Fashion
A lifelong love of fashion and a desire to gain a qualification in the fashion industry led Jane Diamond to enrol in CPIT's Diploma of Fashion Design and Textile Technology.
At the Fashion School you can study for either a Certificate or a Diploma in Fashion Technology and Design:
Certificate in Fashion Technology and Design
Level: 4 - This one year programme aims to give you a practical, relevant and challenging fashion technology and design education. During your studies you will have the opportunity to develop your creative, intellectual and practical talents and to acquire both the head and hand skills required for an entry level position within the fashion industry.
Diploma in Fashion Technology and Design
Level: 7 - This two year programme aims to give you a practical, relevant and challenging design education. Strong emphasis is placed on individuality and innovation within design briefs, whilst building on practical indsutry relevant skills. You are primarily taught in industry standard workrooms with opportunities for one-to-one interaction with your tutors. Work placements are seen as an integral part of your learning.
Why should I take a Fashion course?
If you’re serious about wanting a career in the fashion industry, then Fashion courses at CPIT’s Fashion School will offer you practical and flexible training. You’ll have close personal contact with teaching staff committed to quality systems, in a programme of study created in consultation with students, staff and prominent people from the local fashion industry.
You’ll be given opportunities to express your individualism and creativity within a framework of training designed to lead to employment in the fashion industry. Courses in the Fashion School will give you a chance to work on real industry projects, and to form your own links with the fashion industry in a business environment that offers excellent employment opportunities
Nickie McPhail, Fashion tutor and technician, with Louise Nairn, Fashion Technology and Design student, 2004
How much work will it be?
Classes are timetabled Monday-Friday, mornings 9-12 and afternoons 1-4, (plus a few evenings for Diploma students) with some time available for self-directed hours.
As a Certificate student your studies will be workroom and studio based. In both years of your Diploma you’ll spend time in work placements within the industry. In your second Diploma year you’ll spend most of your time in self-directed study – planning, producing and presenting garment collections.
Annual Fashion shows
During each year of your studies, your collections will be seen on the cat-walk at our annual fashion shows, Debut and Pitch which never fail to attract large audiences and nationally acclaimed judges.
Fashion Technology and Design workroom at Paxus House, High Street, Christchurch
Where will I study?
The CPIT Fashion School is located in Paxus House, on the corner of Tuam and High Streets, a short walk from the central CPIT campus. This is a lively area of cafés and independent fashion boutiques, which is rapidly becoming Christchurch’s ground zero for fashion retailing.
You’ll be part of a class with a maximum of 16 students, having access to your own machine and work table in large well-lit workrooms and studios. These contain a full range of specialised garment construction equipment, the latest pattern making computer software, as well as internet and email access for all students. After the first term you can use these facilities from 6am-12 midnight, providing certain conditions are met.
For further information please contact us.