Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how to apply fashion concepts, techniques, and processes
- contemporary fashion practice
- an in-depth understanding of your specialist discipline encompassing design, industry practices, theory and collection formulation
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Confidently use specialist machines and equipment to a professional level
- Select, plan, organise and realise your final collection to a professional standard
- Identify an individual approach to fashion design through the realisation of practical work ready for presentation
- resolve conceptual and technical problems in the production and realisation of garments, products and collections
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- present your work appropriately in a professional context
- communicate ideas professionally and effectively in a variety of formats
- generate ideas and solve problems independently
- independently identify appropriate aims for professional practice and employability
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
- challenge the conceptual and technical practices of fashion design
- further develop your personal design identity by critically assessing realised outcomes
- Make independent critical judgments in the selection and use of ideas, materials, and techniques
Syllabus
This module enables you to develop your work from experimentation to the production of synthesised outcomes. You will direct and realise your ideas through forms of visual presentation and structure that are relevant to the concepts and practical requirements of a high level conceptual fashion design collection. Through evaluation and selection of your work for exposure to an audience, this module focuses on planning and producing work that is critically informed. The module represents the culmination of your study. Accordingly, you will be guided to combine and apply the knowledge and understanding acquired in all elements of the programme, towards the completion of your final assignment.
You will present your Final Collection as an exhibition of garments supported by a development portfolio.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include
- Project briefing
- Seminars
- tutorials
- group critiques
- workshops
Learning activities include
- Formative feedback
- seminars
- group critiques
- tutorials
- peer group learning
- Self-evaluation
- Exhibition
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 378 |
Teaching | 72 |
Total study time | 450 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource.
The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support.
Textbooks
Black. S ((2012). Eco Fashion- the Fashion Paradox.. Routledge.
Briggs-Goode, A. ((2013)). Printed Textile Design.. London:: Laurence King.
Aldrich, W. (2013)). Fabrics and Pattern Cutting.. London:: John Wiley & Sons.
Cheney, N. & McAllister, H. ( ((2013)). Textile Surface Manipulation. London:: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Bradley,Q. ((2002)). Techno fashion.. Oxford:: Berg Publishers.
Bono, E. ((1990)). Lateral thinking: A textbook of creativity. London:: Penguin.
Bourdieu, P.. Distinction: A social critique of the Judgement of Taste.. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
Blanckaert, P. & Hernu, A.R. ((2013)). Icons of Vintage Fashion.. New York:: Abrams.
Braun-Feldweg Förderpreis. W. ((2010)). Slow Fashion: Alternative Fashion Concepts.. Niggli Verlag.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Portfolio Development
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: The purpose of formative feedback is to enhance your learning, help you understand how your work is developing and how you can improve it in the future. There are no marks attached to formative assessment and it will not count towards your final mark. You will receive feedback through seminars, tutorials and critiques. You will also receive a Formative Assessment Feedback Sheet with written comments.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Final project | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Final project | 100% |
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.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Final project | 100% |