Fashion Business & Merchandising Distance Course

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Would you like to own your own fashion boutique?
Would you like to start your own fashion label?
Would you like to work for a fashion business?
Would you like to become a fashion buyer and travel the world?
Would you like to work for a fashion magazine?
Would you like to organise fashion events?

The Fashion Business & Merchandising Distance Course will introduce you to the business world of fashion. Understand the different facets of merchandising and how to climb the ladder and achieve success within the fashion industry. Learn about the different career paths available in the fashion world, and how these people work together to produce a successful fashion label. Learn the skills of forecasting fashion trends and translating them to commercial sales.

Please note: The Fashion Business & Merchandising correspondence course covers different content to the Fashion Business & Merchandising short course! for more information please contact us on (07) 55 938 335.

What is fashion merchandising?

Fashion merchandisers can be in charge of product development, production, buying, promotion and marketing, sales, retail management and visual merchandising.

Fashion merchandisers work behind the scenes to get fashion products to the customer and building profit and growth for the business. Fashion merchandisers require fashion sense as well as business and marketing skills.

The course covers:

• Interpreting fashion trends and forecasting fashion
• Product merchandising
• Visual Merchandising
• Retail buying and merchandising
• Fashion marketing
• How to start your own fashion label
• Draw a trade drawing for fashion designs
• Understanding textiles
• Successful visual merchandising
• Business Planning
• Product selections
• Fashion range planning
• The importance of branding
• Developing sales budgets
• Sales forecasting
• Reading and developing merchandise sales reports
• Marketing a fashion range
• Product development
• Garment production
• Fabric sourcing
• Pricing considerations
• Developing effective press releases
• How to get a job as a retail buyer or merchandiser
• How to get a job in fashion marketing

Through the course you will complete practical assignments, that will help you develop and apply your new skills. By completing these practical assignments, we are able to assess you on nationally recognised units of competency and students who successfully complete the course will receive a Statement of Attainment which will allow students to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) when applying for further study in Fashion Design.

What You Will Receive:

The course has been designed to be exciting and inspiring so that students enjoy the learning process. Each tutorial is colourful and exciting, with pictures to help the learning process.

You will receive an equipment pack, with all the materials you will need to complete the course, including;

• A4 Visual Art Diary
• A4 Bank Layout Pad
• Fabric Swatches
• Fashion figure templates
• DVD’s & CD-ROM’s with selected tutorials.
• 10 Full colour tutorial booklets
• Reply Paid Envelopes (postage within Australia)

Accreditation:

This course is nationally recognised under the Australian Qualifications Framework and covers the following units of competency from the Diploma of Fashion & Textiles Merchandising course.

• LMTCL2003B: Identify fibres and fabrics
• LMTFD3004B: Draw a trade drawing for fashion design
• LMTFD5013A: Develop merchandising plans for fashion products
• LMTGN4019A: Analyse textiles clothing and footwear merchandising and marketing principles
• LMTFD4004B: Calculate cost estimates for fashion products

Students who successfully complete the course will be awarded a nationally recognised Statement of Attainment for the above units of competency.

Study at Your Own Pace:

The course has been designed so that students may complete the course in their own time, at a pace suitable for them. You may take up to five years to complete the course or finish in as little as 6 months. This gives students the flexibility to study when it is convenient for them, without having to adjust their lives around attending classes.

For more information about this course, please phone us on (07) 55 938 335.

Price:

• Discounted Upfront Payment: $1,755.00
• Payment Plan: $400.00 + 24 weekly payments of $64.5833. Total = $1,950.00.

* Extra postage charges apply for postage outside of Australia. Please contact us by email to find out the postage costs to your country.

Please note: as this is a self paced course students will not be eligible for Centerlink payments for studying.

Terms and Conditions of Enrolment:

How do I Enrol?

You can start anytime, so enrol now to get started! Please allow at least two weeks for receipt of your first tutorial for postage within Australia.

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