Fashion Pre-collection (Dalian)

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills apply enquiry and reflection enabling you to critically evaluate your work
• 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
• identify the skills you need to practice professionally in fashion design

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify an individual approach to fashion design through the realisation of practical work
• resolve conceptual and technical problems in the production and realisation of garments and products
• professionally apply materials, techniques and processes to realise practical outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• study independently and produce work to set deadlines
• communicate ideas professionally and effectively in a variety of formats including digital.
• 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 and theory
• 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

The Fashion Pre-collection module provides a focus through which you can begin to synthesise your skills, ideas and working methods into ambitious outcomes that will be manifested in your Final Collection in Semester 2. Emphasis will be on analysis and the selection of your ideas and practice so that you can acquire the specific skills necessary to further your work. You will become aware of the importance of the detail of your work. An increasingly thorough understanding of critical thinking will help you recognise the strengths of what you are producing.

The module offers the opportunity to engage with specialist staff at the forefront of your discipline. You will be encouraged to be highly independent and self-motivated, and to strive for ambitious and confident presentation of your work.

You will continuously question and evaluate your work to arrive at increasingly focused creative outcomes which demonstrate qualities of originality, coherence and detailed understanding of how to apply specific media and techniques, appropriate to your discipline and subject area.

On the Fashion Pre-collection module, you will produce a range of fashion garments supported by a professionally presented portfolio with fashion illustrations, translating these into a set of samples, toiles and finished garments in preparation for the Portfolio and Final Collection module in Semester 2.

The work and outcomes of this module inform and influence the focus and thinking of the Final Major Project.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• project briefings
• seminars
• group and individual critiques
• tutorials
• technical workshops

Learning activities include

• project briefings
• seminars
• group critiques
• peer group learning
• independent study
• technical workshops

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 discipline-specific practice.

Critical contexts will be outlined through briefings and seminars. Discussion in seminars will help you to become increasingly sophisticated in your ability to communicate the processes and outcomes of your work as well as help you to evaluate your thinking and skills, whether specialist or transferable. In periods of independent study you will be guided to learn how to manage your time effectively outside the taught sessions.

Formative feedback on your progress and development will be given regularly during group critiques.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Academic Integrity support.

Blackboard.

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support.

Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource.

Study Skills Workshops.

Textbooks

Chunman Lo, D. ((2011)). Patternmaking.. London:: Laurence King.

Braun-Feldweg Förderpreis. W. ((2010)). Slow Fashion: Alternative Fashion Concepts.. Niggli Verlag.

Blanckaert, P. & Hernu, A.R. ( (2013)). Icons of Vintage Fashion.. New York:: Abrams.

Black, S. ((2012)). Eco Fashion- the Fashion Paradox.. Routledge.

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

Bourdieu, P. ((1984)). Distinction: A social critique of the Judgement of Taste.. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Chois Gallery ( (2013)). Fashion Window Shopping.. Shanghai:: Chois Publishing Inc..

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

Bradley,Q. (2002). Techno fashion.. Oxford:: Berg Publishers.

Bono, E. ( (1990)). Lateral thinking: A textbook of creativity ([New ed.) .. London:: Penguin.

Cheney, N. & McAllister, H (.2013)). Textile Surface Manipulation.. London:: Bloomsbury Publishing.

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.

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.