Milano Fashion Institute
Nov 19, 2015
Milano Fashion Institute is the only post-graduate Institute in Italy in partnership with all the leading Italian Fashion Associations, the strongest link to your career opportunities.
It has been set up in 2007 in order to provide multi-disciplinary higher education for fashion by the three leading Milan universities: Bocconi University, Catholic University and Polytechnic of Milan. In all the international rankings, these three universities represent an international centre of excellence, drawing on consolidated experience in the research and training activities for businesses in the fashion sector in the fields of management, communication and design.
Thus Milano Fashion Institute is a unique initiative in Europe for the interdisciplinary approach applied to competences contributed by the academic partners.
Milano Fashion Institute is an innovative didactical method for the interdisciplinary approach applied to competences contributed by the academic partners, and the strong links with all the main fashion companies and the fashion system.
It involves: Academics, Researchers and Professionals in Economics and Management disciplines from Bocconi University, in Social Sciences and Communication from the Catholic University, and in Technology and Design from Polytechnic of Milan, along with Managers and Professionals from leading Italian and international fashion companies.
Milano Fashion Institute offers a different approach:
- Provides students with the specialist interdisciplinary skills they need to manage effectively all the fashion processes: design and production management; retail and marketing; communication management for fashion and luxury products;
- Provides a world-class cultural, personal and professional opportunity to spend a very intense period in Milan, one of the major world fashion capitals.
This path is achieved through 3 University Masters:
- Brand & Product Management. A one year experience, for the brand management and collection development. It is addressed to form junior professionals who want to manage fashion & luxury products and collection development.
- Brand & Business Management. One year for understanding how to plan and manage retail and marketing in a variety of companies. It is addressed to train junior professionals who want to manage retail processes and marketing, and designing customer experiences.
- Brand & Communication Management. Visual imagery, communication conception, digital management, layout design, events and press management are the founding pillars of the new fashion communication. A one year experience for training junior professionals who want to manage communication strategies and digital processes.
- Master in Fashion Direction: Brand & Lifestyle Management. The Master in Fashion Direction: Brand & Lifestyle Management is addressed to junior profiles aiming to enter the fashion and luxury world, with a solid knowledge of managerial strategies and typical marketing procedures of the "top of the range" fashion and lifestyle brands.
- Product Sustainability Management. The aim of the Master is to update and deepen tomorrow’s managers what are the pillars inherent in the meanings of sustainability, the laws and regulations, the design approaches and the communication analysis tools so that it can lead the luxury fashion company to a greater awareness of its responsibility on the market.
And everything happens in Milan, the epicenter of the global fashion phenomena, a stunning experience, an incubator of opportunities.
All over the year, MFI Masters provide a full calendar of activities in direct contact with the job market, including team field project with real case studies in collaboration with leading companies, company visits, itinerant seminars, guest speeches, as well as the internships, lasting a minimum of 3 months, one of the most salient experiences offered by the Masters. An extensive network of companies are involved in order to create the ideal setting for an effective contact with the job market.
Masters are addressed to Junior profiles, mainly aged between 22 and 29 years, both Italians and foreigners with a good knowledge of English language. Students must have a B.A., MSc. or equivalent in order to apply and have to pass a preliminary selection process in order to be accepted.
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MFI Campus, via Durando 38, 20158 Milano
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Not only new ideas. Not just managerial and strategic skills. New technologies and a reshaped competitive environment have radically changed the concept of a company and the way ventures are created, from the structure, to the processes, up to new professional roles, design innovations and emerging business models.
Fashion Entrepreneurs must be able to surf in the compelling waters of a new ocean: the one of a global venture-oriented fashion industry. A revolution that requires to link an entrepreneurial insight with a market opportunity and the competences of business design for getting a competitive edge. Let’s call it starting a new business.
Key facts
- Director: Prof. Alba Cappellieri, Dr. Nicola Guerini
- Start of registration: 5 February 2021
- End of registration: 30 November 2021
- Orientation day: 21 January 2022
- Lectures’ start: 24 January 2022
- Duration: 4 weeks, 120 hours
- Frequency: 80% of overall classes is the minimum required to get the certificate
- Location: Location: MFI Campus, Via Durando 38, Milan
- Value of the course: € 2. 400 (VAT 22% included)
- A reduction of the economic value equal to the 20% for Students and Alumni MFI is provided, while seats last.
The Course is in English.
During the whole course an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant.
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Innovation for the fashion system, one of the key sectors of the Italian economy, doesn’t depend only on product innovations, but the role that new digital technologies have applied to design and production processes is increasingly crucial. Industry 4.0, or smart manufacturing, is called the fourth industrial revolution because it can substantially redefine the way in which designers and companies work and respond to the changing needs of the market and consumers.
Thanks to the participation of professors and professionals of the field, the "Fashion 4.0" course faces up to the themes dedicated to new digital technologies applied to the fashion industry processes aimed at supporting all phases of the creative and production process, from design to 3D printing.
Industry 4.0, the trend that will most influence the future of the fashion economy, is configured as the tool to revise the traditional production processes, renewing them and helping to increase the competitiveness of Italian fashion companies.
In particular, the course is dedicated to the following topics:
- the fashion system today, between innovation and tradition
- fashion and digital technologies
- application of the main software programs to the field of fashion: virtual prototyping, three-dimensional scanning, CAD, 3D modeling, additive printing technologies
- The course will be carried out through theorical lessons, a workshop for the digital design of a fashion accessory and a workshop for 3D printing.
Key facts
- Director: prof. Alba Cappellieri
- Start of registration: 5 February 2021
- End of registration: 30 November 2021
- Orientation day: 21 January 2022
- Lectures’ start: 24 January 2022
- Duration: 4 weeks, 120 hours
- Frequency: 80% of overall classes is the minimum required to get the certificate
- Location: MFI Campus, Via Durando 38, Milan
- Value of the course: € 2. 400 (VAT 22% included)
- A reduction of the economic value equal to the 20% for Students and Alumni MFI is provided, while seats last.
During the whole course an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant is available for foreign students during the project and print workshops.
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The jewellery today between craftsmanship and digital: Design, Management, Communication and Start Up
Is there a specificity in the design project of a jewellery? What skills, disciplines or knowledge does it involve? Is it about art, fashion or design? Industry or craftsmanship? Is it a symbol of status and wealth or creativity?
The jewellery is able to establish links between the external world - the one concerning the system of goods, commerce, social relations - and the private world - the intimate one of the identity of each individual, of his own desires and of his own image.
The comprehension of this product requires context slips and involves disciplines that are sometimes distant and heterogeneous: design, decorative arts, anthropology, fashion, marketing, management, branding, retail, communication.
The course deals with the complexity of the jewellery in its many aspects:
- Analysis of cultural interpretations dedicated to jewellery;
- The product: designing contexts and values;
- The production chain;
- Principles of Marketing and Branding;
- Sales, distribution and communication strategies;
- The jewel in the digital world;
- Digital artisans: entrepreneurship and start up in the jewel.
Key facts
- Director Prof.Alba Cappellieri
- Start of registration: 5 February 2021
- End of registration: 30 November 2021
- Orientation day: 21 January 2022
- Lectures’ start: 24 January 2022
- Duration: 5 weeks, 180 hours
- Frequency: 80% of overall classes is the minimum required to get the certificate
- Location: MFI Campus, Via Durando 38, Milan
- Value of the course: € 3.600 (VAT 22% included)
- A reduction of the economic value equal to the 20% for Students and Alumni MFI is provided, while seats last.
The Course is in Italian/English with the possibility of revisions in English for the workshop.
During the whole course an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant.
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Legal knowledge and practice for fashion 3rd Edition
Managing Fashion & Luxury companies requires a deep understanding of the legal framework that is characterizing the core internal processes of the companies, as well as the relations with clients and other external parties. Thanks to the participation of both academics and industry insiders, the "Fashion Law" course will focus on the introduction of the main fashion business models and the processes of collection and product development, in order to concentrate on the key industry-based legal issues from a practical point of view:
- brand protection and different typologies of trademarks' protection, as well as other intellectual property rights that can be used to protect fashion creations and models;
- fashion negotiation and specific agreements for the industry;
- supply chain issues: from advertising to the digital fashion processes;
- the “made in” discipline, the crime issues such as brands and products counterfeiting and fashion forgery.
The course will be constantly carried out with practical cases (litigations, contacts, benchmarks and simulations with managers and lawyers of the fashion industry) and concluded with final mock trials. The setting is Milan, the Italian and European fashion capital, combining together fashion companies and legal offices supporting the industry.
Key facts
- Co-Directors: Maria Lillà Montagnani and Nicola Guerini
- Industry - Advisor: Avv. Michelangela Verardi
- Start of registration: 5 February 2021
- End of registration: 30 September, 2021
- Orientation day: 21 January 2022
- Lectures’ start: 14 October, 2021
- Lectures' end: 12 November, 2021
- Duration: 4 weeks, 120 hours.
- Frequency: 80% of overall classes is the minimum required to get the certificate
- Location: MFI Campus, Via Durando 38, Milan
- Value of the course: 2.600€
- A reduction of the economic value equal to the 20% for Students and Alumni MFI is provided, while seats last.
The Course is completely in English.
During the whole course an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant is available for both Italian and foreign students.
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ACCREDITED TO THE ORDER OF LAWYERS OF MILAN, 4 TRAINING CREDITS
Crafting innovative business models through sustainability
Key-note speech of the United Nations - Economic Commission for Europe
Exclusive Patagonia key-note speech and networking event
Sustainability is reshaping the rules of the game of the fashion industry. Starting the long and complex journey of integrating ethics and aesthetics into the value chain, working on responsible innovation is nowadays not just desirable but necessary. Nowadays the companies need to make a “sustainable” business model also “contemporary”, answering the needs of the Millennials and the future generations. A careful use of technology could catalyze this shift.
The short course “New Sustainable Fashion”, supported by Vogue Talents, is aiming at preparing graduate and graduating students, young managers, professionals and young entrepreneurs to deal with the complexity of responsibility in the fashion industry by providing concrete tools and sharing inspiring business practices.
Key facts- Director of the course: prof. Francesca Romana Rinaldi
- Start of registration: 26 October, 2020
- End of registration: 30 July, 2021
- Lectures’ start: 6 September, 2021
- Lectures’ end: 1 October, 2021
- Duration:4 weeks, 120 hours.
- Frequency: 80% of overall classes is the minimum required to get the certificate
- Location: MFI Campus, Via Durando 38, Milan
- Value of the course: 2.600€
- A reduction of the economic value equal to the 20% for Students and Alumni MFI is provided, while seats last.
The Course is completely in English.
During the whole course an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant is available for both Italian and foreign students.
For more info please click here.
The Master in Fashion Direction: Brand & Product Management is aimed to form professionals, with different skills, that are able to contribute to the process of brand management and collection development. They are professional figures that integrate multi-disciplinary skills (design - management - communication), much in demand by fashion companies formed but that are not formed by the traditional educational courses, usually oriented exclusively to a single discipline. These professionals are able to manage and coordinate the process of brand management, from the declination of the brand language on the different lines, to the planning and development of the collections, and finally up to the management of product’s communication to the trade market.
The Master Course is completely in English.
During the whole course an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant is available for both Italian and foreign students.
Deadlines
- Start of registration: 5 February 2021
- End of registration: 30 November 2021
- Orientation day: 21 January 2022
- Lectures’ start: 24 January 2022
- Duration of the Master: 1 year, 60 credits, 1200 hours
- Internship: starting from September 2021
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Brands have cultural identities and roots, which often come out from the products and the company’s technical expertise and craftsmanship, while in other cases it is the result of a careful brand strategy and communication architecture. The management and exploitation of this area are increasingly important for global competitiveness In this area, professionals are required to possess skills in order to create value for the final customer and the different other targets of communication and marketing strategies, as well as being able to interact with all the segments of the pipeline from design and product management to marketing and retailing.
As a matter of fact, companies are conceiving these roles as based on multidisciplinary competences and on the ability of interacting with various “cultural languages”, understanding the sophisticated different feelings, moods and approaches that different market’ segments and targets possess,with traditional and digital tools and channels.
Thus, the capability to translate this cultural D.N.A. and heritage into policy and managerial guidelines for the different processes involving brand positioning, advertising and marketing, communication and promotion is the next challenge that companies are facing.
Visual imagery, communication conception, digital management, layout design, events and press management are the founding pillars of this profession. Milan – the Italian capital city of communication – the ideal setting and a competitive edge for a comprehensive learning environment.
The Master Course is completely in English.
During the whole course an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant is available for both Italian and foreign students.
Deadlines
- Start of registration: 5 February 2021
- End of registration: 30 November 2021
- Orientation day: 21 January 2022
- Lectures’ start: 24 January 2022
- Duration of the Master: 1 year, 60 credits, 1200 hours
- Internship: starting from September 2021
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From Buying To Digital Fashion Marketing
Fashion Buyer. Marketing Manager. Omnichannel Strategist. Managing the business of a Fashion Company means to combine fashion marketing, fashion management and fashion retail. In the Master in Fashion Direction: Brand & Business Management more than one discipline will be merged, in order to train the most qualified and innovative professional figures who will be responsible of the business management in the world of fashion and luxury.
First step: studying the business models, their evolution, and their business strategies in the
industry.
Second step: recognizing and studying the different retail and business channels, the underlying business
logics and in their specific operations: from fashion buying and retail merchandising, to sales &
digital management.
Third step: understanding the consumer and the relationships between different channels.
From the analysis of customer’s behaviors and the influence of the sensory design and their lifestyles, until the omnichannel strategy and the digital integration. Our objective: to put the consumer at the center, to create seamless experiences that connect all the different touchpoints, and to know how to identify and to generate and plan successful business and retail strategies.
The Master Course is completely in English. During the whole course an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant will be available for both Italian and foreign students.
Deadlines
- Start of registration: 5 February 2021
- End of registration: 30 November 2021
- Orientation day: 21 January 2022
- Lectures’ start: 24 January 2022
- Duration of the Master: 1 year, 60 credits, 1200 hours
- Internship: starting from September 2021
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The most affluent Italian and International brands in the fashion/luxury ecosystem have been able to evolve and implement new strategies in the last decade. Be it managerial or design-related, these new initiatives were conceived to cater for an evolving competitive system as well as a more demanding consumer. Not only in fashion, but also lifestyle brands are extending their own vision and applying their brand values to a variety of sectors such as clothing, jewelry, beauty & cosmetics, all the way to the most advanced innovation in the experience sectors.
The key to the success of the aforementioned strategies is the unique capability to unite creativity, design and positioning strategy, creating products and services with a common denominator: knowing how to manager properly the hybrid procedures of design and innovation.
The Master in Fashion Direction: Brand & Lifestyle Management (60 CFU) is addressed to junior profiles aiming to enter the fashion and luxury world, with a solid knowledge of managerial strategies and typical marketing procedures of the "top of the range" fashion and lifestyle brands. This course will focus on business models in the fashion industry, to buying and merchandising procedures, and the management of marketing and digital communication.
The main graduating professional figures will be Junior Brand Manager, Merchandiser, Buyer, CRM Manager, Digital Manager and Marketing Manager. Newly appointed managers will also benefit from this course to discover how to manage upcoming challenges in terms of heritage, storytelling, and "know how", projected into an increasingly digital context. From fashion to branding to, luxury.
The Master Course is completely in English.
During the whole course an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant will be available for both
Italian and foreign students.
Deadlines
- Start of registration: 5 February 2021
- End of registration: 30 November 2021
- Orientation day: 21 January 2022
- Lectures’ start: 24 January 2022
- Duration of the Master: 1 year, 60 credits, 1200 hours
- Internship: starting from September 2021
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1st Edition. In collaboration with Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana
How a luxury fashion product can be sustainable? In the PSM Master, you’ll find all knowledge, competences and analysis tools need to define and to recognize a sustainable product-service system for a luxury Italian market. If it is true that the sustainability concept is not a temporary trend, in the contemporary, it’s a realistic approach to design and to create a new individual and collective corporate behavior, related to the surrounding world. In fashion, we can define this as a real strategic asset in which to invest and on which to investigate tools and working methods in order to be able to manage a product/service system and process complex and sustainable.
The aim of the Master is to update and deepen tomorrow’s managers what are the pillars inherent in the meanings of sustainability, the laws and regulations, the design approaches and the communication analysis tools so that it can lead the luxury fashion company to a greater awareness of its responsibility on the market.
The goal of the Master is to provide the knowledge, skills and analytical tools necessary to the definition and recognition of a system-product-service system and sustainable process for luxury fashion.
The Master Course is completely in English.
During the whole course an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant will be available for both Italian and foreign students.
MFI Campus, Via Durando 38, Milan
MFI Campus Bovisa Politecnico and part of the lessons at the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, Piazza del Duomo 31, Milan.
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Deadlines
- Start of registration: 5 February 2021
- End of registration: 30 November 2021
- Orientation day: 21 January 2022
- Lectures’ start: 24 January 2022
- Duration of the Master: 1 year, 60 credits, 1200 hours
- Internship: starting from September 2021
All the Milano Fashion Institute's Masters are first level University Masters, accredited by the Polytechnic of Milan, School of Design. All the Masters will release 60 university credits (CFU, i.e. "crediti formativi universitari").
Nowadays, fashion is manifested by accessories. Shoes, jewelry, bags and hats are the label of an exquisite style and taste. Symbols of distinction and identity, but also witnesses of the Italian artisanal knowledge of ‘’Made in Italy’’. The Master in Fashion Creation: Accessory Design has been conceived to fuse hands and mind, experimentation and tradition, technology and craft, prototype and industrial production, in collaboration with the most prominent companies in the sector. It allows an exceptional perspective on the unique world of accessory design, that consolidates competencies for fashion designers, accessory designers and product designers, looking to be introduced into diverse sectors of the fashion, luxury and lifestyle world. Thanks to the workshop-based structure, it will be possible to deepen multiple subject areas and expertise, through project activities developed in collaboration with Designers and international professionals from the sector. The Master Course is completely in English.
During the whole course, an Italian - English bilingual Teaching Assistant will be available for both Italian and foreign students.
DEADLINES
- Start of registration: 15 February 2021
- End of registration: 30 November 2021
- Orientation day: 21 January 2022
- Lectures’ start: 24 January 2022
- Duration of the Master: 1 year, 60 credits, 1200 hours
- Internship: starting from September 2022
- Location: BY PRESENCE, Campus MFI, Milan
The Master, unique at an international level, is jointly developed by the Milano Fashion Institute and Polidesign: it is a First Level University Master * that issues 60 university training credits (CFU).
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