Associate Degree in Fashion and Textile Merchandising
Associate Degree in Fashion and Textile Merchandising
Your career in fashion Join the global fashion industry and discover a new and challenging career in areas including trend forecasting, product development, marketing, merchandising, planning, buying, and more. Disrupt the industry Equipped with specialist knowledge in product and brand strategy, you’ll be well positioned to bring new and creative…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Your career in fashion
Join the global fashion industry and discover a new and challenging career in areas including trend forecasting, product development, marketing, merchandising, planning, buying, and more.
Disrupt the industry
Equipped with specialist knowledge in product and brand strategy, you’ll be well positioned to bring new and creative ideas to major fashion and retail brands.
This associate degree, recognised as Australia’s premier fashion and business course, has been designed to help you develop the high-level business acumen and creative thinking required to succeed -within the fast-paced fashion industry.
As a graduate of this course, you will be able to develop, analyse and launch successful strategies for products, brands and retail, and navigate buying and merchandising practices to find your place in this global and competitive industry.
Career
As a fashion and textiles merchandiser, you bring fashion from the designer to the consumer. Your understanding the consumer helps guide design, product development, promotion and distribution.
The global focus of this course allows you to set your sights on an international career that spans roles such as:
product developer
trend forecaster
merchandise planner or allocator
range coordinator
design assistant
production assistant
digital marketing specialist
buying assistant
stock manager
buying administrator, or
online merchandiser
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Since its establishment in 1887, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) has been meeting the needs of the community surrounding it. Originally a Working Men’s College, RMIT showed its flexibility during World War Two, training over 20,000 servicemen in communications to help with the war effort.Now, it is a true pioneer in international education, championing cross-border study opportunities with campuses in various countries. Granted formal university status in 1992, RMIT is ranked 21st in the world for universities that are less than 50 years old.RMIT is the largest higher education institution in Australia, currently with more than 82,000 students. With nearly 20% of those students coming from overseas, it is a university that truly welcomes diversity and is a melting pot of different cultures. RMIT has three campuses in Vietnam, a European hub in Barcelona, an office in Indonesia, and partners with 200+ institutions in 42 countries to provide study opportunities worldwide.
