Fashion Retailing - The Art Institute of Seattle

Fashion Retailing from The Art Institute of Seattle is a Campus Certificate Management degree that prepares you for a Business career. The Fashion Retailing Diploma program teaches students how to use their combined creative and business skills to display, market, and sell fashion merchandise. The well-trained student will be able to effectively understand and meet the customer's needs, and ultimately encourage sales. This is accomplished by having a keen awareness to the changing needs of the consumer, learning how to identify and predict new style trends, and by being able to conceptualize and promote fashion displays and sales campaigns. Individuals in fashion retailing will learn how to evaluate apparel construction, identify appropriate characteristics and uses of different textiles. They will also gain knowledge of consumer behavior, retail operations, visual merchandising , the larger marketplace, and business skills. Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to obtain jobs as retail store managers or visual merchandisers. Program Objectives Upon completion of this program, graduates will: ? Define retailing, to include "bricks-and-mortar", "clicks-and-mortar", direct marketers with clicks-and-mortar retailing operations, and bricks-and-mortar retailers, relate them to the marketing concept with an emphasis on the total retail experience. ? Discuss why customer and channel relationships must be nurtured in today's highly competitive marketplace. ? Explain the steps in strategic planning for retailers, to include: situation analysis, objectives, and identification of consumers, overall strategy, specific activities, control and feedback. View more details on The Art Institute of Seattle . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Management courses.