Nicole Dunlop Programme Director Product and Innovation
Nicole's career began with a degree in clothing and management at Manchester University where she was sponsored by Marks & Spencer, this also included a short spell in Paris at the Sorbonne. She started her career with Jaeger, as a member of their buying team, and eventually moved on to become the sourcing manager for Adams. Having gained a qualification for marketing with the CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) Nicole moved on to manage various consultancy projects with various retailers throughout Europe including Etam, Graduate Fashion Week, Harrods, Karstadt, La Rinascente, London Fashion Week, Matalan, Tencel, and Wrangler. She ultimately became head of marketing for the Hunter family of brands (best known for their iconic green welly), transforming it from the historic workwear brand into the fashion icon that it is today. Nicole gained a distinction in her Post Graduate Teaching degree and has extensive experience teaching at degree and masters level at several London business Universities, and CIM.
Helen has been an associate lecturer at UAL for over 18 years. She has and has teaching experience in Higher Education, on the BA Buying & Merchandising, BA Fashion Management and The Graduate Diploma in Fashion Management as well as developing and delivering LCF short courses and masterclasses for industry professionals. She began her fashion career with House of Fraser. From buying assistant to head of Merchandising across numerous categories, Menswear, Womenswear, childrenswear and home. She has extensive experience in merchandising, brand management, strategy, and supply chain. Helen also had the opportunity own her own SME, a lifestyle concept store. This was an insightful experience and a huge benefit when supporting students in the final year with their Final major projects. Visit Helen's LinkedIn profile.
Ginny Hutt Senior lecturer
Ginny Hutt is a Senior Lecturer and teaches on both the undergraduate and postgraduate Fashion Buying and Merchandising courses. Ginny started teaching at UAL 3 years ago, after a 30-year career in buying. She is a direct sourcing specialist and has extensive experience working for UK and international brands such as Arcadia, BHS, F&F at Tesco and Ralph Lauren where she was Senior Buying Director. Ginny loves product and has covered most garment types during her career, working across Menswear, Womenswear, Childrenswear, Sportswear and Footwear. Ginny loves to share her experience and knowledge with students. As part of the UAL Knowledge Exchange Programme, Ginny works closely with industry on student projects. She is also the DiPS placement year leader for the undergraduate B&M course and works with students to support them with their placements. Earlier this year Ginny completed her PGCert in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication here at UAL, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority.
Stephanie Liberman Senior lecturer
Stephanie is a Senior Lecturer teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Fashion Business School. Following a 22-year buying career she moved into teaching with the aim of inspiring the next generation. Product specialty areas include buying lingerie, swimwear, knitwear and stationery and working for multi-channel retailers Debenhams, Very.co.uk, Sainsburys and Paperchase. She has also run her own lingerie boutique. Having started teaching and developing short courses for Artscom, she then became course leader for the BA (hons) Fashion Marketing at Regent’s University London before re-joining LCF in the Fashion Business School. At LCF she has taught across all levels from year 1 to Postgraduate and supported final year students with their final major projects. Developing links with industry for live projects is key to her teaching and enhancing the curriculum content. Her research interests are about blended learning for creative subjects and digital pedagogy. Stephanie is currently studying a Masters in Academic Practice and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Rob Chadband Associate lecturer
Rob is an associate lecturer and started teaching at UAL after a 25-year career in merchandising. He has extensive experience across UK high street and franchise merchandising, supply chain management, project management, retail technology implementation, process optimisation and standardisation, change management, training and mentoring, strategy planning, data analysis, stakeholder management and governance. Rob is passionate about retail with a knowledge of fashion and home products. He enjoys working with students, sharing his knowledge with the support of a wide network of contacts and insight from running his own business.
Eddie Knevett Associate lecturer
Eddie is an associate lecturer teaching who started teaching at UAL after 25 year career in Luxury and Premium buying starting in Harrods to eventually become the Head of Buying for Fashion Accessories at House of Fraser. Experienced in creating destination retail concepts for example strategically taking House of Fraser accessories from a high street own label offer to one of the largest premium and luxury offers within the UK he successfully worked with all the major luxury and premium fashion houses. Eddie also had his own successful premium Handbag brand, Village England, for 5 years after leaving House of Fraser. As well as teaching Eddie works with various international fashion brands and retailers on a consultancy basis.
Deborah Britz
Deborah has worked extensively across the fashion industry and studied Fashion Management at LCF in the 1980’s. Latterly she is working as a Fashion Show Producer and Lecturer at CSM and then LCF.
Initially Deborah worked as a hairdresser, designer, retailer, fashion PR, in international fashion recruitment, as an art dealer, in fashion forecasting and throughout this as a fashion show and events producer.
At various times, her experience has encompassed business, events, marketing, promotions, photography and video production, and market research. Work has enabled her to travel abroad producing events on behalf of the British Embassies and British Council.
