Description

A Personal Shopper is a figure that was fashioned in the USA in the nineties and established some years later in the main Italian cities, especially in Milan.
The mission of the Personal Shopper is to optimize client's time by guiding them to invest time and money in the best way to buy suitable clothing and accessories and to be aware of the latest trends.

Professional opportunities
Professional Personal Shopper work with luxurious hotels, showrooms, and companies that have already launched this type of activity, specialized in public relations and communication, with headquarters in the main foreign and Italian cities.

Course program

* Professional clothing
* Accessories: how to define their value and importance
* Meeting the client: how to develop a strong and deep relationship
* Personal shopper's "friends": dealers, hotel concierges, restaurant managers
* Key word for a personal shopper: being always updated
* Visiting a professor: a personal shopper working in Milan
* Choosing clothing and accessories according to client's budget and personality
* Outdoor visit among the fashion streets of Milan
* Clothing psychology
* Fashion brands: pret-a-porter, haute couture, concept store, malls, outlets, and markets.
* Fashion and "musts" in the fashion system
* Beauty and the small and great events to follow and suggest

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: 108 hours (75 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: 3,100 euros
Requirement: Fundamental prerequisite to attend the course is to have already turned 18 years old.

Highlights

Professional opportunities
Professional Personal Shopper work with luxurious hotels, showrooms, and companies that have already launched this type of activity, specialized in public relations and communication, with headquarters in the main foreign and Italian cities.

Degree Level

Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Subject Areas

• Design
• Fashion Design And Merchandising

Cost in US$:

3,100 euros

Experience Required

no

This Program is open to

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

Typical Living Arrangements

• Independent living

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

in Groups of 12

Application Process Involves

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Phone/Video Interview
• Resume
• Written Application

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