Postgraduate Certificate Fashion - Fashion Visual Merchandising

Location
United Kingdom, - London College of Fashion
Dates
Dates flexible
Course Type
Postgraduate Course
Accreditation
-
Language
English
Price
$4,683

Course Overview

Course summary:

This professional Visual Merchandising course focuses on creative solutions for visual merchandising, with a focus on innovation and new technologies.

About:

This full-time PG Certificate is a vocational qualification with which to enter the industry, or continue onto a masters degree.

Great reasons to apply:

  • This course equips students to gain entry-level positions in fashion visual merchandising or prepare for a masters.
  • Benefit from close collaboration with industry partners including Liberty, Anthropologie, ASOS, Proportion London, and Dinny Hall.
  • Project-management and business focused skills give students a robust skillset with which to enter the industry

Who should take this course

Anyone Interested.

Course content

Course details:

The programme builds upon strengths already developed within the college including staff expertise, specialist facilities and close industry links, to provide a suitable learning environment for this specialist study. It is designed to meet both local, regional and international needs for vocational education in aspects of the fashion and creative industries which have a high concentration of activities in London. London College of Fashion is situated in the heart of the fashion district in London, with sites in the West End on Oxford Street, West London in Shepherd's Bush and the East End in Shoreditch, a centre for manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, and increasingly for young designers.

The course has been established to extend the post graduate provision at the college, and has been developed in conjunction with the Fashion Visual Merchandising industry and specialist staff. The Course leader has appropriate specialist expertise and professional experience and staff continue to engage in professional practice and new developments. In addition to the course leader, teaching staff will be drawn from specialists in the appropriate fields, either from within college or as visiting lecturers from industry. This is a fashion business course with a vocational focus on Fashion Visual Merchandising. It combines a post graduate level academic experience with the vocational realities of Fashion Visual Merchandising. The content includes application of Fashion Visual Merchandising, branding, technology to case studies and a combination of individual and collaborative work. The course provides a range of vocational knowledge and skills for those seeking or looking to develop and further their career in Fashion Visual Merchandising.

Distinctive features include strong links with the Fashion Visual Merchandising industry and the practical emphasis on the application of skills including the final project.

Course structure:

  • Weeks 1-5 - Visual Merchandising and the Brand Experience (20 credits, level 7)
  • Weeks 5-10 - Collaborative Project (20 credits, level 7)
  • Weeks 2-15 - Futures and Innovations Project (20 credits, level 7)

Fees & Funding:

  • Home / EU fee

About Course Provider

University of the Arts London (UAL) is Europe’s largest specialist art and design university. Its unique creative community is made up of six renowned Colleges, each with its own world-class reputation: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts.

UAL is the world’s sixth best University for Art and Design in the QS World University Rankings 2018. Offering an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts, UAL is the main talent pipeline to the UK’s creative industries.

Home to a diverse community of over 18,000 students from 129 countries, UAL has a track record for launching and furthering careers. Our graduates can be found in every part and at every level of the creative and cultural sectors, from heads of global business to self-employed practitioners, and on shortlists for awards ranging from the Turner Prize to the Oscars.

Building on UAL’s association with some of the most original thinkers in the arts, students and staff are inspired to challenge convention, generate new ideas and nurture talent. Home to award-winning staff and students for more than a century, UAL’s Colleges are at the forefront of learning, creativity and practice in their specialist subjects. This close-knit College structure offers opportunities for learning and enquiry for people at all stages of their creative development.