The MA Fashion Management at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, provides a programme in which you can develop your skills and knowledge in your field of interest. The programme equips you with both the practical skills and the intellectual framework, appropriate to your specialism, to allow you to work competently at a master’s level. It provides you with the tools to engage with your field, to take part in current debates regarding the issues influencing it and to judge your own outcomes within this context.
A wide range of subjects are covered on the programme include the history of fashion, fashion writing, the fashion industry, fashion manufacture, fashion retailing, collection and range planning. Fashion Management can operate from an exclusive bespoke level through to mass produced goods and services. The thinking and skills you will develop embrace the huge varieties of contexts in which Fashion Management works.
The programme helps you build a critical awareness of Fashion Management and a great array of Fashion applications as it embraces a huge variety of products and services, targeted at all ages, ethnic backgrounds and ‘pockets'. It will expose you to the challenges faced by Fashion Management in engaging with sophisticated consumers.
Visiting professionals and guest speakers will share their experiences with you, complemented by study visits, lectures and seminars. You will have the opportunity to develop the critical thinking and skills required for a successful career in Fashion Management. Such thinking and skills will enable you to respond positively to the changing demands of clients and consumers.
The programme enables you to think of Fashion Management as a means to nurture your own entrepreneurial venture, or to join the Fashion industry at management level.