Post-Grad Interest Group: Fashion Commercial Awareness
- Written byPost-Grad Community
- Published date 25 February 2025
A brand new Post-Grad Interest Group that encourages UAL postgraduates interested in improving their commercial awareness to bring a fashion sustainability-related headline for a critical discussion with their peers across UAL.
The fashion news cycle works fast; there are only so many newsletters you can sign up for to keep up with all the latest developments in the industry, especially when it comes to the topic of sustainability. Technology, start-ups, insolvencies, legislative changes, geopolitical events – these are just a few examples of the real-time happenings in fashion that a well-rounded student should keep abreast of.
The Fashion Commercial Awareness Interest Group will regularly convene at London College of Fashion for critical discussions about news stories brought in by attendees, increasing students’ commercial exposure with hopes that this will inform their practice, be that in design or business.
The ultimate goal is to break down silos across courses and equip students with commercial awareness, a highly sought-after quality in the job market.
Get in touch
If you have any questions, or would like to formally register with this Interest Group, then please email Interest Group Leader Beau Chan.
Post-Grad Interest Groups at UAL
UAL’s Post-Grad Community Programme supports a growing number of issue-specific, cross-disciplinary interest groups led by postgraduate students and academics.
These groups connect creatives with shared research/practice interests across different specialisms and subject areas.
Students have launched interest groups in the past to coincide with exhibitions and symposiums that they have organised under the same theme, or have used Interest Groups as a working group towards research or a standalone event or series.
Interest Groups are a great way to build new networks at UAL for MA and PhD students with shared interests, a useful tool for finding cross-disciplinary students to work with on planned projects/activities, creating new audiences and ways to formally promote your practice.