Bachelor of Fashion and Business (BFB)
8139C (NSW), 075515G (VIC)
As the fashion industry continues to grow in importance, it requires highly skilled individuals who understand how the fashion industry works. This course places emphasis on the business and commerce at the heart of the fashion industry.
The study of fashion and business in a contemporary context reflects changes to industry-working practices to ensure closer alignment of fashion and business.
Fashion product knowledge is reframed to better integrate design and aesthetics with management and business concepts, embedding themes of contemporary fashion industry studies, fashion product knowledge, retail and consumer relations and management and leadership in the fashion industry.
This course examines how fashion ideas become fashion products and how these concepts reach the consumer. It explores the enterprises and businesses involved in this creative process along with the associated selling and promotion fields of the fashion industry.
The course aims to provide students with the confidence and skills to create, communicate and thrive in the highly competitive fashion business environment.
The Bachelor of Fashion and Business covers all aspects of the international fashion industry - with studies that will develop creative, technical, organisational and business knowledge and skills. The course analyses the history and theory behind the trade, design and communication within the fashion industry. It also examines future fashion production and promotion methods where students will develop the skills to manage costs, timelines and ethical issues impacting upon the fashion industry.
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Course Structure and Content
Year 1 |
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HF1201 | Fashion Industry Analysis |
HF1002 | Fashion Textile Products |
HF1003 | Fashion Consumer Analysis & Behaviour |
HF1004 | Business Communication Strategies |
HF1205 | Cultural History of Fashion as Aesthetic Economy |
HF1204 | Principles of Fashion Management |
HF1206 | Fashion Product Management and Accounting |
HF3012 | Fashion Elective; Fashion Illustration |
Year 2 |
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HF2210 | Fashion Brand Management in the Aesthetic Economy |
HF2203 | Buying & Financial Decision-making |
HF2208 | Ethical and Legal Fashion Business |
HF2205 | Fashion Product Development Strategies |
HF2206 | Visual Merchandising and Stock Management |
HF2207 | Fashion Marketing Strategies |
HF2202 | Sustainable Sourcing and Supplying Fashion Products |
HF3013 | Fashion Elective; Styling |
Year 3 |
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HF3001 | Major Project 1 – Research & Development |
HF2208 | Ethical & Legal Fashion Business |
HF3203 | Financial Data Management & Specialised Software |
HF3204 | Micro & Macro Economical Strategies for Fashion |
HF3002 | Major Project 2 – Integrated Business Plan |
HF3206 | Creative Collaboration in the Fashion Industry |
HF3207 | Integrated Strategic Management |
Various | Business Elective; Marketing, Accounting, Business |