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Careers in Fashion: Design, Development, and Promotion
Dive into the world of fashion designers and stylists
On this three-week course from Bloomsbury Academic, you’ll explore the design sector of the fashion industry from two perspectives, the manufacturer and the retailer. You’ll also look at the careers involved in marketing and promoting designers and fashion lines.
Discover design roles for apparel and accessories
From all around the world, fashion designers share their trend and consumer knowledge, as well as their imaginations, personalities, and aesthetic preferences, as they develop their creations.
You’ll delve into fashion design careers, from fashion designer to patternmaker, and discuss the challenges involved in each, as well as the best routes to enter these roles.
Explore the full range of careers in fashion product development
Product development is the creation, production, and marketing of a product from start to finish.
This course will take you through each career within product development, looking at the steps that are taken for each season to create new fashion lines and the roles involved in each step.
Learn about fashion marketing and promotion careers
When you peruse a fashion magazine, such as Vogue, In Style, or W, you are inundated by promotion in the forms of glossy and, sometimes, eyebrow-raising advertisements of fashion brands such as Louis Vuitton, Cynthia Rowley, Versace, and Gucci. This promotion is just one example of fashion marketing.
On the final week of this course, you’ll delve into the many careers within fashion promotion for both designers and manufacturers. This includes roles such as fashion stylist, advertising, public relations, and social media director. You’ll also look at the many types of events and publications that some of these positions will work with.
What topics will you cover?
- Designing apparel and accessories for the manufacturer
- Product development by the manufacturer and retailer
- Promotion for the designer and manufacturer
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Describe the differences in the careers of technical designers, patternmakers, and specification technicians
- Describe the processes needed to bring a product, or product line, from conception and manufacturing to marketing and sales
- Explain product development conducted by both the manufacturer and the retailer
- Discuss the reasons retailers moved into the business of developing their own product lines
- Explain the product development classifications that have evolved from the customization of product lines
- Explore the career opportunities of product development staff and describe the roles and responsibilities of the different careers in the field of product development
- Explore the promotion career opportunities at the primary level of the fashion industry
- Describe the goal of promotion for the designer or manufacturer
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone wanting to work in the fashion industry, especially in the fashion design, development, or promotion fields.
Who will you learn with?
I lead a team of content experts who work with educators to create, develop and deliver high quality and inspiring content that changes lives.
Who developed the course?
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes.and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names.
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Ways to learn
Choose the best way to learn for you!
Subscribe & save
$244.99 for a whole year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$79/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Limited access
Free
Sample the course materials
- Access expires 26 Feb 2025
Find out more about certificates, Unlimited or buying a course (Upgrades) Sale price available until 3 March 2025 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply. |
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Sale price available until 3 March 2025 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply.
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- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
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- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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