Course General Description

The main elements that characterize and distinguish the “Politecnico” education in fashion come from the culture of Italian design, the made in Italy, its connection with the fashion industries and its aim to combine tradition with innovation, crafts with technologies, heritage with progress, dreams with discipline. Referring to the work of the Italian design masters, whose source was the relationship and the link with the industry, we do not offer an education as a fashion “stylist but as a fashion “designer”. That is not an artist, isolated in his own talent, but a professional who is inspired and linked to the fashion system and its constraints. Focus is put on research skills as the main source for inspiration and innovation to support creativity and talent. In fact, this program is founded on the belief that creativity is born from deep knowledge and continuous research, from the hybridisation of cultures and languages. Therefore, the Fashion Design Degree at Politecnico offers an interdisciplinary approach to its students who can customise their education in fashion choosing from different areas of study: from fashion products –menswear, womenswear, kids-wear- to jewellery and fashion accessories, from knitwear to sportswear, underwear and beachwear. Besides courses dedicated to the fashion products we are proud to offer also courses related to fashion materials, technologies, processes, communication and services as fashion studies, fashion management, innovative materials, digital technologies, retail, visual merchandising, market and sales processes, image and communication. A comprehensive and fascinating degree that gives expertise and an easy job placement. The other main focus is on the knowledge of the technical aspects of the products, that is not limited to techniques such as draping, pattern making and sewing. In fact, it includes deep understanding of fashion products materials, fabrics architecture and the relationship between product and project, its visualization and development through the realization and the consequent engineering and production phases. The students need to learn how to structure the design process, which is not merely the development of a sketch, but a complex activity that needs to be well managed and structured. Thus is necessary to acquire “meta-design” instruments, to “design the design process”, to develop and represent mid-way work phases, such as trend books, and to plan the following activities, as instruments to build up the “collection architecture”. The last main aspect explored by the degree course is the systemic comprehension of the product, the knowledge of the communication and distribution aspects of the project to express its embedded qualities and values.

School General Description

Politecnico Milano is a scientific-technological university which trains engineers, architects and industrial designers. The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and productive world by means of experimental research and technological transfer. Research has always been linked to didactics and it is a priority commitment which has allowed Politecnico Milano to achieve high quality results at an international level as to join the university to the business world. Research constitutes a parallel path to that formed by cooperation and alliances with the industrial system. Knowing the world in which you are going to work is a vital requirement for training students. By referring back to the needs of the industrial world and public administration, research is facilitated in following new paths and dealing with the need for constant and rapid innovation. The alliance with the industrial world, in many cases favored by Fondazione Politecnico and by consortiums to which Politecnico belong, allows the university to follow the vocation of the territories in which it operates and to be a stimulus for their development.