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Management of creativity and creative management

COURSE DURATION

9 Months
Attendance is mandatory

START DATE

April
October

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EU Citizen: 10 March; 10 September
NON-EU Citizen: 10 February;15 July

ADMISSION EXAMS For booking the admission exam please contact: orientation@polimoda.com;
Ph: +39 055 2750671/28
COSTS €. 17.000,00
€. 180,00 Examination Fee at Polimoda
€. 300,00 On-line Examination Fee
€. 200,00 Registration Fee for Student Visa (if necessary)
LANGUAGE English
DEPARTMENT Business & Management
Notes At the end of the course students highlighted for their didactic progress and aptitude may be given the opportunity of an interview within a company to evaluate a possible period of work experience in the field, in accordance with current rules and regulations. Polimoda also offers a careers counseling service and guidance via partner companies and headhunting agencies.

Tom Ford, a self-communicating person-brand since the divorce from Gucci, showed his identity with the movie A Single Man, while John Malkovich has become a fashion designer. Diesel is a tribe of fans. The iPad was presented by Steve Jobs like a totemic table of laws. Lanvin and Margiela are making capsule collections with H&M. While Formichetti and Lady Gaga revitalized Mugler showing an all-over skeleton-tattooed model picked in Facebook, the emerging designer Iris Van Herpen is creating [skull]ptures. Chanel sells through vending machines in Las Vegas. Menswear is the new womenswear. Avant-garde is the new mainstream. Raf Simons is at Dior and Hedi Slimane at Saint Laurent without Yves.

The figure able to handle all these and other challenges is the Brand Manager, a specialist in shaping, preserving, renewing and communicating a fashion luxury brand in its singularity.

This master is the best solution for both those who, having already a creative and communicative background want to acquire more skills in management, and those who, coming from a marketing and business background want to learn how to think in and out of the box in the peculiar world of fashion.

Styling by Polimoda Students / Frame from video by Ruggero Lupo Mengoni

The Fashion Brand Management is the ultimate profile for managing nowadays fashion luxury brands, it’s visionary and concrete, creative and managerial, leading and relational, innovative but well rooted in the know-how coming from the industry, competitive and beyond competition, involved in all the processes from production to communication.

Therefore, the master course is wide and deep, and composed by three interlaced units:

Vision: design and trend based. It’s about brand identity, buyology, innovation and heritage, the tuning between human, society and industry.

Management:
the business of fashion. It’s about strategy and concreteness, marketing and merchandising, retail and administration, law and logistics.

Communication: the brand outputs. It’s about materials, events, [Ad]vertising and [sub]vertising, writing, the digital world and video making.

The program includes field trips and guest lectures, a mid-term project based on a start-up, and a final project on brand building.

Styling by Polimoda Students / Frame from video by Ruggero Lupo Mengoni

Once obtained the diploma, according to one’s personal skills and to the achieved levels in the different teaching modules, the student can aim to a career potentially leading to a first level position in a fashion and luxury company, such as Brand Manager, Marketing Manager and Communication Manager, followed by Licence Manager, Line Manager and Product Manager.

A second employment opportunity is the marketing & communication agency. Due to the particular cut of the master aiming to build a flexible and self-directed profile, a third natural opening is self-employment as entrepreneur, global consultant, temporary manager for a start-up or a brand re-vitalization.

Vision

Art Directing: spirit of the time, innovation, strategic branding, brand building
Fashion Futures: trends and visions, futurology, trend-setting patterns
Contemporary Fashion: fashion system and product, designers and brands
Sociology of Imaginary: contemporary anthropology and cross-cultural fashion
Guest Lectures: once a month in the Great Hall with visionnaires and experts

Management

Fashion Brand Management: from start-up to extension, marketing and dealing
Fashion Operations: production, supply chain, logistics, distribution, CRM
Fashion Business Administration: budgeting, performance and sustainability
Fashion Trade Marks: patents, trademarks, contracts, licenses, cartelizations
Multiculti: seminars on key and emerging markets

Communication


Fashion Communication: integrated communication planning
Communication 2.0: design thinking, new media, video making
Press to Impress: alternative press, photology, brand design
Extra-media: storytelling and events (show, exhibition, installation)
Fashion Writing: semiotics for branding, reading & writing, copywriting

Eligibility

The course is open to graduates (or equivalent) holding a valid academic degree. Applicants with no academic degree but with significant previous experience in Fashion or Luxury, will be considered.
English language is required (written & spoken).

How to apply

Candidates will be selected after completion of a written test and interview with the program leader.

Polimoda Guest Lecture

At Villa Favard, a series of seminars with illustrious guests and experts for a direct evidence from the Fashion System.
More information

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