In dialogue with your work in Advanced Fashion Research Methods, you will apply the methods developed in a range of strategies realised across a series of finished garments and/or pieces.

In this course you will be introduced to diverse design strategies. You will explore the relationships between the key qualities and contexts of fashion garments and wearables and how these can be changed. You will apply design strategies to consider how the use, wear, function, performance, and life cycle of a garment can be enhanced or changed.

You will work with existing garments and re-fashion them to generate a series of propositions for what these garments can be with an understanding of how any or all of their use, wear, function, performance, and life cycle is changed or has a specific intention. You will learn to take ownership of how design strategies affect the things you design and your responsibility as a designer to consider more than the way things look and understand how a strategy may give way to an intention you have to produce fashion and one that embodies your values, ideals, and responsibility as a designer.

You will work through ways to quickly generate multiple and numerous prototypes and design

strategy propositions. You will explore approaches to immediate and iterative prototyping and specific fashion design practice skills to enable you to qualitatively expand your prototyping capacity. This will revise the way you approach the practice of prototyping relative to the relationship between material qualities, construction, finish and treatments as well as silhouette.

You, your peers and your studio supervisors will review your outcomes to more deeply examine and understand the ideals of the garment within the context of your Masters Fashion Design Project and the broader fashion design industry and emerging fashion discourse.