Fashion Design Practice & Skills 1b (Dalian)

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify, select and draw upon a range of sources including digital ones, to inform and challenge your thinking and writing
• generate ideas, study independently and produce work to set deadlines
• communicate your ideas demonstrating awareness of fashion contexts.
• apply a range of research methodologies relevant to your studies;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate familiarity with a range of fashion design and production techniques;
• apply a variety of technical processes to extend your fashion design practice;

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• drawing, digital and visual communication skills appropriate to your projects
• innovative practices, concepts and debates and different professional, cultural and technological contexts relevant to contemporary and future fashion
• a range of fashion methods, materials, techniques and skills

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply critical thinking and to a range of different specialist techniques and processes relevant to fashion design and the fashion industry;
• how to evaluate and use visual research and study skills in relevant contexts

This module continues the work of the Fashion Design Practice & Skills 1a module. It is similarly contextualised by themes and you will be set discipline-specific projects, which will help you work towards more focused outcomes.

As with your work on the Fashion Design Practice & Skills 1a module in the first semester, an important feature of this module is the way in which your involvement with your Fashion Design studies can begin to direct and focus your thinking towards a more individual understanding of specialist practice in fashion design and fashion production. To support this process, academic staff will help you to further develop your knowledge and understanding of contemporary fashion. Specialist workshops will further develop your skills and competency in diverse areas of fashion practice and enable you to explore your ideas through experimentation.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• project briefings
• tutorials
• seminars
• group and individual critiques
• practical workshop inductions

Learning activities include

• project briefings
• seminars
• group critiques
• practical workshops
• tutorials
• peer group learning
• self-assessment

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 contemporary perceptions relevant to your study of fashion design. Specific attention will be given to developing an understanding of particular issues, methodologies and practices in contemporary fashion. You will explore one or more projects through tutor-led and independent practice in the studio/specialist area and use the workshops to advance your ideas and personalise your work. This level is about establishing a foundation of relevant skills and working methods and you will be expected to explore your creativity and imagination to produce creative and informed responses to your project briefs.

Formative feedback in a studio setting will provide opportunities for peer group learning and self-evaluation. Group and individual critiques will help you develop an understanding of your own work and that of your peer group. You will have tutorials which will help you review your progress.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource.

Blackboard.

Academic Integrity support.

Study Skills Workshops.

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support.

Textbooks

Woodward, S. (2007). Why women wear what they wear. Oxford: Berg Publishers.

Frings, G. S. (2008). Fashion: from concept to consumer. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice.

Hopkins, J. (2012). Fashion design: the complete guide. London: AVA Academia.

Briggs-Goode, A. (2013). Printed Textile Design. London: Laurence King.

Hebdige, D. (1984). Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.

Entwistle, J. (2000). The fashioned body: fashion, dress, and modern social theory. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Coles, S. (2013). The Geometry of Type: The anatomy of 100 essential typefaces. London: Thames & Hudson.

Breward, C. Dingemans, J (1999). Mastering fashion styling. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Friedrichs, H. A. (2012). Cycle Style. London: Prestel.

Aldrich, W. (2013). Fabrics and Pattern Cutting. London: John Wiley & Sons.

Breward, C. and Evans, C. (2005). Fashion and modernity. Oxford: Berg Publishers.

Muggleton, D. (2000). Inside subculture: the postmodern meaning of style. Oxford: Berg Publishers.

Breward, C. (2003). Fashion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jones, T. (2012). Vivienne Westwood. Cologne: Taschen.

Assessment strategy

The summative assessment of this module will be assessed through a portfolio of work. A portfolio of work is a collection of developmental work appropriate to your subject, e.g. evidence of technical work, sketchbooks, drawings, photographic references, digital media, samples, material manipulations, visual experiments and where appropriate, finished work.

For the duration of this module you will be timetabled to take workshops and when taught time is not scheduled to take place you are expected to work independently in the studio and complete research to support your project. Independent study is crucial to your development and positive achievement in this module. The work and outcomes of your independent study will be discussed in tutorials and group critiques

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal