Advanced Fashion Portfolio
The students will learn advanced creative techniques, to further enhance the personal signature style and uniqueness in presentation. Undergraduate level final portfolios should display a wide range of skills and uniqueness in style and the Advanced Portfolio Course has the aim of supplementing methodology and refining the original voice of the designer.
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The advanced portfolio course focuses on giving final year BA level students the best chance of getting into the preferred MA course at one of the top Universities of the world.
The course is taught and mentored by senior lecturers with long industry and academic experience. They introduce not only creative methods and techniques but also how to generate unique ways of working and producing consistent high-level work. Lecture sessions include students own research contributions and group analysis discussions; one-to-one sessions are 1h tutorials with a senior lecturer who will guide each student in their individual projects. The course requires extensive amount of time spend on producing homework.
Programme Specification
Advanced Fashion Portfolio- Fashion research analysis and idea development
- Sewing, draping and textile manipulation
- Sketching, graphic design and portfolio presentation
Project 1 - Fashion design / “Explore the limits” 8 Weeks.
Fashion project 1 is focused on high volume creative output. That is a major challenge, and the students will be required to produce multiple bodies of research to finish this project. Both projects require the students to sample ideas as part of the development process as well as final garments.
Brief: Design a 6-look collection that tells a story.
Subject block breakdown
- Research – Secondary research sources / Primary research methods
- Analysis – Deep analytical process leading to ideas and methods.
- Experimentation – 2D/3D work, collage, deconstruction, manipulation, subversion
- Textile knowledge – Focus on fashion textiles, textile manipulations.
- Sketching – Exploring limits of sketching 2D /3D.
Project 2 – Fashion Design / “Concept to market” 6 Weeks
The key to success of any fashion designer is to know the audience and to cater to their needs. The second project builds on creative exploration and further develops the key ideas through wearability prism. This requires the designers to consider the possibilities and limits of the concept, systematically test every aspect of it and to propose market ready ideas.
Brief: Design a 6-look collection that caters to a specific target audience
Subject block breakdown
- Research 2 – Secondary archival research / outlining the target market.
- Further Analysis – Deep analytical process leading to ideas and methods.
- Textile print – Digital print in Ai
- Textile & Colour – Setting a collection textile story / colour theory and colour story.
- Technical drawing – Technical drawing & CAD
- Illustration 2 – Fashion illustration
- Manifesto writing – writing a seasonal manifesto.
Project assembly – Portfolio 4 Weeks
The portfolio part of the course provides not only valuable skills for a professional presentation, but also introduces advanced methods in graphic design and layout. Students will work with both analogue and digital tools and produce a printed and digital portfolio. Presentation methods will be explored for analogue and digital media.
Subject block breakdown
- Postproduction – Using PS for postproduction.
- Layout – Portfolio setup, digital v. analogue portfolio
- Graphic design – Graphic design for portfolio
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