Solutions · Fashion students
The research and the portfolio, done properly.
A fashion degree asks for a researched argument, a resolved collection and a portfolio that gets you hired - and it asks for all three in the same term. The industry tools that would help cost more than the course.
The year
Four hand-ins, and each one is marked on something else.
Reference every claim you make in a crit. The brief says what to hand in. It rarely says what separates a pass from a distinction, so that is what this says instead.
01 · Term one
The dissertation
Whether the sources argue something or are listed to prove reading happened. Citation is the floor. Having a thesis is the grade.
Word10 pages
02 · Term two
The concept
Whether somebody else could work from it. A board that could belong to three different collections has not made a decision yet.
Deck10 slides
03 · Term three
The final collection
Cohesion, harder than any single piece, plus enough technical resolution to show it could be made.
PDF6 pages
04 · After
The portfolio
The only one of the four that keeps working after graduation. A studio reads a document, not a drive.
Deck12 slides
How often it comes round
Every crit and every hand-in - then once, for the graduate portfolio.
Skip it once
The argument is marked as assertion, and the reference you half-remembered turns out to be the wrong season.
The portfolio
Thirty-one layouts, and none of them a template you have to fill in.
Real portfolios produced here - deck, zine, look book, case study. Open any one and read the whole thing; the shapes differ because the work does.
Mara Ellison - Beige Creator Deck
10 pages
The Glow Edit - Blush eBook
20 pages
Odette Laurent - The Brand Boss
9 pages
Corail Studio - Brand Guideline
14 pages
Hana Sato - Forest & Blush Browser
7 pages
RUX Merch - Collage Merch Portfolio
7 pages
Selvedge Co. - Denim Process Journal
9 pages
Like a Magazine - Like a Magazine
12 pages
Lumen Studio - Lilac Company Profile
9 pages
Rimberio Milkshakes - Milkshake Product Launch
12 pages
Index Quarterly - Monochrome Magazine
10 pages
Studio Mono - Monochrome Pitch Deck
9 pages
The crit
What the marker asks that the brief did not.
The reading list runs out before the argument is finished.
Peer-reviewed scholarship sits behind logins, so the citation list ends up thin.
What we do
Academic and museum sources are searched with the live web, references attached.
- Peer-reviewed and academic sources
- Archive and museum reference
- Multi-angle research sweep
The archive reference is remembered, not verified.
A season, a house and a date repeated from a secondary source is what a marker checks.
What we do
What a brand showed at a past date is read back, so lineage is sourced not recalled.
- Brand history at a past date
- Archive and museum reference
- Read a specific page
The work is good and the portfolio is a folder of JPEGs.
Studios read a document, not a drive - and the layout is a second design job, same week.
What we do
The collection becomes a laid-out portfolio and a written statement, as files.
- Print-quality PDF
- Editable deck
- Everything packaged together
The reading list
Open to you from the first brief.
A dissertation and a final collection are different disciplines, and a degree asks for both in one term.
- 01Deep ResearchStudio
- 02MoodboardStudio
- 03Fashion LookbookStudio
- 04Reports (PDF, PPTX, Word, Excel)Studio
- 05ResearcherSpecialist
- 06Fashion HistorianSpecialist
- 07Fashion DesignerSpecialist
- 08WriterSpecialist
Peer-reviewed and academic sources · Archive and museum reference · Multi-angle research sweep · Brand history at a past date · Read a specific page · Print-quality PDF · Editable deck · Everything packaged together
Reports
5 briefings written for fashion students.
Each one is the finished file, opened in full. Every figure in them is illustrative and each says so on its own cover; a real run researches and cites its numbers with an as-of year.
PDF · 6 pagesDissertation Research Briefing
Resale and the luxury customer - what the literature supports, and where it stops
Open the report4 more, same form
- Graduate Collection BriefingSix looks, one silhouette - what the collection has to demonstratePDF · 6 pages
- Industry Placement BriefingThe studios worth applying to, and whyPDF · 6 pages
- Portfolio BriefingWhat the portfolio has to demonstrate, against what it showsPDF · 6 pages
- Research Methods BriefingThe method, and how it will be defendedPDF · 6 pages
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The studios behind this one.
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Reference every claim you make.
Start with the question a fashion student actually has, and leave with the file.