Michele Whitecliffe
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Fashion Design is an influential and creative medium offering a
dynamic means of personal expression. Fashion is fast to react to global
socioeconomic and cultural events and represents contemporary
concerns of the designer, the wearer, as well as providing a dialogue
between the past and the present. What to expect Whitecliffe’s
Fashion Design major encourages you to challenge ideas, re-examine
boundaries and foster creativity while experimenting and developing
the strong technical skills required for a future in the fashion industry.
The Fashion Design major focuses on design development and
research, pattern drafting and garment construction. Industry targeted
workshops include fashion technology, pattern drafting, and garment
construction, design and concept development, tailoring and fabric
manipulation techniques. Studio practice is complemented by courses
in fashion history, theory, illustration, and professional practices. Classes
are small and provide a nurturing learning environment with a strong
focus on individual students. In year two students investigate historical
fashion and develop their own collection of contemporary designs.