• Barcelona
  • English
  • 18,500€ to 22,100€
  • 1 year
  • 90 ECTS
  • Full Time
  • 01 October 2024

The MSc Fashion & Luxury Marketing takes place over 3 terms.

Thus, during the 1st term and 2nd term, you will learn the Professional Expertise and familiarize yourself with the Fashion & Luxury industries. You will also have the opportunity to engage with real-life cases and practical projects.

Through this hands-on approach, you’re poised to develop key marketing, communication, and sales management skills. Furthermore, you’ll acquire sectorial expertise in the Fashion & Luxury industries, enriching your understanding and providing you with insights into the best management practices. This comprehensive exposure is designed to prepare you for a successful career in the vibrant and competitive realm of fashion and luxury marketing.

In the 3rd term of the MSc Fashion & Luxury Marketing program, you will embark on a Study Trip to broaden your international horizons. In addition, you will need to work on your Master’s Dissertation, supported by the TBS faculty. Finally, you will have the chance to undertake a 4-to-6 month internship in a renowned national or international company.

Throughout the whole Master in Fashion & Luxury Marketing program, you will benefit from the Soft Skills Certificate. Moreover, you will have some complementary activities that will help towards better professional integration:

  • Meet-ups with Fashion & Luxury Professionals
  • Field Visits
  • Optional Language Course

October to december term for the MSc in fashion and Luxury marketing at TBS Education
MSC FASHION AND LUXURY MARKETING TBS EDUCATION segon term program content
MSC FASHION AND LUXURY MARKETING TBS EDUCATION content program May august

*Non-contractual information. Courses are subject to change every academic year.

Professional Expertise

This academic block is divided into 8 modules, designed to provide you with sound fundamentals in luxury marketing, fashion marketing, and both Fashion & Luxury industries.

  • Consumer Psychology and Culture
  • Advanced Market Research
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Marketing Ethics and Social Responsibility
  • Marketing in a Global World
  • Marketing and innovation

Build an in-depth knowledge of international Fashion & Luxury markets (fashion & accessories, cosmetics, fragrances, watches & jewellery, fine wines & spirits, cars, hospitality…) and will better understand Luxury customers’ motivations and behaviours. You will gain insights on how companies are adapting their business strategies to create value for this new generation of global customers, who are definitely more demanding, digital-savvy and experience-oriented. 

  • History of Luxury
  • Business models and strategies in the Fashion & Luxury Industry
  • Creating value for Fashion & Luxury Consumers

This module will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of how to build strong Fashion & Luxury brands, nurture them, and grow the brand’s equity. This module prepares you to address the challenges of tomorrow in the increasingly competitive and global Luxury industry.

  • Brand strategy and Brand equity
  • Heritage Branding
  • Brand Challenge
  • Brand simulation

This module will provide you to learn to communicate strong value propositions and drive customer affinity & engagement.

  • Fashion & Luxury communication strategy
  • Digital Communication & analytics
  • Managing a 360º communication plan and budget

Understand the key loyalty drivers and the issues at stakes for company’s performances. You will learn  how Fashion & Luxury brands can successfully manage their customer’s portfolio,  engage with their target customers, build strong relationships and create  uplifting customer experiences along the customer journey.

  • CRM & Customer experience Management
  • Fashion & Luxury Brand and Marketing mix management
  • Fashion & Luxury Marketing project

In this module you will get an overview of the various selective retail networks. You will understand the pillars to leverage retail network performances, manage sales teams  and deliver outstanding omni-channel customer experience.

  • Business negotiations & Purchasing
  • Sales management in the Luxury industry
  • Selective Retail Management and omni-channel strategy
  • Conceptualizing Marketing Research
  • Conducting Marketing Research 
  • Writing a Dissertation

Fashion & Luxury Marketing project

Move to action and join the operational mission of the MSc Fashion & Luxury Marketing program. Through this eminently practical team project, you will design an action plan to drive customer engagement for a partner brand operating in the Fashion & Luxury industries. With it, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the brand’s DNA and analyze its touchpoints with the customer.

To guide customer engagement and brand loyalty, you will be in charge of building a 360º plan that will include:

  • Value proposal & branding
  • Social networks
  • Brand’s website & online customer experience
  • Brand content
  • Retail activation & experience

Company Consulting Mission (SESAME)

You will become a consultant during a two-week, real-life, transversal, consultancy assignment!

A TBS partner company will submit a topical strategic issue to the class in a letter of engagement.

With support from TBS professors, students will work on a strategic diagnosis to analyze the company’s competitive position. Finally, they will propose strategic and operational recommendations to meet the challenges faced by the company.

This hands-on project will allow you to put into practice the skills and knowledge you have obtained during your MSc program.

Below are some examples of TBS partner companies that have collaborated with students in previous years:

  • Aerospace Valley
  • Airbus Foundation
  • AllRead
  • Cap Gemini
  • Comtesse du Barry
  • Continental Automotive
  • EY
  • Hilti
  • Mars Petfoods
  • Motorola
  • Thalès
  • Rockwell & Collins

Study Trip: expand your horizons

You will embark on a 3-day Study Trip to one of the top fashion & luxury hubs, such as Paris, Milan, or London. This field trip will allow you to discover and explore the ins and outs of the industry while connecting with what you have learned in class.

Activities will include guided visits, workshops, and talks with industry executives that will allow you to gain insights into some of the most iconic luxury brands and concept stores. In addition, you will discover the collections of the greatest designers. 

The MSc Fashion & Luxury Marketing program offers you this unique opportunity to see diverse business practices and cultural contexts in action. Moreover, flight tickets and accommodation are included in the program’s tuition fee. 

Soft Skills Certificate

During this module of the MSc Fashion & Luxury Marketing program, you will develop your management and leadership abilities in terms of people and behavioral skills that will help you effectively manage your career in the fashion and luxury industry. This certificate related to the luxury and fashion master was designed by 26 professors together with leadership and management professionals, in collaboration with TBS Career Services.

In this subject, you will acquire 9 key skills to lead teams and manage your professional career:

Personal Skills

  • Self-awareness
  • Communicating effectively
  • Lifelong learning

Leadership & Management

  • Building an inspiring vision
  • Leading teams
  • Responsible decision-making

Relational Impact

  • Managing interpersonal relationships
  • Building trust and well-being at work
  • Influencing effectively

This subject, run by TBS Career Services, will help you reveal your talent and make choices in line with your deep aspirations.

Over the course of several lectures, workshops, individual tests, and coaching sessions, a specialist will support you from the start and help you find the right internship or job.

  • Coaching: We will help you reflect on your skills, strengths, and areas for improvement. Through personality tests and individual coaching, we will link your self-knowledge with your ambitions and career choices while you study our masters in luxury and brand management.
  • Personal Branding: You will participate in workshops to build your CV and e-portfolio to best highlight your experiences and skills for future employers.

Complementary activities

The job world lands directly on the MSc Fashion & Luxury Marketing program with sector professionals who will explain to you in person their experience in the fashion and luxury industries. Through these meetings, you will have the unique opportunity to find out how to get a similar job, how their day-to-day is like, what the average salary is, and, of course, clear out all the doubts you may have about their professions.

These professional meet-ups are designed as an open window to explore job opportunities and the different trajectories to succeed in the industries. In previous academic years, these were some of the profiles* that participated in the Meet-ups:

  • Product Development Manager at Chanel 
  • Buyer at Net à Porter
  • Marketing director at Cartier (United Kingdom)

*Each year, profiles and companies are subject to change according to the students’ interests and the professionals’ availability.

To reinforce experiential learnings, you and your classmates will conduct visits to discover retail concepts stores and explore brands’ omnichannel, and customer experience strategies. Field visits will give you a first-hand experience of how the fashion and luxury industries work.

Make the most of your time in Barcelona by learning Spanish. We offer you the opportunity to take a 40-hour language course for beginners, included in the master’s tuition fee.

If you are planning to undertake your internship in Spain, speaking Spanish would be a highly valuable asset as most of the companies would expect you to be fluent in this language. That is why we encourage you to benefit from this opportunity.

The course’s timetable is embedded in your MSc Fashion & Luxury Marketing so that you can combine it with the program’s classes and activities. However, it does not provide you with ECTS credits. Finally, please consider that we require a minimum of 8 students registered to offer each language course.

Master’s Dissertation

You will be asked to write an individual dissertation on a current marketing issue in the fashion & luxury industries from an academic or professional perspective. You will be making a contribution to the study, analysis, formalization, and abstraction of the identified issue. The write-up should reflect the following:

  • Motivation: Justifying the choice of the research problem or issue
  • Resourcefulness: Ability to start and conceptualize a piece of research
  • Creativity & common sense: Demonstration of a structured and logical methodology
  • Cross-functionality: Demonstration of a multidimensional approach to problem-solving

Submitting a suitable master’s thesis is a compulsory requirement for graduation.

Optional Internship

You will have the chance to work as an intern at a national or international company over a 4-to-6-month period. This internship is not a mandatory condition for graduation in any of our MSc programs: MSc Fashion & Luxury Marketing, MSc Sustainable Financial Management with Data Analytics, MSc Digital Marketing & Analytics, MSc Brand Management & Creativity, MSc Digital Transformation & Business Innovation, and MSc International Business.

However, TBS encourages you to undertake an internship to supplement your training with professional experience in the fashion & luxury industries, as it would help towards better professional integration.

How do I find an internship?

TBS Career Services will help you develop your skills and provide you with the professional tools you need to find the best internship to fit your career goals. You will also be provided with personalized coaching to get the most out of your internship experience.

Take into account that finding an internship can be a complex exercise that requires perseverance, autonomy, and initiative. This individual project, which you will help prepare for during the Career Services workshops, will allow you to boost your employability and becomes an essential part of the MSc Fashion & Luxury Marketing program.

In previous academic years, our MSc students have interned in the following companies and organizations:

Qualification obtained

Once students have completed their studies, they will obtain the MSc Fashion & Luxury Marketing private degree*, awarded by TBS Education. The corresponding diploma will be awarded in October of the graduation year. 


*Private degrees, also known as in-house degrees, are qualifications awarded by a private educational institution, such as TBS Education, rather than a government or public university.

Academic Regulations

The academic regulations outline the rules and requirements that students must adhere to in order to successfully complete their academic program. These regulations are established by TBS Education to ensure consistency, fairness, and quality in the academic process.

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