Fashion Styling Specialist

  Italy

• Milan: 
Milan

Term: Throughout the year 

Description: The stylist has an excellent sense of fashion and is able to create a look that is instantly recognizable and identifiable.

The stylist plays a key role during a photo shoot and/or a fashion show, helping to convey what theme the photographer, models, make-up artists and hair-stylists must adopt, studies the correct ambiance, finds the right accessories, studies proper placement, and is in charge of fittings, etc.

The stylist is also in charge of visual merchandising and/or works with magazines to decide what to display for the upcoming season.

The success of a fashion collection largely depends on the image the stylist creates. They play the central role from the realization of a collection and its success in fashion shows to advertising campaigns.

Our clothes show the changes of tastes, hopes and attitudes of an individual towards the environment and a chance to foresee the future in some cases.
The understanding of all these aspects is the core matter of the research of new trend and an inspiration to create new clothes that will meet the customers current and future needs.

Those who work in this field are able to analyze the historical and cultural aspects of our present time and social changes trying to foresee the possible developments. This kind of psychological analysis finally brings to a final result that is the creation of a new style.

They can support the work of well-known companies that wish to invest in the research and development field. Our goal is to train skilled market experts, people who can study the different styles, foresee future moods providing the stylist and all his staff the needed advice to create a number of products that really meet customers needs and can, at the same time, foresee future tastes.

Frequency and Duration

The student attends lessons in fixed hours. The number of students accepted is limited and applications can be submitted until the exhaustion of available seats.

Duration course: 216 h. of lesson + 50 h. event schedule
Duration single lesson: 6 h.
Attendance: from Monday to Friday
Hours: 9:30 - 12:30 / 14:00 - 17:00

To participate there is a minimum age requirements of 18 years of age.

Highlights: Course Program

Fashion and style, the beginning
Costume, fashion and style: from civilization to renaissance
From Baroque to the bourgeois époque
The 1900s style of eccentricism
The 2000s and the global market
Fibres, thread, textiles and material
Show room. Sociology of the shop window
Store concept and visual merchandising
Different types of stile: editorial and creative
Fashion styling today
Comparison between style and design
Chromatology
Accessories
Marketing in fashion
Introduction to commercial fashion
Clients and target analysis (demographics, psychographics and prime locations)
Introduction to sales techniques in fashion (includes reference to production cycles in fashion)
Producing a fashion show
Individual celebrity analysis
Who's who in fashion
Portfolio preparation for presentations to agencies and publishers

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: Enrollment fee: 250 Euro (UE) / 350 Euro (Non UE); Tution fee: 4950 Euro

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Italy Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 8-12

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Other
• Phone Interview
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

UpToDate Fashion Academy's Mission Statement: UpToDate Fashion Academy is built on the highest qualifications in the field, founded on a new concept incorporating creativity, professionalism and trend research. The UpToDate project was born in Milan in 2001 to offer courses of high technicality and creativity, geared towards up and coming professionals in the world of fashion & beauty. Your creativity, passion, and interest in the world of fashion and beauty require proper support, attention, orientation, and value that are provided by our Academy. UpToDate values the students capabilities and talents, and provides them with the highest degree of instruction from qualified professionals, while keeping in mind each students aspiration and creative projects. UpToDate Fashion Academy strives for student placement in the working world in their chosen profession through our placement services in companies, fashion houses, griffes, and professional environments of international fame.

Year Founded: 2001