Fashion Business Industry

George Brown’s two-year Fashion Business Industry diploma program offers a blend of business management and technical skills necessary for small- to medium-sized businesses in the apparel fashion industry. This entrepreneurial-focused program will guide learners through crafting a comprehensive business plan essential to launching or managing a business. Students will gain an understanding of textiles, garment construction, quality criteria and apparel merchandising while learning to apply marketing, accounting, financial and other business concepts essential for thriving in the fashion business industry.

Small and medium-sized enterprises are flourishing in the fashion industry and represent a great opportunity for entry into this field. Smaller companies require employees with a range of management skills to manage a business from the start-up stage to more developed business models. Through this program, students will gain skills and knowledge essential to running a successful small fashion business.

What You’ll Learn

• Visual merchandising.
• World of fashion.
• Introduction to sewing and drafting.
• Fabric science: textiles.
• Economics.
• Fabric analysis
• Basic accounting principles
• Apparel construction techniques
• Fashion merchandising and buying.
• Apparel marketing.
• Apparel drafting techniques.
• Apparel marketing – advanced.
• Business planning for entrepreneur.
• Logistics and costing for fashion industries.
• Adobe illustrator.
• Quality assurance and applications.
• History of costume.
• Apparel construction technique.
• Financial management for the entrepreneur.
• Business ethics.
• Retail operations.