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Fashion Management Department

Fashion companies are constantly looking for people capable to match creativity and management: a new generation of managers, suited to the specific requirements of Fashion.
Domus Academy, thanks to its long lasting experience in Fashion education, has taken this challenge and has developed a unique approach to work out and strengthen the peculiar managerial competences necessary to work within the Fashion world.

The Master in Fashion Management aims at shaping and developing the competences of managers capable to understand and play the rules of Fashion. The Programme follows a cross-field and multicultural approach, matching management and fashion styling, linking knowledge of the product to sensitivity to fashion.

The Master represents a gateway to enter the Fashion world. It aims at creating different profiles among the several areas of Fashion, as product and brand management, distribution and communication.

The Master in Fashion Management will provide participants with a strong, robust basis of fundamental managerial tools and with the necessary conceptual framework to understand and follow modern fashion languages and trends. Participants will also have the possibility to gain direct experience developing projects on specific topics chosen among the hottest issues in Fashion, and they will have the chance to work together with the most outstanding professionals and the most prestigious fashion brands. A series of meetings with companies’ executives and visits to fashion companies will be a key element of the programme.

Program

Beginning: January 2012
Duration: 12 months

The Master in Management Design lasts from January to December.

The Master in Fashion Management will consists of three main phases:

 

The first phase of the course aims at providing the fundamental competences and tools to approach the world of Fashion companies and organisations, through basic lectures exploring relevant Fashion and Management topics, together with case studies of Italian and International brands.

 

The second phase foresees of a series of workshops during which Domus Academy will make available its extensive network of relationships with companies to allow participants to get involved in a real project. The workshops will address the main areas of the Fashion world- product management, brands, buyer, retail, communication and events. During the workshops, participants will have the chance to test their own capabilities in tackling strategic, marketing, production and organisational issues.  The workshops are characterized by a series of lectures, providing state-of-art knowledge relevant to the issues dealt during the workshops,  and by the direct involvement of professionals and companies.

 

The third and last phase is dedicated to the development of the final Master Thesis. Students will work individually on a specific theme assigned by the Director of the Master with the supervision of a project leader.  Projects may address one of the several topics relevant to the International Fashion system, and might consider a combination of techniques and forms, as desk research, industry and demand trends analysis, economic and market feasibility, preparation of business and development plans.

Careers

The objective of the Master in Fashion Management is to train professionals capable to blend their creative sensibility with managerial skills. Students attending the course will have the possibility to occupy positions as Product Manager, Merchandising Manager, Brand Manager, Store Manager, Retail Manager, Communication Manager, Fashion Buyer.

Application

The Master course in Fashion Management addresses newly graduates with a flair for fashion and interested in developing new skills to tart a career in a Fashion company. In particular, the course is suggested to people, over 25 years of age, coming from economics, human science and fashion-related or company-related faculties, to be trained through a multidisciplinary and open approach addressing the business world in a Fashion field.

 

There is limited number of places on the course and participants will be selected on the basis of the documentation requested for admission.
Good knowledge of the English language is also required.
 

Tuition fee: 18.500 euro + 20% VAT.