Why study BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing transcript

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It's a really exciting, fast-moving industry, you never know what's going to crop up the next day, there are such a wide range of opportunities, for lots of different skill sets, from all the sort of analytical data merchandising, through to really creative roles in fashion, social media, marketing, buying, merchandising.

Course Leader of Fashion Management with Marketing, Amanda Gomersall is sat in Re:So retail store talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in background.

0:28:22

For me, I like the wide variety of everything we do. We've done everything from social media marketing, we've done products, we've done buying, we've done finance, we've done law, we really cover the whole basis so I feel like I can go into industry and say I've done everything.

Student of BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing, Hannah Wicks is sat in Re:So retail shop talking to camera.

0:45:23

It's so interesting like, everything we learn, we learn all different aspects of fashion and it's so open and there's so many things we can go into.

Student of BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing, Hannah Wicks is sat in Re:So retail shop talking to camera.

0:56:12

Everybody teaching on the course has come from industry so we have a lot of industry contacts, we've been there and done it, so we can bring that to the classroom to make all the sessions exciting, practical, developing students skill sets to go into industry and get those dream jobs - that they do walk into which is brilliant.

Course Leader of Fashion Management with Marketing, Amanda Gomersall is sat in the Fashion Marketing classroom talking to camera.

1:22:01

The lecturers on our course are so supportive I couldn't be happier on our year off, we were so supported and we didn't drop a grade because everyone was so well supported.

Student of BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing, Hannah Wicks is sat in Re:So retail shop talking to camera.

1:31:21

They've got so much information and you feel like you can speak to them whenever. They're always available on email and after the seminars or anything, you can just say 'can have a quick chat?' and they're they're always open to talk and help with anything.

Student of BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing, Hannah Hornbuckle, is sat in Re:So retail shop talking to camera.

1:48:14

This is Re:So, this is our Solent retail initiative, so this is a real store in a retail centre. It's run by students selling students material, so all the students get a real first-hand experience of merchandising, looking how products sell in different areas, the depth of sales and in the second year our students actually buy product for this store, from the far east so they they go through the whole actual process that they would do in industry. So they get a briefing, they find the stock they present it to the store manager who then decides what items they'd like to buy, they place their orders, they see it into the store, they develop the marketing behind it. So it's really exciting and we have lots of live projects here so students are briefed by companies they will go away, do the research then present it to directors who then give them feedback on their research and on their skill sets, so it's real life learning.

Course Leader of Fashion Management with Marketing, Amanda Gomersall is sat in Re:So retail store talking to camera. Interspersed are cutaways of Re:So showing the store with a range of clothes, jewellery, clothing accessories, and students working in the shop.

3:00:03

I've just completed a 10-week placement with Armani so I was part of the wholesale intern team in the UK head office. So I spent 10 weeks there in London, we were part of the wholesale teams we had to assist them so we'd have buyers from Selfridges and I was on the menswear department, so we had buyers come in and we'd do appointments with them and we would sit through with their night's appointment and they'd merchandise and pick out what they wanted and we would just assist them really but it was such a good experience to be put on my C.V. and it's really helps me with what I want to go into, so I now know I want to be part of a luxury buyer.

Student of BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing, Hannah Wicks is sat in Re:So retail shop talking to camera.

3:35:14

We've had graduates who are in Cornwall, in Manchester, in London, in the Midlands and they do are doing things like all aspects of marketing, social media influencer, placing adverts, and all the analytics behind it. Then we have the classic buying roles, merchandising roles, then supply chain management roles, and lots of niche careers in between.

Course Leader of Fashion Management with Marketing, Amanda Gomersall is sat in Re:So retail store talking to camera.

4:06:15

I honestly feel like I've had the best university experience personally. I've really enjoyed every aspect and I really tried for my first year to embrace everything, so I joined a sports team and I've met so many more people, and the social life here at Solent is lovely because we're not, we are a big uni but it's not huge, so everyone's quite close, like you know a lot of people.

Student of BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing, Hannah Wicks is sat in Re:So retail shop talking to camera.

4:28:20

I've made so many friends and just having the best time yeah it's great being in a new city, and I was a bit nervous about like, coming to a new place and making friends but it's been it's been great.

Student of BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing, Hannah Hornbuckle, is sat in Re:So retail shop talking to camera.

4:40:22

I would definitely recommend the course I feel like I've got such a good knowledge going into industry, that I do feel quite prepared and we've had so much support like, I feel really well prepared with my C.V. and all the modules we've done, I feel so like, safe going into it and really excited and especially because of all of our lecturers are from industry, so it's really exciting to hear from their first hand experience and you know that you're going in really well prepared which is exciting.

Student of BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing, Hannah Wicks is sat in Re:So retail shop talking to camera.

5:07:19

I'd 100 percent recommend it and I think especially fashion management, it's so open that there's so many places you can go with it, so if you don't know what you want to do in fashion like, I don't know where I want to go but we talk about every sort of job that there is available, so yeah this yeah I definitely recommend it.

Student of BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing, Hannah Hornbuckle, is sat in Re:So retail shop talking to camera.

5:29:18

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