2-Year Master of Arts in Fashion: Design, Art & Technology
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Language: English | Start: October
2-YEAR MASTER OF ARTS
Duration 2 Years
Accreditation MUR/Italy
ECTS 120
In the contemporary landscape, where style and clothing play a paramount role in defining individuality and serve as a powerful medium for driving societal transformation, the 2-Year Master of Arts in Fashion: Design, Art & Technology introduces an innovative approach to creativity and the fashion industry.
The programme unlocks cross-cultural perspectives within multifaceted themes related to fashion design. It delves into the progressive convergence of fashion with new technologies, cutting-edge materials, and artificial intelligence, resulting in captivating immersive experiences and highly desirable tangible and virtual products.
Students will have the opportunity to explore and apply fashion that projects towards the future through an immersive journey encompassing revolutionary technologies for design representation, digital design, and a conscious and sustainable product vision.
The programme’s key focus areas include the following:
- Circular and sustainable practices
- Application of new technologies in fashion and its communication
- Study of style expressions within the contemporary context
- Experimentation of interdisciplinary techniques for defining fashion products
Students will engage in theoretical coursework, supported by a hands-on experience with a distinctive blend of workshops, seminars, specialised laboratories, and boot camps, allowing participants to effectively put their knowledge into practice.
During the first year of the 2-year Master of Arts programme in Fashion: Design, Art & Technology, you will consolidate and expand your fashion design skills by introducing, experimenting with, and applying new form-making methods that balance intention and function. You will learn digital design and manufacturing processes as extensions of traditional methods and tools.
Theoretical courses cover the phenomenology of styles and the social and cultural context of fashion, while workshops and labs focus on alternative fashion expression, materials research, and experimentation. The first semester focuses on research and development methods to provide a deeper understanding of the fashion industry. From the second semester onwards, you will apply your knowledge and experiment with cutting-edge tools and software.
During your second year, our expert faculty will challenge you to explore and defend your design concepts: the what and how alongside the why. Courses emphasise visual communication, the multimedia languages of fashion, materials innovation, and emerging technologies.
The year is dedicated to cultivating critical thinking through projects with an emphasis on sustainability and new technologies. You will participate in workshops, labs, and accelerator bootcamps. The second year also includes a 12-credit final thesis project. Among the optional activities, you can choose a professional learning experience or internship.
The programme aims to:
- Form future fashion design professionals capable of researching and applying creative design principles to explore innovative contexts and forge new propositions
- Engage in critical and analytical thinking about fashion design and the fashion system to strategies for success
- Promote new fashion design skills and knowledge needed for critical evaluation to integrate and manage innovation and new technologies, from initial creativity through production and distribution
- Develop business models that promote sustainability and ethical practices
- Engage in interdisciplinary development to drive innovation and unprecedented solutions
Designers/Professionals aiming at
- Investigating and exploring new fashion & design approaches, processes and technologies, also through the learning of new softwares
- Furtherly exploring critical thinking and research with academics and professionals
- Getting design “Mastery” in specific field
- Creating and developing own academic and professional network
- Having a wider access to PhD programmes
Candidates should hold a first-level degree and/or have significant professional experience in the areas of fashion, art, or other design disciplines. Those with related knowledge, skills, and training are also encouraged to apply.
This programme prepares students to a career in the following advanced roles:
- Fashion designer
- Fashion entrepreneur
- Creative director
- Community/sustainability / CSR (fashion) manager
- Innovation & transformation (fashion) manager
- R&D process / materials (fashion) innovator
- Digital fashion designer / 3D modeling designer
It will also prepare students to begin a PhD programme in the fashion design area.
The 2-year Master of Arts involves the following costs, in addition to the payment of a Degree Fee to be paid within one month before the course start date, equal to €540.
EU & EFTA students fee
First Year
€ 16.500
Pre-Enrollment: € 3.000
Tuition: € 13.500
Second Year
€ 16.500
Pre-Enrollment: € 3.000
Tuition: € 13.500
Non-EU Students Fee
First Year
€ 21.500
Pre-Enrollment: € 3.000
Tuition: € 18.500
Second Year
€ 21.500
Pre-Enrollment: € 3.000
Tuition: € 18.500
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After studying Fashion Design at Politecnico di Milano and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Margherita Mazza started collaborating as fashion and textile designer with various fashion brands and textile companies.
After studying Fashion Design at Politecnico di Milano and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Margherita Mazza started collaborating as fashion and textile designer with various fashion brands and textile companies.
Alongside her professional career, she also collaborate with diverse universities in Italy as Professor.
In 2015 she founded RITARITA, an independent brand that creates responsible capsule collections.