This 1-year program builds on the graduate skills you developed in the Associate Degree in Fashion Design and Technology. The program’s focus is on enhancing your creative product design skills and management talents to a sophisticated, global standard. You will develop advanced knowledge and technical skills in fashion design and explore innovative creative design concepts for developing fashion products. You will work with key industry figures on your major project, producing a collection that will be showcased at a graduate runway show to major players in the fashion and textiles industries. The advanced skills You will acquire in computer-aided design (CAD) and pattern technology will further enhance your product design and development skills. You will also develop the confidence and knowledge to be innovative and entrepreneurial in the management of fashion production and supply chains, both in Australia and overseas.

This program is designed to provide you with high-level skills in fashion design and expert skills in specialist patternmaking, managing design and product development. After several years’ experience, you can be working as a designer or product developer or in a management position within an international fashion business. Graduates of this program have found employment in leading organisations from the Australian and international fashion industry in the following areas: fashion design pattern design grading production management quality assurance and control offshore production management specification coordination garment technology.