This course provides you with an overview of the history of fashion trends, the fashion pyramid and the fashion season, calendar and cycle. You will learn how culture, street-style, the role of celebrity and the new fashion-influencers impact contemporary fashion markets. You will learn how to analyse and apply trend forecasting tools to create mood-boards, trend reports and range development. 

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience. 

This course includes Industry Partnered Learning (IPL) activities, where you will have the opportunity to participate in authentic industry and community engaged activities and tasks to support your professional development and career planning such as Career Development Learning (CDL) and Industry Embedded Activities (IEA).