Week 2: What is the creative industries?

We started the lecture with a review of past week session and shared ours founding on a clear definition of what really is the creative industry;

The creative industries are defined by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) as:

"...those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent which have a potential for job and wealth creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property" ('Creative Industries Mapping Document', DCMS, 2001).

The standard definition of the creative industries used by the DCMS includes 13 industries:

advertising
architecture
art and antiques
computer games
crafts
design
designer fashion
film and video
music
performing arts
publishing
software
TV and radio.

http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=11136366

UK Fashion Industry

Spotlight on UK Fashion

This short film spotlights the UK Fashion Industry and captures its unique spirit and energy. Featuring London Fashion Week, it reveals the UK as an influential fashion hub and the UK Fashion sector as a translator of trend setting British creativity into a dynamic global industry.

As a group we have discussed the video above all quite surprised of the impact and the place takeen by fashion in the creative industries but also the economy.