Application
This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to evaluate fashion designs against set criteria, which may include the design brief, a brand, or a stakeholder requirement, to determine if the design and techniques applied meet specifications and stakeholder needs.
The unit applies to small to large scale workplaces in the textiles, clothing and footwear industry, and may involve individual and team activities.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Elements and Performance Criteria
Elements | Performance Criteria | |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. | |
1. Prepare to evaluate fashion designs | 1.1 | Source and interpret job requirements from specifications and design brief |
1.2 | Identify purpose of design and characteristics of target market | |
1.3 | Research current industry design trends in target market | |
1.4 | Research workplace and industry standards for communicating and presenting fashion design concepts according to legal and work health and safety requirements | |
1.5 | Identify quality criteria and evaluation criteria that apply to design processes | |
2. Apply evaluation criteria to fashion designs | 2.1 | Critically evaluate design and its individual features against original specifications, design brief and design concept |
2.2 | Evaluate how well design principles have been applied to design | |
2.3 | Assess design against identified quality criteria and evaluation criteria | |
2.4 | Identify required possible adjustments to design to better meet design brief | |
3. Suggest design improvements | 3.1 | Identify potential design improvements and test their viability |
3.2 | Use industry-appropriate communication and presentation skills to communicate suggested improvements | |
3.3 | Comply with intellectual property (IP), copyright, and ethical requirements when incorporating ideas sourced elsewhere | |
Foundation Skills
This section describes those language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills that are essential to performance but not explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.
Reading skills to interpret standards, IP and copyright requirements
Oral communication skills to:
influence others
raise difficult issues for productive discussion
Other foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit.
Sectors
Fashion design and technology