Course Description
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Course Name
The Fashion Market: Structure, Players and Success Factors
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Host University
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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Location
Milan, Italy
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Area of Study
Advertising, Fashion, Management, Marketing
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Language Level
Taught In English
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Prerequisites
The course is introductory to fashion and luxury brand management and does not require any previous knowledge of those businesses. A basic knowledge of strategy, management, brand management and strategic marketing is a facilitating factor.
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Course Level Recommendations
Upper
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ECTS Credits
6 -
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits3
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Recommended U.S. Quarter Units4
Hours & Credits
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Overview
The course provides an overview of the fashion and luxury industries. The aim of the course is to address the main strategic and managerial characteristics related to fashion and luxury with a global focus, analyzing the new challenges that fashion and luxury are facing nowadays: the digital and the sustainability revolution.
Course objectives can be synthesized as follows:- To get acquainted with the concept of fashion and luxury brand management;
- to understand the main differences among the market segments;
- to understand seasonal strategies at the level of product, distribution and communication;
- to analyze the new challenges that are reshaping nowadays the fashion and luxury industries: the digital challenge (social media communication, e-commerce) and sustainability.
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