Graduate Diploma Fashion Management and Marketing

The course seeks to recruit students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, and welcomes applications from mature students.

The course team seeks to recruit students who can demonstrate:

• Creativity
• An understanding of the benefits of organisational and management skills in the workplace
• A mature study commitment, which is essential as entering the fashion management industry is highly competitive

All our postgraduate courses offer career development, so that you become a creative thinker, making effective contributions to your relevant sector of the fashion industry.

LCF offers students the opportunity to develop Personal and Professional Development (PPD) skills while studying through:

* Access to to speaker programmes and events featuring alumni and industry.

* Access to careers activities, such as CV clinics and one-to-one advice sessions.

* Access to a graduate careers service

* Access to a live jobsboard for all years.

* Advice on setting up your own brand or company.

Career paths

Our students mainly go onto managerial positions within the fashion industry, these can be in the following areas:

• Digital marketing and communications
• Product management and sustainability
• Retail operations and omni channel strategy

Graduates of this course have gone on to work in a number of roles within the industry, at companies including Burberry and Salvatore Ferragamo. Graduates from this course are also equipped to develop and further their academic lives through Masters courses, and some to continue on to Research Degrees and PhDs.

With support from LCF Careers and the Centre for Fashion Enterprise, students are supported throughout the course to progress into the fashion industry or onto further postgraduate study.

Graduate Futures

Graduate Futures provides a comprehensive career management service supporting our students to become informed and self-reliant individuals able to plan and manage their own careers.

• Find out more about Graduate Futures.

LCF alumni

Many of our alumni are now impressive, leading industry figures.

Block One:  

For the first 15 weeks of the course there is focus on providing an understanding of the fashion industry through theoretical frameworks.

Unit 1: Fashion Contexts (Weeks 1 – 5) 20 Credits

This unit focuses on the consumer of fashion in a cultural and commercial context with emphasis on the nature of consumer demand on an individual level It is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars and formative assessment. This unit provides the academic framework to develop curiosity, the enthusiasm to seek out new perspectives and to create and build on existing knowledge through systematic academic enquiry. 

Unit 2: Fashion Organisations (Weeks 6 – 15) 20 Credits

This unit looks at the internal operations of a fashion organisation; including its business structure, supply chain, issues of sustainability and the various positions within the fashion organisation such as the roles of the buyer and designer. The unit shows the fashion organisation as one that can accommodate constant change, and how a business must be open to encouraging openness and agility for possible futures that could restore and regenerate to mitigate environmental injustices. 

Unit 3: Fashion Communications (Weeks 6 – 15) 20 Credits

This unit looks at the outward facing fashion marketing communications of a fashion company; its ability to fulfil customers’ demands. This unit will also develop your ability to collaborate with others, create networks and contribute to communities of practice. This is contextualised through teamwork through the understanding of how companies segment, target position themselves and communicate with their customers using all the available channels of communication

Block Two:

Graduate Diploma: Final Major Project (60 Credits)

In this Block you will complete your Final Major Project (FMP). You will be given the opportunity to choose between either a dissertation, a fashion business development project or a fashion marketing focused submission. These options will give you a valuable body of work to present to either a prospective employer, or, as part of an application for future study. All options allow you to demonstrate proactivity, initiative, hard work and passion through the investigation or study of an emerging issue or new proposal. You are expected to demonstrate resourcefulness in pursuing these opportunities for ethical and sustainable outcomes.  An important part of your learning process will be your formative presentations to staff and peers to develop your skills in advocacy.

As part of this unit you will also submit a Portfolio. This will be evidence of your engagement of the UAL Creative Attributes Framework during your studies on this course. This will include a time constrained examination.