These undergraduate programmes are designed for participants looking to enter the fashion world, and provide a complete education allowing participants to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to pursue a career in the chosen field.
With a passion for style, and a creative mind and full of visual ideas, participants learn how to recognise, reinvent and define image for a garment, a product or brand. With recognized top level instruction they are ready to begin their career as inspirational stylists, going on to use their talents in various areas of the fashion and creative industries including editorial features, advertising campaigns, brand image and restyling proposals, in social media and visual merchandising, as well as in music videos, TV and movies.
This full time course aims to form skilled stylists with the ability to create new narratives covering both creative and operational strategies in the fashion and luxury business. They will understand how to use media to create followers and highlight brand identity, as well as the relationship between creative and organisational areas of a brand, or company brief. They will learn also how to communicate fashion trends and products using paper or digital publications. By understanding the role and responsibilities of the professional stylist participants learn how to pull together, organize and lead a team of experts to ensure that the direction of what is published in fashion magazines, appears online, or on the catwalk, communicates the right messages, at the right time, and to the right target audience. From a solid base in styling, this course moves onto explore multiple areas of the fashion industry where management of the creative process is core practice. Participants are encouraged to develop their own ideas and experiment in producing a different variety of visual outcomes, such as fashion editorials, fashion films, brand image and restyling proposals, interactive and print advertising campaigns, and social media visual contents. The course covers key skills in fashion copywriting, PR and media planning, fashion production management, business planning, time management, and advertising deadlines and budgets. Cultural studies in the history of art, design, dress and fashion culture provide the necessary skills to make a critical assessment. The analysis of style brings shape, reality, and energy into the visual space - the material ‘reality’ of image making. Participants will also learn how to create an immediately identifiable and recognisable style in order to produce and develop live photo shoots, managing the team involved in the process of photography, image editing, set construction, still life and moving image, lighting, direction, and choices in make-up, hair and accessories. They are encouraged to decode stereotypes and to think about image positioning from a different perspective in order to discover their own unique personal style.
Once students have completed the course, they will have the opportunity to work within companies operating in the field of communication with a specific focus on the fashion environment. They will also be ready to pursue a career in publishing houses operating in the fields of design, luxury or fashion, as well as work free-lance, for example by opening their own agencies to respond to market needs.
Other possible career opportunities will be:
ADVANCED TRAINING PROGRAMME
The Fashion Communication & Image Advanced Training Programme aims to inspire experimentation and exploration, to allow the development of an individual fashion style and harness creativity.
Trainees will expand on their industry practical skills, through the planning organisation and implementation of fashion shoots, working, managing and being an integral member of a fashion team, whilst building contacts with photographers, models and makeup artists, and expand their professional portfolio.
Photo-shoots will encapsulate various formats from still life styling and photography to the development of sets, creating narratives and propped environments, to communicate fashion stories. Editorial styling will further enhance application of the styling processes and production, embracing research of ideas, including the investigation into trends of makeup, hair and beauty to inform model looks. Editorial images will be used in a published magazine format, presented to a professional standard of execution and layout.
Projects include the planning and realisation of advertising campaigns for multiple briefs and clients. The programme encourages trainees to create and manage self-initiated briefs, which are implemented through fashion editorial shoots and art direction of fashion videos. Theory and academic writing will underpin the delivery of the creative pathway through the proposal and writing of a final project work, which will investigate a personal topic of interest.
By encouraging creativity and experimentation, trainees cultivate their own distinctive fashion style through the Fashion Communication & Image Advanced Training Programme.
By taking part in the full process of fashion shoot planning, execution, and teamwork, participants will refine their practical industry skills. They will also collaborate with photographers, models, and makeup artists, all while expanding their professional network and portfolio.
The production of images will require enhanced skills in photo retouching, CAD, visual formatting and layout techniques using InDesign.
Trainees will progress by undertaking a series of creative and commercial projects, which will contribute to the execution of a professional portfolio and production of a website, which represents their individual creative style. The application of fashion writing and graphic presentation skills is integral to the presentation and communication of all visual outcomes.
Situated in the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD), one of Riyadh’s most dynamic areas offering visitors and residents a high standard of living, the Higher Training Institute will offer training diploma programmes and professional courses in fashion, business, and luxury management.
Once students have completed the course, they will have the opportunity to work within companies operating in the field of communication with a specific focus on the fashion environment. They will also be ready to pursue a career in publishing houses operating in the fields of design, luxury or fashion, as well as work free-lance, for example by opening their own agencies to respond to market needs.
Other possible career opportunities will be:
