Fashion Buying & Merchandising Certificate. Portobello Institute

Fashion Buying & Merchandising - Full time Year 1

The Fashion Buying and Merchandising course is an introductory fashion buying course encompassing the foundations that are necessary to succeed as a fashion buyer in today's competitive environment.

While fashion trends change from season to season the fundamental role of the fashion buyer and merchandiser remains the same. As a fashion buyer, or fashion buyer assistant, you will play an integral role within the infrastructure of the retail team, tracking and analysing seasonal trends, ensuring production costs are kept within budget and most importantly, ensuring profit and growth for the company. You must have a good eye for style and trends together with a great sense of design and creativity, but foremost you must have good business acumen to achieve sales targets.

The Fashion Buying and Merchandising course introduces you to the busy but exciting world of fashion. You will learn to prepare mood boards, retail display and analyse fashion trends in line with customer needs. The course prepares you to undertake a variety of roles within the fashion industry by introducing you to relevant subjects from the worlds of fashion, business and retailing which are customised to the needs of the fashion industry.

Qualifications gained

Portobello Institute Certificate in Fashion Buying and Merchandising
FETAC Level 5 Certificate in Retail Studies BRSXX

Entry requirement

Entry to this course is by direct application to the college. Acceptance to Full Time courses is interview based, there are no specific points requirements.

Course structure

This is a full time course delivered over 28 weeks.

Course content modules

Fashion Industry & Design Studies
Fashion Buying & Retailing
Event Production
Visual Display
Industry Placement
Communications
Retail Selling
Italian
20th/21st Century History of Fashion
Fashion Retail Administration

Booking

Course Cost: €4672

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