FASHION STYLIST course

One of the most coveted professions that combine incessantly creativity and fame is the Fashion Stylist. In our country, fashion means profit-making economy, a sector which does not at all or just a little suffer from the competition of Eastern markets, it means an increasing number of operators in the sector: “a market that gains”.
Here ensues the necessity to form professional figures that have both technical expertise and creativity: the fashion stylist is not only a designer but must inevitably also practise the ancient art of genuine tailoring revised from a modern point of view: he must be able to design the various clothing and accessory collections, to work out the plan with informatics, create the sartorial, industrial and CAD 2D/3D model, cut and manufacture the materials necessary to the realisation and realise the complete and unique masterpiece in all its details.
This course is held by experts and in collaboration with and the support of important fashion houses.

To communicate fashion means to represent it through image, language, events, media, testimonial or well-known personalities in the fashion world. The courses have the objective to supply a wide vision of the scenario of marketing and communication in general and with reference to the fashion sector in particular; to form professionals that are able to take their place in a working context in which creativity, flexibility, spirit of initiative and facility for interpersonal relations are the special qualities necessary to achieve success in the fashion world.

The Fashion Stylist is an expert on style and image of a collection.
He must be able to highlight the style of a fashion line, to design collections for ladies, men and children and to supervise all production stages as well as the presentation during all promotion phases such as fashion shows and advertising campaigns.
His work is extremely creative and alert to trends. The Fashion Stylist must be able to identify a winning style and to present a well-coordinated image. His person is indispensable for the success of a collection.

At the end of the course, he will be able to design a model, create a collection of ladies wear , menswear and children wear, to create a costume for a performance, to choose textiles, yarns and colours taking into account the (stylistic and commercial) fashion trends of the moment, to create and design accessories for clothing and fashion (shoes, purses, gloves, hats).
He is a master of the sartorial, industrial and CAD 2D/3D model techniques and of the realisation of a paper pattern and suit in its whole with industrial and haute couture techniques.

He is familiar with elements of marketing and communication for the promotion of the clothing and fashion system and is able to collaborate in the planning of advertising, information and promotion campaigns as well as in the participation in fairs, exhibitions and organisation of fashion shows.
His competence is significant as commodity economics are concerned as he knows well the materials, their chemical and physical characteristics, their employment, the evolution of textiles and yarns.
In addition, he has mastery of the evolution of figurative arts in the various historical periods with particular reference to the history of costume and fashion and its evolution from ancient times to the present.
He knows the computer programs of digital graphic representation and of photo retouch using softwares such as Photoshop and Illustrator and he knows the employment and techniques of fashion photography.
He also has a good command of foreign languages such as English and French indispensable for the execution of all his professional activities. He knows the social legislation, the National collective agreement in the sector, the set of rules of the sector concerning the practice of the entrepreneurial activity and the workers’ security, the specific normative sources, business administration and market strategies.
He is familiar with the National and International fashion system, the most important manufacturers (fibres, yarns, textiles, accessories), distributors (wholesalers, importers, large-scale retail trade), specialised fairs and exhibitions and markets of major concern to the sector (sales, purchase, delocalization of the production).