Add More Value to Creativity.

Next Start 19 Jan 2026
Duration 12 Months
Language English
Format Full-Time
Avg. working
experience
3 years
Where Milano

The Master in Fashion, Experience & Design Management (MAFED) is an intensive 1-year full-time program offering 70 ECTS/ CFU credits.
It provides you with solid management skills tailored for highly creative industries.

MAFED empowers you by combining the power of imagination with enhanced methodologies and analytical capabilities. It fosters consistent strategies and carefully targeted marketing initiatives, enabling you to create lasting, engaging, and imaginative brands that stand the test of time.

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Who is it for?

MAFED is the right Master for you if:

  • You want a managerial role in a fashion, luxury, or design company.
  • You want to work in organizations that create unique customer experiences.
  • You want to launch your own venture in these symbol-intensive industries.
  • You want to engage with the power of industry.
  • You want to prepare for all this in Milan, an international and challenging environment, and the well-recognized symbol of Italian style and excellence worldwide.

 


 

MY MAFED in 60 seconds – Elio Di Gregorio

MY MAFED in 60 seconds – Ella Phillips

 

 


 

Italian Excellence

Inspired by Italy’s cultural heritage, SDA Bocconi School of Management shows its expertise in three of the highlights of Italian Excellence, namely the arts, fashion and design and food and beverage.

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Why choose us?

1. Build a Solid Career in a Fast-Moving Business World

The program’s structure is highly interdisciplinary. At the end of the program you will have a solid understanding of business planning, marketing, supply chain, finance, accounting, and control tools, and you will be able to apply advanced product, brand, sales and retail management techniques in a fast-moving and global business environment.

2. A Network of Relevant Partnerships

Our partners are companies that represent the excellence of Italian lifestyle, well-renowned at the worldwide level, and they share with our students their philosophy and business culture. Fondazione Altagamma supports the program financially, contributing business testimonials and seminars on key issues that greatly enrich the overall MAFED experience.

3. World-Class Faculty

MAFED faculty is composed of top scholars into the field, who are well known at the global level for their talks and top-notch research, developed in collaboration with the leading companies in these sectors.

4. Top Guest Speakers

You will enhance your skills through the opportunity to systematically interact with top managers participating in classes as guest speakers and delivering business cases for joint discussion.

5. We care about your professional future

MAFED supports you also in preparing your career development with the Career Management Program, a dynamic meeting point for cultures and opportunities that offers you advice and dedicated services.

6. Italian Excellence

Having long been the hub of fashion, creativity and design, Milano is the ideal campus to fully discover Italian Excellence. This full immersion helps participants to understand how fashion brands have leveraged their cultural history, while at the same time being innovative and contemporary at a global level.

7. International environment in Milan, Italy

You will be exposed to a unique international environment that encourages you to explore differences and celebrate diversity. You will be able to take part in globally recognized events that attract visitors from all over the world, such as Milan Fashion Weeks and Design Week.

8. Study Tours

You will have the chance to enjoy 3 study tours, to experience in the field what you learn in class, visiting boutiques and meeting local managers. Paris and Madrid are available to all MAFED students, while New York and the Italian Grand Tour are linked to the specialisms chosen at the end of the Master.

9. Fashion and Hospitality Concentrations

You will have the possibility to choose, in the very last mile of the Program, between 2 different elective concentrations: Go-To-Market in a Fashion and Design Global Landscape or Experience & Hospitality. It involves 5 courses, a dedicated study tour and 8 weeks full time field-project related to the chosen concentration. 

Highlights

75%
Graduates

Employed 3 Months from Graduation

50+

Top Guest Speakers

4
Study Tours

Experience an amazing Study Tour: Paris, Madrid, New York or Italian Grand Tour

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Mentoring

Program with LVMH & Loro Piana

Scholarships and Tuition Waivers

The MAFED class

91
Students

Class Size

76

International Students

3
Years

Average working experience

26
Years

Average Age

Inside My MAFED SDA Bocconi programs offer a unique and personalized learning experience. Enter the world of MAFED to discover its unique contents.

“My commitment is to build on the trusted heritage of the MAFED and maintaining its leadership position at international levels, so that it can make a real difference for your next job.

My promise is to make your experience through this journey unforgettable, not only because of the excellent program we are designing for you, but also thanks to the unique contributions of our impressive partner companies, and an alumni network that is going to represent a major asset for the rest of your personal and professional life.” 

 

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Emanuela Prandelli
MAFED 2025 Director

“Young generations of customers today seek fashion with a purpose, the integration of craftsmanship and technology allows tradition and innovation to merge into a single paradigm, while traditionally product-driven companies are becoming more experience-focused.

Although the fashion and design business landscape rapidly evolves, one thing stays still: companies that want to make their business competitive are constantly looking for competent talents. I pledge to offer you a full-time master’s program that combines creativity with a strong and rigorous managerial approach, making the MAFED experience an unforgettable life-changing journey.” 

 

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Vittoria Veronesi
MAFED 2026 Director

"MAFED is not just an educational journey, but it is also an extraordinary, enriching and emotional experience in the future of fashion, customer experience and design management.
I am excited to walk with the students towards a life-changing learning opportunity in highly creative industries, bringing my authentic passion for an incredibly fast-growing sector where it becomes increasingly relevant to acquire solid managerial skills and an entrepreneurial mindset."

 

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Chiara Piancatelli
Coordinator

What they say about us

I am Eugenia Giorgi, 26-year-old, MAFED class of 2022, awarded with a partial merit-based scholarship and graduated Cum Laude. Besides being the most enriching and unforgettable journey of my life, MAFED really taught me how to enhance beauty and style into completely different environments with a global perspective. With luxury brands having to interact with consumers in an omni-channel, AI-powered world, MAFED gave me the chance to deep dive into customer experience and centricity through an insightful week-long Digital Strategy & E-commerce course in partnership with YOOX Net-a-Porter, learning how to proactively react to a fast-paced and forever changing online environment. I am now working as a Brand Specialist at Amazon, the most customer-centric, data-driven and innovative company in the world. My job encompasses consulting some of the most renowned Italian top-tier family-based companies within the wine industry providing them with business advices to improve their presence on Amazon and consequently on other marketplaces. I am glad I put in practice every day MAFED's fundamentals.

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Eugenia Giorgi - Italian
MAFED 2022

Why would you recommend the SDA Bocconi MAFED?

The MAFED program is extremely well-rounded for an individual who wants to enter the business of fashion and related industries. The program is formulated in a way that provides one to build their business knowledge but with a heavy focus on fashion, retail, customer experience, luxury and also within other areas such as luxury automotive and hotelerie. The program also has unique exposure to executives within the industry due to being in Milan. The ability to meet executives from top brands and to also visit many companies to see production of leather goods to flagship stores is not something every program in the field can offer.

What has impressed you most about the SDA Bocconi MAFED?

The diversity of the courses offered along with the large number of opportunities to meet executives from many different companies, brands and fields. It is definitely a program where a student can take the initiative to meet high-level executives with the many opportunities presented to them in class and during company visits.

What didn't you expect from your Master that has positively surprised you?

I don’t think I realized how much I could learn and take away from the program. I feel I can partake in many positions within a brand now and I have a knowledgeable perspective on the fashion and luxury industry that I would not have had otherwise.

Describe your SDA Bocconi experience and the importance of taking an International Master in Milano, at SDA Bocconi.

My SDA Bocconi experience was incredibly memorable. As an American, it was challenging yet so exciting to partake in an International Master and to be immersed in Italian life for nearly 12 months. I had the ability to work with students from 26 different nationalities and to experience fashion and luxury from one of the fashion capitals being Milan. In addition, I loved being able to see many different companies and brands first hand whether it be a tour of a production facility in Northern Italy or Florence, or visit an haute couture atelier in Paris. I also feel that the Master was very well-rounded and I am the most satisfied with the level of knowledge I obtained from the program.

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Suzanne DeFelice - American
MAFED 2018

Meet MAFED

Upcoming face-to-face meetings
26
May 2025 10:00 - 18:00 | LOCAL TIME
Orientation Meetings - London
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28
May 2025 14:00 - 17:30 | LOCAL TIME
Orientation Meetings - Roma
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Upcoming online sessions
19
Jun 2025 12:00 - 13:30 | CEST
Live a SDA Bocconi's MAFED Class
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2
Jul 2025 17:30 - 18:30 | CEST
Network and Community: the SDA Bocconi MAFED Experience
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Personalized Orientation

MAFED is a challenge to be taken on with a strong dedication. The Recruiting and Admissions team will be happy to arrange an individual orientation meeting at school to answer your questions and give you personalized advice. We can also do this by phone or remotely.

SDA Bocconi organizes events and meetings throughout the year, both online and offline, where you can interact with directors, faculty, alumni, and staff.

 

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Contact us for more information, to arrange a meeting, request to visit the school, or attend a class.

Next Steps

March 2025
Applications Review Start

Go to admissions

18 Jun 2025
2nd Tuition Waiver Deadline
9 Oct 2025
Last Tuition Waiver & Application Deadline
19 Jan 2026
Program Start
4 Dec 2026
Program End

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Tuition Waiver Deadline

2nd round: 18 June 2025 

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