Polimoda has a new didactic director

The directors' board from Polimoda, international Institute for Fashion Design and Marketing, has nominated Linda Loppa didactic director of the school. Linda Loppa is an important person in the international fashion panorama and already director of the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp as well as founder of the Flanders Fashion Institute in Antwerp. She is also internationally recognized as the scout of some of the best creative talents who came out during the last years, and of the Fashion Museum "MoMu."

Ferruccio Ferragamo, the president of Polimoda, declares, "One of the key points of my program is strengthening the school's didactic. To be able to face this challenge in the best way, we wanted to collaborate with Linda Loppa, knowing that her projectistic abilities and her professional background could help us a lot in creating the bases for a new development cycle of the school and in provoking an important relapse on the Italian fashion system and our territory of reference."

Linda Loppa was born in Antwerp (Belgium) and has 25 years of didactic and managing experience within the fashion formation. She will be responsible of Polimoda's didactics and work side by side with Philip Taylor, the General Director.

Polimoda's new didactic director declared, "The Italian fashion design has been a big inspiration at the beginning of my career and the fashion education is a passion that has always guided my life. I am extremely happy to transfer this passion for fashion and style to Polimoda and to collaborate with the school's team. Polimoda has registered a constant growth during the last 8 years (about 10% per year), in addition to the activation of an ample range of new courses (post-diploma as well as post-degree masters). Nowadays Polimoda has about 900 enrolled students, with an occupation rate of more than 85% (6 months after the diploma) in the selected field of specialization. (14/09/2006)(ANSA

A comment by Director General Polimoda Phil Taylor

I am exteremly happy at Linda's arrival.
She is considered by us ( and not only by us ) to be one of the most important didactic impulses in the fashion industry today at an international level.
Her arrival re-enforces our offer to students very considerably indeed.

But Linda is also a very excellent personality - a very hard worker and a super team player and these qualities are very very important to us too in Polimoda.