Master of Arts in Textile Design
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-10-01 | - |
| 2024-10-01 | - |
| 2025-02-01 | - |
Program Overview
Through innovative workshops and cultural content, students develop a thorough understanding of textiles and their expressions in fashion and art. The program emphasizes collaboration with industry leaders, including Mantero Seta, and prepares graduates for careers as textile designers, knitwear designers, and other roles in the fashion industry.
Program Outline
Fashion Design
Master of Arts in
Textile Design
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The Programme: overview
The MA in Textile Design trains professional figures to manage creative processes in the fields of textile and knitwear design.
The course offers innovative and sustainable workshops as well as cultural contents that provide thorough knowledge of the textile subject and its expressions in the fashion and art fields. The program emphasizes a collaborative approach, with students working closely with companies in the Italian system, including the prestigious historic textile company Mantero Seta.
Through the MA, students will have the opportunity to:
- Analyze textiles and knitwear as distinct visual languages, interpreting and translating ideas into projects with an innovative, responsible, and sustainable spirit.
- Employ proper methodologies to the design process and its representation and communication, manifesting a professional mastery of knowledge and applications.
- Learn an integrated approach to the textile world, exploring the values and needs of a new, global humanity with consciousness and responsibility.
Study Plan
The Master of Arts enables students to deepen their knowledge through specialized studies and acquire the instruments necessary to realize textile design and knitwear design projects, in a practical workshop approach.
FIRST YEAR
- Introduces students to the textile categories and provides instruments for a sound understanding of textiles and their best use, through studies in traditional and digital textile design, knitwear design, draping, history of art and costume, phenomenology of styles, with in-depth analysis of the textile industry, Italian know-how, innovative and sustainable design thinking.
- The contamination of elements from the fields of culture, art, and fashion enriches the young designers' vision and inspiration.
- Through project-based and theoretical lectures, students have the opportunity to design a personal textile and knitwear collection, acquire a sound understanding of materials, and define their identity in terms of ideas, storytelling, shapes, manufacture, choice of materials, and technical drawing.
SECOND YEAR
- Through a strongly project-based approach, students continue their advanced studies in textile and knitwear design, completing all production phases of their textile and knitwear clothing collection project.
- They also learn about project methodology of visual communication, multimedia languages, and material culture.
- Students learn how to independently project a professional portfolio and use new digital techniques and instruments in the fashion professional world.
- The research and narration of original, experimental, and contemporary languages reinforces students' creative and analytical skills. These skills will be necessary to deal with the post-contemporary social dynamics and enter the processes of the professional fashion system.
Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Fashion Design
Title Awarded: Second Level Academic Degree in Fashion and Textile Design
Credits: 120 CFA
Starting: October 2024 - February 2025
Duration: 2 years
Languages: Italian and English
Campus: Milan
This includes companies like Chanel, Gabs, Staff International, Hugo Boss, Valentino Fashion Group, Ratti, Bembercell, Missoni, Tirelli Costumi, Guccio Gucci, Luisa Beccaria, Gianni Versace, Carrera's, E. C. (Costume National), Corneliani, Lorenzo Riva, Trussardi, Moschino, Federico Sangalli, Jil Sander Italia, Kenzo, ETRO, Gentucca Bini & Father, Gruppo Miroglio, Furla, Ermenegildo Zegna, Mantero, AEFFE, Ports1961.
- After the Master of Arts: Potential career opportunities include:
- Textile Designer
- Knitwear Designer
- Innovative and Sustainable Textile Designer
- Sustainable Fashion Designer
- Fibre and Textile Researcher
- Brand Director
- Creative Director
- Merchandiser
- Fabric Visual Merchandiser
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Undergraduate Programs:
Bachelor of Arts degrees in various fields, including design, fashion design, creative technologies, film and animation, graphic design and art direction, comics and visual storytelling, painting and visual arts, set design, and fashion marketing management.Postgraduate Programs:
Master of Arts degrees in various fields, including fashion design, design, communication and graphic design, media design and new technologies, and visual arts.Academic Masters:
First Level Academic Master Degrees in various fields, including contemporary art markets, photography and visual design, art and ecology, new urban design, Italian design, creative advertising, sustainable innovation communication, fashion digital marketing, business law for the fashion system, and screenwriting for series.Special Programs:
Gap year, foundation course, semester abroad programs, and summer courses.Other:
Master of Arts in Textile Design: Entry Requirements
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1) Secondary School Leaving Qualification (Diploma di Maturità)
- Completion of secondary school with a diploma in any field.
- Minimum average grades of 70/100 in Italian high schools.
- Minimum average grade of 75%
2) English Language Proficiency
Proof of English language skills through one of the following tests:
- IELTS Academic: minimum score 6.0 (with no individual band score below 5.5)
- TOEFL Internet-based: minimum score 85 (with a separate writing score of at least 23)
- Cambridge English Certificate Advanced (CAE): minimum grade C
- Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE): any grade
Additional Requirements for All Applicants:
- A motivation letter outlining goals, aspirations, and reasons for applying to the program.
