“WORLDWIDE FASHION DESIGN” MBA

Targets

Introducing worldwide students (during one academic year) into the international aspects of the contemporary fashion industry: design, marketing, commercialization, and manufacturing in different geographical areas.
Professionalizing students: creating collections under the same restrictions as in a firm.
Bringing together worldwide students and teaching them to communicate and work as a team.
Plunging students into the exceptional fashion, art and design environment offered by the fashion capital of the world, Paris.
A tutoring system: individual guidance to each student by one teacher (the entire academic staff are at the same time active in the fashion industry)

Study and analysis of the contemporary creative movements (fashion, art, design)
Dynamic of creation

Pre-established positioning (competitors analysis, benchmark etc.)
Model building and manufacturing of prototypes outsourced in Asia
+ A compulsory 2 to 6 month internship within a firm.
(We will assist you throughout your internship search)

Having graduated a fashion school anywhere in the world or possessing an equivalent professional experience

The culture of fashion, art and design (visits included)

Dynamic of design

Intro to the textile industry

The inner functioning of the trademark

Costumer approach

The unfolding and exploitation of the trends

Individual collection

Pinning down the position of the collection: price range, type of distribution, internationalization etc.
Defining the concept-style of the collection, visualizing the style within a 5-year-period (brand approach)
Compiling a file of trends/style of the collection: theme, atmosphere, chromatics, strengths
Setting up the plan of the collection
Going over the fabrics and the accessories
Preliminary sketches
Decisive choice of sketches, wrapping up the plan of the collection
Submitting a technical report to the responsibles of the models to be fabricated
Submitting a technical report to the responsibles of the rest of the collection and surveillance of the manufacturing phases outsourced to Shanghai
Revising by the responsibles and outlining the technical manufacturing report
Submitting the technical manufacturing report + surveillance of the production process
Marketing approach, packaging, promotion, merchandising, decoration of the boutiques + production surveillance
Bringing together the final collection and production surveillance

Team collection

Research on the pre-established position aiming to organize a collection on several months
Benchmarking, analysis of the competition and positioning as regards to it
Compiling a file of trends/style of the collection: theme, atmosphere, chromatics, strengths
Setting up the plan of the collection
Going over the fabrics and the accessories
Preliminary sketches incorporating the basic elements, the fashion products etc.
Decisive choice of sketches, wrapping up the plan of the collection
Submitting a technical report to the responsibles of the models to be fabricated
Submitting a technical report to the responsibles of the rest of the collection and surveillance of the manufacturing phases outsourced to Shanghai
Revising by the responsibles and outlining the technical manufacturing report
Submitting the technical manufacturing report + surveillance of the production process
Marketing approach, packaging, promotion, merchandising, decoration of the boutiques + production surveillance
Bringing together the final collection and production surveillance