Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Careers in Fashion: Trend Forecasting and Textile Design
Bloomsbury Publishing and Fairchild Books
The course explored the primary level of the fashion industry and who is responsible for its inspiration and conception of fashion products’ parts and raw materials. The course provided an overview of the firms that supply the information, components, production, and design of fashion products that manufacturers produce. In addition, the back office departments of manufacturing firms were examined, including sales, accounting, finance, and human resources.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Ian Howell
Managing Director
FutureLearn
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the firms and people supplying the information, components, production, and support needed to manufacture fashion products to bring them to the retailers
- Identify departments of manufacturing firms that support the people and profitability of fashion lines including sales, human resources, finance, and accounting
- Identify the textile designers and developers who use color, texture, pattern, and finishes to create the foundation on which fashion products are built
- Explore the careers of sourcing professionals, who locate the components of products
- Evaluate the careers of employees who work together to manufacture the final product
Syllabus
- Trend forecasting
- Textile design and development
- Sourcing, merchandising and importing
- Production and sales
Issued on 3rd January 2026
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