MA Luxury Fashion Brand Management at Nottingham Trent University

International luxury fashion brands inspire and inform the zeitgeist of the global fashion industry. The management of these elite organisations requires the application of creativity and strong business acumen at every level. Our MA Luxury Fashion Brand Management course aims to provide advanced skills and knowledge in contemporary and emerging branding and fashion management practice and theory.

Our MA Luxury Fashion Brand Management sits in a suite with the following courses:

• MA International Fashion Management
• MA Fashion Marketing
• MA Fashion Communications

You learn alongside students from these other MA courses, and have the option to transfer MA titles if your specialism changes.

Key features

• Gain knowledge and understanding of the strategic and organisational management of international luxury fashion
• Choose your specialist focus on luxury branding, and devise an individual research project
• Select from a range of possible outputs to reflect your personal career aspirations, or to support a business start-up in the luxury sector
• Attend study trips to international fashion capitals such as Paris, Copenhagen, Antwerp and New York
• Benefit from industry speakers, such as senior executives and consultants working for leading luxury fashion brands
• Work individually and as a team in a challenging, creative and multicultural environment within the School of Art & Design
• Gain a globally recognised academic qualification, in conjunction with personal and professional development for employability and entrepreneurship
• Prepare for further postgraduate study such as PhD.
• We are proud to be in the top ten in England and Wales for Art and Design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020).

Careers and employability

This course will prepare you for senior management roles across the fashion industry, in areas such as:

• luxury brand management
• fashion management
• product development
• brand management
• marketing roles
• buying for the luxury sector
• retail management
• fashion consultancy
• sourcing and supply chain management
• ethics and sustainability in the luxury fashion industry
• fashion communications and PR
• fashion journalism

The skills and knowledge you'll learn through this course will be transferable to roles within other industries.

Connections with industry

You’ll have the opportunity to undertake self-negotiated placements or internships, learn entrepreneurship skills through business development courses (such as The Hive’s HeadStart programme), and attend events held by industry experts and organisations.

We’ll help you to develop your skills in self-promotion, team working, presenting and communication. You’ll also have the opportunity to undertake case studies, which will help your understanding of how businesses work.

You’ll be encouraged to attend and get involved in conferences and symposia to share your work. Recently, this has included the IFFTI (International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes) to deliver papers and performances relating to fashion theory and practice.

You will have the opportunity to have your work selected for a Fashion Management, Marketing and Communication exhibition, held at the end of the course.

Study trips

Study visits will inspire and inform your projects. Recent visits to exhibitions in London have included:

• Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion at the Victoria & Albert Museum
• The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier at the Barbican
• ARTIST TEXTILES Picasso to Warhol at the Fashion and Textile Museum

An optional annual trip to Antwerp and Paris has included:

• Paris Première Vision, (incorporating Indigo and Yarntex), matériO
• Li Edelkoort’s Trend Union studio, Paris
• a walking tour of the luxury fashion district of Paris
• hidden fashion retail treasures of Antwerp
• Olivier Theyskens at the Fashion Institute of Technology Antwerp