Hello everyone.
I have applied for a fashion design course at LCF and pattern cutting as well, and I have been asked to submit a digital portfolio by February 1st in order to get to the next stage.
They're asking to highlight the following points:
-drawing/presentation skills
-fashion and cultural awareness
-level of research, exploration and experimentation
-3D awareness through product development or technical drawing
-sense of colour and texture
-technical competence
-design and materials selection
-and visual communication skills
-fabric and material selection/knowledge
Now, I am currently doing foundation in art and design and my tutors have not really helped me on building up a good portfolio and they keep leaving us pointless and time-consuming home works full of annotations and history of arts at less than 2 weeks from the deadline, so I reckon I should just work on my own not relying on them.
I wanted to ask how do I show through a digital portfolio my fashion and cultural awareness, especially when I have done close to none fashion during this year?
what about fabric and material selection? shall I just do one page full of fabric swatches with descriptions and photograph it?
Although I am not 100% sure I can cover all of these points, I think I can make something up, but my biggest concern is about not having enough fashion material to present, apart from my own totally personal and intimate experiments done outside school, will that be accepted as well?
Also, will the different files have to cohesive with each other and have like a theme or can they be just random pieces of my work?
Thanks,
Edd.