VISUAL: Various shots of the fashion studio and students collaborating with others and talking.
For some of the other designers, it might be pleating or fabric manipulation or sustainability and recycling garments, and you're bringing that inspiration that is core to you as a designer, and you're working to develop it and refine it through the course, through the master classes, then into the future. SARAH SPEAKS: In the masters, you're really refining your own practice and what you've been doing in the industry and what really inspires you, so really soul search and work out what you want to do and what you're good at. VISUAL: Shots of her fashion studio and other students working. It's a chance that you don't normally get. It's very hard work, but it's quite a luxury as well to really take the time to focus on yourself and your own practice. SARAH SPEAKS: I'm really loving studying again. VISUAL: Montage of shots showing SARAH working on fashion sketches and designs and SARAH as she works at her table. My name is Sarah and I'm studying the Masters of Fashion Design at RMIT university. We're at a great advantage as students and young practitioners to shape a new industry that we want to work in. SARAH SPEAKS: I think that we're at a really interesting time in the history of fashion. VISUAL: Sequence of images that depict students and a model in a lighting studio. I think this course is going to make me really job ready because in industry, we would be doing things like making range plans, doing research about target customers and brands that we might be working for. So this is something that I feel like when I do go into the industry and get a job I'm going to feel so much more prepared and so much more confident. It's definitely a challenge but a good challenge. And then it's also a lot to do with products. So sort of switching between them is a great opportunity to learn so much about so many different things. I think what's a little bit challenging for me is that there are so many different sort of areas of fashion. So we've got like marketing and branding. But I'm so grateful for the tutors whenever I've had like a bit of an issue or a lack of understanding in one of the subjects they were so willing to jump on like a Teams meeting so we can discuss whatever I need help with. It is a bit different studying online rather than being on campus. And that's why this course really stood out to me. But I started to realise how important the business side of fashion is, as well. So the more I learned, the more aware I became of how many different opportunities there are in the fashion industry. And then as I got older, I was interested in design, I still love sewing. And that's what made me really interested in fashion.
Hi, I'm Erin and I'm studying a Bachelor of Fashion (Enterprise). So when I was really young, my nanna taught me how to sew and knit. The highlight for me so far has just been seeing the new direction that students are taking it, all the interesting little details that they're putting on and how they're really embracing sustainability as part of the entire process has been really amazing. And it's exciting at the same time nervous. Today is actually my first day of being here. It kind of give us like a sneak peek of how it is like to work in industry. So each other presentations, they've given us advice, what went well, what we can maybe work on, and it's really helped us to improve our final work. And it's been so fantastic to get their feedback along the way. We've come up with a final range for the collection that we've planned. We've been so excited to see all their progress through the three times that they've come to visit us. Students have been developing their ranges with sustainable features for kids wear what they've come up with. The project that we've run this semester has been amazing with the product development students. And if we can play a role in that, then it's something we're exceptionally proud of. It's about ensuring that the industry’s got an enormous platform as we move forward. So the RMIT collaboration for us is about doing the right thing. Getting the students ready for life, that was very important for us. Not about only the theoretical part, but also the hands on how do you do it in real life. We wanted to make a course that was relevant to industry.