Polimoda Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing in Florence:
Polimoda Fashion Design and Marketing Institute, located in Florence, is a dynamic international school offering quality, hands-on training for students seeking professional careers in the fashion industry. We specialize in courses of fashion design, fashion management, production, commercialization and marketing, with the aim to create a close collaboration between the academic and production worlds, besides providing a constant comparison with the international panorama. Many of our students come from all over the world.
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Polimoda was founded in 1986 on the initiative and financing of the City Halls of Florence, Prato, and some business associations, in collaboration with the Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York. Polimoda provides students with internationally-recognized professional training, in accordance with real industry needs and company demands. Polimoda is a member of the IFFTI (International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes).
Range of Programs:
Polimoda offers a wide range of courses from undergraduate and summer courses to postgraduate studies, taught in Italian or English. All of the undergraduate and Master degree courses require an admission test. Our programs taught in Italian require an intermediate knowledge of the language. We constantly create new programs in English to meet the needs of the international market. We also offer summer courses in fashion design, marketing and trends.
Preparatory Courses:
- Orientation Course in Fashion Design
- Foundation course in Fashion Design and Marketing
Italian Language for Fashion - an Intensive Italian Course, whose aim is to prepare foreign students to learn specific linguistic skills related to fashion, design and marketing and face Polimoda's admission exam.
Undergraduate Programs taught in Italian:
- Fashion Design (Menswear, Womenswear, Knitwear)
- Womenswear Patternmaking
- Design Footwear & Accessories
- Fashion Marketing Management
- Fashion Marketing Communication
Master Degree Programs taught in English::
- Advanced Fashion Design
- Advanced Fashion Footwear Design
- Advanced Fashion Bag and Accessory Design
- Art & Fashion - Exhibition Design
- Fashion Coordinator
- Fashion Stylist
- Luxury Management
- Fashion Merchandising & Management
- Fashion Retail Management
- Fashion Buying Management
- Fashion Visual Merchandising
- Fashion Brand Management
- Event Management
Master Degree Programs taught in Italian
- Fashion Coordinator
- International Fashion Marketing
- Fashion Retail Management
- Fashion Buying Management
- Fashion Visual Merchandising
- Fashion Beauty & Cosmetics Management
- Fashion Marketing Communication
- Fashion Visual Communication
- Fashion Marketing & Organization of Events
- Fashion Photography
Collaborative Programs:
- ISIA (Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche) - Fashion design
- University of Florence - Master Architetture per Moda (AXM) - Experimental fashion architecture
- Facoltà di Architettura di Reggio Calabria - Fashion Design
- Fondazione CUOA - Vicenza - Fashion Management: Manage and Develop Business in Fashion
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
- International Fashion Design - First and Second Year
- International Fashion Merchandising Management - Third Year
- FIT Summer courses: FIT Fabric Styling in Italy, FIT Fashion Illustration: lessons from the Masters, FIT: Italian in Florence
Private Courses:
Polimoda offers private courses for both students and professionals who cannot (or do not need to) attend the regular undergraduate and postgraduate courses on offer, as well as tailor-made training designed to meet clients' individual needs and to help them acquire the specific know-how or skills that they require.
- Tailor-made Programs for Groups
- Trade Fair Guided Tours
- Seminars for Institutes
Summer and specialization courses:
Polimoda offers a range of summer and specialization courses every year. The list is updated each year to reflect current market trends and to better prepare students for work in the fashion sector. The following list includes a sample of courses Polimoda has offered in the past. Please contact the school for a current and complete list.
Introductory Summer Courses:
- Fashion Design
- Fashion Marketing
- Footwear Design
- Bag and Accessories Design
- Creative Patternmaking
- Job Profiles for Fashion
Specialized Summer Courses
- Visual Communication
- Art & Fashion - Curating Fashion
- Creative Writing for Fashion
- Fashion Trends
- Professional Portfolio
Summer Language Courses
- Italian4Fashion
- Italian4Beginners
- Chinese for Fashion
Specialization Courses
These vary from year to year but past courses have included:
- Visual Merchandising & Concept Store
- Fashion Trends
- Action Marketing & New Media
- Fashion Brand Design
- Menswear Patternmaking
- Womenswear Patternmaking
Contact us for complete and up-to-date course offerings.
Industry Connections:
Polimoda maintains close ties to the world of industry 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. A survey of Polimoda alumni found that the employment rate is very high (87% of graduates are employed), but even more importantly that a large percentage of Polimoda graduates work in the fashion field. Many of them work for famous fashion houses, such as Valentino, Dolce e Gabbana, Krizia, Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Prada, Hugo Boss, Gucci, Benetton and other prestigious industrial and commercial businesses.
Fashion Internships
Students intern at local fashion businesses in Florence during their undergraduate or masters program. The majority of our students go on to work in the fashion sector directly after their studies at Polimoda. Company demand is so high that Polimoda has established a permanent office that selects students for the end-of-program internships currently being offered, and organizes interviews with companies. Hands-on training in the field is an important step that allows the student take stock of his or her own capacities as well as the realities of the job market. Company internships are unpaid and for this reason, we give maximum leeway to student preferences. The companies give a formal evaluation of student performance, which becomes a part of the student’s resume. The duration of the internship is three months.
Quality Facilities: In 1994 Polimoda inaugurated a technology training center to meet the training needs of field specialists, instructors and students participating in professional training courses. It is a point of reference for companies and fashion professionals who want to learn how to use CAD-CAM. The Tech Lab is the most advanced training structure in the field of state-of-the-art fashion technology in Italy. It has over 80 worskstations 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 a 24-hour-a-day Internet connection.
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