Module overview
This Semester 2 Part 2 Fashion Industry module will allow you to further explore fashion industry practices through live projects and feedback from industry professionals. This will develop your critical awareness, discipline contextualisation and independence in the pursuit of your practice. You will be encouraged to reflect, evaluate ideas and techniques to push the boundaries of your work, allowing you to show more accomplished experimentation and independence in the realisation of your ideas in readiness for Part 3.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how to identify the appropriate skills you will need to practice professionally in the fashion industry
- social, ethical and sustainable dimensions in the fashion industry
- appropriate contemporary fashion designers and creative practitioners relevant to your own practice
- how to creatively apply a variety of techniques, technologies and materials in the realisation of your projects
- innovative practices, concepts and debates and how they impact on professional fashion practices
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate relevant interpersonal skills for a professional context
- present your work appropriately in a professional context
- select and draw upon a wide range of learning, library and digital resources to inform and challenge your thinking
- study independently and produce work to set deadlines
- communicate ideas effectively in a variety of formats
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- evaluate and challenge the conceptual and technical boundaries of your discipline appropriate to the set industry projects
- make independent critical judgments in the selection and use of ideas, materials and techniques suitable to the set industry projects
- apply methods of enquiry and reflection to critically evaluate the qualities of your work
- generate ideas and inform your practice through enquiry, analysis and critical reflection
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- use machines and equipment competently in the studios and workshops
- solve practical problems independently in response to set industry projects
- select appropriate processes and techniques including pattern cutting and construction to communicate an individual approach to menswear or womenswear and through the production of a professional portfolio demonstrate knowledge of professional context
- explore and exploit materials, techniques and digital processes
Syllabus
This module will provide you with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the contemporary fashion industry and its practices and principles. This will be supported by lectures, presentations and sessions led by staff and visiting industry practitioners. You will engage with industry led projects and competitions to enable greater understanding of your chosen fashion design pathway.
We will expect you to independently select and engage with methods and techniques suited to the set industry projects, which will allow you to challenge your thinking and test your ideas in-depth. The aim of this module is to produce resolved pieces of work that are based on independent experimentation and informed by context, in readiness for Part 3.
You will assemble a portfolio of work that demonstrates your experimental yet focused process, which creatively address the aims and ambitions of the set industry projects. Students will produce a professional portfolio, fashion garments and supporting documentation for an intended market.
Students have the option to choose the Study Exchange Module or the Industry Placement Module in place of this module.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
- Group tutorials and discussions
- One-to-one tutorials
- Critical reviews
- Creative and technical workshops
- Visual presentations
- Career and employability sessions
- Industry insight from guest speakers
Learning activities include:
- Creative portfolio work development
- Drawing and portfolio workshops
- Research and concept development workshops
- Creative design and technical workshops
- Peer group learning
- Critical reviews
- Self-evaluation
- Study Skills support
Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes
In this module industry linked learning and teaching activities enable you to direct your exploration and investigation of ideas to an industry focused context suited to an area of fashion you are interested in. Lectures, presentations and workshops given by staff and visiting lecturers will increase your knowledge of the contemporary context the set projects are focusing on. Informed by contemporary fashion practice, practical experimentation and feedback on your ideas you will create increasingly professional work, shaped by analysis and self-reflection.
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 30 |
Completion of assessment task | 100 |
Tutorial | 22 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 20 |
Practical classes and workshops | 90 |
Lecture | 10 |
Supervised time in studio/workshop | 78 |
Follow-up work | 100 |
Total study time | 450 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash
Study Skills Workshops. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/workshops/
Academic Integrity support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity
Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing
Blackboard. http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto via Blackboard
Textbooks
Briggs-Goode., A (2013). Printed Textile Design. Laurence King Publishing.
Edwards. C. (2009). How to Read Pattern: A Crash Course in Textile Design. London: Herbert Press.
Clarke, S (2011). Textile Design. Laurence King Publishing.
Sissons Juliana (2009). Basic Fashion Design: Knit. Laurence King Publishing.
Simon Sievewright (2007). Basic Fashion Design: Research and Design. AVA Publishing.
Donofrio-Ferrezza, Lisa (2008). Designing a knitwear collection: from inspiration to finished garments. Fairchild Books.
Quinn, Bradley (2009). Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge. Laurence King Publishing.
Jenkyn Jones. S. (2002). Fashion Design. Laurence King Publishing.
Russell Alex (2011). The Fundamentals of Printed Textile Design. AVA Academia.
Assessment
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: Formative feedback on portfolio development is given during the module, which can be verbal or written, contributing to the written summative feedback given at the end of the module
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
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.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External