MC246 - Master of Fashion (Design)
Plan: MC246P20 - Master of Fashion (Design)
Campus: City Campus
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Program detailsPurpose of the ProgramArticulation and pathwaysEntrance requirementsExternal accreditation and industry linksStudent expenses and charges in addition to feesLibrary, IT and specialist resourcesProgram details
Award title: Master of Fashion (Design)
Award abbreviation: MFash(Des)
Total credit points: 192
Career: PGRD
Duration: 2 years full-time
Location: RMIT University, City Campus
Owning school: Fashion & Textiles (350H)
Owning school URL: www.rmit.edu.au/about/schools-colleges/fashion-and-textiles
ASCED code: 100505
CRICOS code: 0100990
Top of pagePurpose of the Program
The Master of Fashion (Design) offers you the opportunity to further develop and extend your fashion design practice to establish your specialisation in fashion design industries and related discipline contexts, culminating in an innovative body of work that will be publicly showcased. This program is designed as a part of the Advanced Fashion & Textiles Design Studios where you will be immersed in creatively challenging and engaging contemporary practice. You will research and examine your design practice within the context of critical, engaged and contemporary fashion systems and related disciplines. You will develop your knowledge to establish your key design skills, techniques, materials and expressions with expertise to advance your design practice for targeted contexts in the global fashion environment, with an in depth understanding of social and cultural shifts and the impact on the fashion system.
As a graduate you will be able to demonstrate and design strategies with an advanced and integrated understanding of a complex body of knowledge that reflects contemporary fashion systems, emerging dress cultures and economies and materially-led design across and outside fashion design discipline contexts. This advanced design practice will deepen your portfolio and set you up for professional design and design related roles in industry, related discipline contexts across fashion design, communication, strategy or research practice through further study.
The primary learning mode is through advanced studio practice where immersive learning experiences and activities allow you to challenge and advance your practice in the Advanced Fashion & Textiles Design Studios. Scaffolded projects target key elements of practice and are authentic to fashion design industries as well as emerging disciplinary contexts, markets and research practice. A curated suite of masterclasses stimulate advanced practice through working directly with guest practitioners, researchers and industry experts. Individual and collective project experiences prepare students for collaborative work environments across discipline contexts. Practice research strategies enable you to progress and expand the methods and approaches to design with critically engaged analysis, and synthesis of fashion design thinking. Challenging materials and materiality of fashion design as well as the design techniques and expressions you choose to practice with, allow for development that may shift ways to design. The program supports designers to practice critically within existing fashion economies and systems, and in emerging and across other disciplinary contexts.
A capstone experience is offered across the final semester courses and will enable you to develop a thoroughly researched and resolved fashion project/collection/placement with a focus on the realisation of an extensive fashion body of work and its presentation. This will support your opportunity to seek employment within an industry context and provides the foundation for future study in PhD research programs.
The program utilises design strategies paired with research methods courses to tap in to emergent discipline areas and offers specific pathways through a project model and independently designed projects situated in specific industry contexts. On graduation, you will have specialised knowledge and skills suited to a variety of career positions in creative fashion design within a global environment.
Graduates are enabled to meet the challenges of competitive industry practice as well as demonstrating autonomy, expert judgement, adaptability and responsibility in their practice to launch independent and emerging brands. These roles are in local, national and global small to large scale fashion enterprises, emerging international fashion brands, luxury and high fashion brands, as well as in related discipline contexts of fashion design, production, communications, creative direction and styling, branding, buying, media, publications and textile product development. Graduates are engaged designers critically aware of the larger ethical, social, cultural, environmental and political concerns that need to be addressed in contemporary relevant design practice.
Top of pageArticulation and pathways
Successful completion of the BP328 Bachelor of Fashion (Design) with a minimum GPA of 2.0 (out of 4.0) guarantees entry into this program.
Successful completion of the BH127 Bachelor of Fashion (Design)(Honours) guarantees entry into this program with 96 credit points exemptions (equivalent to one year of full-time study).
Successful completion of the BH103 Bachelor of Fashion (Design)(Honours) guarantees entry into this program with 96 credit points exemptions (equivalent to one year of full-time study).
If you have already developed areas of skill and knowledge included in this program (for example, through prior studies or work experience), you can apply for credit once you have enrolled in this program.
Upon successful completion this program, you may be eligible to undertake further studies in related programs at RMIT University, including Postgraduate Research programs, subject to each program’s entry requirements.
Top of pageEntrance requirements
You must have successfully completed an Australian three-year bachelor degree in fashion design (or equivalent overseas qualification) with an overall grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.0 out of 4.0.
English Language requirement
A minimum IELTS (Academic module) overall score of 6.5, with no band less than 6.0 or equivalent. For equivalents to English language requirements, see the English requirements web page.
Selection task
All applicants must complete and submit the selection task.
Top of pageExternal accreditation and industry links
The School of Fashion and Textiles has many close links with industry, which take on a variety of forms. Academics within the School of Fashion and Textiles are industry practitioners, in many different areas of the discipline, and ensure the program maintains strong links with contemporary fashion design industries and communities. In addition, we collaborate with industry and community partners in a range of activities including partnered projects, placements, virtual studios and case studies to ensure you are immersed in current industry professional practices, techniques and strategies.
Whilst there are currently no professional bodies that formally recognise programs in fashion design in Australia, current students and graduates of the Master of Fashion (Design) are eligible to become members of the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) and the Australian Fashion Council (AFC). Association with these bodies provides benefits such as placement and employment opportunities, updates on relevant industry news and information, participation in industry events and initiatives, promotional and showcase incentives, prizes and awards for emerging designers, all relevant for career development and advancement.
Graduates from the Fashion Design programs within the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT occupy significant positions in various roles across the creative industries in Australia and internationally. The program has regular consultations with industry advisory groups that consist of high profile industry representatives. Part of these consultations is to ensure that the program’s links with industry standards and practice remain current and valid.
Top of pageStudent expenses and charges in addition to fees
Once you are enrolled as a student in this program you will need to allow for expenses other than university tuition fees. Additional expenses may relate to the purchase of lecture notes, textbooks, stationery, consumables such as printer paper, fees levied by commercial internet service providers for internet access outside of the university campus, and other relevant costs.
Top of pageLibrary, IT and specialist resources
RMIT University will provide you with a wide range of resources and opportunities to assist your learning and wellbeing so you can achieve your study and career goals.
The University Library has many services, facilities and study spaces for you to use. There are extensive scholarly resources such as books, journals and online videos either linked from within your online courses or available from the Library website. The Library is focused strongly on assisting students with academic skills development, including research, communication and mathematics skills. There is online assistance via the Ask-a-Librarian chat service, online guides or take advantage of face-to-face help at each of the library sites.
Each library site has individual and group study rooms, computers and print facilities to support your study and learning needs.
You can find more information on Library resources and services at: http://www.rmit.edu.au/library
Other services within the University include:
- Transition to tertiary study and learning
- Career development and employment
- Living and wellbeing, including advice on health, housing and financial matters
- Enabling assistance if you have a disability, long term medical condition or other form of disadvantage which may impact on your learning
- Opportunities for participating in arts, sport and recreation activities
- Opportunities for scholarships, leadership and study abroad
Explore https://www.rmit.edu.au/students for further information.
As a student in the Master of Fashion (Design) program you have access to studio spaces equipped with specialised pattern making tables, machinery and specialty equipment relative to producing fashion design outcomes. Access to specialised equipment will also be available in other areas of the School of Fashion and Textiles. These workshops provide access to, and technical support in using a wide range of industry grade fashion production equipment. Additionally specialised industry standard commercial software and other digital technologies are available for your use within university provided computer laboratories, and in some instances to download for use on personal computers.
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