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Lucie and Luke Meier to mentor students of Polimoda's undergraduate fashion course

Lucie and Luke Meier, the designer couple who studied at Polimoda in Florence and led Jil Sander from 2017 to 2025, have decided to return to the Florentine school. Twenty-five years after meeting in Florence, the two creative directors will mentor students of the undergraduate course in Fashion Design as they develop their graduate collections....

Fashion

Polimoda Talent also awards a digital runway casting solution platform

Luigi Simonetti and Syncroni by Hatem Ben Hassine are the winners of Polimoda's Talent 2025. This is the programme that transforms the innovative ideas of the school's students and alumni, guiding them through a journey of entrepreneurial growth and experimentation in the fashion sector. After six months of development, mentorship and design...

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Fashion |Interview

Massimo Cantini Parrini, mentor for Polimoda's master's in costume design, on the role of the costume designer today

Polimoda's new master's in Costume design will launch in February. The course frames costume design as a narrative art form. It adopts a research-based methodological approach, aimed at providing students with a comprehensive and integrated understanding of the essential elements of costume design. Students will develop skills in historical...

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Video: Fashion institute Polimoda interviews fashion designer Iris van Herpen

In this video, the Fashion institute Polimoda interviews Iris van Herpen, a Dutch designer who has redefined the relationship between craftsmanship and couture. Watch the video below. Video: Polimoda via YouTube Photo credit: Catwalk Pictures

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Polimoda and Missoni launch master's program in Knitwear design

Polimoda announced yesterday its new master's degree in Knitwear design created in partnership with Missoni. It is a nine-month course from January 2020, presented with a video by Angela Missoni herself, president and creative director of the maison, live from the family atelier during the preparation of the new women's collection in September....

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“We have become strongly dependent on millennials”, says Gucci CEO

Marco Bizzarri, President and CEO of Gucci, is the protagonist of the second episode of “Polimoda Duets”, a series of interviews produced by Italian fashion school Polimoda for its social media channels. The first interviewee was Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović. In the video, Bizzarri comments on Gucci’s new wave of success under...

Fashion

AMD and Polimoda offer first joint summer school

The German AMD Akademie Mode & Design and the Italian fashion institute Polimoda offer for the first time a joint, four-week-long summer school called “Fashion Future”. Its aim, as the two fashion institutions announced in a press release yesterday, is to “develop perspectives of the future fashion panorama”. The first part of the summer school...

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Pioneer Alice Ferraz on the past, present and future of influencer marketing

Alice Ferraz is one of Brazil’s 20 most powerful women, according to Forbes Magazine. She was also ranked by Business of Fashion among the world’s 500 most influential people in fashion. The reason for earning such accolades? She founded the world’s first network of fashion and lifestyle bloggers, F*Hits, back in 2010 when marketing...

Culture

Polimoda launches documentary series with cultural icons, starting with Marina Abramović

Italian fashion school Polimoda is launching a series of documentary videos featuring icons of contemporary culture, to published on its YouTube, Instagram TV and Facebook profiles. On each episode of “Polimoda Duets”, an influential artist will be interviewed by a select journalist, scholar or expert in a relevant field. Serbian performance...

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Italian fashion school Polimoda teams up with Valentino for master’s in bag design

After launching a master in shoe design in partnership with Salvatore Ferragamo in July, Italian fashion institute Polimoda has teamed up with Valentino to offer a postgraduate program in bag design. Set to start in January 2019, the 9-month course will include classes, workshops and a brand-specific project in collaboration with the fashion...