International Fashion Management

Fall Semester - Antwerp: The Ecosystem of the Fashion Industry

Digital Marketing

This course aims to critically examine the relationship between distribution and branding within the evolving and dynamic fashion economy. The curriculum will cover both the traditional and emerging routes to market and forms of retailing. It will explore the role of technology within the distribution process and across the range of brand marketing touch-points.

Financial Management and Financial Planning

Part 1: To emphasize the daily financial management of a fashion company; which tools are needed, what is to be understood. Being able to set up/read a financial budget, included cash flow statement, as well as the financial dashboard as a tool for the -daily- financial management.

Part 2: The financial management of a fashion company course provides student with a very hands-on approach to company finances and management in general. The course draws its contents from the day-to-day managerial experiences of the lecturer, rather than textbooks.

The Fashion Supply Chain

Global Leader Supply chain management (SCM) is a crucial part of modern textiles and apparel business. In addition to the traditional concepts on improving the production efficiency, quality control, and product design, supply chain management focuses on enhancing the collaboration and cooperation among all companies in the supply chain with a goal of satisfying what market wants (Choi, 2012).

Fashion & Law

This is a unique course that is responding to legal challenges in the fashion industry, in which the following topics will be discussed in detail: Creating IP value, collaborations such as licensing, distribution and franchise, fighting counterfeits, the legislative framework for e-commerce and new technologies such as 3D printing and virtual reality, general principles on starting your own business, Tax Shelter, crowd funding, pop-up stores, and fashion law in Brazil and in France.

Spring Semester - Antwerp / Milan / São Paulo

• Entrepreneurship and Business Modeling
• International Perspectives on Fashion Management
• International Study Trip - Milan
• International Study Trip - São Paulo

Summer Semester - Antwerp

• Master Project

Note: The curriculum is subject to change.

Besides your regular curriculum, you will also have the opportunity to enhance your studies with Electives. All Master’s programs offer 1 full week of Elective courses; one week dedicated to an intensive relevant topic challenging the status quo and pushing you outside your comfort zone. The idea is to offer topics outside of the core curriculum that are based around the current geopolitical climate, relevant world news and future insights. They focus on matters that will benefit your studies and provide enhanced learning opportunities.

To give you an idea, previous Elective topics have included:

• Digital Transformation
• Designing Business Models for Future Growth
• Geopolitical Challenges
• Emerging Asian Markets
• International Healthcare Management
• Organizing for the Digital Future

Your personal development is a core element in the journey you will undertake during your year at Antwerp Management School.

At AMS, we look beyond the mere transfer of technical knowledge. As our mission statement explicitly mentions, we also want to stimulate your personal development. With the Global Leadership Skills track, we challenge and coach you to become more aware of who you are, how you cooperate with others, and what kind of career you want to pursue. We do this by building upon the three mission pillars of Antwerp Management School:

• Self Awareness: leads to stronger cooperation with others.
• Global Perspective: leads to a developed global mindset, allowing you to find better solutions to problems and complex issues.
• Societal Consciousness: leads to sustainability in essential economic processes, a fundamental value in business.

Throughout this journey, we will focus on these three levels of learning by working with a mixture of exercises, self-analysis instruments, moments of reflection, individual follow-up, collective sessions and peer coaching. We will offer you relevant frameworks to support you in understanding your strengths and needs, and defining your areas for growth.

Global Leadership Skills development is more than a ‘nice to have’, it is a basic prerequisite for career success and recruiters will be assessing this when you apply for a job. Today’s employers are looking for an impressive set of soft skills when selecting young graduates. These include: self-awareness, the ability to work collaboratively with others, leadership skills, the capacity to adapt to new situations and to develop new skills, openness to and respect for different perspectives, multicultural awareness, and long-term and system thinking, to name just a few. This course aims to support you in developing these skills and in finding a match between who you are and what the world of employment needs; between your career ambitions and what employers are looking for.

• Prepare yourself for a leading management role in the international fashion industry (finance, purchasing, branding,…);
• Understand the dynamics within developed and emerging international fashion markets;
• Develop the understanding of possibilities in new and other fashion markets;
• Explore the relationship between global and local fashion markets and the challenges they present.