Diploma of Apparel, Fashion and Textiles - MST50122
TAFE NSW
Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
CRICOS: 00591E
This qualification reflects the role of individuals who use cognitive, technical and communication skills to analyse, plan, design and evaluate production and business management in the apparel, fashion and textiles industry. They use technical knowledge and initiative and judgement in their work. Job roles in established organisations may include assistant designers, assistant product developers, patternmakers, and production supervisors. In the business area, roles may include assistant positions in marketing, public relations, buying and visual merchandising. Individuals may also be self-employed as designers.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Subjects
- Produce screen-printed textiles
- Grade complex patterns
- Grade 2D patterns
- Produce technical drawings of garments
- Analyse consumer behaviour
- Conduct fashion design purchasing
- Assess impacts of emerging industry innovations and practices
- Coordinate quality assurance for TCF products and services
- Lay up and cut complicated fabrics and lays
- Develop product specifications for garment designs
- Construct blocks for garments with advanced styling
- Research and plan for opportunities in the TCF market
- Identify and review social media and online platforms for organisational use
- Quality assure textile products
- Develop patterns using basic patternmaking principles
- Develop and present design concepts in response to a brief
- Conduct digital patternmaking and grading
- Produce woven textile samples
- Analyse individual fit and make pattern alterations
- Design and produce experimental textiles
- Interact and network with TCF industry participants
- Manipulate fabrics to create new finishes
- Specify and plan advanced construction processes
- Analyse TCF merchandising and marketing principles
- Forecast international market and business needs
- Drape fabrics to make patterns
- Construct stock size blocks for garments
- Contribute to garment design refinement and production processes
- Implement visual merchandising concepts
- Plan and interpret market research
- Cut and sew design prototypes
- Develop social media engagement plans
- Source materials and resources for production of TCF designs
- Design and produce knitted textile products
- Use colourisation techniques on fabrics
- Edit video and audio content for social media
- Develop a social media strategy
- Produce knitted textile samples
- Support sustainable practice in apparel and textile design and production
- Develop textile designs using digital software
- Design and develop marketing communication plans
- Establish and maintain safe creative practice
- Monitor ethical supply chain practices
- Provide global operations support
- Promote products and services
- Research international markets
- Prepare digital content
- Communicate design concepts
- Develop and test patterns for bras and swimwear
- Plan finances for new business ventures
- Present a body of own creative work
- Analyse fit model
- Use garment sizing systems
- Develop digital costing markers
- Produce garments using advanced construction techniques
- Achieve visual merchandising targets
- Use digital design tools
- Cost production of fashion and textile designs
- Prepare technical workplace documentation
- Prepare stencils and screens for textile printing
- Refine techniques for textile work
- Sew garments
- Design and produce printed textiles
- Produce garment illustrations
- Apply legal principles in corporation law matters
- Analyse influences on contemporary fashion designs
- Evaluate fashion designs against set criteria
- Participate in production planning processes
- Produce and analyse spreadsheets
- Work with local and international TCF supply chains
- Prepare and communicate design concepts for simple textile products
- Contribute to development of preliminary garment design concepts
- Investigate applications and performance outcomes of technical textiles
- Progress garment design concepts to production
- Develop standard-size patterns from existing blocks for garments with advanced styling
- Develop and implement business plans
- Plan and style merchandise photo shoots
- Establish legal and risk management requirements of new business ventures
- Undertake marketing activities
- Ensure a safe workplace for a work area
- Create garment patterns for individual sizes from blocks
- Integrate colour theory and design processes
- Develop merchandising plans for fashion products
- Research and analyse textile materials
- Create standard-size garment patterns from existing blocks
- Apply an expanding range of arithmetical calculations for work
- Analyse influences on textile design and construction
- Investigate materials and processes for textile work
- Develop visual merchandising creative concepts
- Develop marketing plans for fashion products
- Perform contour draping
- Investigate influences on contemporary garment design and construction
- Design bras or swimwear
- Assemble and fit bespoke garments
Study information
| Campus | Fees | Entry | Mid year intake | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ultimo College, Main Campus | No |
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