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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for fashion design purchasing
   • Research national and international styles, themes and trends to identify development opportunities to help develop design and fashion directions
2. Clarify purchasing objectives, establish criteria for selecting design purchases, and confirm purchasing budget
3. Identify fashion design outlets and supplier and purchasing locations relevant to purchasing objectives
4. Determine suitable purchasing strategy, and identify potential communication barriers with selected location
5. Investigate and prepare to deal with currency, language and purchasing practices of selected location, and according to work health and safety requirements
6. Purchase fashion products
   • Investigate fashion design products to be selected according to design needs of product range and label
7. Ensure fashion design products to be selected are produced ethically using sustainable work practices
8. Test themes, styles and trends of fashion design products to be selected during purchasing
9. Negotiate terms of purchase according to workplace procedures, industry standards, and legal and ethical requirements
10. Assess production and supply opportunities and make purchases that meet purchasing objectives and comply with workplace purchasing procedures
11. Identify and respond to additional design opportunities outside of set objectives
12. Present design purchases to stakeholder
    • Prepare purchases for presentation to stakeholder and required workplace personnel
13. Develop and use appropriate communication tools to convey themes and design concepts relating to purchased products
14. Use persuasive language and effective communication skills to encourage adoption of ideas and concepts for further development
15. Document findings and outcomes of purchasing