Final Collection

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• study independently and produce work to set deadlines
• demonstrate relevant interpersonal skills
• generate ideas and solve problems independently
• communicate ideas professionally and effectively in a variety of formats
• present your work appropriately in a professional context
• independently identify appropriate aims for professional practice and employability
• use learning, library and digital resources effectively

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• 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
• select materials, techniques and processes relevant to Menswear or Womenswear
• professionally apply materials, techniques and processes to realise advanced practical outcomes
• identify an individual approach to fashion design through the realisation of practical work ready for presentation

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• 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
• challenge the conceptual and technical practices of fashion design
• apply enquiry and reflection enabling you to critically evaluate your work

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.

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.

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

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

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

Blackboard. http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto via Blackboard

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

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.