LCF Grad Futures: From Why to How, Exploring Business Models

This session is only for London College of Fashion students. It is aligned to your Graduate Futures start up and freelance journey.

This session is part of our Enterprise Challenge journey – the perfect starting point if you’re considering entering our annual competition to win funding for your creative project. In this workshop, you’ll explore how to move from a spark of an idea (“your why”) to building a business model that works in practice. We’ll introduce the triple test of desirability, viability, and feasibility to help you understand what makes an idea valuable to customers, sustainable in the market, and achievable with the resources you have. Through guided activities and discussion, you’ll learn how to connect purpose with practical planning, giving you tools to shape your business concept with clarity and confidence. Your journey starts here!

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Speakers

• Mirela Barbosa, LCF Graduate Futures Enterprise Consultant: Mirela Barbosa is a mentor and consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the fashion and beauty industries. Her work combines research, strategy, and cultural aspects to help develop meaningful brands. She is also the founder of Project M, an emotional branding consultancy aimed at startups and mid-sized companies, launched after completing her MA in Fashion Entrepreneurship and Innovation at LCF.
• Frances Odell, Head of Graduate Futures Consultants: Frances is a results-oriented accredited chartered Business Consultant with over 35 years of professional experience working with large corporates, SMEs and start - up businesses in the Fashion Industry. She is an accredited Business Coach and Senior Fellow. Her focus has been applying both her product and service development expertise along with strategic market analysis and positioning, supporting companies spot business enhancement opportunities.

Useful resources

In this webinar, you will develop the key skills of enterprise as defined by the UAL Creative Attributes Framework (My_CAF). Before attending this activity, we suggest you check out our:

• Enterprise Padlet

If there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have access requirements you wish to discuss, please contact graduate.futures@fashion.arts.ac.uk in advance, we'd be happy to talk with you. If you can't sign-up as the tickets have run out or expired, please email and see if you are still able to attend.

Image credit: LCF Graduate Futures imagery. Illustration by Danya Vassanth