Design Masters Degrees in Italy

The Master of Arts in Fashion System - Heritage for Future Fashion at the Galli Academy is a research journey through the historical archives of the largest textile companies. This educational project supports corporate heritage management in the textile production sector. It aims to train professionals who can use 3D technologies to design clothing, accessories, and textiles, as well as to digitize fashion archives. This two-year course combines creativity, culture and strategy, design and management, experimentation, tradition, and technological and digital 4.0 skills. It alternates theoretical lessons with practical exercises and concludes with an internship of high educational value at some of the most important companies and archives in the sector. Starting in October, this course is designed for all fashion textile, design, and art graduates interested in furthering their knowledge and appreciation of the textile sector. Access requires knowledge of the Office package, Photoshop, and Illustrator, as well as basic modeling skills.

Immerse yourself in the vibrant heart of Italy’s fashion capital with the Master’s in Sustainable Fashion Design at Accademia del Lusso in Milan. This intensive one-year, full-time programme is conducted in English and class sizes are limited — ensuring personalised mentorship and industry-relevant learning. You’ll cultivate both creative vision and technical prowess, starting with ethically sourced materials and eco-responsible supply chains, advancing to hands-on garment construction, moulage, and 3D CAD prototyping for accessories. With expert teachers drawn from the fashion industry and access to state-of-the-art labs and workshops, you’ll be equipped to join or launch forward-thinking ventures in the luxury and fashion sector. Beyond design, the course incorporates lectures, seminars, site visits to showrooms and museums in Milan, and real-world projects culminating in a thesis. Graduates may step into roles such as sustainable fashion designer, trend researcher or product development technician — ready to shape the future of fashion with purpose. Join a select international cohort and launch your career where style meets sustainability.

The one-year Master of Interior Design is perfect for young graduates or design professionals interested in attending a specialization course. It emphasizes a professional dimension by honing the understanding of contemporary Italian interior design through investigations into its history, theory, analysis, and methods. It develops design concepts for real, modern-day problems integrated into historical city situations while focusing on a sustainable future. Its location in Florence is essential in illustrating Italy's relevance in forming the foundations of modern thought and concepts. Graduate students come from various academic and professional practice experiences. The department accepts students with an undergraduate degree in interior design or comparable professional practice experience and individuals with degrees in other disciplines who see a connection between their previous studies and interior design. To obtain robust results, studies in interior design require a 'full-time’ commitment throughout the academic year (for 30 weeks).

Domus Academy was founded in Milan in 1982 as an open-project reference center for Italian design and fashion. Over the years, Domus gradually became a school in the traditional sense of the term. Today it is both a post-graduate training center and a research laboratory focusing on industrial design processes, scenarios of aesthetics and consumption, space and time relations, public and private services and the radical changes originating from the wide use of the web. Domus Academy offers one year Master degree programs in the following areas: *Accessories Design *Business Design *Car Design *Product Design *Fashion Design *Fashion Management *Fashion Styling and Visual Merchandising *Interaction Design *Interior and Living Design *Marketing of Luxury Goods *Service and Experience Design *Urban Vision and Architectural Design *Visual Brand Design Strongly rooted in Italy, Domus Academy works in an international perspective, in order to enrich, spread and update the design culture making DA a real point of connection between design, fashion and management cultures.