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MBA Fashion Sustainability – Business Major

  • Available in: Paris, Istanbul and online
  • Language: Full French or Full English
  • Duration: 2 years
  • Cooperative Education: AVAILABLE FOR YEAR 1 & 2
  • 120 ECTS
  • Next intake September 2025

This specialized postgraduate program is tailored for students aspiring to integrate sustainability into the heart of fashion companies’ strategies and drive positive global change. Through the MBA Fashion Sustainability - Business Major, students will learn how to identify and implement sustainable practices, develop and monitor relevant metrics, and stimulate innovation within the industry.

Students will explore the conditions that led key players in the textile and fashion industry to shift their entire value creation process towards sustainability. The curriculum is structured around the supply chain to help students understand how to manage their impact at each stage.

Learning Objectives

Postgraduate - Year 1

The aim of year 1 is to prepare students who study fashion management and marketing for the responsibilities they will have to take on in management positions within companies.

6-month internship or cooperative education (French programs only)

Fourth-year highlights

  • Customising of the curriculum: The choice of two electives
  • Crisis communication management project: The “Fashion faux-pas ” in collaboration with students following the Fashion Design Postgraduate Program
  • Operational consulting project with a global fashion brand focusing on innovating the customer experience.
  • Development of an international solidarity project with the UN's IOM (International Organisation for Migrants)
  • Intercultural Fashion Advocacy Project : Understanding fashion as a tool for diplomatic relations

Advanced Marketing & merchandising

The advanced marketing and merchandising module groupings is designed to equip students with cutting-edge knowledge and skills to excel in today’s dynamic fashion marketplace. These modules delve into sophisticated marketing strategies, consumer behavior analysis and the integration of data analytics to inform decision-making. Students will explore advanced topics such as brand management, global marketing trends, and omnichannel retail strategies.

  • Strategic planning
  • Distribution
  • Innovative client experience
  • Sensory marketing
  • Branding

The fashion industry

The Business of Fashion modules offer an in-depth exploration of the fashion industry from a business perspective. These modules cover essential topics such as intellectual property and corporate law as well as a variety of subjects related with the development of business models. Through case studies, industry projects, and expert lectures, students will develop the strategic thinking and practical skills needed to thrive in the fast-paced and ever-evolving fashion business landscape.

  • Planning
  • Finance
  • Advanced strategies
  • Intellectual property
  • Corporate law

Fashion’s Environment

This module grouping looks at fashion with the prism of diversity and inclusivity. It prepares our students to address the future needs of a competitive fashion industry, whether it is the optimization of the supply chain through a sustainable perspective, the implementation of cutting-edge tech processes for digital retail or the consideration of contemporary fashion phenomena.

  • E-commerce
  • Intercultural fashion
  • Sustainable sourcing
  • Managing a “fashion faux pas”

Two options from:

Students will get to pick 2 electives out of 6 available. Each of them gives a taste of what the 5th year specializations will encompass. Such a structure provides an opportunity for full customization of the learning experience.

  • MBA Fashion and Luxury Marketing
  • Media and image production
  • Fashion and eco-responsibility
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation
  • Fashion design workshop

Fashion Lab

The Fashion Lab module grouping is handled by the Direction of Corporate Relations of IFA Paris. Through a variety of practical workshops, students will get the opportunity to be involved in real-life case studies provided by partner brands. They will also have the opportunity to work on their professional profile through customized coaching sessions to ensure they can secure a 6-month internship.

Postgraduate - Year 2

Fashion media shape society and influence one's self-image as readers flick through the glossy pages of magazines or the stylish photos on social networks. This program embraces the glamour of producing fashion content (fashion weeks, photo shoots, models, etc.). At the same time, the program invites each student to think about the content they produce and distribute and the impact it has.

6-month internship or cooperative education (French programs only)

Fifth-year highlights

  • A year spent collaborating with the PG Degree Fashion Sustainability - Design Major students
  • The school holds UN certification for the Conscious Fashion & Lifestyle platform. All case studies are aligned with UN sustainability goals.
  • Through their capstone projects, students contribute to solving the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Common Base

This module grouping addresses fashion students as future entrepreneurs, providing them with comprehensive knowledge and practical tools about Sustainability, the transformation process it initiates in the field of fashion and textile apparel, and the way it can be integrated to one’s own enterprise.

  • Sustainable Value Creation/ Eco-lines and Creative Design Strategies
  • RSE/CSR/ DPEF/ ESG Criteria
  • Eco-Design and LCA (Life-Cycle Analysis) / Impact Management / Kering EP&L / Carbon Audit
  • Carbon footprint

Sustainable Sourcing Commitment

Designed as an essential, innovative, practical tool, guiding students to review, analyze and experiment sustainable fashion strategies and techniques directly at the fashion supply chain level, grounded in a real situation context.

  • Organic Materials and Certifications
  • Innovative materials
  • Eco-Friendly Fabrics

Smart Supply Chain System

Before moving to technical aspects and matters of the sustainable fashion supply chain, students are invited to measure the positive impact of smart supply chain management and sustainable value creation in the emergence of new sustainable fashion business models. This sequence within the course practical part should arouse students’ creativity, business skills and dynamic approach of design development…while they are looking into, exploring, examining varied options of sustainable value proposition within the chosen strategy of “designing fashion for longevity”.

  • Eco-innovation
  • Innovative business models
  • Infrastructural Foundations for Sustainable Production & Development

Textile Processing

In that segment, students move to technical aspects and matters of the sustainable fashion supply chain. Focusing on textile processing, at the bottom of the apparel production unit, they clearly review raw material processing, that is yarn production, fabric production, and identify which aspects within yarn spinning or fabric weaving or knitting can have ecological and social implications.

  • Yarn processing
  • Weaved Fabrics
  • Vegan Leather, Non-Wovens and Alternatives

Finishes Processes

This module grouping proposes to focus on embellishment and finishing processes, a traditional step within the making of garment in the supply chain, and provides students with a state of play of the new developments concerning these processes in relation to sustainability.

  • Dyeing Techniques and Technologies
  • Traditional, Current and Innovative Printing Techniques
  • Aesthetic and stylistic potential

Design process

Students will creation Mood Boards expressing their innovative vision of an Eco-Line and translate concepts into 3D shapes and sketches. They will integrate waste and impact management in the development of their eco-line visual identity elements.

  • Creation of Mood Boards
  • Story Board for Photoshoot

A renewed customer experience and role

The term “customer education” is widely used in sustainable brands’ strategies, yet it is not properly rolled-out in their operational marketing activities. A particular focus of this module grouping will be to research how to maintain customers’ excitement through innovative retail strategies.

  • Curated Event Including User Engaged Experience
  • GenZ and Millennials Expectations
  • Storytelling

Marketing & communication

The objective of this module grouping is to allow participants to understand how to position sustainable brands competitively in their respective markets through developing a differentiated DNA.

  • Market research
  • Marketing Mix of an Eco-Line

Closing the Loop

Participants will look into the last part of a product’s lifecycle and will explore how to extend it or integrate it within a sustainable framework. They key question addressed in this module grouping is how to reintegrate or disintegrate creatively.

  • Full Sustainability Prism
  • Strength & Coherency (concept, purpose, values…)
  • Products Sustainability Presentation
  • Demonstration of the Offer’s Eco-Responsibility

Capstone

In the Capstone Project, students are expected to create a link between the course knowledge and their practical understanding of the industry’s up-to-date best practices to prepare a fully-fledged plan for a business venture. Students are expected to detail the strategy development of an eco-line.

Fashion Lab

The Fashion Lab module grouping is handled by the Direction of Corporate Relations of IFA Paris. Through a variety of practical workshops, students will get the opportunity to be involved in real-life case studies provided by partner brands. They will also have the opportunity to work on their professional profile through customized coaching sessions to ensure they can secure a 6-month internship.

Fashion business: MBA Sustainable Fashion

Requirements

  • Year 1: Hold a Bac+3 in communication, marketing or business, plus experience in the fashion sector
  • Year 2: Hold a Bac+4 in communication, marketing or business, plus experience in the fashion sector

Course duration

The Fashion Marketing and Product Development Manager course consists of a two-year cooperative education, with 504 hours per year (4 days/week at a company and 1 day/week in training at IFA Paris).

Classes are held in person or online and take the form of group work, face-to-face teaching, conferences, and more.

Operational objectives/Target skills

  • To analyse trends and strategies in the fashion and luxury market as part of the development of a brand or concept
  • To create a comprehensive fashion or luxury brand or concept, including the analysis of the competition and image strategy
  • To define a marketing strategy for a fashion or luxury brand or concept
  • To develop communication and digital marketing strategies designed to promote a fashion or luxury brand or concept
  • To devise a distribution strategy aimed at rolling out the fashion or luxury brand or concept across its territories and markets, online, off-line and phygitally
  • To manage a team as part of the development of a fashion or luxury company

Teaching methods employed

Classes are held in person or online and are structured on the basis of group work, face-to-face teaching, lectures, etc.

Assessment methods

Oral and written assessments, continuous assessment, evaluation during project phases.

Certification type

The award of the Fashion Marketing and Product Development Manager certification. Level 7 (equiv. to Bac+5) is conditional upon validation of all the skill sets.

RNCP “Fashion Marketing and Product Development Manager ” Level 7 (equiv. to Bac+5) issued by Mode Estate – professional certification registered with the RNCP (National Directory of Professional Certifications) by decision of France Compétences on 24/11/2021 (RNCP 36047).

A verified set of skills is acquired over 5 years.

No pathway/No transfer

Result indicators

  • Drop-out rate: N/A (1st class graduates in 2024)
  • Attendance rate for certification tests: N/A (1st class graduates in 2024)
  • Certification attainment rate: N/A (1st class graduates in 2024)
  • Further study rate: N/A (1st class graduates in 2024)
  • Rate of entry into employment after 6 months: N/A (1st class graduates in 2024)
  • Rate of entry into a profession in line with certification after 6 months: N/A (1st class graduates in 2024)
  • Value added by the establishment: N/A (1st class graduates in 2024)

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