Top Fashion School in Florence, Italy

Polimoda International Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing:
Founded in 1986, Polimoda International Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing, offers specialized courses of commercialisation, marketing, design and production, with the aim of creating a close collaboration between the production and academic worlds as well as providing a constant comparison with the international panorama. Polimoda provides our students with quality professional training - now internationally recognised - in accordance with real needs of the fashion industry and company demands. Polimoda is a member of the IFFTI (International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes). Polimoda maintains close ties to the fashion world through the organization of seminars, guided tours of companies, meetings with entrepreneurs and representatives from various sectors of industry, conferences with specialists and leading figures within the world of fashion.

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Polimoda is a dynamic school that is continuously evolving. We offer a wide range of courses from undergraduate and summer courses to postgraduate studies. All of the undergraduate and Master courses require an admission test. The admissions tests differ depending on the program you choose. For example, for the design programs, there is a drawing aptitude test in order to evaluate the applicants' creativity, graphic expression and taste in the choice of colors. For the marketing programs, there is an aptitude test, as well as a brief essay commenting on an ad campaign.

Most of our courses are taught in Italian and require an intermediate knowledge of the language. Polimoda offers an Intensive Italian Course, which aims at preparing foreign students for our admission exams. This training allows them to acquire specific linguistic skills related to fashion, design and marketing. However, Polimoda is an international school and we constantly create new programs in English to meet the needs of the international market.

In 1994 Polimoda inaugurated a technology training center to meet the training needs of field specialists, instructors and students participating in professional training courses. The Tech Lab is the most advanced training structure in the field of state-of-the-art fashion technology in Italy. It is a point of reference for companies and fashion professionals who want to learn how to use CAD-CAM.  It has 82 graphic workstations in four different laboratories in which it is possible to follow the development of the fashion product from conception to management of the data relative to the whole cycle of production. The entire structure has 24-hour Internet connection.

In the Textile and Colors Archive, students have the chance to consult over 15,000 cloth samples - as well as color and yarn boards - to help them learn about fabrics and come up with their own original designs. All of the material labels season, composition, brand name so that students may appreciate and compare the quality and range of products to be found in the market. There are also journals for research in design, fabric, trends, etc. The Textile and Colors Archive keeps a card catalogue of companies and fabrics that provides a database of information mostly on current regional textiles, but also greater detail on the national territory and foreign countries.

The Design Lab - just a stone's throw away from Villa Strozzi - houses the patternmaking, styling, shoe and accessory labs. These labs are equipped with state-of-the-art industrial machinery that give students the chance to study in real-life educational environment.