Description

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The stylist is a professional with an exceptional sense for fashion, who is able to create a style that is immediately identifiable and recognizable. The stylist works with fashion designers at fashion shows or events for the presentation of collections. The stylist manages the image of the collection, matching clothes with accessories and details, showcasing the designer's work.

The stylist plays a key role during fashion shoots or shows, transferring the mood and the interpretation to the photographer, models, make-up artist and hairstylists, studying the right setting. He looks for accessories and defines the right outfits and their combination.

Moreover, this professional also coordinates the organization of shop windows and/or works for magazines that value his taste and opinion in selecting the right proposals for the coming season.

Professional Opportunities
The professionals are among the most important in the Fashion System. They work for fashion shows, advertising campaigns, editorials and fashion events. They can also produce look-books and institutional images and are experts of still-life and of the techniques of shoots on the catwalk. They communicate with the fashion designer and with people in charge of a brand to promote the concept through the image.

Also, they collaborate with model agencies and fashion magazines, and they autonomously carry out projects for magazines and fashion companies. The student will develop the critical and operative skills to promote, organize and produce reports and photographic exhibitions.

Course program
* Fashion and style
* Costume and fashion history; Ancient civilizations
* From barbarians to the Middle Ages
* The sixteenth century
* From the Baroque to the Bourgeois era
* The opulence between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
* The aftermath of the French Revolution
* The Industrial Revolution
* The beginning of the 20th century
* The 1920s, 1930s and 1940s
* The 1950s and the New Look by Dior
* The revolution of '68 and the youth trends
* The change of the costumes in the 1970s
* The first generation of stylists
* The 1980s: the success of image
* The 1990s: the depression and minimalism
* The new millennium and the advent of the global market
* The analysis of costume and lines
* Chromatography, fibres, yarns, textiles and materials
* Accessories
* Different styling typologies: editorial styling and creative styling
* The current trends in fashion styling

Attendance and duration
The number of students is limited and the inscriptions are open until classes are full.

Attendance: daily, Monday, Wednesday and Friday 09:30 - 12:30
Tuesday and Thursday 09:30 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 17:00
Course total hours: 144 hours (102 h. classroom and project work)
Duration single lessons: 3-6 hours
Language: Italian/English
Enrollment fee: EU 300 euros / Non EU 400 euros
Course fee: 2,950 euros
Requirement: Fundamental prerequisite to attend the course is to have already turned 18 years old

Highlights

Professional opportunities
The professionals are among the most important in the Fashion System. They work for fashion shows, advertising campaigns, editorials and fashion events. They can also produce look-books and institutional images and are experts of still-life and of the techniques of shoots on the catwalk. They communicate with the fashion designer and with people in charge of a brand to promote the concept through the image.
Also, they collaborate with model agencies and fashion magazines, and they autonomously carry out projects for magazines and fashion companies. The student will develop the critical and operative skills to promote, organize and produce reports and photographic exhibitions.

Degree Level

Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Minimum Education

High School

Subject Areas

• Art/fine Arts
• Cosmetology
• Design
• Fashion Design And Merchandising
• Graphic Design

Cost in US$:

Enrollment fee: 300 Euro (UE) / 400 Euro (Non UE); Tution fee: 2,950 Euro

Experience Required

no

This Program is open to

Worldwide, American, Asian, Australian, Canadian, European, South African and Kiwi Participants.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Apartment/Flat
• Group living
• Home-stays
• Other
• Independent living

Participants Travel

Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups of 8-12

Application Process Involves

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Other
• Phone/Video Interview
• Written Application

Post Services Include

• Job and Internship Network

UpToDate Fashion Academy's Mission Statement

Uptodate Fashion Academy was established with the basic aim of developing a high quality educational project focused on specific and strongly sought-after branches of the fashion business. Since then, Uptodate has developed and specialized on markedly innovative sides of the fashion business, quickly building up a reputation as a distinguished, unique player in the Milan fashion scene and attracting an increasingly large international audience. The Academy's vision is to give untrained students the chance to turn into high qualified professionals thanks to intensive, full time programs steadily connected to the strongest demands of the current fashion business. Located in a two storey facility in the very heart of Milan, close to the major fashion streets of the city, Uptodate Fashion Academy relies upon a stunning location, internationally renowned teachers, a special and certified didactic method and a strong job placement service in order to provide students with the highest level of quality to study and learn fashion in Milan.

Year Founded

2001