2, by providing a focus through which you can begin to synthesise your skills, ideas and working methods into ambitious fashion outcomes. You will analyse and evaluate your ideas and practice to acquire the skills needed to develop your work. An increasingly thorough understanding of critical thinking will help you recognise the strengths of what you are producing. You will become aware of the importance of the detail of your work.

The module offers the opportunity to engage with a range of Menswear and Womenswear staff. You will be encouraged to be highly independent and self-motivated and to strive for ambition and confidence in the presentation of your work.

You will continuously question and evaluate your work to arrive at focused creative outcomes which demonstrate qualities of originality, coherence and detailed understanding of how to apply specific media and techniques, producing refined pieces of work.

Students will produce a range of fashion garments, supported by a professionally presented portfolio. Although the work undertaken in this module may resemble output produced in previous levels, the quality and depth of contextual awareness will be higher.

The work and outcomes of this module inform the focus and thinking of the Final Collection module in Part 3 semester 2.

Teaching methods include:

• Project Briefings
• Group tutorials and discussions
• One-to-one tutorials
• Critical reviews
• Creative and technical workshops
• Visual presentations
• Industry insight lectures

Learning activities include:

• Creative portfolio development
• Drawing and portfolio presentation workshops
• Creative design and technical workshops
• School resource based learning
• Seminars
• Peer group learning
• Self-evaluation
• Study Skills support

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes

In this module learning and teaching activities focus on helping you to explore and investigate ideas, methods and techniques particular to your pathway. As in the preceding practice modules you will be encouraged to make links between methods, skills and practices that you have explored and developed. You will be supported by specialist staff who will help you to advance your work in relation to current fashion theory and practice. You will also be encouraged to identify and understand your target audience in relation to your fashion practice.

Critical contexts will be outlined through briefings and lectures. Discussions in one-to-one and group tutorials will help you to become increasingly sophisticated in communicating the processes and outcomes of your work, as well as help you with your self-evaluation. During independent study you will be guided to learn how to manage your time effectively outside the taught sessions.

Feedback on your progress and development will be given during tutorials, workshops and critical reviews. The summative assessment of your work will include a portfolio of work that demonstrates your experimental process and examples of work, which creatively address the set projects.

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash

Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing

Academic Integrity support http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity

Study Skills Workshops http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/workshops/

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.