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‘Higher Education in Fashion, the Italian manifesto

The ‘Manifesto of Higher Education in Fashion in Italy’ was promoted by the Florence Center for Italian Fashion, a complex commitment on several fronts, industrial activities, creative skills and cultural interests.

 

In support of the Schools and University Courses of Fashion in Italy, both public and private, and of the supply chain that completes the Fashion Training – which includes technical institutes and vocational schools and specialized in the various sectors of craftsmanship and manufacturing – and to enhance and promote at best the Italian role for the evolution of fashion, not only in Italy but in the world.

 

In short, the highlights of the Manifesto:

 

  1. Proposal for the establishment of a permanent body for observation, consultation, address and operational and collaboration proposal with the Ministry of Education, University and Research and the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

  1. Promotion of Italian Fashion with specific budgets for Fashion Training and for national and foreign events in synergy with existing authorities.

 

  1. Develop and enhance the multiple professional, specialist and research and innovation activities, with national and community support.

 

  1. Support students from non-European countries and their temporary presence for post-diploma internships and work experience.

 

Andrea Cavicchi, president of CFMI, talked with Carlo Capasa, president of the Italian National Chamber of Fashion; Sara Kozlowski, Director of Education and Professional Development of the Council of Fashion Designers of America-CFDA; and Martyn Roberts, Managing & Creative Director of Graduate Fashion Week-UK.

Also present were Maria Luisa Frisa, director of the degree course in design of fashion and multimedia arts at the IUAV University of Venice and curator of the White Book; Marco Ricchetti, consultant of Blumine srl and author of one of the texts of the White Book; Laura Lusuardi, MaxMara; Giovanni Battista Vacchi, Ernst Young’s consultant.

 

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