FDS and more broadly Tafe NSW offer both Higher Education and Vocational education courses including a Bachelor of Fashion Design.
We also offer Masterclasses and short courses and Tafe NSW are in partnership with UTS in the Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion and Textiles.
Short courses include CLO 3D, Natural dyeing, Fashion Illustration, Upcycling and Mending and more.

Digital design & product presentations

Fashion Smart is your dedicated partner for turning fashion ideas into reality. We specialize in assisting start-ups and businesses with comprehensive design room services, guiding you from concept to product development. Our team provides unwavering support throughout, including small-run manufacturing for precise and high-quality results.

Beyond design services, Fashion Smart is a leading training provider. We empower individuals to enhance their digital skills in patternmaking, grading, and CAD operation. Countless participants have successfully upskilled to CAD, CLO3D, and Adobe Illustrator through our proven training programs.

In 2020 Value the Citizen conducted a research project addressing the lack of Australian-based contextualized research in circular design and product development in the fashion sector. As 80% of a products environmental impact is determined at the design phase, and with 88% of Australian apparel manufacture made up of SMEs, this project focused on the design processes and associated business models of fashion SMEs as an influential group for systems change to the linear take/make/waste fashion model widely operating in Australia.

With a core framework of product stewardship and employing design-thinking strategies; the SME’s in this research are building new design processes, new business models and new relationships around circular purpose. The project goal was a visual, communicative and accessible tool that could be distributed widely to stakeholders for education, a pathway for change and leverage for transformative action.
Importantly, the research identified the need for wider stakeholder support for SMEs and larger enterprise in moving to circular and product stewardship approaches. This takes the form of education of the community and industry; legislation and mandating around the collection and disposal of textile waste; and investment in infrastructure and technologies.

This research and the Design Map and Digital Article developed from this project are tools to support the pathway to circularity in the Australian fashion industry; visually storytelling the complex interrelated relationships and strategies of circularity in an Australian fashion context to the diverse stakeholders involved.

We offer nationally accredited courses designed to blend practical skills with up-to-date industry knowledge. Our small class sizes create a personalised learning environment where students receive tailored support from experienced trainers who are active industry professionals.

At Orana, we pride ourselves on being inclusive, welcoming students from diverse backgrounds, including interstate students studying online, as well as international students from all across the world. Our courses cater to different interests within the fashion industry, such as styling, visual merchandising, digital marketing, fashion buying, business and more, ensuring everyone can find their unique path.

One of Orana’s standout features is our network of industry connections. We help students build real-world experience through internships and job opportunities, preparing them to step confidently into their chosen careers.

Our facilities include a fully equipped creative studio, encouraging creativity and hands-on learning. Combined with flexible study options, we make it easy for students to balance their education with other commitments.

Whether you’re starting fresh or upskilling, Orana provides the tools, knowledge, and support to help you thrive. Join a community where your future in fashion can flourish, and your ambitions can become reality.

We are clothing manufacturers with a difference, providing trafficking survivors and other at risk and vulnerable workers in Cambodia with training, support and safe employment in our ethical and sustainable factory.
We aim to disrupt the global clothing manufacturing model where thousands of workers are forced into unsafe, overcrowded workplaces to mass produce low quality garments, worn for a season and tossed.
This large scale “take make discard” model is not ethical for workers, nor sustainable for the planet. Instead, we are creating a network of small, localised digitally enabled sewing hubs with 30-50 workers each supporting a team of outworkers sewing from home in neighbouring communities. All producing quality garments, adopting good environmental practices and paying workers a living wage.
Our subsidiary, Avodah Manufacturing (Cambodia) works with Cambodian social justice and rescue agencies who rescue women from trafficking and exploitation and provide counselling, education and health support. When these women are ready to be reintegrated into the community and take on full time employment, they require training and a nurturing, supportive work environment. This is what Avodah Manufacturing (Cambodia) offers.

Timeless shapes in luxurious, sustainably sourced fabrics. We use only Australian Super Cotton, The New Denim Project and designer deadstock fabric. We design differently so that your fashion is comfortable, allow’s movement, is easy to put on and take off, all without compromising your aesthetic, style, values and commitment to circular fashion.

Garments are individually cut and sewn on your order in our Australian atelier. Customisations and collaborations welcome.

Run by fashion educator Emma Bond, we are open to collaboration and sharing our knowledge through workshops and private tuition.

Fashion Designer Emma Bond is an event fashion illustrator. Clients include Maserati, Brisbane Race Club + Queensland wedding parties.

With a sister company in the UK, we ensure that all our course materials use the latest global best practice thinking. Our courses wholly relate to the skills and competencies required to work in a buying department, without the constraints of academia. We have three courses to choose from:

• The Essential Buyer's Toolkit - 6 weeks
• The Essential Planner's Toolkit - 6 weeks
• The Ultimate Buying & Planning Launchpad - 6 months

Each program is undertaken online, with weekly live tutorials with industry experts. Students on the Ultimate program work as an intern in a buying office for 1-2 days per week for the duration of the course allowing them to build valuable work-ready skills.

On completion, our students have access to a careers mentor for a six-month period.