These undergraduate programmes are designed for participants looking to enter the art world, and provide a complete education allowing participants to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to pursue a career in the chosen field.

Aimed at students with at least one year previous study in their selected area, study abroad semesters (5 – 6 months) offer participants a chance to gain invaluable insights into European style and lifestyle, cultural influences, trends, contemporary issues as well as the impact of luxury companies and brands, and creative and contemporary issues in art.

These full time postgraduate level courses are specialised programmes that support participants’ careers the design industries. They are designed for those who have already acquired specific skills in the appropriate area at undergraduate level, or for industry professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge of a specific subject area in design.

The Master programme in Digital Design for Immersive Experiences aims to train a new professional figure, expert in interactive technologies and tools to create memorable, multisensory “phygital” experiences for the corporate world, as well as the entertainment industry, the retail sector and the communication of cultural assets (all-digital museums, exhibitions).

Innovation, experimentation, interdisciplinarity: this is the perfect formula to combine technological excellence and creativity, in order to configurate the meaning of being a multimedia artist nowadays. Encouraging a critical approach to the potential of integrating different artistic languages, Multimedia Arts course interconnects theoretical and practical abilities with the goal to train key players in this fields.

These undergraduate programmes are designed for participants looking to enter the fashion world. They provide a complete education at undergraduate level and allow participants to acquire all of the necessary knowledge and skills to carry out a profession in their chosen subject.

The associate degree in fashion design program at Istituto Marangoni Miami ensures students with a successful future in the fashion industry. Marangoni fashion design students are prepared with the key skills and techniques to thrive in the world of fashion and develop their own creative ideas and individual styles.

An associate degree in fashion styling provides students with the teachings that are essential to succeed in the world of fashion.

Today’s fashion designers are catalysts of creativity, forming new trends, responding to consumer demands, industry developments and new technology, from initial design right through to the finished garment. Nurturing original style, this full time course trains highly skilled designers for the engaging fashion industry. Participants learn how to create collections from an accurate analysis of the market, the trends, materials and fabrics, as well as translating ideas and inspiration derived from any form, concept, or art, or simply from their own experiences, successfully combining a personal vision with industry needs, or brand design strategies.

Become fully qualified in the latest fashion and accessories design techniques and expand your career options. Covering clothing and accessories design, these three-year full-time courses encourage individual style and creativity, while also offering the chance to become multi-skilled fashion designers. Participants begin by studying the language of ready to wear, progressing through all stages of the design process including hand sketching, fashion illustration and digital design, as well as pattern making, pattern cutting and construction, right through to the finished garment or product – through a deep study of all the steps in collection development.

Become fully qualified in the latest fashion and accessories design techniques and expand your career options. Covering clothing and accessories design, these three-year full-time courses encourage individual style and creativity, while also offering the chance to become multi-skilled fashion designers. Participants begin by studying the language of ready to wear, progressing through all stages of the design process including hand sketching, fashion illustration and digital design, pattern making, pattern cutting and construction, right through to the finished garment or product.

The perfect fit: designers with marketing acumen and communication flair. This dynamic course combines creative and technical fashion design skills with an in-depth knowledge of marketing, communications, and business for the fashion industry, providing participants with both design and production skills, and relevant market information. Step into the fashion industry from both a creative and business perspective.

Become fully qualified in the latest fashion and accessories design techniques and expand your career options. Covering clothing and accessories design, these three-year full-time courses encourage individual style and creativity, while also offering the chance to become multi-skilled fashion designers. Participants begin by studying the language of ready to wear, progressing through all stages of the design process including hand sketching, fashion illustration and digital design, pattern making, pattern cutting and construction, right through to the finished garment or product.

These undergraduate programmes are designed for participants looking to enter the fashion world, and provide a complete education allowing participants to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to pursue a career in the chosen field.

Present, display and promote fashion

Characterised by emphasis on research and innovation, this course provides participants with a unique professional ability to interpret socio-cultural developments through aesthetic research and integrating it as new product languages into highly-innovative projects, combined with a strategic attention to new technologies and materials. Participants will engage in front-runner projects for prominent Italian design brands under the supervision of top-level art directors.

Both furniture and industrial product design overlap with many creative fields including crafts, fashion, art, and interior design. Product designers understand where these areas meet, making use of contemporary influences and appropriate methods in their own creative process, designing luxury furniture, bespoke one-off items, or products for industrial design and commercialisation.

Todays graphic designers not only work with technical image, they consider the look and feel of the design, they understand the message they need to communicate and their audience; visual designers take on a 360° view of the creative design process. This three year course investigates visual design communication by working on innovative ideas in graphic design and new media for all fields of the creative industries.

The fashion design bachelor degree trains students to use methods for clothing manufacturing and being aware of the demands or shifts in trends in the industry in order to create ideas that maintain relevance.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Styling forms future professionals and ‘creatives’ with the ability to work within the fashion system in areas of visual communication such as publishing, advertising, visual merchandising, trend or style forecasting and blogging.
The fashion stylist is an expert in fashion communication and must be able to define and produce a winning combination of component parts in order to create an image or ‘look’ to emphasize the style of a brand, a magazine or a person.
This can be achieved through the careful use of clothes, accessories, hair and make-up, through atmosphere and location and through the knowledge and analysis of contemporary and future trends. The skills lie in interpreting the soul of an article of clothing, or product, and communicating it through a unique style.

This short intensive 3-weeks course improves the standards of design research and creative portfolios presented for admission onto Istituto Marangoni master’s courses.

The overall aim of the course is to build on participants previous fashion design knowledge in order to unlock their potential in pattern cutting skills, along with providing a supportive postgraduate learning environment for personal and professional career development in this exciting industry.

This semester course teaches design techniques and production methods covering shoes, bags, and fashion collection design, improving skills in areas including illustration, and 2D / 3D design, and production processes and techniques.

Broaden your fashion career horizons

With a focus on femininity and the changing female silhouette, this semester course provides a multi-skilled approach to design covering both clothing and accessories design.

This semester course focuses on femininity and the changing female silhouette, in order to inject creative flair in the competitive world of womenswear apparel.

Participants will have the chance to build a solid knowledge of prints and how to use them in a kidswear collection – while taking into consideration the contemporary market needs and trends; this course will also provide them with the adequate tools to complement the apparel collection with specific accessories (shoes, bags and small leather goods dedicated to this world)

Structured in three intensive levels or ‘blocks’, participants build on their experience by progressing from one level to another. Due to the concentrated structure of this course, on successful completion participants will have gained a solid base in fashion design and garment construction to enable them to progress further in their studies to a higher level of comprehension and skill*, or embark on a career at entry level.

Research is key to building an individual style and nurturing creativity.

This semester course in Fashion Design covers skills in fashion illustration and garment construction, as well as investigating the engaging fashion industry through effective research, the basis to any fashion collection.

The programme curriculum has been designed to support the development of an individual project, applying creative and technical skills, guided by the professional expertise of Istituto Marangoni academic partners and staff, as well field researchers and visiting designers.

With a passion for style, and a creative mind full of visual ideas, participants learn how to communicate fashion through all the digital and physical channels currently used by the industry. They learn how to recognise, reinvent and define the style of a garment, a product or a brand through influential images.

The aim of this intensive course is to develop an innovative multidisciplinary expertise crossing fashion styling and communication, as well as fashion photography and 3D image development. Participants will be trained to produce digital visual content for fashion brands and social media, with a very strong focus on practical skills related to digital art direction.

This dynamic intensive course trains participants on essential technical and theoretical aspects related to the development of creative content for fashion (photography, video, styling and art direction).

Learn the ‘art’ of presenting products to ‘attract, captivate, & engage’, and ultimately sell to the fashion consumer. This semester course looks at the dynamics of communication including styling a product, in store display and layout, the use of POS, and successful product presentation.

Istituto Marangoni one-year foundation courses* prepare participants for entry into any of the three-year** undergraduate degree programmes, or three year courses, in the fashion or design fields. Over the course of the year participants are offered exciting new challenges that will improve their creative thinking, develop their broader fashion, design & art skills, and help them to identify where their true passion lies.

Over the course of the year participants are offered exciting new challenges that will improve their creative thinking, develop their broader fashion, design & art skills, and help them to identify where their true passion lies.

This one-year course provides participants with the necessary skills, practical ability and knowledge in the most important disciplines in fashion, namely Fashion Design, Fashion Business and Fashion Styling, delivering an exciting 360-degree vision into the world of fashion.

Throughout the two terms, students will engage in contemporary design thinking strategies, research methodologies, academic writing, sustainability issues in design and apply this knowledge into practical design solutions through sketching and rendering techniques, digital modelling, model making, prototyping, material analysis and manufacturing processes.

This carefully structured programme is designed to build your skills and knowledge in fashion design and an understanding of your potential in this rapidly changing industry.

This carefully structured programme is designed to build your skills and knowledge in fashion styling and an understanding of your potential in this rapidly changing industry.

The Master in Fashion, Art and Textile Innovation is conceived for highly creative professionals operating in the field of fashion and art. This exciting programme supports the development of creative practice through a project proposal and ongoing evaluation. The course is aimed at continuously exploring key ideas and critical issues by involving a wide range of specialists in the field, interdisciplinary practice, institutional networks, dynamic teaching and exhibition opportunities.

This dynamic course cultivates the design creativity, individual style and personal vision of participants while they respond to the rapidly evolving landscape of fashion through a series of project-based activities that reflect different aspects of industry practice. In this way, participants are challenged to develop their thinking about fashion – what it is and what it can become – to realise their full potential, while gaining advanced fashion design skills together with industry preparation. Participants graduate with an understanding of their unique identity as designers and of their position in the fashion industry based on market intelligence.

This dynamic course cultivates the design creativity, individual style and personal vision of participants while they respond to the rapidly evolving landscape of fashion through a series of project-based activities that reflect different aspects of industry practice. In this way, participants are challenged to develop their thinking about fashion – what it is and what it can become – to realise their full potential, while gaining advanced fashion design skills together with industry preparation. Participants graduate with an understanding of their unique identity as designers and of their position in the fashion industry based on market intelligence.

This dynamic course cultivates the design creativity, individual style and personal vision of participants while they respond to the rapidly evolving landscape of fashion through a series of project-based activities that reflect different aspects of industry practice. In this way, participants are challenged to develop their thinking about fashion – what it is and what it can become – to realise their full potential, while gaining advanced fashion design skills together with industry preparation. Participants graduate with an understanding of their unique identity as designers and of their position in the fashion industry based on market intelligence.

This 9-month course trains participants to become visual image experts, with advanced skills development in subjects such as: fashion styling knowledge, digital fashion editorials for both offline and online media and social platforms. Through technical experimentation, cultural content and creative research, the course analyzes how to reflect the dynamics of images within the fashion trend system, through communication channels such as animation and video-moods.

The luxury accessories industry has evolved from humble beginnings in producing functional add-ons, to the elevated status it has today: turning bags, shoes, belts and small leather goods into new iconic objects of desire. Accessories embellish fashion, and the fashion business recognizes the embellishment, beauty and fame of accessories ‘Made in Italy’ elevating them to an international product. Bridging creativity and business worlds, this course prepares specialized ‘sought after’ design and product management profiles.

Characterised by emphasis on research and innovation, this course provides participants with a unique professional ability to interpret socio-cultural developments through aesthetic research and integrating it as new product languages into highly-innovative projects, combined with a strategic attention to new technologies and materials. Participants will engage in front-runner projects for prominent Italian design brands under the supervision of top-level art directors.

Product design, project methodology and the added value of ‘Italianness’. This 15-month course (London) (including placement) is for individuals looking for advanced design skills, and an in-depth knowledge of the furniture and contemporary product design industry, becoming experts in managing and developing professional design projects. Participants learn how to integrate creativity with an extensive knowledge of materials, studying their properties and technical features alongside the application of new technologies.

The program provides a comprehensive view on the creation of finishing materials and textiles, as well as on consumer demand, the market and trends. The emphasis is on products for the premium segment.

During the programme, students will delve into the impact of aesthetics on humans’ ability to trust robots and how semtiotics and anthropology factors play a key role in defining the modalities and outcomes of these interactions.

Participants will develop a solid introduction into Istituto Marangoni teaching and learning methods and experience the intensive learning approach that is required in order to successfully progress onto one of the full-time fashion or design undergraduate programmes.

The “Foundation in Fashion & Design” programme offers students a broad knowledge of the practical and technical skills that support a chosen degree pathway.

Over the course of the 3 weeks, participants have the opportunity to develop their design and creative skills to produce an individual collection of t-shirt artwork ready for production.

This short course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of fashion design, how to formulate ideas and translate them into a visual representation.

Is your future in Fashion Design? On this creative design course participants have the chance to create their own fashion designs, and gain a valuable insight in the fabulous and fast-paced world of the fashion designer.

Over the course of the 3 weeks participants have the opportunity to really question and develop their own style to produce an individual and personal look book – a very individual and fun journey into style.

This dynamic short course focuses on the analysis of image and the development of style. From the definition of fashion moods to the importance of accessories, participants will evaluate aspects related to traits of the body and learn how to enhance and complement physical characteristics.

The course explores how the illustration can translate across different formats and can be produced using a variety of different techniques and technologies, by spotlighting illustrators who work in unusual manners, while also questioning what illustration can be.

Participants build their knowledge by being encouraged to unlock their potential ability to experiment, innovate and develop, incorporating new technologies and sustainable approaches.

The course takes participants from basic drawing and colouring techniques and guides them through the main tools needed to express design ideas, through to their visual representation based on the current fashion trends.

The Portfolio Design short course, featuring an exclusive collaboration with world-renowned talent scout Sara Sozzani Maino (Scouting and Educational Initiatives Advisor Vogue Italia & International Brand Ambassador Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana) is designed to equip students with the visual skills they need to communicate their design ideas.

This short course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of fashion design, how to formulate ideas and translate them into a visual representation.

This short course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of fashion design, how to formulate ideas and translate them into a visual representation.

The course aims to support participants’ understanding of the complex issues affecting the world of fashion business and the strategies that brands employ to navigate these challenges. Participants will experience a diversity of subjects including fashion communication, marketing, economics, finance, strategy, supply chain and trend forecasting, to provide a strong groundwork of the key principles and theories necessary for progression to postgraduate study.

Studying for an Associate of Applied Science degree in Fashion Business at Istituto Marangoni Miami allows students to progress their knowledge and expertise in the world of fashion through a specific mix of key features and skills in the fashion business that promotes the role of business within fashion.

Fashion business professionals drive the tactical and entrepreneurial spirit of a fashion company. They work on production, communication, marketing and retail and must possess a thorough knowledge of the fashion panorama. They are able to identify with great precision which tools they need to successfully position a brand, a collection or even a single product in the fashion and luxury markets. They are experts in the business of fashion. This full-time course is a strategic and market oriented blend of the main perspectives in fashion business; covering strategy, budgeting, finance, product development, fashion marketing, communication, branding, retail operations management and global distribution channels.

Specialise in fashion buying and decide what’s in store next season. Professional fashion buyers know how to select a balanced combination of products and brands that fully satisfy company sales targets, consumer demands, and market needs, planning and following strategic buying processes that are essential when taking a collection from the design showroom to the store. This three year full time course forms business professionals with core fashion buying skills covering all sectors of the fashion and luxury markets.

In a media-dominated world, being able to communicate and connect with consumers and engage them through different media techniques or digital channels is one of the most sought after and relevant skills in the fashion, luxury and creative industries.

The digital communication landscape has captured the interest and imagination of hundreds of millions of people.