Fashion Accessories & Jewellery: Design, Management & Communication

Course

Today, accessories make fashion. Shoes, jewelry, handbags, and hats are icons of style and taste, symbols of distinction and identity, and witnesses of the made in Italy quality.

For this reason, the major fashion brands always give more importance to accessories in their multiple interpretations requiring dedicated professionals. Therefore, the theoretical training in the classroom alternates with case studies and practical activities in the field, leading to the achievement of a fundamental objective: the acquisition of specific methods and techniques to face the world of work.

The Specializing Master in Fashion Accessories & Jewellery: Design, Management & Communication is addressed to junior profiles of a ‘hybrid’ character, with the ability to combine specific design skills on particular product categories of the accessory supply chain (from jewelry to footwear, handbags, up to eyewear and hats), together with a knowledge of production processes and managerial strategies.

This robust specialization is typically acquired after several years of work experience and traditionally not trained within academic courses. The Specializing Master represents, therefore, an accelerator of specialized skills, able to make profiles immediately operational in a business context.

Gallery

Student profile

Workshop with Christopher Young - Creative Director & VP at Tiffany&Co

Lecture with Nicolas Bos - CEO at Van Cleef & Arpels

Lecture with Fabienne Reybaud - jewellery and luxury watches journalist, author and expert

Testimonials

Didactics

Attendance

Attendance is mandatory for at least 75% of the programme activities.

Training objectives

The Specializing Master is designed to join creativity and strategy, design and management, experimentation and tradition, technology and craftsmanship, providing methodological tools and skills to train professionals, with applications ranging from product design to brand management.

The Specializing Master trains professionals who, with different skills, can contribute to the creative and strategic phases within the fashion accessory sector: from design and collection development to brand management.

These figures integrate multidisciplinary skills (design – management – communication), which are in great demand by fashion companies and are usually not covered by traditional academic paths, primarily only oriented towards one disciplinary field.

Within the world of fashion accessories, these professionals can lead and coordinate brand management processes, from the declination of the brand language on the different lines to the planning and development of accessory collections, up to the management of the product communication process.

Didactic Plan

Teaching content:

• Creativity and Innovation
• Sustainability and Circular Economy
• Management
• Fashion Design Modelling
• Fashion Design Graphics and Representation
• Hat Design – watch the video of the Workshop!
• Eyewear Design
• Watch Design
• Jewelry Design
• Handbag Design
• Luggage Design
• Shoes Design
• Fashion Design: Presentation and Portfolio
• Communication
• Internship
• Final Thesis

Title Released

At the end of the programme, once the final examination has been passed, the 1st level Specializing Master “Fashion Accessories & Jewellery: Design, Management & Communication” diploma will be issued with the related achievement of 60 CFU/ECTS.

Employment Opportunities

The Master is designed to join creativity and strategy, design and management, experimentation and tradition, technology and craftsmanship. It provides methodological tools and skills to train professionals, with applications ranging from product design to brand management.

Fashion Accessories & Jewellery: Design & Management trains professionals who, with different skills, can contribute to the creative and strategic phases within the fashion accessory sector: from design and collection development to brand management.

The professional figures trained by the Master in Fashion Accessories & Jewellery: Design & Management represent the ideal connection between the creative conception of fashion accessories and their integration into the managerial processes.

They are junior profiles able to provide qualified support to trend research, product ideation and design, product management & buying, merchandising and pricing, line building, brand management, fashion coordination, licensing management, trade marketing & communication.

Furthermore, the different backgrounds of the participants and the teaching activities offered by the Master make it possible to create the conditions for the development of interdisciplinary skills and competencies of creative project management, the ability to dialogue with all the company’s areas, and professional figures, both creative and managerial.

Admission

Requirements

The Specialising Master is open to applicants who have a university degree (Laurea, equivalent to a Bachelor of Science) under the old or the new educational system or a Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to a Master of Science) under the new educational system in Architecture, Engineering and Design, and to applicants with equivalent qualifications.

Applications can be accepted in chronological order but just until all the available places in classroom are sold out.

Deadlines

To take part in the XIII edition of the Specializing Master in Fashion Accessories & Jewellery: Design, Management & Communication, starting on January 26th, 2025, applications must be submitted according to the following criteria*:

Italian qualification within 60 days before the starting date

STEP 1
1) Documents to be sent for preliminary verification to POLI.design

• Curriculum vitae
• Portfolio
• Motivation letter
• Copy of ID document
• Other

The following documents should be uploaded on this page

2) Documents to be sent for preliminary verification to Politecnico

• ID document copy
• Copy of the Diploma Supplement and copy of the degree diploma or self-certification on the appropriate form that can be requested to POLI.design (selezioni@polidesign.net)
• ANIS certification (access to the ANIS portal is via SPID or CIE from the following link)

The following documents are to be uploaded on this page by following the instructions at this link
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European qualification within 60 days before the starting date

STEP 1
1) Documents to be sent for preliminary verification to POLI.design

• Curriculum vitae
• Portfolio
• Motivation Letter
• Copy of ID document

The following documents should be uploaded on this page

2) Documents to be sent for preliminary verification to Politecnico

• Copy of ID document
• Copy of Diploma Supplement
• Photocopy of degree certificate

The following documents are to be uploaded on this page by following the instructions at this link

STEP 2
1) Documents to be sent for authenticity verification (within 45 days before the start date) 

• Diploma Supplement with a digital signature or verifiable QR code. Should the student lack a Diploma Supplement with a valid signature or verifiable QR code to verify its authenticity, the student will have to submit one of the documents required for students with a non-EU qualification (cfr. next item).

The following documents are to be uploaded on this page by following the instructions at this link
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Non-EU degree within 60 days before the start date

STEP 1
1) Documents to be sent for preliminary verification to POLI.design

• Curriculum vitae
• Portfolio
• Motivation Letter
• Copy of ID document

The following documents are to be uploaded on this page

2) Documents to be sent for preliminary verification to Politecnico

• Copy of ID document
• Degree in original language + Italian/English translation
• Original transcript of passed examinations + Italian/English translation

The following documents are to be uploaded on this page by following the instructions at this link

STEP 2
1) Documents to be sent for authenticity verification (within 45 days before the start date) 

• Enic/ Naric Certification or CIMEA 
• World Education Services (WES) Certification 
• Statement of value 
• Copy of the visa application or copy of the visa

According to the timeframe provided for by Italian law, the details of the application for a residency permit must also be communicated as well as the residency permit as soon as it is issued.

The following documents are to be uploaded on this page by following the instructions at this link

*Applications submitted after the deadline may be considered at the discretion of the Scientific Committee.

Price

The cost of the University Specializing Master’s programme is € 16.500 broken down as follows:

• € 500,00 – enrolment fee to be paid to the Politecnico di Milano, no later than 30 days before the starting date following the procedures that POLI.design will specify;
• € 16.000 – participation fee for the University Master’s Course to be paid to POLI.design following the procedures that will be specified upon admission.

PROMO

EARLY BIRD -10%

The promotion for those who have clear ideas, know which educational path can enrich their future, and can’t wait to get back to the classroom.

Deadline application: within June 30, 2025
Deadline for sending the signed contract and payment of the deposit of the participation fee: within July 15, 2025

FAMILY SUPPORT: -50%

A chance to gift your siblings the encouragement they need to invest in their future.

POLI.NETWORK: -50%

A promotion designed to strengthen the bond and identity among members of the Politecnico di Milano community.

FRIEND TO FRIEND: -20%
An opportunity to gift to a friend to make education the foundation of their growth.

BACK TO SCHOOL: -1.000€ on Specializing Masters
The discount for those who have already trusted POLI.design and Polimi, and wish to return to study and build their future.

SUPPLIERS

A 10% reduction to be applied on the participation fee (excluding registration fee or VAT) for suppliers and former suppliers of POLI.design. The reduction can be combined with other forms of discounts and/or exemptions*

*POLI.design reserves the right to verify the existence of the collaboration relationship.

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