This dynamic course combines creative and technical fashion design skills with an in-depth knowledge of marketing, communications, and business for the fashion industry, providing participants with both design and production skills, and relevant market information. Step into the fashion industry from both a creative and business perspective.
The perfect fit: designers with marketing acumen and communication flair. This dynamic course combines creative and technical fashion design skills with an in-depth knowledge of marketing, communications, and business for the fashion industry, providing participants with both design and production skills, and relevant market information. Step into the fashion industry from both a creative and business perspective.
The course moves on through all aspects of fashion illustration with particular attention to atternmaking and tailoring skills essential to producing high-quality men’s apparel, as well as an analysis of clothing manufacturing through deconstruction. Participants are encouraged to experiment with new approaches in the industry that are evolving today, including renewable and sustainable resources, innovative materials and new technologies, building individual style and creative and professional abilities.
The course moves on through all aspects of fashion illustration with particular attention to patternmaking and tailoring skills essential to producing high-quality men’s apparel, as well as an analysis of clothing manufacturing through deconstruction.
The womenswear designer has the most prestigious role in the fashion industry for creativity and job opportunity. The most successful brands in the world produce womenswear and sustain several collections under the same category that respond to different segments of the market.
The fashion course provides a successful balance between advanced design techniques, the finished product, market innovation and marketing, while concentrating on key issues in time management and budgets and their influence on production. The history of design provides the necessary skills to make a critical assessment of a brand’s or client’s lifestyle and legacy, completing the course with a highly specialised profile in menswear design.
This dynamic 15-month course (including placement) cultivates the design creativity, individual style and personal vision of participants while they respond to the rapidly evolving landscape of fashion through a series of project-based activities that reflect different aspects of industry practice.
The course begins with an in-depth assessment of fashion as a social and cultural phenomenon, looking at past traits and future trends, combined with contemporary marketing skills. The course takes an extensive look at the new professions in the digital arena: from digital marketing, to social media managers and e-commerce specialists, all specifically focused to fashion, creative and luxury industries.
The fashion course covers the techniques, organisation and economics of the production process of fashion items, learning at how to manage technical problems, responding to technological changes and product innovation, as well as new influences in the industry such as sustainability and 3D printing.
This course develops career-ready strategic, creative brand communicators and is aimed at participants that have previous undergraduate level study or similar, or proven work experience completing the course with skills in media and promotion for the fashion and luxury industries, with the ability to apply key fashion communication channels and theories across all written and visual media campaigns.