Introduction
The Master’s Degree in Fashion Management is focused on the specific characteristics of the fashion industry, which supposes a multidisciplinary approach to the reality of the modern companies, in that unification of creativity, marketing, and fashion communication, technology and innovation, and very importantly: fashion management.
The fashion industry is characterized by the complex management of production flows and the increasingly accelerated process times, added to the need of giving an immediate response to the market through control management, logistics, and operations.
Nowadays, the products cannot go by without the latest trends: at every stage, the product faces the new challenges of a global market and a globalized world. But also, the tools to stay competitive keep evolving.
Key facts
Diploma: Master in Management of the Fashion and Design Industry. URL-specific master’s degree.
Duration: 1 academic year.
Credits: 60 ETCS.
Call: April 2021 (English). October 2021 (Spanish).
Modality: Online (April 2021). Face-to-face (October 2021).
Price: 6.375€ (online). 8.000€ (face-to-face). 25% off for ESDi students, alumni, and professors.
Schedule: Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays, from 7 pm to 9 pm.
Internships: Possibility of extracurricular internships in national and international companies linked to the fashion and the design world.
Syllabus
The number of credits for the Master’s Degree in Fashion Management is 60 ECTS, to be taken in an academic year. The curriculum is structured in 7 modules, including the final master project and seminars/masterclasses.
Module 1: Contextualization of the environment (5 ECTS)Content: The world in the third millennium. Social transformations in the age of the knowledge society. The internationalization of trends and fashion.
Module 2: Communication in a global society (10 ECTS)Content: Fashion as a communication system in a global society. Corporate communication and digital communication. Fashion communication: advertising and media strategy. Fashion marketing: consumer analysis, digital marketing, techniques, and processes.
Module 3: Point of sale management (9 ECTS)Content: Merchandising, Location of the point of sale, Distribution of spaces, Point of sale management, and control systems.
Module 4: Management, control, and logistics (14 ECTS)Content: Introduction to accounting concepts, Cost management, Budget management, Corporate finance, Management control, Logistics, Legal aspects, Fiscal aspects, Social responsibility.
Module 5: Image consultancy and life cycle (5 ECTS)Content: Sociology, personal and corporate image. Symbology of fashion. The process of creating a fashion collection. Analysis and determination of trends and creative direction.
Module 7: Seminars / Masterclasses (2 ECTS)
Module 8: Final Master Project (15 ECTS)
Career opportunities
Fashion buyer
Retail manager
Sales manager
Brand manager
Project manager
Creative director
Product manager
Fashion consultant
Wholesale manager
E-commerce manager
Communications manager
Business development manager
Addressed to
The Master in Fashion Management is addressed to university graduates with training in fashion or textile design and entrepreneurial sciences who are interested in amplifying their knowledge of product management and fashion enterprises. Furthermore, the master is oriented towards professionals linked to the area who are willing to update their training considering the new management techniques and market knowledge.
Why choose this Master?
Teachers with extensive experience working in important international fashion, beauty, or design companies such as Mango, Tous, Firmenich, or Luxottica.
Possibility of internships in fashion and design companies. Students from previous editions have done internships at Loewe, Rosa Clará, Mango, Yerse o Desigual.
Masterclasses, workshops, and seminars on different areas related to sustainability and innovation within the company.
International student profile.
Methodology based on theoretical and practical sessions, analysis of the current reality to determine current trends, approach, and resolution of practical cases, and individual and group tutored projects.
Scholarships
No person with vocation and capacity for design should lose the opportunity to train for economic reasons. Therefore, from ESDi we seek to facilitate the integration of future students, promote academic excellence and enhance the academic and professional careers of students through our scholarships and grants program.
If you want more information about our specific scholarships and grants for Masters and Postgraduates, please contact us.
