The Fashion Stylist is an expert in style and image creation and has the task of enhancing the identity of a Fashion line. He should possess a heightened aesthetic sensibility and creativity and should be able to grasp future trends in advance and identify a winning style, offering a coordinated image for the entire collection in order to ensure its success.

The intensive course in Fashion Styling & Communication Concept is designed to help students rapidly develop the skills and tools they need to have an effective impact on the communication and promotion of a fashion product, enhancing the idea and the style.

The course provides students with a comprehensive knowledge of the Fashion System, Styling and Communications, exploring the basic aesthetic canons of Art and Photography.... [-]

The Summer Campus at HFFA is the ideal opportunity for anyone wishing to discover a profession in the luxury fild. The courses offered during the summer period provide the possibility to have a unique experience in one of the most dynamic cities of Europe and spend the summer in Milan based on creativity. The classes will be held in english / italian, everyday from monday to friday.

Summer Course

How Spend your Summer Vacation ? With the Italian Abroad Summer Fashion Camp

A unique summer study fashion abroad experience, where young people meet for the passion of fashion design. One month of intensive program for students who want improve their skill or just want to discover the world of fashion in Milano

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Why Milan?

Business, fashion, and design all converge in Milan— Italy’s second largest city—where old Italian tradition blends with modern innovation. Be inspired by Milan’s notable institutions, from the Teatro alla Scala to the Borsa Italiana, Italy’s main stock exchange. How will a full-time internship program in Italy’s business capital transform you?

You can practically feel Italy’s pulse in fast-paced Milan. Getting to work is a breeze with the tram, subway, and bus systems. For lunch, grab a quick pasta al pesto with your coworkers, fill up on risotto alla Milanese, or the region’s famed ossobuco.

An IES Internship develops your professional skills, your ability to communicate across cultures, and provides substantive work experience to jump-start your career in today’s competitive job market. The optional language class increases your Italian language proficiency and fluency. While Italian is not required, some fields may require a basic understanding of the local language. Speak with an IES Internships Advisor to learn more.... [-]

This course focuses on how new fashion trends emerge and how the cities of Rome & Milan play a role in influencing them.

In the classroom, you will get tips on how to be a cool hunter—how to research, observe, and analyze current fashion trends and future directions. Using Rome as your hunting ground, you will practice these techniques and learn what it takes to translate cultural, artistic, social, and fashion trends into marketable ideas. You will investigate emerging trends through field trips to retail stores and boutiques, fabric shops, exhibitions, and trendy places where stylish people hang out around the city.

Throughout the course, you will work on creating a research journal that illustrates, through text and images, the concepts you are exploring and the cool fashion ideas you found throughout Rome & Milan.... [-]

(Through visits to fashion showrooms and studios, you will come to understand the industrial prêt-à-porter system and experiment with designing a prêt-à-porter collection.)

This one-week course offers a social and cultural analysis of the Italian fashion phenomenon, exploring the philosophies, styles, and business structures of some of the most iconic Italian fashion brands.

You will be invited to consider how designers can combine the quality of haute couture with the practical market need to offer prêt-à-porter collections. Through visits to Milanese fashion showrooms and studios, you will come to understand the industrial prêt-à-porter system—that is, factory-made clothing sold off the rack in standardized sizes.... [-]

Discover why Rome is known as the “Eternal City.” In this full-immersion journey, you will explore this timeless city while expanding your knowledge of Classical art. The course alternates lectures about Classical sculpture, ceramics, and painting with visits to Rome’s most iconic monuments, museums, and exhibitions.

As you discover the fascinating history of ancient artists and their religious and cultural inspirations, you will be guided to create a personal project: a booklet presenting your vision of Rome, containing pictures, drawings, articles, and the notes you take during class and in your free time.

Milan is a center not only of fashion and design but also of contemporary art. This course combines lectures about today’s most influential artists with an active exploration of Milan’s contemporary art scene. We will visit museum collections, private foundations, and international art galleries, including venues like the Boschi di Stefano Collection, Museo del 900, Gallerie d’Italia, Fondazione Prada, and the Pirelli HangarBicocca (located in a former Pirelli factory).... [-]

If you are wondering why Milan is known as the world capital of fashion, join us in this two-week creative journey. This course alternates lectures about the history and principles of fashion design with visits to Milan’s hottest fashion spots: fashion ateliers and boutiques, showrooms, exhibitions, flagship and concept stores, and cult-favorite places for cool hunters.

If you want to deepen your understanding of the world of Italian fashion, this creative experience is for you. This course alternates lectures about the history and principles of fashion design with visits to Rome’s hottest fashion spots: fashion ateliers and boutiques, showrooms, exhibitions, flagship and concept stores, and cult-favorite places for cool hunters.... [-]

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of photography while exploring one of the world’s most historic and beautiful cities: Rome & Milan.

Through practical exercises, you will experiment with creative composition, camera controls, lighting, and color films. Faculty will guide you to explore the narrative aspect of travel photography, with a focus on representing places, events, and themes and using storytelling techniques as a tool to communicate your experience and vision. You will also gain familiarity with a variety of techniques for correcting or improving images through the use of computer software.

The work of the curator includes a plurality of skills and multiplicity of approaches to understanding the present time, interact with the past and produce new perspectives. Alongside theoretical knowledge, the course offers a structured path to develop curatorial projects, from research and production of a concept to organization and display. During the course, students will work on a personal or group project that will be presented in the spaces of NABA with a moment open to the public, using a variety of possible formats, from video screening to lectures, from exhibition to online publications. In addition to class lessons, the course includes visits to exhibitions and contemporary art spaces in Milan.... [-]

Develop your drawing skills while exploring the ancient and contemporary city of Milan—its monuments, museums, and the everyday places where Milanese people gather to enjoy life.

As you make quick drawing and painting sketches outside and in different environments, you will practice how to capture tone, color, light, and atmosphere using a variety of drawing and painting techniques and media.

Requirements

This course is suitable for all skill levels.

The analysis of visual merchandising strategies for showrooms, concept stores, mono-brand stores and department stores will be the key element of the course along with the understanding of the tools to create a strategic language for a fashion brand. Students will develop a theoretical, analytical and critical approach through guided tours to the most relevant concept stores in Milan.

At the end of the course they will be asked to develop an individual project.

This course is designed for final-year university students and for those with some working experience in fashion design who wish to explore new opportunities combining strategy and creativity.

(After giving a basic knowledge of available materials, the course will focus on manipulation and surface design to produce a mini project)

The first part of this course will be devoted to gaining a basic knowledge of the available materials and structures and learning to make informed and responsible choices. Having learned what is necessary to make a textile do its job from a practical perspective, the course will then focus on the aesthetic considerations covering the fields of manipulation, surface design (printing and embroidery) and nets/lace-like fabrics (cut work, devoré). The students will then choose a specific situation for which to design a textile based on the previously acquired information and skills and produce a mini project outlining the reasons for their choices and illustrating this with samples.... [-]

This course is focused on the exploration of the fundamentals of luxury accessories brand collections, Made in Italy shoes and bags.

Students will acquire the basic skills needed to coordinate and develop a new luxury accessories brand and will get acquainted with the technical methodology to make shoes.

This course is suitable for students with some background in fashion design and for students who have completed one or two years of university studies in art and design.

Students will have specific technical training in the field of fashion styling to enable them to create a new image for a body and its clothes encompassing make-up techniques, hair shapes, location, light, photography. Students will experience the excitement of making a photo shooting in a real working environment: with live models, on location and in a professional studio.

Personal research and observation will be used to analyze contemporary advertising vehicles for the promotion of a fashion product for a targeted consumer.

This course is suitable for students with some background in fashion design and for students who have completed one or two years of university studies in art and design.... [-]