Graduate Diploma Fashion Management

Tim Williams is course leader on the Graduate Diploma Fashion Management.

Tim worked for fashion companies such as Sir Hardy Amies, River Island, Conran Design group, and Debenhams, specialising in fashion design and offshore manufacturing. He later started his own designer manufacturing company making high fashion ladies’ lingerie for Luella Bartley and worked with Joe Corre in the early days of Agent Provocateur. He later had a concession in Selfridges and sold to Le Bon Marche in Paris. Tim has been working for the Fashion Business School for eleven years, teaching across a wide variety of fashion business courses and supervising final year dissertations.

Negroes Dube has worked for LCF for 12 years. He is an internationally experienced Chartered Marketer who is has worked extensively in Africa and the UK He has consultancy experience on Chinese trade in Africa and on SME start-ups. Negroes holds an MBA and a PGCE, and a Professional Diploma in Marketing as well as postgraduate qualifications in business research methods. He has studied postal research in Japan and speaks several languages, including Japanese. He is Chair of the Diaspora for African Development. Negroes’ research interests are branding strategy and brand management.

Frances Ross has extensive creative industry experience as a design manager, art buyer and stylist. Her more recent experience in Higher Education has included the role of Program Director for Fashion Management in the Graduate School of London College of Fashion and Course Leader on MA Fashion Design Management. Frances has given many International keynote speeches and written/presented conference papers on the Fashion Industry in the USA, Australia, China and Europe. She is an active researcher with many academic publications. Her speciality is research methods and dissertation supervision on this course.

Helen Hindley is a lecturer in Fashion Buying & Merchandising and strategic supply chain management. In her 20 year career she has worked for a number of retailers, House of Fraser, Nike, Debenhams and Disney, across, menswear, womenswear and accessories. For over 8 years she also had the opportunity to own her own SME, a lifestyle boutique on the Isle of Wight. She has extensive experience of planning, trading, supply chain management from a buying and merchandising perspective. She has been heavily involved in change management within businesses to effectively prepare for strategic redirection.

Ronit Zilkha studied fashion design in London, after which she launched her eponymous collection. Her unique designs have been worn by members of the Royal family, celebrities, stars and fashion editors the world over. Ronit showcased at London Fashion Week between 1990 and 2007 under her label where she achieved international recognition and success. With 25 years of experience, Ronit Zilkha acts as a freelance fashion consultant to various companies creating exciting new concepts

Milly Patrzalek After Graduating from LCF Milly went onto work for Katherine Hamnett and Vivienne Westwood. She then went onto work for Hussein Chalayan for 17 years as General Managerand Director of Special Projects.As well as teaching on this course she is presently working as an industry consultant. Milly's specialism is developing a collection from concept to consumer, knowing the practical challenges of complex luxury supply chains.

Ayshen Ali is an early graduate of the London College of Fashion BA (Hons) Fashion Management course. After which, she went on to work in buying, within companies such as Burberry, Harrods and ASOS. She worked on Selecting ranges for the customers and dealing with many luxury brands such as Ralph Lauren, Missoni, D&G, Paul Smith and Moschino, to name a few. She completed the PGCE 2013 and has recently completed her MA Creative Arts Education, with a research focus on graduate employability.

Emma Baxter Wright studied fashion at St Martins School of Art, and later History of Art at Bristol University. Emma worked as a fashion editor and freelance stylist for teenage publications ‘Looks’ and ‘Just Seventeen’, Emma has also contributed to many other publications including Cosmopolitan, The Face, Marie Claire, The Lady and the New York Observer. More recently she has written two books on the iconic British photographer Duffy, as well as Little Book histories on fashion rivals Schiaparelli and Chanel. Emma works on the Communications unit on this course as well as delivering specialist lectures in fashion visual culture.