Business & Entrepreneurship: Fashion, Media & Creative Industries Online Course

This Fashion, Media & Creative Industries Online Course is designed for anyone with an interest in exploring entrepreneurship and starting their own business in the fashion, media, and/or creative industries. Perfect for those wishing to investigate what is involved in developing new ideas, strategic planning, understanding the current marketplace and what it takes to identify and introduce a concept that engages with a select target audience.

The course provides second to none industry insights, key market trends, creative theory, business types and ethical practice, innovation and leadership traits. With an integral focus on how to establish a clear business idea and go to market plan, you will also learn; how to recognise opportunities and research the potential of a business concept, who the main competitors of that business might be, how to write an effective business proposition and deliver a pitch.

Every week there will be a range of activities for you to complete.

By the end of the course, those who complete and pass all the course tasks and assessments will receive a Condé Nast Certificate of Achievement.

Upon successful completion of the course you will have gained:

• a broad introductory knowledge of business and concept development,
• how to research the potential of a new business idea,
• start a creative/fashion business,
• how to write a good business plan,
• how to recognise and target a chosen audience,
• pitching and selling a business idea.

This course will act as a good stepping stone on to other Condé Nast courses at higher levels.

Why choose this course?

The Conde Nast College has unrivalled access to the best and brightest minds in the industry, including the teams at Vogue, Wired, Glamour, GQ and a host of other Condé Nast titles. The College is in the elevated position of being able to combine academic excellence with unrivalled links to the fashion and media industry. This creates a unique educational environment for students to thrive in.

The Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design

The Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design provides student with a world-class fashion education in the heart of London.

Our courses fuse exciting and intensive academic learning with unrivalled access to the best and brightest minds in the industry, including the teams at Vogue, Glamour, GQ, Wired and a host of other Condé Nast titles.

The College provides highly creative courses combined with a solid foundation in the business side of the industry. The purpose of our courses is to prepare students for a multitude of jobs/; styling, journalism, fashion buying, marketing, branding, graphic design, PR, digital strategy, business, events entrepreneurship, e-commerce and many more career paths.

We currently offer the following accredited courses – the MA Fashion Media Strategy, MA Creative Direction for Fashion Media, MA Fashion Journalism, MA Fashion Communication, MA Entrepreneurship: Fashion and Creative Industries, MA Luxury Brand Management (in collaboration with Richmond University), the BA (Hons) Fashion Communication, the one-year Vogue Foundation Programme, Diploma and three Certificate.

Our short courses include the four-week Vogue Intensive Summer Course, the 5-days of... courses: Fashion Styling Course, Fashion Journalism Course, Fashion Business Course, Creative Direction and the Vogue Teen Weekend as well as six-week online Insights courses.

We are accepting applications all year round and look forward to welcoming you to the Condé Nast family.

Studying at the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design is an exciting, engaging and uniquely enriching experience.

With access to some of the most outstanding creative minds in the business, plus intensive, vocationally-styled courses and a busy timetable—both in our new, modern building and beyond into galleries, studios and so on—students will find their days at the Condé Nast College are both busy and rewarding. We believe that the friendships that the students make with one another while they are studying with us are as important as the networking opportunities they will have with an enormous number of external industry professionals. As a result, we encourage a rich, engaged and collegiate attitude from our students while they are here with us, allowing them to forge firm friendships that they will carry forward into their myriad, and undoubtedly stellar, careers all over the globe.

Careers

The Condé Nast College places our students in a position to reach their dream career. The College offers excellent industry links and partnerships. Students not only gain a thorough preparation for business life, they have already had extensive engagement with the professional world before leaving the College. Work experience/internships at Condé Nast may be offered to a select group of the most talented students. The College cannot pledge work placements at other companies but it will make introductions and recommendations for star students. The College’s careers advisor is able to guide students on further study, employment opportunities, internships, placements and projects relevant to each student’s requirements. They offer a professional service designed to respond to individual needs. The career advisor also hold workshops on CV writing, portfolio presentation, job search skills and interview techniques. Please note individual career guidance is only available for students on our accredited courses - all the MA programmes, the BA (Hons) Fashion Communication, the Vogue Foundation Programme, Diploma & Certificate programmes.