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TMO open day: discover the only Dutch accredited fashion business school

Are you dreaming of a career in the international fashion and lifestyle industry? Do you want to learn how to combine commercial creativity with business to make a difference in this dynamic sector? Then TMO Fashion Business School is the place for you! Since 1986, we have been the only accredited fashion business school in the Netherlands, and...

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Meester Koetsier Entrepreneur Award announces 2023 winner

Rosa Hulzebosch and Sophie Reiss, students at TMO Fashion Business School in the Netherlands have won the Meester Koetsier Entrepreneur Award, a prize in The Netherlands that recognizes entrepreneurial talent. With their project ‘Nobi’, Hulzebosch and Reiss found a way to reduce the amount of cosmetics waste by giving cosmetics a second life....

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Generation Z(Hero): Students TMO Business School organise Trend Expo 2023

Earlier this month, the 2023 bachelor students at TMO Fashion Business School in the Netherlands organised the school’s annual Trend Expo. This year’s theme was ‘Generation Z(Hero)’, focusing on Gen Z and how its members experience the fashion world. For the exposition, the fourth semester bachelor students at TMO collected all the information...

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TMO Fashion Business School student wins INretail award 2022

Janine Karssens, a final year student at TMO Fashion Business School in the Netherlands has won the INretail award 2022, per an announcement on the INretail website. The Netherlands’ biggest non-food retail industry association, INretail, aims to recognise students with the best graduation thesis with the award. This year’s winner, Janine...

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Students win Meester Koetsier Entrepreneur Award with sustainable packaging concept Boxcet

Julia Hinfelaar and Kyara Tonen are the winners of the Meester Koetsier Entrepreneur Award. The students of TMO Fashion Business School won the award with a sustainable packaging concept with the name Boxcet. They won 10,000 euros. Boxcet offers reusable shipping boxes made from recycled surplus textiles. The boxes are light, sturdy and...

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Fashion School Q&A: TMO Fashion Business School

TMO is an HBO (higher professional education) fashion business school, which educates students for commercial positions within the fashion industry. TMO offers a wide curriculum: a combination of management, marketing, communication, fashion, and personal development. FashionUnited recently spoke to Arianne Goris, Marketing & Communication...

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Fit Swap wins the Meester Koetsier Entrepreneur Award 2020

TMO Fashion Business School students Fleur Vermeule and Isabelle van den Broek have been awarded the Meester Koetsier Entrepreneur Award. Their innovative concept Fit Swap has won them an investment of 10,000 euros. They are going to use the money to develop the concept in the last semester of their studies. Fit Swap is a social fashion app...

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Already running your own company during your studies: TMO students Naomi Kamphorst and Carine Martinelli

Naomi Kamphorst and Carine Martinelli won this year’s Meester Koetsier Award with their sustainable sneaker concept Trace. The Meester Koetsier Award is a cash prize of 10,000 euro, which helps students to realise their own start-up. Naomi and Carine are determined to continue running their company after graduating from the TMO Fashion Business...

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Fashion students Babs Servaas and Cathelijne Killian win the Meester Koetsier Entrepreneur Award with KTCHN

The KTCHN concept was devised during the TMO Fashion Business School business plan project, which forms part of the curriculum covering entrepreneurship and innovation. KTCHN is a catering textile made from the fashion industry’s production surpluses. The external, professional jury, which assesses the feasibility of all the concepts at the...

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Thanks to changemakers, the fashion industry is becoming more sustainable at a faster pace

Stories about fast fashion, pollution and exploitation by the fashion industry are rampant in the media. We often hear that sustainability in the fashion industry is a slow process. Fortunately this certainly isn’t always the case, as plenty of attention is being devoted to sustainable fashion in fashion education. One of the schools where...

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The sorority that wants to become a networking organisation

Sorority Changeant; an organisation affiliated with TMO Fashion Business School in Doorn (The Netherlands) is known for liquor, parties and initiation rituals, like most student organisations. The vice-president of the union, Robbert Leusink (21), wants to get rid of this bad image. He would like to turn the student union into a networking...

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From shop to an exciting shopping destination

Living labs make shops Future Proof Future-Proof Retail (FPR) is looking into how retailers can use technology in order to create added value for their customers and which skills shop staff will need for this purpose. The HYPE lab, part of FPR, together with higher professional education [hbo] and senior secondary vocational education [mbo]...