Course overview
The programme offers rich learning opportunities that inspire critical and creative thinkers as future change-makers, enabling them to address the need for rapid, positive, restorative, and regenerative design solutions, through individual and expressive outcomes. The programme is creative practitioner, community, and industry-focused, designed to meet the professional needs of the wider sustainable fashion and design industry. It is structured by three key interrelated strands of content: sustainable fashion research and practice, theoretical studies, and creative enterprise. All technical, theoretical, and professional knowledge and skills inform and are integrated into the practice of designing and creating sustainable and innovative design solutions. Industry-focused course content and workshops include Pattern Making, Garment Construction, Research, Concept and Design Development, Surface and Material Explorations, Tailoring, Creative Enterprise, and Industry Internships. Studio Practice is complemented by courses in Sustainable Fashion Practices, Earth-Centred Design, Natural Dyeing, Fashion History and Theory, Fashion Illustration, and Adobe Creative Suite Skills. Students research, design, and develop conceptually based collections that reflect a personal design aesthetic and incorporate regenerative, sustainable and ecological practices and processes, to produce a professional body of work, and showcase their collections at the annual Whitecliffe Fashion Show.
