Fashion Accessories & Jewellery: Design & Management

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 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

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

Frequency

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
• Leather Design
• Luggage Design
• Shoes Design
• Fashion Design: Presentation and Portfolio
• 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” 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 to the selection process, the application form must be completed online within the following deadlines:

• for Italian / foreign citizens with a qualification obtained in Italy within November 30, 2023;
• for Extra U.E. citizens within October 30, 2023.

Price

The cost of the Specializing Master is € 16.500 (€ 16.000 cost of the Master + € 500 entry fee at the Politecnico di Milano) FREE VAT ART. 0 DPR 633/72.

POLI.design offers the community of Politecnico di Milano a 50% discount to be applied to the participation fee for a I and II level Specializing Master or Higher Education Course / Post Graduate Program / Continuing Education Course which POLI.design manages and provides. The discount is for internal staff (i.e., structured teachers and technical and administrative staff) with active contracts at Politecnico di Milano and members of their household.

HOW IT WORKS:

To benefit from the discount you will need to:

• send the selection application to the chosen course with the relevant required documents;
• successfully pass the selections;
• send a copy of the applicant’s family status.

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