Students and Faculty
Fashion Management
53%
Women
55
Nationalities represented
53%
Student nationalities outside of Europe
22
Average age
37%
Post-bachelor's level
28%
Non-business background
Students' Home Academic Institutions
- Princeton University, USA
- McGill University, Canada
- LUISS Business School, Italy
- ESADE, Spain
- IE Business School, Spain
- Imperial College London, UK
- Bocconi University, Italy
- London School of Economics, UK
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Amherst College, USA
- Columbia University, USA
- Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
- Kings College London, UK
- Lehigh University, USA
- Bucknell University, USA
- National University of Singapore
- New York University, USA
- Sciences Po Paris, France
- Shanghai University, China
- The University of Texas at Austin, USA
- University of California, Berkeley, USA
- University College London, UK
- University of Tokyo, Japan
- Vienna University, Austria
- Yale University, USA
- Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia
Students
The Fashion Management program at HEC is a fast, high-quality gateway towards the understanding of the fashion industry and market.
The experience offered me a deep insight on what creating, managing and working in a fashion company – be it luxury...
Summer School
Fashion Management
For me, among the most invaluable aspects of the course were the balance between theory and practice, and the opportunity to work with students from many different countries
The Fashion Management Program at HEC Paris provides students with...
Summer School
Never was I given so much detailed insight into the fashion management industry than here at HEC Paris
HEC Paris and the Fashion Management program: a new universe I had the chance of entering this summer. The decision to come here for the...
Summer School
Fashion Management
Academic team
Academic Director
Gachoucha Géraldine Kretz, Affiliate Professor
Gachoucha Kretz holds a PhD from HEC Paris. Upon earning a master’s degree in finance and spending several years as a finance consultant and executive at Arthur Andersen and LVMH, she decided to pursue her career in marketing research and teaching. She earned an MSc. in Communication at CELSA (the French communication “grande école” at La Sorbonne) and an MA in Marketing and Strategy at Université Paris Dauphine before attending the HEC Paris PhD program. She completed her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Jean-Noël Kapferer and Kristine De Valck.
Gachoucha Kretz specializes in brand management with a focus on the following areas: digital branding, fashion and luxury brand management and social media marketing and branding. Her latest publications deal with fashion and luxury blogging and its impact on brand management. She is also co-authoring a textbook on luxury brand management to be published by SAGE London. She teaches a wide range of HEC students from Summer School and MSc. to post graduate programs such as MBAs and executive MBAs and transversal audiences such as the Luxury Certificate program.
Gachoucha Kretz is also a visiting professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and at Meiji University in Tokyo where she teaches the Netnographic research method (Kozinets 2010) applied to luxury and fashion and fashion and luxury marketing.
She is a member of the Association for Consumer Research, of the Association Française du Marketing and of the Consumer.