
Overview
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 Fashion (Design) program at RMIT University is dedicated to advancing your design practice through classes that give you the strategies create specialised propositions, and to target specific areas of commercial markets, research directions and cross disciplinary practice.s. You will choose electives that enable you to customise your study, culminating in a collection, design project, research investigation, or industry placement.
You will finish the year with a portfolio of practice, development and research to launch your career in the global industry. Additionally, you will work with academic staff and industry experts to produce a digital publication, showcasing your graduate outcomes globally.
This degree has a stellar record of students and graduates winning major fashion design awards and scholarships, and receiving the invitation to participate in national and international showcase events, including:
- International Woolmark Prize
- Australian Fashion Foundation (AUSFF) Award
- Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (VAMFF) National Graduate Showcase
- Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia (MBFWA) St. George NextGen Showcase
- MPavilion Master of Fashion Design Showcase
Graduates create independent and niche practices, work in leading commercial, luxury and emerging contemporary brands, and go on to establish independent and collaborative research practices and enterprises.
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.
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Visit official programme websiteProgramme Structure
Course include:
- Fashion Image
- Fashion Show Design
- New Fashion Propositions
- Fashion Practice Research Strategies
- Advanced Fashion Design Project
- Fashion and Textile Industry Placement Project
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Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
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Disciplines
Design Fashion, Textiles and Luxury Goods View 7 other Masters in Fashion, Textiles and Luxury Goods in AustraliaExplore more key information
Visit official programme websiteAcademic requirements
English requirements
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General requirements
CRICOS number: 0100990
You must have successfully completed:
- an Australian 3 year bachelor degree in fashion design (or equivalent overseas qualification) with a minimum overall GPA of 2.0 (out of 4.0) and a minimum GPA of at least 3.0 (out of 4.0) in the final year
- an Australian 4 year bachelor honours degree in fashion design (or equivalent overseas qualification)
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Visit official programme websiteTuition Fee
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International
38400 AUD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 38400 AUD per year during 24 months. -
National
34560 AUD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 34560 AUD per year during 24 months.
Living costs for Melbourne
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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