Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Prepare to analyse fashion industry textiles
- Establish research objectives, criteria for research and develop a research plan
- Research textiles used in fashion products to determine properties, qualities, aesthetic and performance characteristics
- Investigate new and emerging textiles and textile processing techniques
- Research global and domestic trends in using textiles for fashion products
- Use a range of routine and non-routine tests to gather data on textiles
- Research fashion products
- Identify fashion products or uses incorporating researched textiles
- Research quality and performance characteristics of a sample range of partially completed or finished fashion products
- Identify factors influencing quality of fashion products and examine product faults
- Research global and domestic implications for use of fashion products
- Use a range of routine and non-routine tests to gather data on fashion product quality
- Analyse findings of textile research
- Analyse research findings against research objectives and criteria, and prioritise according to significance
- Review methodology to identify any potential influences on findings
- Analyse findings to establish potential contributions to commercial developments
- Take into account intellectual property and ethical practice to select findings with most potential for further review
- Evaluate and finalise research into fashion industry textiles
- Analyse features and benefits of selected findings
- Analyse disadvantages or risks associated with selected findings
- Develop recommendations on how findings can be used for commercial gain
- Document research findings and recommendations
- Check data for accuracy and relevance, and prepare a report for presentation