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Programme taught in English at the Sophia Antipolis and Suzhou (China), Raleigh (USA) campuses (September intakes).
This MSc is a full-time course taught over a twelve-month period. There are eight months of taught courses, followed by four to six months for the dissertation and internship.
Career opportunities
The professional orientation of the MSc Luxury & Fashion management guarantees its relevance and ensures that students are professionally operational by the end of the year.
The MSc Luxury and Fashion Management opens opportunities to pursue careers in a wide range of fashion and luxury fields. Whilst having a strong disciplinary base in international luxury brand management, its range is such that graduates will be able to work with specialists in other areas, getting involved in creative, marketing or finance positions. Graduates can go on to work in top level management, designing, sourcing, merchandising, budgeting, advertising, global luxury or fashion brand management as well as strategy.
Graduates of this MSc have the education and training to work in a variety of organisations including: commercial and marketing firms, consultancy and research, corporate luxury or fashion institutions.
Graduates take on roles that are essentially strategic, analytical, marketing and planning.
Recent graduates have been recruited around the globe into a wide range of fields by leading fashion or luxury institutions and multinational corporations such as DHV, Rodriguez, Dassault, LVMH, Baume & Mercier, Hermes, Jitrois, Caudalie, BETC Design, Gucci Group….
Programme Outline
The Luxury and Fashion Management MSc is international in its orientation, reflecting the industry itself: international manufacturing and distribution, cross-border ownership, and global branding and communications.
This MSc recognises that design, trend-recognition and marketing skills –rather than production/manufacturing skills– are what make today’s luxury and fashion firms successful. These skills are the skills related to new product development, marketing, strategic brand management and communications delivery.
Motivated students are educated in an individualised academic environment for success in the fast-moving world of fashion and luxury. These skills are taught within a global macro-economic and financial environment along with market-oriented courses.
The programme’s objective is to enable students to achieve their career ambitions by: giving students regular access to experienced fashion and luxury specialists who have both strong academic skills and practical in-company experience; improving and expanding participating students’ career prospects by providing them with training in fashion and luxury management as well as understanding the issues in international trends and working across cultures; for those who may be working or studying outside the field of art, fashion and luxury, this programme will provide the opportunity for a change in career direction.
Why Choose This Programme?
Professors have both strong academic backgrounds and relevant expert professional experience in luxury and fashion. This mix of the academic and the professional provides students with: an insider’s perspective of the constantly developing world of luxury and fashion; how these developments play out over time; and the savoir-faire to survive in the tough professional environment of luxury and fashion.
The programme draws on the advantages of its locations: on the south coast of France, with its long history in fashion and luxury; in the rapidly developing Shanghai area.
Local, national and international practising professionals are called on to meet and teach students on the programme, so students start to build their professional network before graduation.
Classes are complemented by various presentations and seminars given by full time, leading professionals.
These practising professionals also act as consultants on the programme’s curriculum; their input means changes are made continuously to the course of study to ensure relevance to shifting international fashion and luxury markets.
The teaching emphasises an applied, problem-solving approach that means graduates can work productively from the first day on the job, ensuring graduates’ future career mobility.
The obligatory internship period is the culmination of this applied teaching method: in many cases this internship period leads straight to a contract with that same company.
Small classes with a high international ratio mean students build fruitful inter-cultural relationships with one another and with their teachers; and students get the regular feedback that is so vital for effective learning.
In-company projects and assignments
- The use of celebrity endorsement in the luxury industry.
- Asymmetry in multicultural luxury communication.
- A comparative analysis of luxury brand communication in India and China.
- Profitability of fashion shows.
- The role and the place of children in advertising.
- Richard Mille: From fantasy to legitimacy.
Partner companies
BETC Design, Dassault, Baume & Mercier, RSW, Jitrois, Gucci, Neemrana Hotels, Global Luxuria, Jaypee Group…
Dr. Ivan Coste-Manière is programme director of the Luxury & Fashion Management MSc at SKEMA Business School. His specialties are Marketing, Communication and International Luxury Goods Management.
He works as a consultant for several well-known luxury brands. As a board member of MPM Partners Bank, he is in charge of trend-spotting. He has managed the R&D of several multinational groups, and founded several companies in cosmetics and perfumes, luxury goods, PR and Events, and pharmaceuticals. He has been section member of the French Economic and Social Council, and deputy mayor for the city of Grasse for ten years. He is now president, with Prince Albert II of Monaco, of the Track and Field Association: Celebrities for Sports and Charities.
He has a PhD in Chemistry, is an Engineer of the Ecole Centrale Marseille and has been awarded the Paul Harris Fellow (Rotary International) Silver Medal (Ministry of Youth and Sports) and Chevalier des Palmes Académiques, from the Ministry of Research and Education.