The Bachelor of Design Arts with a major in Fashion & Costume Design guides you through the full arc of fashion creation — from silhouette and form through materials, construction, and production — giving you the creative confidence and practical skills to produce original, industry-ready work. This is a degree that takes your ideas seriously and equips you to realise them.Fashion and costume design demand both vision and rigour, and this major develops both in equal measure. You'll build your creative and technical capability progressively — starting with hand-drawing and digital illustration, moving through pattern cutting and garment construction, and developing a structured understanding of form, materials, textile innovation, and production.Learning unfolds through the Design Laboratory — a studio-based environment where you apply research, technical skill, and creative thinking to realise original work within your specialisation. Every trimester opens with a combined theoretical lecture shared across all four disciplines, before transitioning into discipline-specific studio practice where academic mentors guide you through demonstrations, tutorials, and self-directed studio time.Across six trimesters — Exploration, Foundation, Issues, Global, Industry, and Capstone — you'll move from establishing your creative identity through to producing an advanced body of work with a defined design voice. Past students have had their work featured at some of Australia's most prestigious fashion events, including the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne Fashion Week, Fashion on the Fields, and Fashion Awards Australia.

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