opening hours:

monday to friday - 8,00am - 20,00pm

The Design Lab, located near by Villa Strozzi, hosts many classrooms where patternmaking, fashion design and sewing classes are held and it is truly the “creative” facility of Polimoda, always bustling with activity and full of fabrics, colors, mannequins and professional machinery: a real design lab!
All the labs are equipped with industrial machinery used to realize didactic projects within an environment that faithfully reflects the reality of fashion companies. The equipment is comprised of more than 200 pieces of highly specialized machinery: sewing machines, professional instruments used to refine prototypes, ironing boards, flat knitting machines and looper machines: all these instruments make Polimoda Design Lab the Italian biggest didactic lab for manufacturing.
Students also have at their complete disposal all the materials and professional tools they need: muslin, paper pattern, french curves and compasses for pattern-making, buttonholes and zippers of all kinds, professional scissors, trimmings and buttons in different  shapes and materials. The Design lab also hosts a well furnished Shop where students can purchase all they need for lab activities such as basic sewing items or more technical products usually hard to find, provided by the best distributors in the field.
Moreover, the new “Manufacturing Office” is the place where students can rely on the professional experience of qualified experts in order to refine prototypes and their final collections.
This facility is open 12 hours a day, and in between classes students can use all the equipments to realize their projects or relax a bit in the chill out, wi-fi area. The Design Lab staff is specifically trained for maintenance and is always willing to assist students with the kindness and experience Polimoda is renowned for.