Did you know? According to Bruce Cleaver, CEO of DeBeers diamonds are rare because: In the history of diamond exploration and mining, 7000 Kimberlites have been discovered. Kimberlite is the host rock in which diamonds are found. Of those 7000 only 1000 contained any...
On Thursday 21st March 2019, Muriel Zingraff was on campus speaking in-class exclusively to the MBA Luxury Brand Management students about her career and specifically about airport retailing and the Duty Free Shopping market for personal luxury goods. Muriel has a wealth of experience having...
By Dr Ruth Marciniak, MSc Fashion and Lifestyle Marketing Programme Leader The transformation of retailing over the last two decades has been phenomenal. Most significantly, the sector has experienced growth in online shopping. Digital and social media channels are used to purchase goods and, post purchase, publicly complain if customer expectations...
Joe Hunter and Adam Thorpe demonstrate Vexed Generation's product technology The British School of Fashion were delighted to host Fashion Roundtable’s latest event on ‘Fash-Tech, Disrupting Business Models, AI Innovations & Fashion Futures’ on Thursday 7th February. Fashion Roundtable is a specialist consultancy that aims to support and...
British School of Fashion Luxury students assist at the Luxury Update event On Thursday 24 January, the British School of Fashion at Glasgow Caledonian University in London hosted the second ever ‘Luxury Update’ event. The intimate networking event for the luxury sector once again provided a unique...
On Tuesday 6th November, GCU London Honorary Professor and Lifetime Achievement Award winner Jane Shepherdson CBE, former CEO of Whistles delivered an exclusive Masterclass to our students in which she shared her eye-opening 30 year career journey in the fashion industry. Awarded a CBE for services...
British School of Fashion students were invited to global denim brand, Citizens of Humanity’s London showroom on Thursday 27th September to take part in the #WeAreAllHumanity campaign for the UNCHR to support refugee women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our students were welcomed by...
[caption id="attachment_18170" align="alignnone" width="720"] Martha Rodriguez presents Vesti at The Embassy Previews[/caption] On 12th September, The Embassy of Philippines invited MSc Fashion Business Creation graduate Martha Rodriguez to London to showcase her brand, Vesti at The Embassy Previews as part of London Fashion Week. Vesti is a...
By Dr Ruth Marciniak (MSc Fashion and Lifestyle Marketing Programme Leader) Vital to the fashion and lifestyle sector is the ability to analyse social, technological, political and cultural trends, which in turn, enable those working in the industry to predict patterns of consumer behaviour and, in so...
Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Pamela Gillies CBE, has led the University's tributes for Dr Don McCarthy CBE, Honorary Graduate and Founding Patron to the British School of Fashion, who sadly passed away on Saturday morning after a long and courageous battle against cancer. Professor Gillies said...