FASHION DESIGN and TEXTILES

Programme Information

Duration: 3 Years

Award: BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles

Disciplines:
Womenswear, Menswear, Pattern Design & Draping, and Fashion Textiles

This programme focuses on the design and construction of the fashion garment addressing physical, aesthetic and social needs within contemporary fashion, covering traditional to contemporary approaches in developing ideas from paper to object, theory to practice, and fabric to garment.

You will engage in practical workshops to encourage independent learning through intellectual and creative processes. Industry projects, collaborations, and dialogues are encouraged to maximise your relationships within the programme, the college, and with other institutions. Through a variety of projects and directed independent practice, you learn to analyse, evaluate, and make creative and practical decisions.

The philosophy of the programme is fashion innovation through creative thinking, theory and practice. Through a combination of modules in technical, creative, and contextual subjects, you will develop a range of analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills to become articulate, meticulous, and thoughtful practitioners in fashion,

This programme offers four disciplines:

Womenswear concentrates on designing collections for different sectors such as sportswear, eveningwear, swimwear, casual wear, and office-wear.

Menswear focuses on the usage of traditional tailoring techniques, combining pattern drafting and draping to design contemporary menswear collections.

Pattern Design & Draping explores advanced techniques of drafting and draping, as well as complex cutting and sewing techniques. The focus is on semi-couture and high-end garments, including eveningwear and bridal.

Fashion Textiles explores fabric manipulations, processes of dyeing, screen printing, embroidery, and embellishment, digital design, and digital textile printing to develop contemporary textile designs. Textile design is supported by pattern drafting and construction techniques.

Level 1 presents the different disciplines and theoretical approaches needed for the study and exploration of fashion. Level 2 enables you to analyse, in theory and practice, a range of different fashion elements and fashion critique. Additionally, you will apply and test your own creativity, drawing on diverse critical and cultural theories. Level 3 consolidates your skills and provides a forum for further debate and reflection on contemporary fashion study. You will undertake independent work combining practical and theoretical research.

Teaching Methods: You will attend lectures, seminars, technical workshops, tutorials, and practical presentations. There will be guest lectures by fashion industry personal who bring valuable experience and advice. You will make industry visits, engage in market research, and undertake a fashion internship. Engaging in studio work and group as well as solo practical projects will become part of your student experience.

Assessments: Assessment is an integral part of the learning process, and will be formative and diagnostic as well as summative and evaluative, providing feedback to students wherever appropriate. Read more about assessments here.

Placement learning is where students are offered opportunities to experience learning outside the classroom in real-life working environments or in approved partner institutions. Read more about placement learning here.

Modules

Level 1

Fashion Studio 1A: 20th Century Fashion
This module introduces you to a range of methods for generating and exploring design ideas for fashion and textile design. You will be introduced to key themes, silhouettes and designers from the 20th Century and learn how to research and reference art and design as a source for inspiration.

Fashion Techniques 1A: Basic Skills in Fashion 1
This module introduces you to the fundamental techniques for the realisation of your fashion ideas. You will be introduced to flat pattern drafting and cutting techniques, a range of sewing methods and garment construction techniques, basic properties of textiles and fabrics, and dyeing techniques.

Cultural and Contextual Studies 1: Modern Fashion History and Visual Culture
This module explores a range of causal factors that determines and influences key sartorial changes from historical, theoretical and socio-cultural perspectives within a chronological framework in modern fashion history. It introduces fashion from the 17th Century, with a focus on 20th Century fashion until the present.

Creative Industries and Opportunities 1: Creative Skills for the Fashion Entrepreneur
In this module, you will develop an overview of knowledge and understanding of the fashion industry; what the fashion product is, and how the fashion market operates. You will look at the roles the ever-changing technology and unpredictable fashion economies play, and how they affect the fashion product, fashion calendar, and production cycles.

Fashion Studio 1B: Ethnic Global Fashion Trends
This module expands your design knowledge and skills, and introduces you to conceptual idea generation, analysis and synthesis techniques within a problem-solving framework. Fashion Seminar shows you how global influences and ethnic trends can be used as inspiration to develop and inform your own design ideas for fashion.

Fashion Techniques 1B: Basic Skills in Fashion 2
In this module you will develop your skills in pattern cutting, sewing, sample making, material selection and production techniques through on-going practical work in class exercises and assignments.

Level 2

Fashion Studio 2A: Gender in Fashion
This module expands your knowledge, understanding and practical application of creative methods required to realise your fashion design concepts. Looking at the topic of gender, you will engage in detailed research and analytical thinking to develop a range of fashion design proposals, targeted at a specific market sector within your chosen specialist pathway. Your research topic will focus on social constructions of gender, its cultural ideologies, and fashion semiotics to refine your conceptual research and development.

Fashion Techniques 2A: Intermediate skills in Fashion 1
This module expands and refines your knowledge, understanding and practical application of techniques required to realise your creative concept for an appropriate consumer market within your chosen specialism. You will develop skills for pattern cutting and construction of men's and women's jackets through traditional and industrial techniques. You will be exposed to a range of alternative production methods through practical workshops in pattern design, and conduct practical experimentation in soft tailoring to support the realisation of your creative projects that play with the notion of gender and fashion. You will learn to draft and sew jacket components: lapel, collar, collar stand, two-piece sleeve, jacket interfacing and lining.

Cultural and Contextual Studies in Fashion 2: Fashioning Identities and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Fashion
The module looks into identities of self, community, nation, and how these identities are influenced by theoretical, historical and socio-cultural context within gender, body, social class, ethnicity, race, youth, celebrity, and consumer complexity, drawing from a range of research materials.

Creative Industries and Opportunities 2: Fashion and Industry Relations
This module will prepare you for future career management and an industry-placed internship. It will help you to develop an active role in defining your own career goals and planning of your future career. You will research and reflect upon your chosen career pathways to write a fashion CV, and generate a digital online portfolio.

Fashion Techniques 2B: Intermediate Skills in Fashion 2
This module expands and refines your knowledge, understanding and practical application of techniques required to realise your creative concept within your specialist pathway. You will work progressively towards the realisation of a complete body of work integrating a minimum of two fully resolved separates.

Level 3

Creative Portfolio: Historical Dress and New Technologies
In this module you are expected to redefine notions of applied research in the contradictory topics of historical dress and new technologies. Technical studies become part of your individual creative practice. The integration of studio and technical research to combine traditional garment making traditions with new technologies will challenge your perception of fashion, art, and science.

Research Methods in Fashion
This module allows you to focus and further your research on a particular topic of interest related to a field of fashion that you have explored in Level 1 & 2. You will conduct independent and self-directed research to develop your focused research theme that will lead to the completion of an extended essay of 6,000 words at the end of Semester 2.

Graduating Portfolio: Graduate Collection
This module is the culmination of your creative and technical experience in fashion. It provides the opportunity for you to apply previous knowledge and skills acquired in solving a self-initiated project to produce a creative body of work, demonstrating creative independence, a high level of creative thinking and understanding, and strong conceptual thinking, as well as proficiency in your specialist area of study.

Extended Essay in Fashion
You will continue to refine the research process and methodologies pertaining to your topic of study in the previous semester through individual supervision and independent study. You will also define the link between theory and practice in your specialist discipline. You will be expected to integrate your secondary and primary research findings into your argument. You will embark on and complete your extended essay of 6,000 words that conforms to academic conventions.

Faculty Members

Dean
Nur Hidayah Bte Abu Bakar

With extensive teaching experience of more than eight years, Nur Hidayah was appointed Dean, Faculty of Design in 2009.

A graduate from University of Central England, United Kingdom with a Master of Arts Design For Communication, Nur Hidayah carries with her an impressive and distinguished track record in having served businesses, and offered copywriting and design knowledge across major industry segments; established clients included Sun Microsystems, SingTel Mobile, HSBC, Cheers/NTUC, Prudential, Tequila Singapore, STAR Automotive, and ST Kinetics – ST Engineering.

Nur Hidayah is instrumental to LASALLE's Faculty of Design. She manages the demanding and challenging task of leading seven programme teams in the strategic growth and development of validated programmes.

Over the years, her excellent interpersonal and management skills have enabled her to inspire many students. Her vision and foresight has helped nurture these students into leaders that have contributed to the Singapore creative landscape.

Programme Leader, Fashion Design
Lionel Roudaut

• F.A.M.P. Certificate in Fashion Design and Pattern Cutting
• Baccalaureate of Arts & Literature, Estiennes D'orves, Academy of Nice, France

Lionel dreams of an ideal world were all women will be dressed in Yves Saint Laurent styled by martin Margiela and staged by Billy Wilder. He is currently the Programme Leader of Fashion Design at LASALLE. As the right-hand man for Jeremy Scott in Paris, he designed costumes for the Paris Opera and superstar Renée Fleming. Lionel created costumes for Kylie Minogue and Bjork and has co-organize a fashion show with Singapore Management school. Lionel also provided artistic direction for LASALLE degree fashion shows and has worked as guest artist with Project Alabama, New York. Some of his industry experience include - Pattern Design lecturer at Shanghai University, Design studio lecturer in ESMOD Tokyo, Chief Designer for AVIA, sportwear, Jean's designer for Taverniti amongst many others.

Lecturer, Fashion Design
Tan Peck Leng

Tan Peck Leng joined LASALLE in 2006 as a fashion lecturer. She graduated from London College of Fashion with a certificate in dress and light clothing and obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Fashion from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle (England). She has experience in the apparel industry in garment technology and production planning. Peck Leng has participated in the University of London Fashion Show in 2002 and the Italian Fashion Fabric Show in 1994. She is also a volunteer with the Singapore International Foundation and has taught garment production in Bhutan from 2008 – 2010.

Programme Leader, Fashion Communication
Ginette Chittick

By day, Ginette Chittick is the Programme Leader of Fashion Communication with a Masters in Art (Design).

By night, she is a multitasking ninja, with her stubby little fingers all sorts of different pies from music, fashion, design to photography. She's been a resident DJ at Home Club for the past 5 years, having opened for international acts such as Bloc Party, CSS, Kaiser Chiefs, Stone Roses, Hot Chip and The Presets. She's the co-owner of fashion label FrüFrü & Tigerlily which represented Singapore in the 2008 Malaysian International Fashion Week.

Before embarking on a very fulfilling academic career, she worked on web projects as a consultant for a vast range of clients which include Coca-Cola, HSBC, Citibank, PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consultants, The Substation, Discovery Channel, IDA Singapore, Aon Asia and Aware Singapore.

Senior Lecturer, Cultural and Contextual Studies, Fashion
Lucinda Law

Lucinda Law oversees all the modules of Cultural and Contextual Studies in the B.A Fashion programmes. She had also previously taught subjects in Creative Writing, Music Theory and Appreciation, Communicating Design Ideas, Professional Communications in Design and Fashion Journalism. With a background in English and English Literature (B.A) and having worked as an editor and writer, she continues to edit and write books and feature stories on travel, music, fashion, art and design. She completed her Masters of Arts in Fine Arts in 2010 where she explored the inter-dimensional aspects of time, space and text to create a space of sensuous immersion for fictive discourses. She exhibited two works titled, What Would the World Look Light If I Rode on a Beam of Light? (Acrylic, white ink, 2010, 500 x 22 x 2cm) and The Lightness of Being (Polyester silk, single channel projection, 2010, 820cm, 760 x 320cm) respectively. From there, she became fascinated by the medium of light and the idea of lightness. Her current research study investigates the ancestral roots of our magico-relationship with adornment through a fashion label called LEIA. LEIA was exhibited in the 2010 International Fashion Exhibition. She has published and presented a paper, titled, Just Looking: The curatorial meeting point between museums and retail spaces, for the 2010 International Symposium on Innovation and Creativity in Asian Fashion Industry. She has also published a paper titled, Fabricating Meaning: An investigation on how traditional meanings and symbols of textile expressions are redefined amidst technological advancement in textile production for dress, for Wuhan Textile University.

Programme Leader, Fashion Management
Circe Henestrosa

Circe completed dual M.A. degrees in Fashion Curation and Cultural Leadership at London College of Fashion and City University in 2009, winning a Distinction for her thesis "Frida's White Cabinet", an exhibition of artist Frida Kahlo's wardrobe to be presented at the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City in 2012. She currently heads the Fashion Management Programme at LASALLE where she lectures on fashion history, curating and international fashion management. Her research explores age-old traditions interpreted in contemporary fashion, exemplified by a joint Singapore/ Philippines weaving show and a co-curated Korea/Singapore design exhibition. Prior to this, she led the British Council's Arts Department in Mexico, presenting the work of artists such as Jimmy Choo, Peter Greenaway, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Phillip Treacey, Mark Wallinger and Vivienne Westwood and for the first time in Mexico and Latin America. Fluent in Spanish, English and German, she collaborates for different lifestyle and design publications in Mexico and London and was author and co-editor of the publication "Building a New Model for Museums in the 21st Century" (2005).

Lecturer, Fashion Textiles
Emily Wills

Emily Wills' interest and involvement in the arts began with a fascination for clothing as a means of self-expression. She established her own label Miyoko which sold in Hustle, an original concept boutique on High St in Fremantle, Australia. Miyoko was recognised at the annual Perth Fashion Festival, picking up stock lists both locally and nationally. Emily then established Pigeonhole Studios - a collective studio space with four like-minded artists, photographers and designers who later joined a collaborative artists-in-residence; The Ballroom. Emily was appointed a Lecturing and Coordination position in the Fashion and Textile Design Department at Curtin University of Technology and subsequently undertook Post Graduate studies programme in Literature and Cultural Studies. In this position Emily worked alongside government bodies such as ArtsWA, the Department of Culture and the Arts and private companies such as The William St Collective, Clothespeg Project and Beaufort St Network to conceive numerous industry based projects that provided students industry experience and networking opportunities within the art and design industry. In March 2009, Emily relocated to Singapore and began lecturing and overseeing the development of the Fashion Textiles pathway within the Design Faculty.

Adrian Huang
Lecturer, Fashion Design

Adrian began his career in the fashion and apparel industry in 2000. Educated in Apparel Design and Merchandising (Temasek Polytechnic, 1998) and Psychology (Murdoch University, 2008), Adrian is more concerned with good design rather than passing fads. His ready-to-wear label mizu, [created] with former business partners Keith Png and Petrina Tiong, won 2 Swarovski Designer/ Label of the year nominations in the Singapore Fashion Award 2003 and 2004.

As an independent design consultant and former trainer with TaFtc (2004 to 2006), Adrian has worked with companies such as Compagnie Mauricienne de Textile Ltée, Estee Lauder, Goldheart Jewelry, OCBC Bank, and Robinsons & Company amongst many others.

An educator and industry professional, Adrian was invited by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) to be on the validating panel for Competency Standards [CS] for the Textile & Fashion Singapore Workfoce Skills Qualification (WSQ) Diploma Courses (2010).

His vision of helping to groom a new generation of designers as thinkers with a global perspective led him to his current lecturing position within the fashion department at LASALLE College of the Arts.

Entry Requirements

Academic Requirements

• Completed High School (Grade 12), Junior College or Pre-University education.
• Recognised Singapore qualification: Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Level: Minimum 'Pass' in 2 subjects + General Paper or recognised equivalent.
• Recognised international qualifications: Please click here to view list.

Note:

• 'A' Level Art/Art Elective Programme or International Baccalaureate (IB) Art & Design are not required subjects but represent the portfolio standard for eligibility into the BA(Hons).
• Alternative English qualification: IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL iBT80.

Portfolios & Interview Requirements

• Give an account of a real or fictional trip you have made. (One A4 page, 350 words)
• Illustrate this narrative with images, photographs, drawings, and notes. Lay them out in the form of a sketchbook. (Two A4 pages)
• Based on the images, photographs, and drawings, make 20 fashion sketches. Make sure you translate the elements of your narrative into the garment design. (Three A4 pages)
• Select two designs and reproduce them separately in colour and with rendering. Include a short description of the fabrics you would like to use. (Two A4 pages)
• Include two illustrated pages of your best work. Scans of sketches, paintings, and photographs of outfits are expected. (Two A4 pages)

Programme Information

Duration: 3 Years

Awards:
BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles

Disciplines:
Womenswear, Menswear, Pattern Design & Draping, and Fashion Textiles

This programme focuses on the design and construction of the fashion garment addressing physical, aesthetic and social needs within contemporary fashion, covering traditional to contemporary approaches in developing ideas from paper to object, theory to practice, and fabric to garment.

You will engage in practical workshops to encourage independent learning through intellectual and creative processes. Industry projects, collaborations, and dialogues are encouraged to maximise your relationships within the programme, the college, and with other institutions. Through a variety of projects and directed independent practice, you learn to analyse, evaluate, and make creative and practical decisions.

The philosophy of the programme is fashion innovation through creative thinking, theory and practice. Through a combination of modules in technical, creative, and contextual subjects, you will develop a range of analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills to become articulate, meticulous, and thoughtful practitioners in fashion,

This programme offers four disciplines:

Womenswear concentrates on designing collections for different sectors such as sportswear, eveningwear, swimwear, casual wear, and office-wear.

Menswear focuses on the usage of traditional tailoring techniques, combining pattern drafting and draping to design contemporary menswear collections.

Pattern Design & Draping explores advanced techniques of drafting and draping, as well as complex cutting and sewing techniques. The focus is on semi-couture and high-end garments, including eveningwear and bridal.

Fashion Textiles explores fabric manipulations, processes of dyeing, screen printing, embroidery, and embellishment, digital design, and digital textile printing to develop contemporary textile designs. Textile design is supported by pattern drafting and construction techniques.

Level 1 presents the different disciplines and theoretical approaches needed for the study and exploration of fashion. Level 2 enables you to analyse, in theory and practice, a range of different fashion elements and fashion critique. Additionally, you will apply and test your own creativity, drawing on diverse critical and cultural theories. Level 3 consolidates your skills and provides a forum for further debate and reflection on contemporary fashion study. You will undertake independent work combining practical and theoretical research.

Teaching Methods: You will attend lectures, seminars, technical workshops, tutorials, and practical presentations. There will be guest lectures by fashion industry personal who bring valuable experience and advice. You will make industry visits, engage in market research, and undertake a fashion internship. Engaging in studio work and group as well as solo practical projects will become part of your student experience.

Assessments: Assessment is an integral part of the learning process, and will be formative and diagnostic as well as summative and evaluative, providing feedback to students wherever appropriate. Read more about assessments here.

Placement learning is where students are offered opportunities to experience learning outside the classroom in real-life working environments or in approved partner institutions. Read more about placement learning here.

Modules

Level 1

Fashion Studio 1A: 20th Century Fashion
This module introduces you to a range of methods for generating and exploring design ideas for fashion and textile design. You will be introduced to key themes, silhouettes and designers from the 20th Century and learn how to research and reference art and design as a source for inspiration.

Fashion Techniques 1A: Basic Skills in Fashion 1
This module introduces you to the fundamental techniques for the realisation of your fashion ideas. You will be introduced to flat pattern drafting and cutting techniques, a range of sewing methods and garment construction techniques, basic properties of textiles and fabrics, and dyeing techniques.

Cultural and Contextual Studies 1: Modern Fashion History and Visual Culture
This module explores a range of causal factors that determines and influences key sartorial changes from historical, theoretical and socio-cultural perspectives within a chronological framework in modern fashion history. It introduces fashion from the 17th Century, with a focus on 20th Century fashion until the present.

Creative Industries and Opportunities 1: Creative Skills for the Fashion Entrepreneur
In this module, you will develop an overview of knowledge and understanding of the fashion industry; what the fashion product is, and how the fashion market operates. You will look at the roles the ever-changing technology and unpredictable fashion economies play, and how they affect the fashion product, fashion calendar, and production cycles.

Fashion Studio 1B: Ethnic Global Fashion Trends
This module expands your design knowledge and skills, and introduces you to conceptual idea generation, analysis and synthesis techniques within a problem-solving framework. Fashion Seminar shows you how global influences and ethnic trends can be used as inspiration to develop and inform your own design ideas for fashion.

Fashion Techniques 1B: Basic Skills in Fashion 2
In this module you will develop your skills in pattern cutting, sewing, sample making, material selection and production techniques through on-going practical work in class exercises and assignments.

Level 2

Fashion Studio 2A: Gender in Fashion
This module expands your knowledge, understanding and practical application of creative methods required to realise your fashion design concepts. Looking at the topic of gender, you will engage in detailed research and analytical thinking to develop a range of fashion design proposals, targeted at a specific market sector within your chosen specialist pathway. Your research topic will focus on social constructions of gender, its cultural ideologies, and fashion semiotics to refine your conceptual research and development.

Fashion Techniques 2A: Intermediate skills in Fashion 1
This module expands and refines your knowledge, understanding and practical application of techniques required to realise your creative concept for an appropriate consumer market within your chosen specialism. You will develop skills for pattern cutting and construction of men's and women's jackets through traditional and industrial techniques. You will be exposed to a range of alternative production methods through practical workshops in pattern design, and conduct practical experimentation in soft tailoring to support the realisation of your creative projects that play with the notion of gender and fashion. You will learn to draft and sew jacket components: lapel, collar, collar stand, two-piece sleeve, jacket interfacing and lining.

Cultural and Contextual Studies in Fashion 2: Fashioning Identities and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Fashion
The module looks into identities of self, community, nation, and how these identities are influenced by theoretical, historical and socio-cultural context within gender, body, social class, ethnicity, race, youth, celebrity, and consumer complexity, drawing from a range of research materials.

Creative Industries and Opportunities 2: Fashion and Industry Relations
This module will prepare you for future career management and an industry-placed internship. It will help you to develop an active role in defining your own career goals and planning of your future career. You will research and reflect upon your chosen career pathways to write a fashion CV, and generate a digital online portfolio.

Fashion Techniques 2B: Intermediate Skills in Fashion 2
This module expands and refines your knowledge, understanding and practical application of techniques required to realise your creative concept within your specialist pathway. You will work progressively towards the realisation of a complete body of work integrating a minimum of two fully resolved separates.

Level 3

Creative Portfolio: Historical Dress and New Technologies
In this module you are expected to redefine notions of applied research in the contradictory topics of historical dress and new technologies. Technical studies become part of your individual creative practice. The integration of studio and technical research to combine traditional garment making traditions with new technologies will challenge your perception of fashion, art, and science.

Research Methods in Fashion
This module allows you to focus and further your research on a particular topic of interest related to a field of fashion that you have explored in Level 1 & 2. You will conduct independent and self-directed research to develop your focused research theme that will lead to the completion of an extended essay of 6,000 words at the end of Semester 2.

Graduating Portfolio: Graduate Collection
This module is the culmination of your creative and technical experience in fashion. It provides the opportunity for you to apply previous knowledge and skills acquired in solving a self-initiated project to produce a creative body of work, demonstrating creative independence, a high level of creative thinking and understanding, and strong conceptual thinking, as well as proficiency in your specialist area of study.

Extended Essay in Fashion
You will continue to refine the research process and methodologies pertaining to your topic of study in the previous semester through individual supervision and independent study. You will also define the link between theory and practice in your specialist discipline. You will be expected to integrate your secondary and primary research findings into your argument. You will embark on and complete your extended essay of 6,000 words that conforms to academic conventions.

Faculty Members

Dean
Nur Hidayah Bte Abu Bakar

With extensive teaching experience of more than eight years, Nur Hidayah was appointed Dean, Faculty of Design in 2009.

A graduate from University of Central England, United Kingdom with a Master of Arts Design For Communication, Nur Hidayah carries with her an impressive and distinguished track record in having served businesses, and offered copywriting and design knowledge across major industry segments; established clients included Sun Microsystems, SingTel Mobile, HSBC, Cheers/NTUC, Prudential, Tequila Singapore, STAR Automotive, and ST Kinetics – ST Engineering.

Nur Hidayah is instrumental to LASALLE's Faculty of Design. She manages the demanding and challenging task of leading seven programme teams in the strategic growth and development of validated programmes.

Over the years, her excellent interpersonal and management skills have enabled her to inspire many students. Her vision and foresight has helped nurture these students into leaders that have contributed to the Singapore creative landscape.

Programme Leader, Fashion Design
Lionel Roudaut

• F.A.M.P. Certificate in Fashion Design and Pattern Cutting
• Baccalaureate of Arts & Literature, Estiennes D'orves, Academy of Nice, France

Lionel dreams of an ideal world were all women will be dressed in Yves Saint Laurent styled by martin Margiela and staged by Billy Wilder. He is currently the Programme Leader of Fashion Design at LASALLE. As the right-hand man for Jeremy Scott in Paris, he designed costumes for the Paris Opera and superstar Renée Fleming. Lionel created costumes for Kylie Minogue and Bjork and has co-organize a fashion show with Singapore Management school. Lionel also provided artistic direction for LASALLE degree fashion shows and has worked as guest artist with Project Alabama, New York. Some of his industry experience include - Pattern Design lecturer at Shanghai University, Design studio lecturer in ESMOD Tokyo, Chief Designer for AVIA, sportwear, Jean's designer for Taverniti amongst many others.

Lecturer, Fashion Design
Tan Peck Leng

Tan Peck Leng joined LASALLE in 2006 as a fashion lecturer. She graduated from London College of Fashion with a certificate in dress and light clothing and obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Fashion from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle (England). She has experience in the apparel industry in garment technology and production planning. Peck Leng has participated in the University of London Fashion Show in 2002 and the Italian Fashion Fabric Show in 1994. She is also a volunteer with the Singapore International Foundation and has taught garment production in Bhutan from 2008 – 2010.

Programme Leader, Fashion Communication
Ginette Chittick

By day, Ginette Chittick is the Programme Leader of Fashion Communication with a Masters in Art (Design).

By night, she is a multitasking ninja, with her stubby little fingers all sorts of different pies from music, fashion, design to photography. She's been a resident DJ at Home Club for the past 5 years, having opened for international acts such as Bloc Party, CSS, Kaiser Chiefs, Stone Roses, Hot Chip and The Presets. She's the co-owner of fashion label FrüFrü & Tigerlily which represented Singapore in the 2008 Malaysian International Fashion Week.

Before embarking on a very fulfilling academic career, she worked on web projects as a consultant for a vast range of clients which include Coca-Cola, HSBC, Citibank, PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consultants, The Substation, Discovery Channel, IDA Singapore, Aon Asia and Aware Singapore.

Senior Lecturer, Cultural and Contextual Studies, Fashion
Lucinda Law

Lucinda Law oversees all the modules of Cultural and Contextual Studies in the B.A Fashion programmes. She had also previously taught subjects in Creative Writing, Music Theory and Appreciation, Communicating Design Ideas, Professional Communications in Design and Fashion Journalism. With a background in English and English Literature (B.A) and having worked as an editor and writer, she continues to edit and write books and feature stories on travel, music, fashion, art and design. She completed her Masters of Arts in Fine Arts in 2010 where she explored the inter-dimensional aspects of time, space and text to create a space of sensuous immersion for fictive discourses. She exhibited two works titled, What Would the World Look Light If I Rode on a Beam of Light? (Acrylic, white ink, 2010, 500 x 22 x 2cm) and The Lightness of Being (Polyester silk, single channel projection, 2010, 820cm, 760 x 320cm) respectively. From there, she became fascinated by the medium of light and the idea of lightness. Her current research study investigates the ancestral roots of our magico-relationship with adornment through a fashion label called LEIA. LEIA was exhibited in the 2010 International Fashion Exhibition. She has published and presented a paper, titled, Just Looking: The curatorial meeting point between museums and retail spaces, for the 2010 International Symposium on Innovation and Creativity in Asian Fashion Industry. She has also published a paper titled, Fabricating Meaning: An investigation on how traditional meanings and symbols of textile expressions are redefined amidst technological advancement in textile production for dress, for Wuhan Textile University.

Programme Leader, Fashion Management
Circe Henestrosa

Circe completed dual M.A. degrees in Fashion Curation and Cultural Leadership at London College of Fashion and City University in 2009, winning a Distinction for her thesis "Frida's White Cabinet", an exhibition of artist Frida Kahlo's wardrobe to be presented at the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City in 2012. She currently heads the Fashion Management Programme at LASALLE where she lectures on fashion history, curating and international fashion management. Her research explores age-old traditions interpreted in contemporary fashion, exemplified by a joint Singapore/ Philippines weaving show and a co-curated Korea/Singapore design exhibition. Prior to this, she led the British Council's Arts Department in Mexico, presenting the work of artists such as Jimmy Choo, Peter Greenaway, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Phillip Treacey, Mark Wallinger and Vivienne Westwood and for the first time in Mexico and Latin America. Fluent in Spanish, English and German, she collaborates for different lifestyle and design publications in Mexico and London and was author and co-editor of the publication "Building a New Model for Museums in the 21st Century" (2005).

Lecturer, Fashion Textiles
Emily Wills

Emily Wills' interest and involvement in the arts began with a fascination for clothing as a means of self-expression. She established her own label Miyoko which sold in Hustle, an original concept boutique on High St in Fremantle, Australia. Miyoko was recognised at the annual Perth Fashion Festival, picking up stock lists both locally and nationally. Emily then established Pigeonhole Studios - a collective studio space with four like-minded artists, photographers and designers who later joined a collaborative artists-in-residence; The Ballroom. Emily was appointed a Lecturing and Coordination position in the Fashion and Textile Design Department at Curtin University of Technology and subsequently undertook Post Graduate studies programme in Literature and Cultural Studies. In this position Emily worked alongside government bodies such as ArtsWA, the Department of Culture and the Arts and private companies such as The William St Collective, Clothespeg Project and Beaufort St Network to conceive numerous industry based projects that provided students industry experience and networking opportunities within the art and design industry. In March 2009, Emily relocated to Singapore and began lecturing and overseeing the development of the Fashion Textiles pathway within the Design Faculty.

Adrian Huang
Lecturer, Fashion Design

Adrian began his career in the fashion and apparel industry in 2000. Educated in Apparel Design and Merchandising (Temasek Polytechnic, 1998) and Psychology (Murdoch University, 2008), Adrian is more concerned with good design rather than passing fads. His ready-to-wear label mizu, [created] with former business partners Keith Png and Petrina Tiong, won 2 Swarovski Designer/ Label of the year nominations in the Singapore Fashion Award 2003 and 2004.

As an independent design consultant and former trainer with TaFtc (2004 to 2006), Adrian has worked with companies such as Compagnie Mauricienne de Textile Ltée, Estee Lauder, Goldheart Jewelry, OCBC Bank, and Robinsons & Company amongst many others.

An educator and industry professional, Adrian was invited by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) to be on the validating panel for Competency Standards [CS] for the Textile & Fashion Singapore Workfoce Skills Qualification (WSQ) Diploma Courses (2010).

His vision of helping to groom a new generation of designers as thinkers with a global perspective led him to his current lecturing position within the fashion department at LASALLE College of the Arts.

Entry Requirements

Academic Requirements

• Completed High School (Grade 12), Junior College or Pre-University education.
• Recognised Singapore qualification: Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Level: Minimum 'Pass' in 2 subjects + General Paper or recognised equivalent.
• Recognised international qualifications: Please click here to view list.

Note:

• 'A' Level Art/Art Elective Programme or International Baccalaureate (IB) Art & Design are not required subjects but represent the portfolio standard for eligibility into the BA(Hons).
• Alternative English qualification: IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL iBT80.

Portfolios & Interview Requirements

• Give an account of a real or fictional trip you have made. (One A4 page, 350 words)
• Illustrate this narrative with images, photographs, drawings, and notes. Lay them out in the form of a sketchbook. (Two A4 pages)
• Based on the images, photographs, and drawings, make 20 fashion sketches. Make sure you translate the elements of your narrative into the garment design. (Three A4 pages)
• Select two designs and reproduce them separately in colour and with rendering. Include a short description of the fabrics you would like to use. (Two A4 pages)
• Include two illustrated pages of your best work. Scans of sketches, paintings, and photographs of outfits are expected. (Two A4 pages)