Vogue Faculty of Style, previously Condé Nast Faculty of Style and Design, is fostering the subsequent technology of expertise by its Grasp‘s programmes. The programs — delivered nearly or on campuses in London and Madrid — span a bunch of disciplines from inventive course to journalism, communications and enterprise.
The Grasp‘s programmes equip college students with in-demand and multifaceted skillsets — from vital and artistic pondering to enterprise acumen required for fulfillment.
College students profit from distinctive networking alternatives and a roster of trade visitor audio system — and have the possibility to go to the Vogue headquarters in New York metropolis. In the meantime, programme leaders are skilled trade practitioners who bridge the hole between principle and real-life apply.
Vogue Faculty’s latest on-line programme, the MA in Worldwide Luxurious Enterprise, commences in September 2025 and unpacks finest practices in model technique and improvement. Knowledgeable by shopper insights, the one-year programme connects college students and professionals throughout the globe seeking to acquire luxurious experience.
BoF sits down with the varsity’s international educational director, Johannes Reponen, to study extra.
How do you method your instructional apply at Vogue Faculty?
I imagine that individuals study finest when they’re engaged and when they’re motivated. Studying may be enjoyable, however it also needs to be sensible.
The overwhelming majority of our college are lively within the vogue trade. For us, it’s actually useful to herald trade professionals who practise their craft, who can illuminate the workings of the trade to our college students, integrating principle and apply. It permits college students to use data and abilities in the actual world, making them extremely employable. We’ve got a robust report of scholars going straight into employment from commencement.
We’re right here to assist our college students to amass superior abilities, data, experience — and a community — for them to progress of their private {and professional} journeys and to have a bonus in a aggressive job market.
What does the web MA in Worldwide Luxurious Enterprise supply college students?
The course affords a complete schooling within the administration and improvement of luxurious manufacturers — and teaches a mix of subject-specific, transferable, mushy and technical abilities related for the trade. We’ve got college students who’re concerned about wellness, in magnificence, in arduous luxurious, and we provide them a variety of data — but additionally the liberty to specialise.
The truth that it’s on-line makes it thrilling as a result of, whereas we have already got a global scholar physique, it stretches the online even wider. We’ve got supplied on-line programs on the faculty for a lot of years now, so we all know easy methods to make on-line studying partaking— and college students say they love our on-line programs.
There’s this notion that learning on-line will not be fairly as sensible or community-centred as learning in-college, however we prioritise on these features. And whereas it isn’t the identical expertise, the digital area gives a dynamic atmosphere to facilitate studying. It additionally makes studying extra accessible.
College students even have the choice to review part-time — one thing helpful for these already working within the trade who need to purchase new abilities or simply make themselves extra employable. All these features that make schooling extra accessible are essential, as a result of schooling itself shouldn’t be a luxurious.
How do Vogue Faculty’s Grasp‘s programmes put together college students for careers within the vogue, inventive and luxurious industries?
When it comes to profession locations, our graduates have gone on to work at a variety of family luxurious manufacturers, but additionally in media — whether or not at Vogue or different publications. While we’re affiliated with Vogue, we now have a holistic view on schooling and it isn’t about setting college students up for one vacation spot. It actually focuses on the gamut of the trade.
As a result of our scholar physique is worldwide — significantly our MA cohort — we attempt to consider schooling as a framework. We don’t prefer to be prescriptive in the case of the varieties of initiatives that college students do. We create a construction for them to amass subject-specific data, however inside that area, we additionally encourage them to take possession of their research in order that they will develop their specific experience.
Worldwide college students come to review with us, not essentially with the concept that they need to keep in London or Europe, however to study the talents that they will then take again house and apply of their particular cultural context. We attempt to consider how we will create an area the place college students can, as an illustration, use a global model as a case research, to develop data a couple of specific market sector or nation.
For me, these components of the academic method at Vogue Faculty are essential as a result of we’re a worldwide scholar physique that’s imminently getting into a worldwide trade.
It is a sponsored characteristic paid for by Vogue Faculty of Style as a part of a BoF partnership.
