Application
This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to research and analyse significant influences that determine current individual preferences and future fashion trends. It involves analysing fashion theories on adoption and dissemination of new trends, as well as investigating fashion trends.
The unit applies to those in the textiles, clothing and footwear industry developing designs that meet specific design briefs and current market demands. Work may be conducted in small to large scale workplaces 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. Identify influences on contemporary fashion | 1.1 | Investigate significant influences on contemporary fashion |
1.2 | Identify what role these influences play in contemporary fashion preferences | |
2. Use fashion reference sources | 2.1 | Identify ways that current theories of fashion are adopted and disseminated |
2.2 | Identify the role of contemporary media and its function in the process of the fashion being adopted and disseminated | |
2.3 | Research a current fashion trend and analyse the role of a specified media type on its adoption and dissemination | |
3. Investigate fashion forecasting | 3.1 | Identify purposes of fashion forecasting |
3.2 | Identify and compare different sources of information used when predicting future fashion directions | |
3.3 | Predict future trends and provide illustrations with evidence to support predictions | |
3.4 | Present research and ideas for future fashion trends using communication tools and presentation skills appropriate to fashion industry | |
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.
Self-management skills to seek the ideas of others and integrate own ideas and visions into analysis
Technology skills to identify and research fashion market trends
Other foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit.
Sectors
Fashion design and technology