KEY INFORMATION
- Level: Master
- Duration: 9 months
- Cost: € 28,000
- Language: English
Editions
Course
The Master in International Fashion Business in collaboration with the United Nations Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network instills the knowledge of social entrepreneurship applied to upcoming markets and consumer innovations and engagements. Optimizing the market where it exists, creating one where it doesn’t and focusing on data and trend analysis to enhance the future. The program instills the knowledge of entrepreneurial, strategic, data-driven skills applied to innovative business models perfectly balancing creativity and rationality when pitching ideas and numbers.
The program demonstrates how the fashion industry engages with the international community to keep the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals and teaches students how innovative fashion leaders impact the evolution of the industry by placing sustainability, climate and inclusion in the center of their business. Students will learn how to handle different fashion businesses, such as running a start-up or an overseas expansion of a finance driven label to better understand financial and legal aspects as well as growth. The ultimate objective is to create enterprises that contribute to the world rather than take from it.
Lessons are organized with teachers from the industry as well as guest lectures and workshops with outstanding professionals from the fashion system who will be invited to talk, inspire and empower our students.
This unique and hands-on learning experience includes field trips, a midterm and a mandatory final project that amount to a total of 700 contact hours and the overall obtainment of 80 credits.
The course can be completed with an internship at both fashion & lifestyle companies and startups.
Collaboration
United Nations Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network
The Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network is a United Nations hosted online platform for industry stakeholders, media, Governments, and UN system entities. The network showcases and enables collaborations that accelerate the implementation of the SDGs. Considering the fashion and lifestyle sector’s significant impact on societies and the environment, the Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network fosters transparent, inclusive, and transformative engagement of global stakeholders to drive urgent action for sustainability.
Polimoda Becomes The First Academic Institution To Join The United Nations Conscious Fashion And Lifestyle Network
Polimoda joins the United Nations (UN) Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network, the online platform focusing on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the fashion industry.
Learning modules
This course is structured alongside four learning modules:
- 1 - Fashion analysis: international players, products and services
- 2 - Report & data production: trends and data analysis applied to the different international markets leading to innovative ideas
- 3 - Business applications: applying strategies based upon trend - and data analysis to the fashion industry in order to create sustainable businesses
- 4 - Finance: financial analysis of international fashion - and lifestyle companies
Requirements
In order to be eligible for this course, you will need to be selected after the admission process.
Application requirements are:
- Curriculum Vitae (CV) with motivation letter
- English language proficiency
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Careers
Based on individual character and acquired skills, you can become the next:
- Entrepreneur
The Entrepreneur creates new businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit. This person is an innovator who comes up with new ideas, goods or services. Entrepreneurs play an important role in the economy, using their skills and initiative to anticipate needs and bring improvement to the market. - Project Manager
A Project Manager is responsible for leading a project from its inception to its execution, planning with clear and attainable objectives and successfully executing all tasks as well as people management. Project Managers are mostly project based, working with clear start and finish dates. - Strategic Planner
A Strategic Planner creates specific business strategies, implementing them in the fashion and lifestyle world and executing the plan to help companies achieve their overall long term strategic goals.
Further info
Contact
For more information on this course, our Orientation team has you covered. We're available from Monday to Friday between 9:00am and 5:00pm CET.
Contact us via the live chat or the request information form, call us at +39 055 2750628 or register for our next Open Day.
We’re happy to help in the way that works best for you.
Polimoda will continue monitoring the Italian government’s safety advice and update its procedures as requirements change. Due to Covid 19, field trips and visits that cannot be done safely will be postponed and/or cancelled. If the conditions do not allow an experience on campus, we are prepared and committed to moving courses online until we are able to welcome our students at school.
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