Reference Quantity: ST0173
Particulars of normal
OCCUPATION: FASHION STUDIO ASSISTANT
Britain is world famend for our creativity and design expertise. British designers seize the temper of the second, cascading it into the excessive avenue, making a multi-billion pound business. The direct worth of the UK style business to the UK financial system is £26 billion. Style’s complete contribution to the financial system is estimated to have risen to over £46 billion in 2014.
The important thing to creating additional progress within the style business is to professionalise and supply higher profession paths all through the business, not simply in design expertise. This apprenticeship will ship particular abilities that may in the end contribute to all ranges of a style enterprise, growing leaders and groups to work alongside our design expertise, in addition to making Britain one of the best place to incubate a brand new enterprise from preliminary pleasure to business sustainability.
A Style Studio Assistant is a key place within the designer business, working with the crew that creates a group. This apprenticeship will introduce candidates to the designer style business, with expertise gained in each the product and business sides of a model. In a big firm, this function could be extra focussed on the studio, however in a smaller firm this function may additionally be concerned in lots of different areas of the enterprise.
Busy, difficult, and thrilling, the apprenticeship will embody all kinds of duties, and can give a broad training within the actuality of day-to-day life in a designer enterprise. The apprenticeship begins within the coronary heart of a designer enterprise: The Studio, to find out about how a group is created. It should then result in 12 months in a extra focussed space of the enterprise: Product growth or Manufacturing, Gross sales and Operations, or Style Advertising and Communications. To be able to go on to many roles on this various business, a basis in understanding how a group is created, marketed and bought is invaluable.
On profitable completion of the Apprenticeship Commonplace, a Style Studio Assistant would possess the next Information, Expertise and Behaviours:
TYPICAL DURATION: Basis Core of 6 months + 12 months in 1 of three pathway choices
FOUNDATION CORE
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Information
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THE DESIGNER FASHION INDUSTRY AND THE YEARLY CYCLE
CRITICAL PATH
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What it seems like, the way it works. Understanding of the seasonal cycle. Understanding of a product journey: conception, design, pattern, gross sales, supply, in retailer, advertising, PR. Understanding of the fundamental enterprise cycle: cashflow, shopping for, producing, delivery, budgeting. How the totally different departments are concerned within the creation and promoting of a group.
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Understanding of how a group is introduced collectively, how a Vital Path is created and adopted.
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STUDIO WORK PLACE
TIME MANAGEMENT
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Working as a part of a large crew. Understanding of well being and questions of safety.
Consciousness of how totally different departments contribute to an organization’s targets.
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Expertise
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In a position to work to a strict deadline, and to cope with easy challenge administration.
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COMMUNICATION
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Communication abilities each written and verbal. Skilled emails, diary administration. Working as a part of a crew. Speaking with folks inner and exterior to the organisation. Representing the organisation.
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OFFICE ADMIN
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Fundamental invoicing or ordering, diary administration, planning and preparation for conferences, admin and knowledge entry.
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PATHWAY 1: PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION
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STUDIO MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
PATTERN KNOWLEDGE
GARMENT CONSTRUCTION
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Working in a studio crew, coping with designers, producers, technical workers, suppliers, manufacturing crew, freelancers and shoppers.
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Fundamental understanding of various materials, yarns and trims, how they work, how they’re priced, the place they might be sourced from. Studying about methods to deal with, minimize and retailer supplies. Potential to find out about designer particular strategies, equivalent to print, embroidery, knit, jacquard and leather-based work.
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A fundamental understanding of sample chopping and grading and the significance of match. How one can take measurements and value a garment. Consciousness of how CAD/CAM could also be a part of the method.
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Good fundamental information of garment building. Information of the proto growth stage, and the sealing of samples. Be capable to minimize and stitch a toile.
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Expertise
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BUYING AND SOURCING
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
QUALITY CONTROL
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Researching or sourcing of material/elements. Putting orders and help with controlling stock. Consciousness of leadtimes and minimums for bulk ordering. Consideration of moral and environmental components when working with suppliers and factories.
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How one can price clothes, skill to create a layplan and a invoice of supplies, learn how to enter info onto a product administration system to be used in gross sales and manufacturing.
Understanding of the significance of an correct technical sheet for producers.
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In a position to high quality management clothes, materials or equipment. Good eye for element, consciousness of what to search for, learn how to report and talk points. How one can put together clothes prepared on the market or presentation: steaming, labelling, packing, storing.
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PATHWAY 2: SALES and OPERATIONS
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SALES STRATEGY
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Consciousness of the totally different promoting channels open to designers: wholesale, retail, on-line, by way of a franchisor, licensor, with brokers and distributers.
Understanding of how a technique will probably be created and adopted for focusing on a market. Understanding in additional element of how both wholesale, ecommerce or retail works.
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MARKET AWARENESS
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Develop information of a selected market, both home or worldwide. Achieve the flexibility to explain who a model’s buyer is and to have the ability to undertake fundamental market and competitor analysis.
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MERCHANDISING
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Understanding of the significance of vary planning, value structure and gross sales evaluation. Involvement in gross sales evaluation, gathering promote via info, help in report creation.
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Expertise
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LOGISTICS
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Packaging, dispatch and delivery, together with an consciousness of fundamental worldwide rules. Coping with couriers and deliveries, to and from suppliers and clients.
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SHOWROOM
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How one can current a group, take care of an area, greet shoppers, preserve a required commonplace of visible merchandising. Involvement in getting ready paperwork for gross sales equivalent to linesheets.
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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
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Capability to handle buyer knowledge in a accountable means. Consciousness of how it’s used, and the way it needs to be protected. Information of the significance of customer support and a capability to cope with sure customer support points.
Help with clienteling or chasing gross sales leads.
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PATHWAY 3: FASHION MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
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PR STRATEGY
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Understanding of how and why a model is promoted in several channels and markets. Consciousness of how a technique is created for a model or product and what the advertising calendar will probably be.
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ONLINE BRAND COMMUNICATION
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Involvement in digital advertising: social media, mailers, web sites. Understanding of how the channels work, how they contribute to model consciousness and learn how to successfully use them for communication. Capability to create fundamental experiences on site visitors and progress in model following.
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OFFLINE BRAND COMMUNICATION
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Understanding of the function performed by print media, and occasions. Could embrace style reveals, VIP dressing, collaborations with different manufacturers and partnerships with retailers.
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Expertise
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EVENTS
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Involvement with occasions preparation and coordination. This may very well be style reveals, gross sales showrooms, tradeshows, photoshoots or press days. Serving to to arrange and run a showroom house, handle an appointment diary, and coordinate samples.
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MEDIA AND INFLUENCER
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
CONTENT CREATION
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Creating relationships with shoppers, press or style organisations. Understanding of the function of influencers from totally different spheres and learn how to have interaction them with the model.
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Help in writing copy and creating shows. Involvement in getting ready skilled paperwork equivalent to press releases or occasion invites. Potential involvement in social media importing, and manipulation of pictures and graphics for on or offline advertising.
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CORE BEHAVIOURS for all pathways
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ADAPTABILITY
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In a position to work to strict deadlines and to deal with a piece tempo various significantly all year long. Capability to suppose on ft, be resourceful, and have a versatile angle towards adjustments in work plans.
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SELF MOTIVATION
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Hardworking, in a position to work independently with out supervision, palms on angle and drive to achieve a aggressive surroundings. Keen on self-development.
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PROFESSIONALISM
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Exhibits maturity in dealing with a quick paced, pressured surroundings. Skilled strategy to job, and in dealings with different members of workers and exterior firm contacts.
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
English and Arithmetic GCSE at Grade C or above or equal purposeful abilities are anticipated on entry. If not set as an entry criterion, candidates will obtain English and Arithmetic stage 2 by the tip of their apprenticeship.
DURATION: Sometimes 18 months
LEVEL: 3
REVIEW: This commonplace will probably be reviewed in 3 years
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