Katie de Ley is a Lecturer in Fashion Buying and Merchandising at LCF and is the year 2 lead tutor. She has an inherent passion for fashion and the clothing industry having been involved in selecting the clothing range for her family's chain of franchised Benetton stores as a teenager. Katie has a wealth of fashion retail experience from her career in Fashion Merchandising, working as a Merchandise Manager for Aurora Fashions, Mosaic Fashions, Rubicon Retail, Arcadia Group, House of Fraser and Etam plc.