Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising - MST50116
TAFE NSW
Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS: 00591E
This qualification is intended for assistant design and product development roles in the fashion industry, as well as assistant roles associated with managing fashion product as part of a fashion enterprise. Skills include design and product development, as well as technical production skills to support management and fashion businesses. Skills may be applied at various stages across the design, production and supply chain continuum, according to workplace roles and enterprise requirements. Outcomes allow for specialisation in fashion design and product development or business merchandising, as well as generalist roles.Skills involve the use of both manual and digital design tools, and may be applied at various stages of the supply chain. Design outcomes build on technical production skills and provide a basis for career progression to design or business management roles.This qualification offers a generic MST50116 Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising, as well as two pathways targeting the skill requirements of fashion designer and fashion business management. The following additional qualification descriptors are approved for this qualification: Pathway 1: MST50116 Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising (Design and Product Development)Pathway 2: MST50116 Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising (Business and Merchandising)There are no specific licences that relate to this qualification. However, some units in this qualification may have licensing or regulatory requirements in some environments. Local regulations should be checked for details.
Structure
- 35 units: 9 core
- 26 elective
Subjects
- Prepare procedures and specifications for TCF operations
- Analyse individual fit and make pattern alterations
- Implement copyright arrangements
- Apply design studio process
- Source materials and resources for production of fashion designs
- Cut fabrics for prototype designs
- Manipulate fabrics to create new finishes
- Construct complex blocks for fashion garments
- Apply quality standards
- Research international markets
- Use a sewing machine for fashion design
- Cost production of fashion or textile designs
- Analyse TCF merchandising and marketing principles
- Perform sample machining of advanced construction garments
- Operate computing technology in a TCF workplace
- Interact and network with fashion industry participants
- Develop product specifications for fashion design
- Undertake marketing activities
- Apply principles of colour theory to fashion design development
- Promote products and services
- Design bras and swimwear
- Modify patterns to create basic styles
- Assess impact of current fashion industry innovations and practices
- Create pattern from block to meet customer specifications
- Identify fabric performance and handling requirements
- Set and produce digital embroidery
- Analyse influences on contemporary fashion designs
- Conduct digital patternmaking and grading
- Coordinate quality assurance for TCF products and services
- Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
- Assemble and fit commercially tailored or bespoke garments
- Identify opportunities in the TCF market
- Participate in production planning processes
- Determine and specify advanced construction processes
- Sew components
- Plan for international trade
- Create pattern to meet design specifications applying advanced patternmaking principles
- Communicate and sell design concepts
- Develop merchandising plans for fashion products
- Develop digital costing markers
- Use a sewing machine
- Use and apply sizing systems appropriate for fashion design
- Evaluate fashion designs against set criteria
- Draw a trade drawing for fashion design
- Create and edit digital embroidery designs
- Apply knowledge of legislation relevant to international trade to complete work
- Provide global operations support
- Drape fabrics to make patterns
- Identify design process for fashion designs
- Work with international TCF supply chains
- Apply design studio processes to meet client brief
- Produce fashion illustrations to assist product visualisation
- Interpret market trends and developments
- Apply knowledge of import and export international conventions, laws and finance
- Identify influences on contemporary fashion designs and construction techniques
- Grade complex patterns
- Work safely
- Maintain WHS management system
- Develop marketing plans for fashion products
- Develop and present design concepts within specific guidelines
- Conduct fashion design purchasing
- Use electronic fashion design tools
- Develop patterns from a block using basic patternmaking principles
- Conduct quality assurance for patterns and garments
- Coordinate waste disposal
- Sew design prototypes
- Assist in preparation of preliminary design concepts
- Develop and test patterns for bras and swimwear
- Develop patterns for complex fashion garments
- Apply knowledge of the international trade environment to complete work
- Manage installation and commissioning of equipment and systems
- Operate a machine for complex production operations
- Manage merchandise and store presentation
- Use colourisation techniques on fabrics
- Analyse consumer behaviour
- Organise and plan own work in a home-based production environment
- Prepare and produce a complex whole garment from specifications
- Interpret patterns and apply pattern information
- Perform contour draping
- Identify fibres, fabrics and textiles used in the TCF industry
- Construct stock size block for garment to meet size and fit specifications
- Grade 2-D patterns
- Conduct market research
- Analyse fit model
- Apply TCF market supply systems
- Calculate cost estimates for fashion products
- Embellish garment by hand or machine
