Design, Research and Concept

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: Apply appropriate research approach to analyse ready to wear design in relation to cultural and contemporary issue; apply appropriate technique to do market research in fashion; compare strength and weaknesses of fashion products; arrange and display a fashion research and design development in visual portfolio; create fashion product design dedicated for specific target market; apply good time management and planning in conducting research and designing collection.

Topics

Fashion design is one of the acts of creating visual form. In every creation process, there are two important stages: (1) the idea development stage and (2) the creation stage. The design research and concept stage holds an important role, as it is the starting point, in an idea development stage. This course basically assists students to interpret inspiration or abstract thinking into a concrete and communicative visible result. It will give the students knowledge of the essential stage of inspiration and communicate them into visible form. This focuses on stimulating the student’s skill to deliver abstract ideas into a communicative visual. There will be plenty of exercises as interpreting and communicating words, feelings or subjects. Students will be required to do numerous presentations.