When it comes to personal wealth creation, the fashion industry in many ways parallels the entertainment industry. While talent is very important, other factors such as hard work and persistence are critical to long term accomplishments.
You're a person who wants to make a difference. A leader and a person who wants to explore outside your comfort zone. You're passionate about design and fashion-and you have a mind built for business and a vision to make your mark in the design industry.
Your goal: to recognize the opportunities in the rapidly changing fashion and design industries and to hone the most relevant and timely business skills needed to turn these opportunities into business successes. Your dream: to make beautiful things that make life more beautiful. To capture and reflect the world in a meaningful, unique way. To make people understand your vision. To cut through clutter. To visually persuade, promote, and inform.
To respond to a fashion business environment that is going global, going viral, and going places it's never gone before, we designed this course to train a new generation of fashion industry professionals. Our graduates will help revitalize mature operations, bring new thinking, new products, and original ideas to the table through solo projects, and increase market share across the spectrum of fashion-related markets and industries.
ICF, through its Entrepreneurship programs, takes the initiative of discovering those talented and successful individuals who have both the flair and business edge to become future leaders and champions of the local fashion industry. Fashion Entrepreneurship aims to build strong professional foundation of technical and managerial ability for effective decision making. It usually involves planning, organizing, directing and controlling the input of suppliers, contractors and the design team members, together with accepting the the fashion industry.
Students will work directly with key executives in fashion retailing, wholesaling and design, venture capitalists, and will have the opportunity in their varied projects to fully develop a business proposal for critique by renowned members of the entrepreneurship and venture communities.
Synchronizing with ICF philosophy of Experiential learning and “by the entrepreneurs and for the entrepreneurs,” ICF has picked up the best from the industry. These are “practicing educators” who have a solid hand on real life experience in their field of expertise over multiple decades. These experts would add the perfect blend of concepts, application and experience.
What the course teaches.... Self-Discovery and awareness | Entrepreneurship Foundation | Experiential Learning Projects | Idea Generation | Idea to Business | Internship | Using Technology | Field Visit | Guest talks | Making Presentation | Effective Communication (Verbal & Writing)| Personal Counseling
Content Flow From Concept to Consumer
Conceive Research -> Develop -> Test Produce -> Promote -> Distribute
Many are attracted to pursue a career in the fashion industry due to lucrative income opportunities. Aside from that, the idea that you can succeed on your own motivates aspirants even more. As a matter of fact, about onethird of professional fashion designers are self-employed.
Career Opportunities
Fashion Designer, Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Illustrator ,Visual Merchandising, Fashion Photographer, Fashion Writer, Fashion House Manager, Clothing Pattern Maker, Product Manager, Textile Artist, Boutique Owner, Fashion Stylists, Apparel Business Owner, Fashion Consultant Accessories Designer, Costume Designer, Fashion Buyer, Retail Merchandiser, Fashion Editor, Fashion Forecaster, Fashion Public Relations Specialist
.......the opportunities are unending