Level 2 - Fashion Design
Course Description
This course explores a specific design process to allow students to research and develop an outfit that will be constructed and entered into the Hokonui Fashion Awards. They will also advance their construction skills making a technical garment and learn how to make pattern adaptations for special features.
Students will:
- Work from a design brief
- Formulate and use weekly plans to aid the construction of an advanced garment
- Develop critical analysis skills
- Produce relevant practical solutions to given issues
- Develop practical sewing skills to an advanced level
- Learn to fit the human form and develop advanced pattern-making skills
- Analyse existing outcomes against the brief
- Develop and independently follow construction plans
- Develop a specific brief
- Review and justify plans of action
- Use testing and trialling to justify design ideas
- Create a report to show ways to minimise design risks
- Use a range of stakeholders and justify feedback gained
- Use advanced fabrics and techniques to aid technical development
- Design and create an outfit suitable for a fashion competition
- Use templates to create outfit illustrations
Pre-requisites
To have completed year 10 or year 11 fashion design. Entry at the discretion of Head of Faculty: Technology for students new to the subject.
Notice of risk - students of technology courses should be compliant with all health and safety guidelines to protect themselves and others. Students failing to do so could be removed from the course.
Course Specific Costs
$50 (approximately) - consumables
Students will also be charged for fabrics and notions for each assignment.
Pathway
Fashion design can lead to numerous careers in the design and fashion industry, with jobs such as buyers, textile producers, designers, fashion stylists, interior design and photographers. This course also provides useful life skills such a problem solving, critical thinking, perseverance, time management and everyday measurement calculations.
Assessment Information
Note: Sometimes the same standards are offered in more than one technology course. A student can do more than one of these courses but can only gain credit in one course for a repeated standard.Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
External
NZQA Info
Construction and Mechanical Technologies 2.21 - Implement advanced procedures using textile materials to make a specified product with special features
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Construction and Mechanical Technologies 2.26 - Make advanced adaptations to a pattern to change the structural and style features of a design
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Generic Technology 2.3 - Develop a conceptual design for an outcome
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Generic Technology 2.5 - Demonstrate understanding of how technological modelling supports risk management
Disclaimer
Specific course content may change from what has been advertised in order to remain current and meet students' needs.
The school has the right to make the best decision based on both staffing, and overall student interest, when preparing the final timetable.