Luxury Fashion Brand Management MA

Introduction:

• Gain a globally recognised academic qualification, in conjunction with personal and professional development for employability and entrepreneurship.
• Attend study trips to international fashion capitals such as Paris, Copenhagen, Antwerp and New York.
• Select from a range of possible outputs to reflect your personal career aspirations, or to support a business start-up in the luxury sector. This course will also prepare you for further postgraduate study such as PhD.
• Benefit from industry speakers, such as senior executives and consultants working for leading luxury fashion brands.

Careers and employability

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

• luxury brand management
• fashion management
• product development
• brand management
• marketing roles
• buying for the luxury sector
• retail management
• fashion consultancy
• sourcing and supply chain management
• ethics and sustainability in the luxury fashion industry
• fashion communications and PR
• fashion journalism

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 get 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 will have the opportunity to have your work selected for a Fashion Management, Marketing and Communication exhibition, held at the end of the course.

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.

Showcase

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