EVERYONE TO POLIMODA
byVanessa Bozzi
So you thought that cinema was the only fabric
dreams were made of? You're wrong…because if it's true, as the song
says, that "wishes are wants," then those hungry for a wardrobe full
of clothes and a full shoe closet will be satisfied. Clothes and accessories.
Fashion and Design. It's a school…in Florence, a fairy-tale city for
realizing your dreams. Polimoda is one of the most prestigious schools
of fashion in Italy and as a consequence - in the world. You enter
- if you pass the test - dreamer (dreamt of) and starving for patterns
and fashion plates and you come out sylist, or patternmaker, or marketing
expert. In the meantime, the fable and creation of clothes and dreams
are consumated in a scenario straight out of a fairy tale in Villa
Strozzi, close to the center of Florence. Here there are the administrative
offices, the rooms, the library, the tech labs. In Prato there are
the textile and knitwear labs. Interanationally recognized, Polimoda
organizes offers programs lasting from one to three years, some of
which are in collaboration with FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology)
of New York. And for whomever burns the sacred flame of Fashion, even
during the torridly hot Florentine summer - one-to-three-week mini-courses
on Fashion Design. Lessons to attend, exams to take, work, study and
expenses. But then what? Loads and loads of employment opps in the
fashion sector. 85% of Polimoda grads have found the job of their
dreams. The credit goes to their teachers - the heart of the excellence
of the school and of the array of fashion houses that take on "Polimoders"
for company internships. Albert Ferretti, Kenzo, Hugo Boss, Krizia,
Valentino, Byblos, Max Mara, Genny, Gattinoni, Ferragamo, Donna Kran
and Benetton. Here the kids with pencil in hand and ideas in the head
find professional help and growth. And in the world of books and the
planet of work - limbo, a necessary adventure. The end-of-the-year
fashion show that the Design Students put together at the end of their
three-year labor. With the super-super vision of great stylists. How
could you come out of this unprepared? That's why Italians, but also
American and even far away Japanese students, face the expense and
travel concretely to live out the not-so undreamable dream.
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