Master

The Master’s degree course «Fashion Management» provides practical knowledge on how to coordinate product teams, develop fashion strategies and carry out market evaluations. It explains the latest knowledge and basics on how collections and assortments are successfully managed. Further it shows how departements involved in cooperation create sustainable added value. The Master’s degree course imparts practical and applicable methods and tools in order to be prepared for the world of «Fashion Management».

Graduates of the Master’s degree course are able to:

• take responsibility for product and category management in a product department
• Work in product development for design, R&D of textile and fashion design
• manage complex, strategic corporate projects or R&D activities
• realize unique brand environments within the framework of brand management

Areas of activity particularly include:

• Responsibility for product and category management in a product division
• Product engineering of the design, development and design of textiles and clothing
• Management of complex, strategic company projects or of R&D activities
• Realisation of unique brand environments within brand management

The Master’s degree course covers the following areas of expertise:

Innovation and Change Management

• Apply different research strategies and show that central academic conventions, such as textual and bibliographic references, have been understood
• Identify future trends in fashion and textile management and apply them as sources of innovation
• Implement social, ethical and moral criteria as part of the textile supply chain.
• Implement a financial plan and assess how different business cases can affect the financial situation of a company in the fashion & textile industry
• Critically analyse complex scenarios and implement findings for the implementation of new business processes for companies in the fashion and textile industry
• Analyse the complex framework, processes, methods and instruments in the field of change management within the context of the fashion industry

Fashion Management Processes

• Critically reflect on the characteristics of fashion brands and analyze which factors of strategy and brand management influence their success
• Engage with existing ideas of global sourcing and develop suitable ideas for application in the textile and fashion industry
• Communicate information to a global audience based on cultural knowledge in a clear and efficient way
• Flexibly and creatively apply innovative sales strategies of the fashion system to increase customer loyalty

Product Development

• Define criteria for successful wholesale collection design and make forecasts based on past data, strategic requirements and future trends
• Develop a product range framework and identify and assess the changes and risks of its implementation
• Analyse and apply new techniques and future developments in design and construction and identify the benefits
• Assess an industrial serial production and develop appropriate measures to reduce costs and improve quality
• Confidently design and implement a collection concept based on relevant criteria

• Bachelor’s degree in Textiles, Fashion Technology, Design or Management
• Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education and at least 2 years of professional experience in product management in the broadest sense or,
• in exceptional cases, a textile business specialist diploma from STF and at least 5 years of successful professional experience in product management (textiles or, fashion) in the broadest sense, as well as passing a separate aptitude test or
• equivalent training with at least 8 years of successful practical experience in fashion / textiles product management in the broadest sense.

Professional activity in product management in the textiles and clothing sector (in the broadest sense) at least 50% of the time while studying for the degree is a recommended for awarding the Master’s degree.

Master (MSc) Fashion Management

Titel awarded  by University of West London

On-campus teaching 2 semesters full-time.

Master’s thesis: Completion of a master’s thesis with supervision from a mentor as well as presentation and justification in front of industrial experts.

24 August 2020 part-time

STF, Hallwylstrasse 71, 8004 Zürich

CHF 11’900.– first semester, CHF 5‘950.– second semester
(incl. teaching materials, excl. excursions)

Teaching takes place in English.

15 May 2020