Fashion (Design) RMIT University

Overview

Throughout the Fashion (Design) program from the RMIT Universityyou’ll define your position in the world of fashion, and pitch your work to industry through an innovative body of publicly showcased work.

We seek to imagine future commercial contexts, create ethical design propositions and use cross-disciplinary design strategies to drive global and competitive fashion design practices. 

You will establish your design, communication and presentation methods and strategies for fashion garments, products, accessories, objects, artefacts, materials, spaces and experiences of and for the body specific to your design practice.

The course is dedicated to advancing your design practice through classes that give you the strategies to create specialised propositions, and to target specific areas of commercial markets, research directions and cross-disciplinary practices. You will choose electives that enable you to customise your study, culminating in a collection, design project, research investigation or industry placement. 

Career  

As a graduate, you will be able to offer new design propositions for the challenges of competitive fashion industry practice.

You will also have confidence in your advanced capabilities to launch independent and emerging brands. These roles are in fashion enterprises, emerging international brands, luxury and high fashion brands, as well as in related disciplines contexts of design, production, communications, creative direction and styling, branding, buying, media, publications, and textile and product development. 

You will be an agile and engaged designer, critically aware of the larger ethical, social, cultural, environmental and political concerns that need to be addressed in contemporary relevant design practice.