Description

Is more than just a simple course in that it contains all the specific techniques of a traditional formation in Fashion Design and the various disciplines that cross it, as well as the primary activity of Cool Hunting, that have to be present to generate future talents, stylists able to surprise and fascinate and above all add innovation to their own creations.

The academic course Master Fashion Design the Maison distributed in one or two years, will present the real novelty in Italy and in the World between all of the Fashion Institutes: a Capsule with the times, the necessity, the projects, the characteristics, the skills and everything that has to do with the real ways of living in a fashion house. Like every MAISON that is well respected for every student, there is the possibility to create and project a fashion collection.

Professional opportunities
Fashion Design the Maison Project aimed at all those that have always wanted to become a part of the Fashion System, with their own talent, their own creativity, their own unique style.

This allows for a concrete opportunity to enter the fashion market with the Fashion Stylists (to launch their own business or work in a fashion company) Fashion Coordinator, Art Director, Fashion Design, Trend Forecaster.

Program Fashion Design: The Maison

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

Attendance: Monday, Wednesday and Friday (09:30 - 12:30 ); Tuesday and Thursday (09:30 - 17:00)
Course total hours: First academic year 756 hours, Second academic year 756 hours
Duration single lessons: 3 hours, Monday, Wednesday and Friday ; 6 hours, Tuesday and Thursday (Capsule - Laboratory)
Language: Italian/English
Enrollment fee: EU 800 euros / Non EU 1,000 euros
Course fee: 10,800 euros yearly
Requirement: Fundamental prerequisite to attend the course is to have already turned 18 years old.

Highlights

First Level

* Introduction to design
* Sketch and technic design
* Moodboard, inspiration, research ideas and trends
* Preparation to fashion collection
* Pattern-making principles
* La maison laboratory, from design to the clothing-to-be, experience the fashion maison
* Accessories design preparation
* The fashion system
* Introduction to fashion marketing and to fashion strategies
* Introduction to graphic, colour techniques and rendering fulfillment
* Chromatology, hand design and graphic design rendering techniques
* Costume history, from paleolithic age up to the beginning of 1500

La Maison-Capsule Laboratory 1

* How a fashion maison is born, from the idea to the final project
* Professional roles within a fashion maison
* Professional figures
* Distribution of the work
* Cool hunting activities
* How a fashion collection is born
* The briefing
* Creation of a collection's key word
* Timing of a collection
* The schemes of a collection
* Trends books
* Materials
* Collection and pre-collection
* Presentation of a project
* Internal communications' mechanisms within a fashion maison
* Marketing and commercial offices
* Press contacts
* The distribution
* The fashion show and collection's presentations

Second Level

* Collection project
* Projecting and fulfilling a fashion collection
* Organising a collection briefing
* Materials research and preparation
* Textile and dressing merceology
* In-depth examination of accessories collection
* Marketing strategies and competitor analysis
* How to apply graphic techniques in sketch making
* Photographic touch up
* Advertising strategies and techniques
* Creation of one's own logo
* Costume history, from 1500 to modern age
* Fabrics and materials,wyarns and textile composition study
* Art history, a journey through art, from prehistory up to contemporary age
* La maison project: an academic year within a fashion company/maison
* How to live the company: the industrial psychology: how to face a job interview

La Maison-Capsule Laboratory 2

* Collection laboratory, the real atelier is within "up to date"
* Concept creation
* Various styles differentiation
* Streetwear project
* Pret a porter project
* Casual project
* Couture project
* Collection within the team
* Different roles within the team
* Fashion maison organization chart
* The designer, the creative, one's own role within the company
* Fashion illustration
* Relationships with suppliers and sample sellers
* Relationship with the customer
* Fair and exhibition
* Sociology, market research
* How to deal with relations inside the fashion system fashion direction
lifestyle, what it is and how to create it, visual merchandising
* The concept of entrepreneurship

Degree Level

Masters Degree

Subject Areas

• Design
• Fashion Design And Merchandising

Cost in US$:

10,800 euros

Experience Required

no

This Program is open to

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

Typical Living Arrangements

• Apartment/Flat
• Independent living
• Other

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

in Groups of 10 people

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• 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