Module overview
The Final Collection module aims for students to realise their creative ambitions through the creation of a final professional portfolio and a final fashion collection. An independent and organised approach is expected when realising this body of work, as students focus on presenting their work in a professional context to a wider audience in preparation for graduation and employment, whether following the Menswear or Womenswear pathway.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- contemporary fashion practice
- how to apply the skills you will need to practice professionally in the fashion industry
- an in-depth understanding of your specialist pathway encompassing design, industry practices, theory and collection formulation
- how to apply fashion concepts, techniques, and processes
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- professionally apply materials, techniques and processes to realise advanced practical outcomes
- select materials, techniques and processes relevant to Menswear or Womenswear
- 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
- confidently use specialist machines and equipment to a professional level
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- communicate ideas professionally and effectively in a variety of formats
- use learning, library and digital resources effectively
- generate ideas and solve problems independently
- study independently and produce work to set deadlines
- demonstrate relevant interpersonal skills
- present your work appropriately in a professional context
- 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:
- make independent critical judgments in the selection and use of ideas, materials, and techniques
- challenge the conceptual and technical practices of fashion design
- apply enquiry and reflection enabling you to critically evaluate your work
- further develop your personal design identity by critically assessing realised outcomes
Syllabus
This module represents the culmination of your three years of study. It enables you to develop your work from experimentation to the production of consolidated outcomes. You will direct and realise your ideas through the concepts and practical requirements of your professionally planned project. You will be guided throughout this module in the application of your knowledge and understanding of fashion design, supporting you with the completion of your submission for this final programme assessment. In helping you evaluate a selection of your work for exposure to an audience, this module focuses on planning and producing a fashion collection that is critically informed with regard to the ideas that you wish to communicate.
In art and design there is an ever-widening diversity of potential creative outcomes. Consequently, the final collection produced by fashion design students may reflect Interdisciplinarity, i.e. the interplay of fashion film, art based fashion, fashion graphics and so forth. Students will present their final collection, supported by a professionally presented portfolio, in a format that reflects current practice in the fashion industries. Although the work undertaken in this module may resemble work produced in previous years, the quality, level of finish and contextual awareness will be markedly higher.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
- Project Briefings
- Group tutorials and discussions
- One-to-one tutorials
- Critical Reviews
- Creative and technical workshops
- Visual presentations
- Career and employability sessions
- Industry insight from guest speakers
Learning activities include:
- Creative portfolio development
- Drawing and portfolio presentation workshops
- Research and concept development sessions
- Creative design and technical workshops
- Workshop and studio based learning
- Peer group learning
- Critical reviews
- Formative 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 bring your ideas and practice to synthesis and conclusion. You will address preparation and management of your project toward its exposure to an audience, for example designers, employers, clients and press.
Feedback on your progress and development will be given throughout the module in tutorials, critical reviews and feedback in the studios and workshops. The summative assessment will be based on the presentation of practical work in the form of a Fashion collection and a professional portfolio.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 20 |
| Completion of assessment task | 80 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 90 |
| Wider reading or practice | 30 |
| Lecture | 10 |
| Supervised time in studio/workshop | 78 |
| Follow-up work | 120 |
| Tutorial | 22 |
| Total study time | 450 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Study Skills Workshops. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/workshops/
Blackboard. http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto via Blackboard
Academic Integrity support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity
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
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Presentation | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Presentation | 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 |
|---|---|
| Presentation | 100% |