MA Luxury Brand Management

The MA in Luxury Brand Managementoffered in partnership with the Richmond American University London, is a unique educational experience. It sets itself apart by awarding both US and UK postgraduate degrees, providing students with a global perspective. This programme is dedicated to fostering students’ commercial acumen, entrepreneurial skills, leadership abilities, and critical and strategic thinking. Delivered in collaboration with the esteemed Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design, this course combines the expertise of professionals from Condé Nast Publications and academics from the College. While a significant portion of the program takes place on the Richmond campus, students also benefit from weekly sessions at the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design.

For over a century, Condé Nast has been synonymous with visually captivating and innovative publishing, with a special focus on luxury. Renowned titles like Tatler, GQ, The World of Interiors, and Vogue have strong ties to luxury-brand advertisers, and our contract-publishing division creates content for leading luxury brands such as Ferrari, Swarovski, Mercedes-Benz, and Mandarin Oriental Hotels.

At its core this programme will allow you to explore emerging trends in luxury brands, marketing strategy, and management through engaging classroom discussions. It features inspirational lectures from distinguished alumni and industry experts and will offer you unique opportunities to visit the headquarters of leading luxury brands and fashion houses in the vibrant city of London.

Notably, Condé Nast College boasts unparalleled access to industry luminaries, including the editorial and business teams behind iconic publications such as Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Tatler, House & Garden, World of Interiors, and WIRED. This unique advantage allows us to combine academic rigour with outstanding industry connections, creating an educational environment like no other.

Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design stands as an unwavering beacon of industry preparedness. The programme has been meticulously designed with Richmond American University London to bridge the gap between academic study and professional employment, seamlessly integrating theory and academic knowledge with the dynamics of industry practice. As a student on this course, you will be exposed to real-world industry scenarios, enabling you to continually elevate your knowledge and understanding and cultivate new skills to an exemplary level post-graduation.

The Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design

The Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design provides student with a world-class fashion education in the heart of London.

Our courses fuse exciting and intensive academic learning with unrivalled access to the best and brightest minds in the industry, including the teams at Vogue, Glamour, GQ, Wired and a host of other Condé Nast titles.

The College provides highly creative courses combined with a solid foundation in the business side of the industry. The purpose of our courses is to prepare students for a multitude of jobs/; styling, journalism, fashion buying, marketing, branding, graphic design, PR, digital strategy, business, events entrepreneurship, e-commerce and many more career paths.

We currently offer the following accredited courses – the MA Fashion Media Strategy, MA Creative Direction for Fashion Media, MA Fashion Journalism, MA Fashion Communication, MA Entrepreneurship: Fashion and Creative Industries, MA Luxury Brand Management (in collaboration with Richmond University), the BA (Hons) Fashion Communication, the one-year Vogue Foundation Programme, Diploma and three Certificate.

Our short courses include the four-week Vogue Intensive Summer Course, the 5-days of... courses: Fashion Styling Course, Fashion Journalism Course, Fashion Business Course, Creative Direction and the Vogue Teen Weekend as well as six-week online Insights courses.

We are accepting applications all year round and look forward to welcoming you to the Condé Nast family.

Studying at the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design is an exciting, engaging and uniquely enriching experience.

With access to some of the most outstanding creative minds in the business, plus intensive, vocationally-styled courses and a busy timetable—both in our new, modern building and beyond into galleries, studios and so on—students will find their days at the Condé Nast College are both busy and rewarding. We believe that the friendships that the students make with one another while they are studying with us are as important as the networking opportunities they will have with an enormous number of external industry professionals. As a result, we encourage a rich, engaged and collegiate attitude from our students while they are here with us, allowing them to forge firm friendships that they will carry forward into their myriad, and undoubtedly stellar, careers all over the globe.

Careers

The Condé Nast College places our students in a position to reach their dream career. The College offers excellent industry links and partnerships. Students not only gain a thorough preparation for business life, they have already had extensive engagement with the professional world before leaving the College. Work experience/internships at Condé Nast may be offered to a select group of the most talented students. The College cannot pledge work placements at other companies but it will make introductions and recommendations for star students. The College’s careers advisor is able to guide students on further study, employment opportunities, internships, placements and projects relevant to each student’s requirements. They offer a professional service designed to respond to individual needs. The career advisor also hold workshops on CV writing, portfolio presentation, job search skills and interview techniques. Please note individual career guidance is only available for students on our accredited courses - all the MA programmes, the BA (Hons) Fashion Communication, the Vogue Foundation Programme, Diploma & Certificate programmes.