Fashion Studies

This page is intended to provide ideas and information for students and graduates of a degree in Fashion Studies.

What skills have I gained on my course?

Employers are interested in the skills and competencies you gained from your degree therefore it is very important you can recognise them and present them effectively on CVs and in interviews:

  • Organisational and planning skills – for projects, meeting deadlines, research and creating a design brief
  • Communication and interpersonal – articulating ideas and information comprehensively in visual, oral and written forms
  • Team working – collaborating effectively to undertake group projects, mount exhibitions and degree shows
  • Time management – setting own work programme/projects and prioritising tasks
  • Practical skills of drawing, pattern cutting
  • Sector specific IT – CAD, CAM – selecting and employing appropriate design packages
  • Business/entrepreneurial
  • Persuasive, negotiating and marketing skills

Occupations associated with Fashion Studies

Other Occupations where a Fashion Studies degree would be useful

Postgraduate Study

Postgraduate study may enable you to explore aspects of Fashion Studies in greater depth, specialize in footwear, millinery for example, or to study a new subject. A postgraduate qualification, either academic or vocational, is required to enter many fields of work related to fashion studies such as lecturing, journalism and retail management. You should consider why you want to do postgraduate study, whether it will affect your career prospects and whether you are likely to get funding.

Post graduate courses related to Fashion at Lincoln include:

MA Design

For general information and where to find courses, please see our Postgraduate Study section. For information on courses available at Lincoln click here.

Lincoln Fashion Studies graduate employment destinations

Below are examples of Fashion Studies graduate destinations:

  • Garment Technologist, Per Una
  • Assistant Manager, Levi’s Retail Outlet
  • Assistant Designer, David Niepes Ltd
  • Assistant Designer, A.G Organics
  • Fashion Designer, 20/90 Twenty Ninety
  • Fashion Assistant, Gok’s Clothes Road Show
  • Studio Design Assistant, Fitriani (Couture Women’s Wear)
  • Lecturer, University of Lincoln
  • Product designer & Visual Merchandising Associate, Gymflex
  • Fashion Designer, Gymflex
  • Freelance Fashion Designer
  • Design Assistant Internship, Cecy styles
  • Visual Merchandiser, Marks and Spencers
  • Visual Merchandiser, House of Fraser
  • Visual Merchandiser, Icon Live

For detailed case studies from Art, Architecture and Design see the AAD broadsheet.

CVs for the Fashion Industry

For more information on CVs for the Fashion industry please see the following link.  http://bit.ly/A4mUbJ

Useful Fashion Studies Links

Careers Links