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We are looking for the new faces of tomorrow’s fashion
• Have you always dreamed of treading the catwalk wearing the latest trend creations?
• Do you think you have what it takes to make a career in the world of fashion?
• Do you want to experience the emotion of a day under the floodlights of a real fashion show?
Don't miss the next street casting appointment for the Polimoda Fashion Show 2013!
On June 18, you could be among the protagonists of an exclusive fashion event, visited by top international journalists and representatives from the world of fashion.
THIRD CASTING DATE:
Friday, May 31
From 2pm to 5pm
Villa Favard
Via Curtatone, 1
Florence
For information: eventi@polimoda.com


June 3rd, 2013
9.30 am - 4.00 pm
Polimoda Villa Favard
Via Curtatone 1, Florence
Join our Orientation Day at Polimoda.
An orientation day exclusively for those interested in Polimoda Courses and Masters Courses. You can visit the Institute in the premises of Villa Favard, in the heart of Florence, and meet the Heads of Department who are available to advise you on your choice of career in the world of fashion and the training course most suited to your requirements.
Those who enroll on a Polimoda course during Orientation Day will be exempted from the enrolment fee of Euro 180*.
RESERVATION REQUIRED
For further information and reservation:
orientation@polimoda.com
tel.: +39 055 2750628
* To take advantage of the discount you will need to present a copy of a valid ID.


Polimoda Fashion Week, starting on June 18. Installations & web opportunities for young talents. (June, from 18 to 21)
18 June 2013 marks the start of the Polimoda Fashion Week with the Polimoda Fashion Show 2013, the showcase event for the graduating fourth-year Fashion Design students and the Fashion Technology third-years.
A week full of events & installations at Villa Favard.
Discover all the events of Polimoda Fashion Show and Fashion Week


Aula Magna, Villa Favard.
For its students, Polimoda organises the “Guest Lectures”, a series of seminars with illustrious guests and experts from the fashion industry, marketing and communication, at the Aula Magna of Villa Favard, Polimoda’s completely restored new headquarters.
These events, combined with a teaching staff made up of experts and professionals with many years’ experience in the fashion sector, ensure a cutting-edge training, constantly updated and aligned with the professional reality, direct evidence of the latest trends in the fashion industry and a practical approach to the world of work.


First selection - January 2013
The award ceremony will be held during Pitti Immagine Uomo, June 2013
Work has started on the special initiative between Moon Boot ® and Polimoda, involving approximately fifty 3rd year students from Marketing Management and Communication courses together with the Masters course in Fashion Communication.
This contest will explore the strength of the great Moon Boot ® history and the charm of young communication professionals of the future.
There are many possible proposals but only the best will be awarded in June 2013 during Pitti Immagine Uomo.
A contest therefore, highlighting young talent that, during the coming months, will develop a project dedicated to the Moon Boot ® brand.
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THE BRIDGE: FASHION, EDUCATION & THE CITY
Connecting Fashion, Education & the City
Polimoda for Super in collaboration with Fondazione Pitti Discovery
Super
February 23-25, 2013
Padiglione Visconti
Via Tortona, 58
Milan
Saturday 23 and Sunday 24
9.30am-6.30pm
Monday 25
9.30am-5.30pm
Free entrance
Two industrial venues open their doors to fashion and fashion education. Polimoda’s installation in Via Tortona builds a bridge between the past and the future (of fashion) between two locations and two institutions, two cities, countries, cultures and continents.
The bridge between Milano and Florence is the starting point for debate, error and de-construction of the past to invent the bridge for the future.
Designers, writers, researchers and photographers are connecting with buyers, retailers, fashion companies and the fashion media. The installation is linking the past and the future.
The wall is the bridge. The garments connect people.
“The bridge is the link between opposite points of view, injecting new blood into the system. Statues can begin to walk again, reappearing in different locations.” Danilo Venturi


Eleonora Bruno, a Polimoda former student, was one of the eight finalists of H&M Design Award 2013.
The participants at the contest were able to create their own collection, which has marched during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Stockholm.
Watch the video about the H&M Design Award 2013!
Discover Eleonora on Enquire Mag!

Fashion Industry and the GLAM Community
17 - 18 April 2013
Florence
On 1 March 2012 the Europeana Fashion project was launched. This exciting three-year project, co-funded by the European Commission within the ICT Policy Support Programme, will publish online by March 2015 over 700,000 fashion-related digital objects, ranging from historical dresses to accessories, photographs, posters, drawings, sketches, videos, and fashion catalogues.
Europeana Fashion is a best practice network of 22 partners, representing the leading public and private museums, archives and collections from 12 European countries.
For more information


Aber Gazzi, a Polimoda former student, has shown on the 22nd of March 2013 in Moscow Fashion Week!
Watch the video!
www.abergazzi.com
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Vintage. The irresistible charm of the past
From the youth protest movements of the sixties to the evolution of fashion trends to the analysis of vintage as a real costume media phenomenon
December 8, 2012 - May 30, 2013
In 800m² of exhibition space with over one hundred items including clothing, accessories and textiles, the exhibition illustrates how the practice of used objects has, over time, been able to promote the concept of an irresistible charm in all things second hand, creating a real costume phenomenon, today for the first time investigated in a scientific manner through a dedicated cultural initiative.
The exhibition space comprises four thematic cores, focusing ideally on the most significant moments on the journey that has made vintage a contemporary trend, universally identified and easily recognized.
This pathway showing the evolution of the vintage style has been made possible thanks to the collaboration from A.N.G.E.L.O. Vintage Clothing, one of the most important Italian vintage archives, as well as the generosity of prestigious fashion houses such as Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Pucci, Max Mara.
VINTAGE
Textile Museum
Via Puccetti, 3
Prato, Italy
Tuesday to Friday 10-18
Saturday & Sunday 10-19
Guided tours can be booked as well as participation in workshops.
Visit Museo del Tessuto


Focus on: Talents
Culture of Fashion and Talent for Polimoda Fashion Week (January, from 8 to 11)
Talent and Fashion Culture are the keys to the next POLIMODA FASHION WEEK, which takes place from January 8 to 11, 2013 during Pitti Uomo 83.
The protagonists of this edition are two POLIMODATALENTS: Erïk Bjerkesjö, who recently won Who Is On Next?/Pitti Uomo, and Yojiro Kake.
A week full of events at Villa Favard, and in and around the city
Discover all the events of Polimoda Fashion Week


January 2012, Villa Favard.
With the new edition of the Polimoda Fashion Week and Pitti Uomo, in January 2012 a new “nursery” of talents comes to birth: POLIMODATALENT. A launching-pad, comprising shows, installations, talks, workshops and a location of outstanding artistic value devoted to the former Polimoda students, youngsters with a passionate interest in design, marketing and communication, who present their vision of the future of fashion. In the new premises of Villa Favard, in a beautiful and ancient architectural complex, each semester the Director Linda Loppa and her team will select a young talent from among the most deserving former students to display the collections, innovative marketing concepts and communication projects of tomorrow.
At Villa Favard, a series of seminars with illustrious guests and experts for a direct evidence from the Fashion System.
More information

Information Request
Admission Request
Enrollment Fees 2012/2013 (PDF)
Enrollment Fees 2013/2014 (PDF)
Admission Exams (PDF)
Polimoda Scholarships

Summer at Polimoda offers a pared-down selection of our most popular courses, from the classics to the most innovative new subjects.
It is not necessary to take an entrance exam, you will need to send your CV so that we can be sure of the participants’ level of qualifications and motivation. What are you waiting for? Book your Polimoda Summer Course!









