MSc in Luxury Fashion Marketing
Manchester, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
GBP 18,500 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* full-time fee for EU and Non-EU international students
Introduction
The MSc Luxury Fashion Management course is designed to advance practical and theoretical skills including creativity, innovation, and management.
You will learn how exclusive luxury organizations succeed through exceptional business acumen, creativity, and innovation. Luxury businesses are central to the industry and a barometer of international trends, embracing sustainability, diversity, and change. Luxury fashion is embedded in historical and cultural contexts but characterized by contemporary issues including evolving customer demands, digital technology, style, and image. The program develops awareness of the cultural codes of the luxury fashion industry through deeply understanding a brand's DNA, heritage, craftsmanship, services, and clientele.
Teaching from educators and industry partners through workshops, events, collaborations, and company visits will provide a holistic overview of this innovative and exciting sector. As a student of the MSc Luxury Fashion Management, you will enhance existing knowledge and develop creative, managerial, and professional skills to achieve the highest recognized postgraduate award. Career development and support are an integral part of the course, preparing you for a career in fashion or other luxury sectors.
With a strong emphasis on employability and social responsibility, this course will equip graduates with the key skills required to help evolve the fashion system to become more ethically conscious, socially progressive, and environmentally sustainable.
Features and Benefits
- Flexibility - Select from a range of specialist option units in Term 2, including entrepreneurship, product development, and industrial experience, to tailor your studies to your interests and career aspirations
- Fashion Community - An international and culturally diverse city, Manchester hosts global brands in addition to a flourishing independent fashion economy and creative industries
- Expertise - Our staff are researchers and industry specialists, covering the breadth of the fashion world from design, supply chain, and production to marketing, merchandising, and management
- The Future of Fashion - Students will be equipped with the essential knowledge and key skills needed to help evolve the fashion industry to become more environmentally sustainable, socially progressive, and ethically conscious
- Industry Links - We are connected with over 400 industrial partners, from Fred Perry and Lacoste to Alexander McQueen and the British Fashion Council, ensuring our programs are shaped to meet the needs of an ever-changing sector through live projects, external visits, and networking opportunities.
Admissions
Curriculum
Course Information
The MSc Luxury Fashion Management is one course in a suite of exciting new business programs within Manchester Fashion Institute, including MSc Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management, MSc International Fashion Business Management, and MSc International Fashion Marketing.
The Luxury Fashion Management postgraduate program offers an exciting learning space for aspiring individuals seeking to make a difference in international luxury fashion. Luxury fashion brands are increasingly responding to consumer demands for sustainable fashion by embedding sustainability at the heart of their business and leading the way for other brands. An increasing worldwide desire for luxury makes this an important area to study.
Manchester Fashion Institute has an established and extensive global network of industry partners and a highly successful placement program, which enables staff to keep abreast of new and emerging technologies and respond to the evolving needs of the industry. Feedback through frequent dialogue with international guest speakers and worldwide industry partners informs curriculum change and development and enhances the employability of the Institute’s students, maintaining a strong reputation for industry-ready postgraduates. The interdisciplinary learning environment enables students to pursue collaborations, live projects, and publishing opportunities. Tutors in the program are high-profile academic staff with extensive business and research backgrounds. The luxury program is supported by world-renowned, extensive, high-quality practical and academic facilities within Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Postgraduates from the program will be equipped to work within the resilient evolving luxury sector: Marketing and Communications, Strategic Innovation, Customer Excellence, Brand and Heritage Management, Exclusivity, Personal Styling, Trend Influencing and Forecasting, Quality, and Craft, Implementing Sustainability, Retailing and Marketing.
Years 1
Core Units
- The Business of Luxury
- Brands and Consumer Culture
- Fashion Enquiry
- Marketing Luxury Products
- Masters Project
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Live projects, external visits, and networking opportunities will enhance the employability, confidence, and earning potential of our graduates. The focus of the curriculum will support a range of luxury fashion career aspirations with skills in creativity, complex problem solving, reasoning, and ideation to be ready for the current and future demands of jobs.
Program delivery
- Full-time 25% lectures, seminars or similar; 0% placement; 75% independent study