Top Fashion School in Florence, Italy

Polimoda Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing in Florence:
Polimoda Fashion Design and Marketing Institute, located in Florence, Italy 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).

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.

Introductory Courses:
- Foundation Course
- Orientation Course in Fashion Design
- Orientation Course in Shoe Techniques
- Orientation Course in Fashion Technology
- Orientation Course in Fashion Marketing

Undergraduate Programs taught in Italian and English:
- Fashion Design
- Footwear & Accessories Design
- Fashion Technology
- Marketing Communication
- Marketing Management

- Advanced Fashion Design
- Advanced Fashion Footwear & Bags Design
- Digital Communication for Fashion 2.0
- Fashion Brand Management
- Fashion Stylist
- Fashion Technology
- Fashion Trend Forecasting
- Fashion Merchandising & Buying
- Fashion Writing (NEW)
- Luxury Management
- Visual Merchandising Trends

Master Degree Programs taught in Italian:
- International Fashion Marketing
- Fashion Merchandising
- Fashion Communication

Collaborative Programs:
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City
- International Fashion Design & International Fashion
- Merchandising Management

Private Courses:
Polimoda offers private classes 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
- Seminars for Institutes

Polimoda offers a range of summer and specialization courses every summer. The list is updated each year to reflect current market trends and to better prepare students for work in the fashion sector. Please contact the school for a current and complete list.

Summer Courses in Fashion Design:
- Fashion Design
- Footwear Design
- Bag & Accessories Design
- Fashion Technology
- Fashion Trends
- Professional Portfolio

Summer Courses in Fashion Marketing:
- Fashion Marketing
- Job Profile 
- Gold Summer Course

Languages Courses:
- Italian for Fashion (NEW)

Specialization Courses:
- Fashion Writing (NEW)
- Visual Merchandising & Concept Store (NEW)

Short Executive Courses:
A range of two-day courses for experts in the field to update your knowledge to current trends and aspects of fashion marketing, communication and new media:

- Creative Brand Management
- Emotional Marketing
- Fashion, Internet & New Media
- Luxury Buyology
- Shopping Behaviour
- Trend Forecasting

Please contact us for complete and up-to-date course offerings via the form on our Contact Page.

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 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 a 24-hour-a-day Internet connection.