Profil d'enseignement Master Accessoires 2024—2025
Accessories (Master’s program only)
The Accessories Master programme is designed for students who are higher education graduates in an artistic field and whose practice focuses on fashion and luxury accessories, leather goods design, contemporary jewelry, and, more broadly, the creation of objets-à-porter.
The accessories sector is currently experiencing unprecedented growth. Far from being limited to the fashion industry, it now extends to all levels of creation and production. Accessories have become a true field of experimentation, blending art, politics, design, technology, and craftsmanship. This emerging phenomenon is driven by a continuous quest for innovation, personalisation, and sustainability, generating new dynamics between the luxury, ready-to-wear, and contemporary art sectors.
At the heart of this evolution, the Accessories Master programme trains creators capable of understanding these multidimensional challenges. Students are encouraged to explore new forms, rethink everyday objects, and experiment with cutting-edge materials and techniques. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this programme prepares future professionals to tackle the challenges of a rapidly evolving sector, where accessories are no longer merely ornaments but true means of expression, vectors of communication, and objects of desire, constantly interacting with society, ecology, and new technologies.
The programme fosters the development of original and innovative concepts while allowing students to create a coherent visual language. Particular attention is given to image management, and students are encouraged to interact with other creative fields such as drawing, graphic identity, 3D modeling, photography, installation, and project spatialisation. Students thus operate at the intersection of these disciplines, exploring new forms and meanings while remaining attentive to communication and distribution mechanisms. Their work fully aligns with contemporary artistic and societal issues.
Although the programme does not offer a technical specialisation in the vast array of accessory production fields, it provides in-depth expertise in leather goods, millinery, and jewelry. Above all, it prepares students to become designers and creators capable of exploring and transforming the potential of materials. The programme helps them develop an innovative and multidisciplinary approach, integrating artistic, technical, and production constraints related to material usage. Students benefit from the guidance of faculty members, the expertise of artisans, artists, and designers encountered during workshop projects, and the diversity of theoretical, artistic, and technological skills within the school.
In the first year, through a series of short and long-term collaborative projects, students structure their research methodologically, conceptually, technically, and artistically. They also begin outlining their diploma project by initiating their first research and development phases. An internship, positioned between the two years of the Master's programme, offers an immersive experience in a specialised field of their choice, serving as a key step in preparing their personal project.
The "accessories collection" occupies most of the second half of the programme and represents the culmination of the curriculum. The collection is presented at the end of the Master’s programme, accompanied by a portfolio and a unique spatial presentation based on each student’s approach.
The final project is submitted and defended before a jury of specialised professionals at both national and international levels, ensuring a rigorous and objective evaluation. Due to the condensed duration of the programme (a two-year Master's), the focus is on specialised expertise and practical in-depth study.
Pedagogical coordination
Didier Vervaeren
Pedagogical staff
David de Tscharner, Annoula Casale
