Master of Fashion (Design)

The Master of Fashion (Design) offers you the opportunity to further develop and extend your fashion design practice to establish your specialisation in fashion design industries and related discipline contexts, culminating in an innovative body of work that will be publicly showcased.

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

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

You will develop your knowledge to establish your key design skills, techniques, materials and expressions with expertise to advance your design practice for targeted contexts in the global fashion environment, with an in depth understanding of social and cultural shifts and the impact on the fashion system.As a graduate you will be able to demonstrate and design strategies with an advanced and integrated understanding of a complex body of knowledge that reflects contemporary fashion systems, emerging dress cultures and economies and materially-led design across and outside fashion design discipline contexts.

This advanced design practice 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, 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.A capstone experience is offered across the final semester courses and will enable you to develop a thoroughly researched and resolved fashion project/collection/placement with a focus on the realisation of an extensive fashion body of work and its presentation.

This will support your opportunity to seek employment within an industry context and provides the foundation for future study in PhD research programs.The program utilises design strategies paired with research methods courses to tap in to emergent discipline areas and offers specific pathways through a project model and independently designed projects situated in specific industry contexts.

On graduation, you will have specialised knowledge and skills suited to a variety of career positions in creative fashion design within a global environment.Graduates are enabled to meet the challenges of competitive industry practice as well as demonstrating autonomy, expert judgement, adaptability and responsibility in their practice to launch independent and emerging brands.

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

Year One

Semester One: Complete the following Core Course:

Complete Two (2) of the following Program Option Courses:

Semester Two: Complete the following Two (2) Core Courses:

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

AND

Year Two

Semester One: Complete the following Two (2) Core Courses:

Semester Two: Complete the following Core Course:

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

Entry Requirements

Successful completion of 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 the final year.

For equivalents to Australian academic entry requirements, see the Country Equivalency web page on the RMIT website.

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.

Selection Tasks

All applicants must complete and submit the selection task.

The Master of Fashion (Design) will assist you in becoming a highly developed fashion designer with the potential and knowledge to succeed in the global market.

As a graduate of this program you will be able to: