Fashion Marketing MA

Introduction:

• Gain a globally recognised academic qualification in conjunction with personal and professional development for employability and entrepreneurship.
• Go on study trips to international fashion capitals like Paris, Copenhagen, Antwerp and New York.
• Attend workshops to enhance your research skills, acquire relevant software skills like Adobe InDesign, and gain support for your personal career planning. You will also benefit from industry speakers such as senior marketing executives from leading fashion brands.
• Select from a range of possible outputs to reflect your individual career aspirations or to support a business start-up.

Careers and employability

This course will prepare you for senior management roles across the fashion industry, in areas such as:

• fashion marketing management
• fashion brand management
• consumer and market intelligence
• retail management
• fashion buying
• marketing consultancy
• marketing ethics and sustainability
• public relations
• fashion journalism
• entrepreneurial business concepts

The skills and knowledge you'll learn through this course will be transferable to roles within other industries.

Connections with industry

You’ll have the opportunity to undertake self-negotiated placements or internships, learn entrepreneurship skills through NTU Enterprise - our centre for entrepreneurship and enterprise and attend events held by industry experts and organisations.

We’ll help you to develop your skills in self-promotion, team-working, presenting and communication. You’ll also have the opportunity to undertake case studies, which will help your understanding of how businesses work.

You’ll be encouraged to attend and be involved in conferences and symposia to share your work. Recently, this has included the IFFTI (International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes) to deliver papers and performances relating to fashion theory and practice.

You’ll have the opportunity to showcase your work at the end of the course.

Showcase

Explore our showcase ‘We Are Creatives’ - celebrating the work of the Nottingham School of Art & Design students. You will find a sneak peak of some of our students’ work and gain a real insight into what it’s like to be part of the NTU creative community at wearecreativesntu.art

Study trips

Study visits will inspire and inform your projects. Recent visits to exhibitions in London have included:

• Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion at the Victoria & Albert Museum
• The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier at the Barbican
• ARTIST TEXTILES Picasso to Warhol at the Fashion and Textile Museum

An optional annual trip to Antwerp and Paris has included:

• Paris Première Vision, (incorporating Indigo and Yarntex), matériO
• Li Edelkoort’s Trend Union studio, Paris
• a walking tour of the luxury fashion district of Paris
• hidden fashion retail treasures of Antwerp
• Olivier Theyskens at the Fashion Institute of Technology Antwerp

YouFirst – working with our Employability Team

Our friendly, experienced careers consultants will work closely with you at every stage of your career planning, providing personal support and advice you won't find in a book or on the internet. You can benefit from this at any time during your studies and up to three years after completing your course.

Re:search Re:imagined

To us, research is about more than writing papers and proposing new ideas. By daring to think differently, we’re disrupting the research landscape and finding the answers to the questions that really matter. From electronic textiles to the history of lace, we’re inspiring the brightest minds to rise up and find solutions to some of the most significant global challenges facing society.

Find out more: ntu.ac.uk/research

What our students are doing now