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Accessories Design

Fashion Department

The evolution of the Fashion System demands for the designers not only to be able to design collections, but also to be professional characters with growing multi-disciplinary competences, capable of managing and communicating with the various sectors involved. Today the fashion designer needs to be manager and art-director at the same time, and must be able to manage the project up to the product, the communication and the retail aspects.
Only in Italy and only in Milan it is possible to study at the centre of a Fashion System that is unique in the world and internationally recognized; Where the creativity of the fashion designers integrates with the production capacity, with the quality of fabrics and confection, with entrepreneurial abilities as well as with retail and communication innovations, allowing a direct contact with this world, its protagonists and events.

Despite the shared formative foundations with the Master Course in Fashion Design, the path of the Master Course in Accessories Design focuses specifically on everything that revolves around people and clothes. Bags, leather goods, shoes, glasses, gloves, belts, jewels, hats, scarves etc…. these items often become as significant creations as the clothes they should just complete and, for this reason, they often represent a strong element for characterization and style uniqueness.
The path of the Master Course in Accessories Design is a path of experience, research and project making, created combining the theoretic patrimony of innovative and expert didactics with the fundamental contribution of a close and concrete collaboration with prestigious companies and professionals, who chose to follow the students during their training. The course, in fact, is a sort of laboratory where to express one’s creative sensitivity according to manufacturing and entrepreneurial realities, thus allowing the young designer to experiment innovative design methodologies and to acquire a deep knowledge of the field in all its aspects.

 

Program

Beginning: January 2012
Duration: 12 months

The Master in Accessories Design lasts from January to December. The structure of the course is divided into two semesters.

- First semester (from January to July):
The teaching activity is initially run together with the Master course in Fashion Design (psychology, anthropology, socioeconomic forecasting, marketing and management, contemporary art) with the objective to update the skills acquired by the students in their backgrounds and to facilitate the integration in terms of exchange and contents. From March to July the course follows its specificity with project seminars and workshops.

- Second semester (from September to December):
The students are given the opportunity to work individually with companies and project leaders to realise their Master thesis.

Careers

The professional market for a fashion designer specialised in accessories is extremely fluid and open to collaborations of various kinds.
Besides, the world of accessories is increasingly growing in the international landscape and requires more and more specialisation.

The opportunities created by the course are the following, among others:
Companies producing accessories (footwear, small leather goods, bags, jewels, etc.)
Textile companies (scarves, neck scarves, etc)
Fashion Houses: design office

Application

The course addresses young undergraduates from schools specialized in Fashion, graduates in Fashion Design, Architecture, Public Relation, Art Schools who want to develop their professionalism and to all those who have an appropriate background to the Fashion field in terms of interests and professional background.

There is limited number of places on the course and participants will be selected on the basis of the documentation requested for admission.
Good knowledge of the English language is also required.

 

Tuition fee: 18.500 euro + 20% VAT.

Validation

The Master Diploma of Domus Academy, given at the end of the course, certifies the specialization achieved.
The achievement of the Diploma depends on the regular attendance and active participation to lectures and on the good results in the workshops and in the Master thesis.
The Master course is validated and awarded by the University of Wales and has a value of 180 credits.