Discourse : Fashion in the Creative Industries

 

These are academic blogs which  been created for the module called: Discourse: Fashion in the creative industry(FT2502) on weekly basis. This is just a little brief about the included contents of the essay.

Summary of UK Apparel Industries experience:

·         As a most developed country, national output and trade currently made by apparel industry has a very small contribution.

·         The forces of global shifts in the sectors are extremely powerful, reflecting a natural tendency for apparel manufacture to act as an engine of development in newly industrialising nations.

·         The labour cost gap between the developed and developing world remains large and there is no sign of any immediate technological break-through which could ease the impact of this gap upon costs.

·         Exports performance became worst badly after 1998 and the sectors displays huge trade deficit a high negative trade balance on apparel trade.

·         The global spread of the UK industry is extremely limited. The UK domestic market is large but extremely competitive and dominated by a small number of large retailers.

·         After 1995 the trend in UK output and employment entered a new phase that both data have turn down together.

 

UK market and issues

By the begging of the 20^th century rise of the new technology, machines, global capitalism, factory system of production and retail outlets, department stores made fashion industries vast and global and this global industries play key role in world economy. Although fashion Industry developed in Europe and America but today it is highly globalised internationally. Now-a-days Clothing often design in one country, manufactured in another and sold worldwide.

UK current Issues

Today, the UK manufacturing base and employment are rapidly falling down. Apparel manufacturing industry in the UK employed around 83,000 people in 2006 down from over 200 000 a decade earlier and the statistics reveal that fashion is a large global business sector going through a period of great change. In terms of UK, Apparel trade is in Deficit because of high labour rates. Now Britain is like travel agent dealing with first and third party. The trend reflected by these statistics(below table) is also representative of apparel production trends in many other developed countries in Europe as well as the America.

The types of integration occurring by Global business :

1.    Financial : Global business liable to progress on financial sector which contribute nation’s economy and government revenue.

2.    Trade and Investment : Globalization encourage for more trade and Investment which tends to integrate region and nation. For example- more market creates more value and more revenue.

3.  Labour : Labour market and utilization of man power regulates  social and economic condition and maintain the unemployment rate of their respective nation.

Retail

Some of renown retails name in UK :

   

 

Globalisation of Fashion Industry

The developing country like China and India, they have substatial production industries in both areas- Textile and Apparel. China and India are the world's largest and leading single country exporter of textile and apparel.


Nature of Developing Country

Newly developing country like India has GDP( Gross Domestic Product) below the average level. The citizens commonly have low level income, high levels of unemployment, high illiteracy rate and the large proportion of the population lives in poverty and because of high unemployment wages are low. Start up costs for the apparel industry are competatively low and short training times. The Apparel industry requires labour- intensive production, therefore newl developing countries are ideal location.

The greatest real growth of wealthy individuals in the BRIC countries and they are buying the luxury goods faster and better than they do any other category.

Global Luxury consumers by region 2005.

Source : Ernst & Young cited in Deutsche Bank 2007, Luxury Goods.

Updated CV

Here is my recent CV attached in the blogs. I think, our CV format and content should be easy and effective in view and simple in understanding. CV is the first and only impression of the un seen person. It's totally depends on CV to decide for interview call.
For the Employers or Interviewers, it is very hard to decide to which one to call for interview or for further process among thousands of CVs. However, If the CV is affecting and eye catching then it works.

                                                                                Jeevan Thapa         

                                                                                59A Hoe Street

                                                                                London, E17 4SA

                                                                                Phone- 07502184769

                                                                 Email: jeevan001@hotmail.com

Personal Profile

A well motivated, determined and energetic individual who possesses good interpersonal skills and sets himself high targets. The ability to communicate effectively on all levels, team worker and use own initiative when required. A flexible individual who enjoys the challenges of meeting deadlines and targets and managed to overcome many  obstacles to achieve dream in Fashion. Ready to embark on a career in Fashion that will lead to my ultimate goal of becoming successful in the Fashion world.

Education

2011-2014            BA(Hons) in Fashion Design,  University of East London

 Module included:

·         Develop: Design and Surface             Character and issues of fabrics, materials and visual research

·         Develop cutting Edge Design             Design techniques and constructing contemporary garments

·         Discourse                                               Critical study of Creative Industry

2009-2011            BTEC Higher National Diploma in Fashion (Merit), Middlesex University

2008-2009            Professional course in Fashion,                International Institute of Fashion Designing (INIFD), Nepal

2005-2007            Higher Secondary Education equivalent of A Level,Balkumari College, Nepal

Subjects included:

·         English

·         Business Maths

·         Computer science

·         Hotel Management

·         Accountancy

2005                       10^th Class equivalent of GCSE, Kendriya Vidyalaya Salt lake 2, India

Subjects Included:

·         English

·         Social Study

·         Mathematics

·         Hindi

·         Science

Work Experience

2010-2011Part Time Job in JW Marriott Hotel as a Bar Tender, London

·                    Serving Beverage and working in a team

2008-2009          Worked as Customer Service Representative and IT personal in Link Tree, Nepal

·                    Providing information about colleges and Universities of USA

·                    Handling customer’s record and daily report

·                    Meeting deadline and targets

Other experience

2009                       Participated as a Fashion Designer in Beauty Pageant- Miss Nepal

·                     Management with events and models

·                     Organizing skills

2008                       Worked as a Fashion Designer Assistant in the Fashion show, Nepal                       

·                     Experienced all the design process and team work

Additional Skills

·         Advanced in Microsoft office applications-MS office, Excel, Power point

·         Intermediate in Photoshop

·         Communication and presentation skills

Other Language

·         Fluent in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Nepali

Interest

I am musical person, love listening music, Playing guitar and swimming.  Photography and travelling new places is my another hobby which lead me to read Magazines and watch TV channel like- Discovery and National Geographic channel. I like being social person and hanging out with friends in my spare time.

Reference Available on request.

               

Essay Plan

This is my Essay writing Plan for the topic:

Show how the Creative Industries have become one of the most important sectors of the UK economy

Research

Reading

• Books, news paper, articles
• Video
• Websites etc.

Bibliography

• Note down the bibliobgarphy as soon as you found any interesting figures, pictures or facts for the essay.

Essay Plan

Globalization of clothing IndustryPrimary research -Dalston Junction

• Diagram and figures
• Creative Industries and its issues in UK
• Primary Research, Picture and Figures
• Import and Export of the Fashion Industry
• Import from BRIC countries for example-INDIA and its impact on British Market

            -Good/Bad Impact

• The Manufacturing Industries in India and its key elements

            -Discussion and issues-

example Labour cost/ child labour/sweat shop

• View and opinion

Writing on each issue in your plan

• Following the given tables in UEL plus

Reading and checking

Quotes / para- phrasing – citation and Harvard referencing

Summary / summarise

Writing your conclusion

At lesson we decided to write introduction at last because if you write issues first then you can modify and adjust your introduction with mentioned main body of the essay.

Introduction

            -UK creative industry and Fashion Industry

            -Government policies and Issues

            -Globalization and its impact

FIeld Visit: Dalston Junction

Last week when we had creative industry field visit in Dalston Junction, I have got chance to do the actual field research about creative industry in London. It gave me the oppurnunity to see how the creative sector works and how they managed to survive in this critical economic crisis.

I visited in the outlet called: Here today Here tomorow, Print club London(Print studio for Arts and Fashion), Open the Gate (Photo Gallery) and LN-CC (A boutique/art gallery). I manged to talk with Katy (Director of Print London Studio) and she provided the information about how does the print market runs. she also stated that these creative sector are affected by recession however they are managed to market because of marketing and dealing in local and national level.

Open the Gate was which was simply Photo Gallery which had some interesting collection of Photos and images and on the roof they planted small green house with varriety of Flowers and other plants.

However, I found LN-CC( Late Night Chameleon Café) more interesting and exactly relevant with my trip. The outlet was- a concept boutique/event space/art gallery tucked away underneath an otherwise non-descript building on Shacklewell Lane. It opened last year and has fast become a figurehead for fashion in east London, offering a welcome relief from the all the over-priced pseudo vintage tat and influx of high street brands that permeate Brick Lane and Shoreditch. On this occasion, the group I was with was able to chat to the boutique's John and Charlotte, (John is the creative director) who explained a bit about the development.The whole team has a long background in retail, and knew exactly what they want to do to try to evolve the business a little bit, while still retaining a workable shopping experience.

The interior is designed by artist Gary Card, chosen by the team because of their desire to see an artist that they love given a permanent installation space, and the result is a wonderland like maze of Perspex and wood, tunnels and a treehouse.The reason for my ending up at LN-CC this time was actually not with the intention of doing any writing specifically on them, but I find it such an interesting place that I couldn’t resist. It’s completely worth a visit.

It's probably one of the most interesting and modern places for fashion around at the moment, and I predict that we'll see some pretty good things from it in the future.

 

Guest Presentation (Andrew Calcutt)

Creative Industry in UK and History

Andrew Calcutt gave us critical view about the creative industry in UK. He similarised 1711 and 2011 as anything is markatable, merchandising and production place somewhere else in the country or other country.

He also described the period between 1711 and 2011 where Industrial Revolution started from 1711 and UK De-industrialiation in 1970s and the integration of villages, towns and cities into national economy.

The idea of Creative industry is the latecomer(1990s) coincided with UK de-industrialisation.

1711: cogito ergo sum
-Hardly any 'industrial scale' industry

2011: Manifesto ergo sum
-More mass production than ever before, but it takes place somewhere else.

19th Century

Culture Against Industry: According to Mr. Calcutt, In 19th century culture and society was based on the concept against Industry which has slowly changed in interest of National economy after Industrial Revolution.

Fisrt half of the twentieth century:
Industrialisation of culture:  The Culture agaist industry was completly changed into the concept of Industrialisation of culture which integrated towns, villages, society, culture and national economy.

Creative Industry and Definition

According to DCMS( Department for Culture Media and Sports) creative industries include :

1. Arts, antique Market
2. Advertising
3. crafts
4. Communication Design
5. Fashion
6. Architecture
7. Film and video 
8. computer Games
9. sotware
10. Performing Arts
11. Music
12. Television, Radio
13. Publishing

DCMS defines creative industry as -'' Those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitaion of intellctual property.'' Creative Industry brings togethter creative with technology with business.


Fashion : Fashion is the general term for currently popular style of practice, especially in clothing , footwear or accessories.
Fashion Industry : Fashion industry is a produst of modern age. Before it was hand made, home made by dress makers and tailors. By the beginig of the 20th century rise of the new technology , machines, global capitalism , factory system of production and retail outlets, department stores made fashion industries vast and global and played important role for economy.

Discourse: Fashion in the Creative Industries (FT2502)

Introduction of Module

This week we had Brief introduction of Lucy Jones and Discourse: Fashion in the creative industries FT2502.

We came to know Lucy's professional background and her experience. She has been travelled in various destination and worked in different Creative industries and companies of abroad like Hong Kong, China, Australia and UK. she also found the big culture difference in Europe and Asia.

We did Mind map about the 'Fashion' in group where we discussed and found the relevant creative industry and connected market sector.

Definition of discourse and Presentation about Creative Industry in UK gave the ideas of how to start essay.