Italy is known for many things such as its beauty, art and fashion. I have never been to Italy personally, but I would love to have the chance to visit at some point in my life. Even though I think that I would be in love with the country as a whole, something I am looking forward to in particular is its diverse and creative fashion.
We hear all the
time that Europe has some of the best fashion out there, and from the looks of
it (what I see on television and in magazines), the rumors appear to be true.
It is not a surprise that several great fashion schools exist in Italy due to
the many famous fashion icons who have hailed from Italy. Some examples are: Dolce and Gabbana,
Georgio Armani, Gucci, and Roberto Cavalli. People travel from all over the
world to experience the amazing opportunity of studying fashion in Italy. There
are many schools there that offer the program.
Accademia
Italiana has campuses in
both Florence and Rome and offers their students a 3-year bachelors degree,
international university degrees accredited by U.K universities, master
courses, and semester exchange programs with the U.S and several other
countries around the world. This
school is actually one of the most prestigious university level institutes for
fashion, design and photography.
Within the fashion degree the classes consist of: Fashion Illustration,
History
of Costume,
Collection,
Experimental Projects, Industrial Pattern Design
,
Prototyping,
Tailoring Techniques,
Clothing Samples,
Color Techniques,
Textile
Technology,
Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Marketing and Business.
Another school
in Italy that offers fashion is Polimoda International Institute of Fashion
Design and Marketing.
This school is located in Florence and offers both undergrad and graduate
degrees. The undergraduate fashion courses that Polimoda offers are: Fashion
Design, Footwear and Accessories Design, Fashion Technology, Business of
Fashion, Fashion Product Management, Fashion Communication, and Fashion Visual
and New Media.
Domus
Academy, which is
located in Milan, is different from the other two schools in the sense that
this one strictly offers only Masters Degrees. It was the first postgraduate
fashion school in Italy when it was founded in 1982. Within this postgraduate
school there are several programs and classes for fashion such as: Accessories
Design, Fashion Design, Fashion Management, and Fashion Styling and Visual
Merchandising.
After
researching and finding interesting information about each of these schools, I
am actually considering attending one of them myself. I have always been
interested in fashion but did not pursue a degree in the field because I
mistakenly thought you had to sew the clothes rather than learn about fashion
as a whole. I would also like to write about fashion, which would be a dream
career of mine. Visiting Italy at this time of my life is probably a long shot
because of my lack of funds, and I would like to finish school here before flying to another country.
However, when the time does
come I will definitely consider attending one of these great schools.
To explore these fashion schools, click the following links:
Fashion is always an interesting topic, especially in relation to Italy. There is always seemingly high fashion and it isn't really like the US at all. I liked that you gave us the schools because its always interesting to see where these people studied. Their sense of fashion is really unique.
ReplyDeleteI think this was a really interesting topic, especially since I've heard some of those brand names before (although I haven't really bought any of them). I've been to Europe before- Spain, specifically- and I noticed that people dressed very nicely. I'm not surprised that people in Italy do, too.
ReplyDeleteI also like that you included different fashion schools, in case we're interested in looking into them more. It certainly seems like there's an abundance of them.
Fashion is such an integral part of Europe. If you have the oppurtunity to study in more than one country, I would recommend France as well. There is a really good movie called "Coco avant Chanel" that details Chanel's early life, and it may be of interest to you considering your thoughts on the artists of high fashion.
ReplyDeleteJillian Cormier
I've seen "Coco avant Chanel" and it is a really good movie about Coco Chanel's early life. I have been looking at semesters in Italy and have notices that a lot of the universities have fashion programs. I can see how it is such a big thing to study there when there is easy access to fashion houses to intern and work at.
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