FASHION DESIGN COURSES

If you’re serious about career in fashion, you’ve come to the right place. Our one year Certificate or two year Diploma will equip you with all the skills you’ll need for a career in fashion design, fashion illustration, pattern making or couture dressmaking. Both professional programs are structured around subjects in Design, Fashion Business, Pattern Making & Garment Production and the capstone Portfolio and Collection unit.

Diploma of fashion Design & Garment Production

Certificate of Fashion Design & Garment Production

Fashion Business Workshops

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Why CAFA?

The hands-on approach of CAFA will give you the design skills, practical knowledge and business acumen to launch a career in any aspect of the fashion industry. Your motivation and your willingness to learn is what counts (not your ATAR).

Career Opportunities

Depending on your specialisation, you’ll master business, design and textile skills and be able to enter the fashion industry as an assistant designer, pattern maker, couture dressmaker or fashion illustrator.

Start Your Own Label

You’ll learn pattern making for unique garments, pattern grading and pattern draping which will enable you to work as a freelancer or with retailers and manufacturers. Or start your own fashion label.

Enrol in a Single Unit

Not ready to embark on a Certificate or Diploma program? Several units are taught as short workshops including: Fashion Drawing, Fabric & Textiles and Start Your Own Label.

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Complete Flexibility

With our comprehensive curriculum, you can study at your own pace and design a course that fits with your lifestyle and your budget. Students typically complete their Diploma in two years, but it’s your choice.

Job-Ready Graduates

You’ll graduate as a strong fashion all-rounder, equipped with both ready-to-wear and couture construction techniques including technical drawing, garment specification and fashion illustration.

Business Focus

Great design skills are just the beginning. You’ll learn business planning, profit and loss analysis, learn to embed decision-making into your design process and set yourself up for success.