Unit 5: Fashion Collection (Pearson Unit 23) Assignment 10 Question

Assignment Brief

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Scenario (Context):

Based on your research and the fashion collection strategy developed in assignment 9, you will now develop designs for the six-outfit collection that you have been tasked with by your new employer (the new brand you created in assignment 9).

Throughout this assignment, you will show your development work for this six-outfit collection in your digital sketchbook. While experimenting with design ideas, you should also develop your own style throughout this work. The final six-outfit collection must be presented on presentation boards. The style of the boards should closely relate to your research and be representative of your own personal style.

Task 1

Create a six-outfit collection: In your digital sketchbook, experiment with different design ideas ensuring that you retain the brand ethos and identity of your new brand throughout.
Produce 3-5 colour-rendered development sketches per garment and in annotations clearly explain how these designs meet the brand ethos that you established in Task 1 in assignment 9. From your development sketches, choose the final six outfits that will define your fashion collection.
Clearly label the six chosen outfits and explain, using annotations, how they reflect your fashion brand ethos and how the outfits have been influenced by current and future trends. 

Task One Deliverable:

Your digital sketchbook, saved as a PDF and labeled ‘Fashion Collection Design Development Task One’

Task 2

To understand how the design will work as a finished garment, you will need to apply a variety of quality control measures. The results of your quality control measures may result in changes in your fabric selection but overall, it will allow you to make the most appropriate material choices. 

1. In your digital sketchbook, create technical drawings ("flats") of your final garments showing the front and back view of your garments as well as the seams, location of openings, buttons, zippers, and stitching details, as required.
2. Take the fabrics you identified for this collection in assignment 9 and test them in relation to their structure or drape by pinning the fabrics on your mini mannequin. Document the development process with photographs and annotations in your digital sketchbook.
3. Include technical information on each selected fabric (add the information provided by the supplier, such as weight, composition, width, cost, reference, care instructions, etc.). Add this information to samples of the material in your digital sketchbook and explain in annotations whether the qualities of the materials are suitable for the designs.

Task Two Deliverable:

Your digital sketchbook, saved as a PDF and labelled 'Fashion Collection Testing and Development Task Two’

Task 3

You are now at the final presentation stage of your design development. Create a presentation board for your final six-outfit collection includingbrand logo, fabric swatches and rendered fashion illustrations. The presentation should reflect creativity and your own style.
Task Three Deliverable:

Your digital sketchbook, saved as a PDF and labelled ‘Fashion Collection Presentation Task Three’

Task 4

Consider the work that you have done for assignments 9 and 10. Write a short essay (200-250 words) identifying areas within your fashion collection strategy that worked well and areas that would need further development. Evaluate areas within your fashion collection that could be improved in order to enhance future developments of your fashion collection.

Task Four Deliverable:

Your essay, saved as a PDF and labelled ‘Fashion Collection Evaluation Task Four’

Pass criteria

Criteria LO 3.1: Assessed in Task 1 Develop a cohesive fashion collection, in response to a brief. Develop a fashion collection to align with a brand ethos. Student produced 3-5 colour rendered design idea development sketches per garment to create a final collection of six outfits;
explained in annotations how the design ideas reflect the brand ethos they established in assignment 9.

Criteria LO 3.2: Assessed in Task 2 Develop a cohesive fashion collection, in response to a brief. Apply quality control, review and testing to the development of a fashion collection. Student-produced technical drawings; fabric draping test; fabric quality review in a digital sketchbook to test the suitability of designs.

Criteria LO 4.1: Assessed in Task 3 Present a fashion collection, identifying areas for further development and best practice. Present a fashion collection that responds to the brand and customers. Students presented the final six-outfit fashion collection, which is representative of the final design choices on the A3 presentation board including the brand logo, fabric swatches, and fashion illustrations.

Criteria LO 4.2: Assessed in Task 4 Present a fashion collection, identifying areas for further development and best practice. Identify areas of good practice and areas for improvement in a fashion collection strategy. Students identified in a written essay: areas of good practice and areas where improvements are needed in relation to the fashion collection strategy they created (200-250 words).

To achieve higher than a Pass:

• It is possible, if your assignment goes above the standard expected for a Pass, to achieve Merit or Distinction criteria.
• To achieve a Merit grade for the unit: you must achieve all the Pass criteria and Merit criteria in all assignments for that unit. 
• To achieve a Distinction grade for the unit: you must achieve all the Pass, Merit, and Distinction criteria in all assignments for that unit.

Criteria MO 3: Develop a cohesive fashion collection, in response to a brief. Analyse the way in which a fashion collection integrates trend
awareness and forecasting. Student developed 6 final outfits from the development sketches that reflect trend awareness and forecasting; evidenced in the relationship between the final designs and the research carried out in assignment 9

Criteria MO 4: Present a fashion collection, identifying areas for further development and best practice. Evaluate areas for improvement, in a fashion collection, in order to enhance future developments. Student evaluated the areas for improvement in their fashion collection by making suggestions of how these improvements could be achieved in a written essay.

Distinction criteria

Criteria DO 2: Create a fashion collection that demonstrates a synthesis of brand identity, market awareness, and customer expectation with a creative process and iterative development. Student created a fashion collection which is a synthesis of brand identity and market awareness established through research in assignment 9. The designs meet customer expectations through analysis of quality control (i.e. chosen fabrics suitable to design); developed designs through an iterative process where the sketches show a clear development of the creative process and the student's style. Presentation of final fashion collection produced to a professional standard (Assignment 10, Task 1, 2, 3, and 4).