- Fashion Design
- Fashion Systems
- Sustainability
- Holistic Product Lifecyle
- Retail Management
- Systems Thinking
- Product Life Cycles
- User-Centered Design
- Research And Development (R&D)
- Trend Analysis
- ethical design and production
- Collaboration
Transforming the Fashion Business Specialization
Design the Future of the Fashion Business. Master the challenges facing the fashion industry in today's complex and evolving landscape
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What you will learn
How to develop a fashion business model that incorporates sustainability, experiential methods, collaborations, and serves underrepresented groups.
How to integrate systems thinking to advance fashion business models
Ability to articulate the predominant design techniques within the fashion system
How to develop a holistic product lifecycle
Skills you will gain
About this Specialization
Applied Learning Project
Each course in this specialization is capped with an immersive project where you’ll turn your passion to become a future business leader into a proposed strategy for addressing the challenges in today’s fashion industry.
For each project, you will be expected to prepare and present a plan for how you would leverage innovations in technology, design, and retail channels in order to solve a critical issue in the current fashion system.
By the end of the specialization, you will be able to:
• Research and innovate a strategy for a holistic approach to fashion design.
• Develop a fashion brand strategy that is inclusive and relevant to today's consumer and encompasses best practices for sustainability.
• Design a contemporary retailing strategy that considers customer experience, omnichannel engagement, operational logistics, and merchandising.
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Hands-on Project
Every Specialization includes a hands-on project. You'll need to successfully finish the project(s) to complete the Specialization and earn your certificate. If the Specialization includes a separate course for the hands-on project, you'll need to finish each of the other courses before you can start it.
Earn a Certificate
When you finish every course and complete the hands-on project, you'll earn a Certificate that you can share with prospective employers and your professional network.

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