Fashion Communication and Promotion

• You'll have the opportunity to complete a work experience placement of up to a year in length. Dependent on the duration of your placement, you could gain an additional Diploma or Certificate in Professional Practice.
• Enter industry competitions like L'Orأ©al Brandstorm and All Walks Beyond the Catwalk's Diversity NOW! where our students have had great success. You will also work on live projects with brands such as All Saints, Boots, BMW, Levi, Speedo, Topshop, Reiss and Unilever.
• Go on optional study trips to places like New York, Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo. Visit companies, exhibitions and trade fairs to learn about the international market. You can also apply for a European or international exchange to places like the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
• There is an opportunity to work on a student committee to plan, design and take part in events that promote your work including Zine fairs, degree shows and Graduate Fashion Week.

Our students secure fashion communication and promotion related jobs both nationally and internationally, in areas such as advertising; art direction and styling; digital communication and web design; fashion analysis and trend prediction; fashion media and journalism; PR and event management; and retailing and visual merchandising. Students also use their well-developed transferable skills for alternative careers in freelance promotion and media roles, and in teaching. Some decide to undertake postgraduate study in fashion or a related subject.

Recent destinations include:

• Artist Residence
• Dr Martens
• Elsie & Fred
• F&F Clothing
• Global Radio
• L'Orأ©al
• ODD London
• Primark
• Secret-7
• SEEN Connects
• The Future Laboratory
• Treatwell
• Whistles
• Zone Digital.

Work placement and internship opportunities

We encourage our students to find out about the different roles within the industry which will enable you to better shape your learning. In order to achieve this, you may opt to go on a year-long industry placement as part of our sandwich option and achieve a Placement Diploma in Professional Practice in addition to your degree qualification.

Alternatively, you may choose to undertake work experience or industrial placements of shorter duration which may lead to a Placement Certificate in Professional Practice.

Recent placements include:

• ASOS
• Alexander McQueen
• Calvin Klein
• Pentland
• Puma
• River Island
• Skinny Dip
• Stella McCartney
• Tommy Hilfiger.

Connecting with industry

While studying on this course you will work on exciting live projects and enter high-profile competitions in collaboration with major brands and industry leaders. These industry interactions are embedded within the curriculum. Previous collaborations have included large multinational lifestyle and fashion brands such as Unilever and L'Orأ©al, luxury brands such as Anya Hindmarch and Stephen Jones, major High Street players such as Boots, Levi's and Reiss, and emerging star retailers, such as Illamasqua, TSPTR, and Universal Works.

Entering industry competitions will help you to gain experience and to network. Our students have been successful in competitions such as:

• Graduate Fashion Week's Boohoo.com Fashion Innovation Award
• L'Orأ©al Brandstorm
• River Island Rocks, and more.

Creative Industries Federation

We are members of the Creative Industries Federation (CIF), which means students in the Nottingham School of Art & Design have the opportunity to sign up to free student membership. Creative Industries Federation are an organisation that represents, champions and supports the UK's creative industries and membership grants students exclusive access to their selection of resources and events to help advance your career and connect with industry.

International exchanges and study trips

We provide opportunities to find out more about the global industry through various visits to major fashion capitals. These are open to change, as we adapt to the shifting influence and culturally importance of international locations. Our recent opportunities have included: a first-year study trip to New York taking in the American fashion, beauty and lifestyle market first-hand, with a visit to Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology; a second-year study trip to some of Europe's major fashion capitals including Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rome and Florence and visiting top international trade exhibitions; a third-year trip to Tokyo for a week-long study experience to one of the world's most vibrant and directional fashion destinations.

The course also has study exchange agreements with a number of international institutions such as the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and you can apply to go on exchange in Year Two for one semester.

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