Bachelor of Fashion (Design) (Honours)

This program is designed as part of the Advanced Fashion & Textiles Design Studios where you will be immersed in creatively challenging and engaging contemporary practice.

You will advance your design process, develop independent practice and deepen your specialisation in fashion design industries and related discipline contexts.

You will research and examine your design practice within the context of critical, engaged and contemporary fashion systems and related disciplines.

You will expand and explore your key design skills, techniques, materials and expressions to advance your design practice for targeted contexts.As a graduate you will be able to demonstrate design strategies that reflect contemporary fashion systems, emerging dress cultures and economies, materially-led design across and outside fashion design discipline contexts.

This advanced design practice knowledge will deepen your portfolio and set you up for professional design and design related roles in industry, related discipline contexts across fashion design, communication, strategy or research practice through further study.The primary learning mode is through advanced studio practice where immersive learning experiences and activities allow you to challenge and advance your practice in the Advanced Fashion & Textiles Design Studios.

Scaffolded projects target key elements of practice and are authentic to fashion design industries as well as emerging disciplinary contexts, markets and research practice.

A curated suite of masterclasses stimulate advanced practice through working directly with guest practitioners, researchers and industry experts.

Individual and collective project experiences prepare students for collaborative work environments across discipline contexts.

Practice research strategies enable you to progress and expand the methods and approaches to design with critically engaged, analysis, and synthesis of fashion design thinking.

Challenging materials and materiality of fashion design as well as the design techniques and expressions you choose to practice with will allow for development that may shift ways to design.

The program supports designers to practice critically within existing fashion economies and systems, and in emerging and across other disciplinary contexts.The program utilises research enabled courses and strategies to tap in to emergent discipline areas and offers specific pathways through a project led model and independently designed projects situated in specific industry contexts.Graduates are enabled to meet the challenges of competitive industry practice as well as having confidence in their practice to launch independent and emerging brands.

These roles are in national and global small to large scale fashion enterprises, emerging international fashion brands, luxury and high fashion brands, as well as in related disciplines contexts of fashion design, production, communications, creative direction and styling, branding, buying, media, publications and textile and product development.

Graduates are engaged designers critically aware of the larger ethical, social, cultural, environmental and political concerns that need to be addressed in contemporary relevant design practice.

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To graduate you must complete the following:

All courses listed may not be available each semester

Semester One

Complete the following Two (2) Core Courses:

Complete One (1) Course from the following Program Option list:

AND

Semester Two

Stream 1: Complete the following One (1) Core Course:

Complete One (1) of the following Program Option Courses:

Complete One (1) Course from the following Program Option list:

Stream 2: Complete the following Two (2) Courses:

You must have successfully completed an Australian three-year bachelor degree in fashion design (or equivalent overseas qualification) with an overall grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.0 out of 4.0 and a GPA of at least 3.0 out of 4.0 in your final year.

Selection Tasks

Applicants must complete the Fashion Design Honours selection which includes a folio and personal statement.

If you have successfully completed BP328 Bachelor of Fashion (Design) at RMIT with a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0 or greater in the final year of courses in the program, you are exempt from completing the selection task and are guaranteed entry.

The folio must comprise of no more than 15 pages of your work and should reflect your design, thinking and technical skills in fashion design practice with a focus on the following:

• Knowledge in fashion design and specialisations of practice
• Evidence of research, critical and conceptual analysis
• Documentation of design process and design ideas
• Sustained written work including practice reflection, academic essays or creative writing
• Finished garments or prototypes in documented form
• Publications, photographs, films or other forms of fashion communication

Submit a 400-word written personal statement briefly outlining your:

• Plans for what you will investigate in this program (100)
• Career aspirations and the contexts or markets of design practice (100)
• Interests in fashion design research and related contemporary issues (100)
• Current skills and capabilities and past experience that will support you in this program (100)

English Language requirements

A minimum IELTS (Academic module) overall score of 6.5, with no band less than 6.0 or equivalent. For equivalents to English language requirements, see the English requirements web page.

As a graduate you will develop the following program learning outcomes: