Fashion Entrepreneur Bootcamp Series
About Fashion Entrepreneur Bootcamp Series
This bootcamp series of 3 courses is an intensive two-week program per bootcamp that enables participants to develop a sound business strategy and plan at speed. Uniquely positioned to startup founders, entrepreneurs, fashion professionals looking to start an idea within a corporation or alone, or for anyone thinking about launching a project related to the field of fashion innovation. Innovation, whether it be technology, services, or a product, requires careful planning to get it off the ground, and in most cases enough capital to get it off the ground from an R&D phase to commercial ready.
Participants in bootcamps are immersed into an intense and immersive learning environment that focuses on a specific topic. The idea is to dive deep into a subject to achieve a desired outcome. This bootcamp is designed to help participants learn a specific skill set as quickly as possible in addition to achieving tangible results by the end (e.g. a financial plan), which is possible through a variety of formats including academic theory, hands-on practical application, professional networking, and career coaching.
Participants will leave with having upgraded their professional skill set, vocabulary, and understanding on how to launch fashion innovations. Each bootcamp focuses a specific deliverable as follows:
Bootcamp 1: Financing & Fundraising for Fashion Innovation
Bootcamp 2: Pitching Fashion Innovations: Sales, Marketing & Investments
Bootcamp 3: Designing Innovation Project Pilots with Fashion Brands
This Bootcamp is broken down into three courses:
Bootcamp 1
Financing & Fundraising for Fashion Innovation
Bootcamp 2
Pitching Fashion Innovations: Sales, Marketing & Investment
Bootcamp 3
Designing Innovation Pilot Projects with Fashion Brand
Financing & Fundraising for Fashion Innovation
This financing and fundraising for innovation bootcamp is an intensive two-week program that enables participants to develop a financial business strategy at speed. Uniquely positioned to startup founders, entrepreneurs, fashion professionals looking to start an idea within a corporate or alone, or for anyone thinking about launching a project related to the field of fashion innovation. Innovation, whether it be technology, services, or a product, requires careful planning to get it off the ground, and in most cases enough capital to get it off the ground from an R&D phase to commercial ready.
Participants in bootcamps are immersed into an intense and immersive learning environment that focuses on a specific topic. The idea is to dive deep into a subject to achieve a desired outcome. This bootcamp is designed to help participants learn a specific skill set as quickly as possible, which is possible through a variety of formats including academic theory, hands-on practical application, professional networking, and career coaching.
Bootcamp 1
This bootcamp explores the various ways to finance and fundraise for an innovative project, such as venture capital investment, to bootstrapping with a self-sufficient financial model. Participants will leave with having upgraded their professional skill set, vocabulary, and understanding on how to finance fashion innovations. In addition, you’ll leave with a complete financial plan and model, strategy, and the necessary tools to finance a fashion innovation project.
This bootcamp is part of series designed to upskill professionals at intense speed. It is recommended that this bootcamp is taken in conjunction with the Bootcamp 2: Pitching Fashion Innovations: Sales, Marketing & Investments.
What you’ll learn:
In-depth knowledge on how to develop a financial model for a business project.
How to develop a credible fundraising strategy and the necessary skills to execute it.
Professional skillsets so that you are confident with defined action plans, presenting to external third parties, and articulating fashion ideas within the context of finance.
What you’ll leave with:
Walk away with a credible and feasible financial model (developed in a spreadsheet) for a specific business idea related to an innovation.
Walk away with a fundraising strategy and an acute understanding of how to approach executing it.
The necessary skills and confidence to approach fundraising and pitch the associated financial elements.
Week 01
Bootcamp 1 Structure:
Strategy & Planning
The first week of the bootcamp will challenge you in thinking about how fashion innovations are financed to get them onto the market. Taking all the assumptions that you have about the business model of your idea, this section of the bootcamp is designed to help you gather your thoughts, filter the best parts of your business plan, and create the beginnings of a feasible and realistic financial plan and model. You’ll explore which funding routes best suit your project needs (hint: it’s not always about trying to find professional investors), what the fundraising strategy looks like, and the necessary financial elements and KPI’s you’ll need to prove before even thinking about approaching third parties for money. As an intense bootcamp, you’ll be expected to produce a financial plan draft ready for pitching and testing in week 2.
Week 02
Bootcamp 1 Structure:
Testing, Pitching & Refining
What are the drivers that are going to affect the financial feasibility and stability of your project? Week 2 is all about articulating and testing your financial plan, learning how to approach a variety of financiers from love money to VCs, and beyond. You’ll challenge each other within the bootcamp, as well as from guest speakers, this rigorous feedback from different perspectives will enable you to refine your plan and strategy, forcing you to think whether your fashion innovation is financially feasible. Telling the financial story in a simple, yet compelling way, will be key in the wider context of pitching your idea to outside stakeholders (Bootcamp 2: Pitching Fashion Innovations: Sales, Marketing & Investments). The bootcamp culminates in understanding how to negotiate, prepare data rooms, and read commercial terms for a successful deal.
Pitching Fashion Innovations: Sales, Marketing & Investment
This ‘pitching fashion innovations: sales, marketing, and investments’ bootcamp is an intensive two-week program designed to bring participants up to speed with the necessary skills, knowledge, and tools to pitch their innovation ideas/projects and startup businesses to convince external parties to buy into them. This could be to a potential client, an interested investor, or the wider public. Getting the attention of a third-party is hard, and getting them to listen, engage, and convert into a buyer is even harder. This bootcamp will take you through the entire process from creating the first initial outreach campaigns to closing the deal.
Participants in bootcamps are immersed into an intense and immersive learning environment that focuses on a specific topic. The idea is to dive deep into a subject to achieve a desired outcome. This bootcamp is designed to help participants learn a specific skill set as quickly as possible, which is possible through a variety of formats including academic theory, hands-on practical application, professional networking, and career coaching.
Bootcamp 2
This bootcamp explores the various ways to deliver oral and written pitches for a fashion innovation, including developing and writing pitch decks, elevator pitches, and formal presentations. Participants will leave with having upgraded their professional skillset, vocabulary, and understanding on how to pitch their fashion innovations.
It is recommended that this bootcamp is taken in conjunction with bootcamps 1 and 3 ‘Financing and Fundraising for Fashion Innovation’ and ‘Designing Innovation Project Pilots with Fashion Brands’.
What you’ll learn:
In-depth knowledge on how to develop a financial model for a business project.
How to develop a credible fundraising strategy and the necessary skills to execute it.
Professional skillsets so that you are confident with defined action plans, presenting to external third parties, and articulating fashion ideas within the context of finance.
What you’ll leave with:
Walk away with a credible and feasible financial model (developed in a spreadsheet) for a specific business idea related to an innovation.
Walk away with a fundraising strategy and an acute understanding of how to approach executing it.
The necessary skills and confidence to approach fundraising and pitch the associated financial elements.
Week 01
Bootcamp 2 Structure:
Strategy & Planning
The first week of the bootcamp will challenge you in thinking about how fashion innovations are financed to get them onto the market. Taking all the assumptions that you have about the business model of your idea, this section of the bootcamp is designed to help you gather your thoughts, filter the best parts of your business plan, and create the beginnings of a feasible and realistic financial plan and model. You’ll explore which funding routes best suit your project needs (hint: it’s not always about trying to find professional investors), what the fundraising strategy looks like, and the necessary financial elements and KPI’s you’ll need to prove before even thinking about approaching third parties for money. As an intense bootcamp, you’ll be expected to produce a financial plan draft ready for pitching and testing in week 2.
Week 02
Bootcamp 2 Structure:
Testing, Pitching & Refining
What are the drivers that are going to affect the financial feasibility and stability of your project? Week 2 is all about articulating and testing your financial plan, learning how to approach a variety of financiers from love money to VCs, and beyond. You’ll challenge each other within the bootcamp, as well as from guest speakers, this rigorous feedback from different perspectives will enable you to refine your plan and strategy, forcing you to think whether your fashion innovation is financially feasible. Telling the financial story in a simple, yet compelling way, will be key in the wider context of pitching your idea to outside stakeholders (Bootcamp 2: Pitching Fashion Innovations: Sales, Marketing & Investments). The bootcamp culminates in understanding how to negotiate, prepare data rooms, and read commercial terms for a successful deal.
Designing Innovation Pilot Projects with Fashion Brands
This ‘designing innovation pilot projects with fashion brands’ bootcamp is an intensive two-week program designed to bring participants up to speed with the necessary skills, knowledge, and tools to design, develop, and execute innovation projects (e.g. technology or service with a new business model) with fashion brands. Pilot projects are the first entry door into working with a third-party business, which tests a new working relationship between the innovation supplier and the brand. However, it can be difficult to win and execute a pilot project and therefore it is extremely important to design a well-thought-out pilot plan proposal. This bootcamp will take you through how to design a pilot proposal, determine and evaluate the goals, performance indicators, and risks that a fashion brand may consider, and the strategies to convince the key stakeholders to say ‘yes!’ to your project.
Bootcamp 3
Participants in bootcamps are immersed into an intense and immersive learning environment that focuses on a specific topic. The idea is to dive deep into a subject to achieve a desired outcome. This bootcamp is designed to help participants learn a specific skill set as quickly as possible, which is possible through a variety of formats including academic theory, hands-on practical application, professional networking, and career coaching.
This bootcamp is a hands-on, executional style program that is designed to provide participants with concrete materials to walk away with such as project roadmaps, user research activities, and KPI reports that are relevant to your fashion innovation.
It's recommended that this bootcamp is taken in conjunction with bootcamps 1 and s ‘Financing and Fundraising for Fashion Innovation’ and ‘Pitching Fashion Innovations: Sales, Marketing & Investments’.
What you’ll learn:
In-depth knowledge on how to develop a financial model for a business project.
Understand how to guide and manage a pilot project with a fashion brand.
How to develop proposal materials including project/product management documents, KPI reporting, integration strategies, budgets.
What you’ll leave with:
Credible and feasible pilot project materials for a specific business idea related to an innovation. E.g. pilot project presentation.
Pilot project strategy and an acute understanding of how to approach selling and executing it.
The necessary skills to approach pitching, negotiations, and business relationship development for a successful pilot project.
Week 01
Bootcamp 3 Structure:
Defining the pilot project brief
You’ve secured a project partner, that’s great, but what exactly have you both agreed to pilot and are your project objectives aligned? This intensive bootcamp is designed to help you bring your innovation to life within a fashion brand. You’ve successfully pitched to them and secured the necessary funding (bootcamps 1 and 2), but quite often fashion brands do not place innovation at the forefront of their business operations. This first week will help you identify and convince the right internal stakeholders, the mechanics of developing and pitching a pilot project, and understanding which partner should be responsible for which KPI. As this is an intense bootcamp, you’ll be given a fashion brand to work with in which you will develop a mock pilot project ready for pitching in week 2.
Week 02
Bootcamp 3 Structure:
Pilot execution success
Getting sign off and alignment from the key decision makers will be imperative for a successful pilot. In week 2 you will pitch your pilot proposal to fellow bootcamp participants and external visitors to gain feedback to refine your strategy and documentation. You’ll think about project roadmaps including technical milestones, budgets, user/customer testing and feedback techniques, reporting, and more that will be vital for project operational success. Speaking the same language as the fashion professionals within an organisation can be an art, especially if you do not come from a fashion background, thus developing a vocabulary through this bootcamp will place you in a good place. You’ll leave the bootcamp with a whole arsenal of tools, techniques and documentation that can be replicated for future pilot projects.
Bootcamp Requirements
An existing business idea that focuses on an innovation (e.g. a technology or next-generation material) that has already gone through the initial ideation and research phase. Ideally you will have a working prototype to present during day 1 of the bootcamp. For idea stage concepts, you may be interested in our Startup Program.
A relevant undergraduate or postgraduate degree. Note that this bootcamp is a professional training session and some prior experience is required. This short course is for intermediate and above participants. It is advised that participants to have had some professional experience in a business-related field or within a startup
Recommended level of English is IELTS 5.5 (to fully understand and follow the course). The IELTS certificate is not required, but we just want to be certain that you will be able to comprehend the course.
Min. 21 years old
Course Schelude 2025
Indonesia
Paris
Session 1 : January Until March 2025
Session 2 : July Until September 2025
Session 1 : June 2025
Session 2 : November 2025
Admission
18 years old minimum
Senior high school / College graduate
IELTS 5.5 or TOEFL IBT 65 or equivalence or proof of study in English for non-native English speakers.
Strong motivation in fashion
Documents to provide (in English or translated to English by a certified translator):
Fill in the application form
Presentation of business idea
Video of 2-minute pitch explaining the business concept
Latest senior high school / college transcript
Copy of senior high school / college diploma or its equivalence
Motivation letter
CV/Resume
Passport photo
Copy of passport
Documents to provide
(in English or translated to English by a certified translator)
Fill in the online application form
CV/Resume
Copy of passport
Passport photo
Motivation Letter
Latest high school transcript
Copy of High school diploma or its equivalence
