Spotlight on youth

[On the: Istituto Secoli fashion show – Federica Dondi]

Fashion Graduate Italia is a prominent showcase for young people studying at schools of fashion, addressing and exploring the fashion industry through talks, master classes, fashion shows, presentations and job placements. At the 2022 edition, which took place from 3 to 5 November at Base in Milan, Italy’s top post-diploma fashion institutes and academies (members of Piattaforma Sistema Formativo Moda ETS, the ETS Fashion Education System Platform) presented their students’ clothing and accessories, demonstrating creativity and technical expertise: an essential combination in today’s world of work.

Milan’s Arsutoria School presented prototype accessories and projects emerging from a one-year advanced training programme in technical and aesthetic design of shoes and bags. The prototypes were produced during the ‘Design na Pele’ initiative promoted by ‘Brazilian Leather’, an international project set up under a partnership between the Brazilian Centre for the Tanning Industry and ApexBrasil.
In the first phase in the project, overseen by the Arsutoria Vision Lab research centre, the project involved a number of Brazilian tanneries in the development and creation of innovative leathers. In the second phase, a number of designers selected by the school from its international network of alumni used these leathers to design capsule collections of bags and/or shoes.

L’Accademia della Moda IUAD, che ha sedi a Milano e Napoli, ha presentato gli accessori degli studenti del Corso Biennale di II Livello in Design dell’Accessorio. Si tratta di un corso di laurea che mira a formare figure in grado di gestire la progettazione e lo sviluppo di collezioni di accessori, pelletteria e calzature, sia dal punto di vista stilistico, sia tecnico e produttivo.

Le passerelle hanno portato sotto i riflettori un concentrato di creatività degli studenti delle scuole, fra cui Istituto Marangoni, Istituto Secoli, Accademia IUAD, Naba, Modartech, IED, e altre, con proposte portabili o azzardate, frutto di ricerca sui materiali e sui tessuti, sulle forme e sugli accessori. Una creatività però non fine a se stessa, ma messa al servizio di soluzioni sostenibili, tese al risparmio energetico, allungamento della vita del prodotto, gestione del fine vita, secondo le linee guida individuate da Fashion Graduate per questa edizione, che era focalizzata sull’innovazione sostenibile.