Polimoda Fashion Design and Marketing Institute: Polimoda
Fashion Design and Marketing Institute, located in Florence, 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, commercialisation 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.
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-recognised professional training, in accordance with
real industry needs and company demands. Polimoda is a member of the
IFFTI (International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes).
Range of Programs:
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.
Preparatory Courses: - Orientation Course in English with Italian Foundation
Italian
Language for Fashion - an Intensive Italian Course, whose aim is to
prepare foreign students to learn specific linguistic skills related to
fashion, design and marketing and face Polimoda's admission exam.
- Fashion Marketing & Merchandising - Fashion Marketing Communication - Fashion Marketing Organisation of Events - Marketing Management for Fashion Buying - Master In Fashion Beauty & Cosmetics Management - International Fashion Marketing - Luxury Spa Management - Master In Fashion visual Communication - Master Fashion Coordinator - Master Fashion Visual Merchandising
Master Degree Programs taught in English: - Fashion Design Advanced (Only In English) - Master in Luxury Management (Only In English) - Fashion Merchandising and Management (Only In English) - Master In Fashion Footwear Design - Advanced - Manage your fashion company - Luxury Spa Management - Master Fashion Bag and Accessory Design - Advanced - Master Art & Fashion - Master Fashion Coordinator - Master Fashion Visual Merchandising
Collaborative Programs: ISIA - Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche - Fashion design - Corso triennale di diploma di primo livello promosso da: ISIA (FI), Polimoda, Centro della Moda Italiana
Fashion Institute of technology (FIT) - International Fashion Design - First and Second Year - International Fashion Merchandising Management - Third Year - FIT Summer courses: FIT Fabric Styling in Italy, FIT Fashion Illustration: lessons from the Masters, FIT: Italian in Florence
Private Courses: -
Private Courses for both students and professionals who cannot (or do
not need to) attend the regular undergraduate and postgraduate courses
on offer, Polimoda provides 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 - Trade Fair Guided Tours
Summer and specialization courses:
Polimoda
offers a range of summer and specialization courses every year. The
list is updated each year to reflect current market trends and to
better prepare students for work in the fashion sector. The following
list includes a sample of courses Polimoda has offered in the past.
Please contact the school for a current and complete list.
Specialized Summer Courses - Visual Communication - Art & Fashion - Curating Fashion - Creative writing for Fashion - Fashion Trends - Professional Portfolio
Summer Language Courses - Italian4Fashion (2 months) - Italian4Fashion (July) - Italian for beginners (afternoon classes)
Specialization Courses: Vary from year to year but past courses have included: - Visual merchandising & concept store - Fashion trends - Action marketing & new media - Fashion brand design - Men's wear pattern making - Womenswear patternmaking
Contact us for complete and up-to-date course offerings.
Industry Connections:
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
worskstations 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.
Polimoda Fashion Design and Marketing Institute:
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.
- Fashion Marketing & Merchandising 
Polimoda
offers a range of summer and specialization courses every year. The
list is updated each year to reflect current market trends and to
better prepare students for work in the fashion sector. The following
list includes a sample of courses Polimoda has offered in the past.
Please contact the school for a current and complete list.
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.