RMIT Fashion Footwear

RMIT’s Custom-Made Footwear program has proven to be the perfect pipeline of creative and work-ready graduates for footwear label Anuko Fashion. The RMIT connection runs deep at Anuko Fashion.

The custom-designed footwear company based in Abbotsford owns popular Australian female footwear brands Nude Footwear, Skin Footwear and A:LIST Footwear.

It’s also home to a number of RMIT alumni from the Certificate IV in Custom-Made Footwear, the only dedicated footwear design course in the southern hemisphere.

Ashlea Grisold (Head of Creative), Kirsten Anderton (Designer and Product Developer) and Sonja Jovanovska (Design Intern) all graduated from the Cert IV and are working for the label.

The 12-month program focuses on design, pattern making, manufacturing, CAD and technical drawings. Anderton graduated from the Certificate IV in 2018, before launching into an internship with Anuko Fashion. Now a footwear product designer and developer, Anderton said the practical experience from the course, along with support from the teaching staff, set her up for her career.

“The course gave me the hands-on and technical experience, as well as skills in footwear design and technical specification packaging,” Anderton said. “No two days were the same and I always felt supported and welcomed by my teacher, Andrew Robinson, and our tight-knit cohort. “It gave me the confidence to produce footwear that is not only on-trend and commercially viable, but also functional and allows the wearer to go about their day comfortably and confidently.”

The Link to this course if it sparks your interest: Certificate IV in Custom-Made Footwear