Standards for Using the Modular Design Approach in Fashion Design

Fashion designers strive to play a key role in embedding the concept of sustainable fashion with responsibility throughout their production lines, and this has led to the adoption of modular design, a key approach to transformable design. Modular design extends the product's life by dividing it into independent components, which enhances interchangeability, adaptability, and removability between these components, resulting in various design patterns that support sustainability. Given the importance of a reference framework to guide designers in utilizing different design methods, this study aims to establish standards for applying the modular design approach in fashion design, based on theoretical and practical insights into modular design. The research followed the descriptive method, and a questionnaire was developed to evaluate the proposed standards. It was presented to a panel of experts in the fields of fashion and textile design. The findings revealed no statistically significant differences among expert opinions regarding the standards, indicating their importance and the validity of their formulation in a way that is applicable and aligned with the requirements of modular fashion design.