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Fashion Management: Products and Collections

Institut Français de la Mode via FutureLearn

Overview

Explore history’s most iconic fashion products

On this course, you’ll examine what a fashion product is, and how it can be branded and experienced as part of a collection or at a fashion show.

You’ll be taken through the history of fashion’s most iconic products, to help you learn about different product categories, and explore the importance of product collections.

Examine the birth of a fashion collection

Exploring how collections are created, you’ll investigate the relationship between a collection and brand identity.

You’ll also have the chance to study how to implement a collection, and create a collection plan of your own that you can put into practice.

Explore the future of fashion shows

You’ll study the story of fashion shows, looking at both their potent history and their potential future.

Seeing how to place a fashion show in contemporary context, you’ll learn how to interpret and critique a show using your growing understanding of brand management.

Learn from top fashion school Institut Français de la Mode

You’ll study fashion with experts from Paris’s Institut Français de la Mode, using real-world case studies from top brands.

You’ll emerge having developed your professional fashion management skillset, able to identify what makes a great fashion product, and an acclaimed fashion collection and show.

Whether you’re a business student looking to specialise your skills for work in fashion or you’re a career changer trying to break into the fashion industry, this course will give you a thorough grounding in the fashion business from multiple professional perspectives.

Alongside students and professionals, this course will be beneficial if you’re already working in fashion as a product manager, product developer, designer, collection manager, business developer, or in fashion PR and communications to bring your skills up-to-date and in line with the fashion market today.

There are no specific entry requirements for this course except for a passion for fashion business and a desire to grow and specialise your business skills as a fashion professional.

You will need a strong grasp of the English language as the course is delivered in English.

Syllabus

  • Fashion products
    • Definitions of fashion product
    • The product categories
    • Iconic products
    • Test yourself
  • The birth of a collection
    • Brand and collection
    • Implementation of the collection
    • Collection plan
    • Test yourself
  • Fashion shows and their future
    • The fashion show : an historical point of view
    • How to interpret a fashion show?
    • The contemporaneity of the fashion show
    • Test yourself

Taught by

Monica Benzi

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