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Degree Courses in Fashion Design

Discover the Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and Master’s degrees in Fashion Design at NABA

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Over 5,000 students are already enrolled at NABA

 

Become a Professional in the World of Fashion

Applications are now open for the 2024/25 Academic Year

NABA, the largest academy in Italy for art and design education, offers a comprehensive study programme in Communication and Graphic Design, providing students with both theoretical and practical skills to think in a multidisciplinary manner about complex concepts, adapt to changes, and envision future scenarios.

Campuses: Milan and Rome
Course Start Date: October 2024, with qualifications recognised by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) and internationally.

Enrol in February without losing the Academic Year

 

Missed the October enrolment? No problem! At NABA, we believe there’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to education. That’s why we offer a flexible February start, allowing you to dive into your studies without losing the academic year. You’ll experience the same innovative curriculum, expert faculty, and creative opportunities—just on a timeline that works for you. Whether you’re finalizing plans or seeking a fresh beginning, February is the perfect moment to join our vibrant community and stay on track for your degree.

Fashion Design Area: NABA's Academic Offer

Fashion Design

With a practical approach and collaboration between disciplines that recreate the synergies of a real work team, the Bachelor's program allows you to learn the languages and methodologies of fashion design for professional integration into the Italian and international fashion system.

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BACHELOR OF ARTS IN
Fashion Design
<p>This Bachelor's program prepares you to enter the Italian and international fashion system professionally. With a creative, practical, and interdisciplinary approach, it helps you develop your talent under the guidance of experienced instructors and through collaborations with companies connected to the cultural, social, and economic life of Milan and Rome.</p> <p>During the Bachelor's program, you will have the opportunity to:</p> <ul> <li>Learn the tools and design methodologies specific to Fashion Design</li> <li>Develop the ability to elaborate concepts and ideas, transforming them into complex projects while managing all phases of conception and realization</li> <li>Share professional experiences in teams and explore innovative forms of fashion entrepreneurship.</li> </ul>
Fashion Design

The MA trains individuals capable of managing the creative processes related to fashion design, from research to prototyping, allowing students to develop their own vision that is expressed in a highly personal portfolio.

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MASTER OF ARTS IN
Fashion Design
<p>The Biennium prepares you to manage the creative processes related to fashion design, from research to prototyping. Laboratory and cultural content will allow you to understand the elements of fashion language useful for creating a clothing collection. Professional instructors from the industry will guide you in discovering your vision and transforming it into a highly personal portfolio.</p> <p>During the Biennium, you will have the opportunity to:</p> <ul> <li>Evaluate the fashion phenomenon as an articulated visual language, interpreting and translating ideas into successful projects.</li> <li>Employ complex methodologies to complete multifaceted projects in multiple phases.</li> <li>Manage all steps of the production process, demonstrating mastery of a wide range of applications, knowledge, and skills.</li> </ul>
Fashion and Costume Design

The Master's program provides students with the tools to tackle fashion and costume projects, investigating the theme of storytelling and staging of garments, as well as the topic of archives understood as heritage and a starting point for design.

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MASTER OF ARTS IN
Fashion and Costume Design
<p>The Master's program will enable you to acquire the necessary skills to tackle experimental, laboratory, and cultural projects related to fashion and costume design. The course will explore the theme of storytelling and staging of garments created for specific events and bodies, addressing the topic of archives and repertoires as a starting point for design.</p> <p>During the Master's program, you will have the opportunity to:</p> <ul> <li>Analyze practical, theoretical, and artistic information related to fashion and costume phenomena</li> <li>Use complex methodologies to create clothing collections, haute couture, and costumes for performance</li> <li>Acquire professionalism, entrepreneurship, creativity, motivation, self-management skills, and communication abilities.</li> </ul>
Textile Design

Through a laboratory and interdisciplinary approach, the Master's program allows students to deepen their knowledge related to textile design for fashion, covering everything from fabric and knitwear to aspects connected to innovation, sustainability, and design thinking.

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MASTER OF ARTS IN
Textile Design
<p>Thanks to this Master's program, you will learn to manage the creative processes of textile design and knitwear. Through collaborations with Italian companies&mdash;starting with the prestigious historical textile company Mantero Seta, active since the academic year 2021/22&mdash;the course offers theoretical lessons and practical workshops that will allow you to engage with the fashion and art industries. Professional instructors in the field will guide you in discovering your vision and transforming it into a highly personal portfolio.</p> <p>During the Master's program, you will have the opportunity to:</p> <ul> <li>Analyze textiles and knitwear as articulated visual languages, translating your ideas into sustainable and innovative projects</li> <li>Employ specific methodologies both in the design process and in its representation and communication</li> <li>Acquire an integrated and responsible approach to the textile world.</li> </ul>
Fashion Digital Marketing

The Master's program analyzes the developments of the contemporary fashion system to train professionals in the field of digital marketing, capable of creating specific content and strategies for fashion and lifestyle brands with an autonomous, innovative, and sustainable approach.

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ACADEMIC MASTER IN
Fashion Digital Marketing
<p>This Master's program offers an intensive course of study focused on the developments of the contemporary fashion system in terms of marketing, communication, and culture. The goal is to train you in the field of digital marketing, teaching you to create specific content and strategies for fashion and lifestyle brands. By studying technologies, tools, and digital media from both theoretical and practical perspectives, you will have the opportunity to develop an autonomous, innovative, and critical approach.</p> <p>During the Master's program, you will have the opportunity to:</p> <ul> <li>Understand the content, expressive languages, and tools underlying digital marketing in the fashion and lifestyle sectors</li> <li>Acquire skills in designing, planning, and implementing strategies dedicated to the fashion and digital systems</li> <li>Develop the ability to work in teams and manage various situations independently, while engaging with professionals and industry realities.</li> </ul>
Business Law for the Fashion System

The university Master's program is the result of a collaboration between NABA and the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO and aims to train highly qualified professionals capable of managing the legal, economic, and technological dynamics related to the fashion and textile system, with a focus on sustainability and digitalization.

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ACADEMIC MASTER IN
Business Law for the Fashion System
<p>This First-Level University Master's program is the result of collaboration between the Academy and the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO, with the goal of teaching you to manage the legal, economic, technological, and marketing dynamics related to the fashion and textile system, both nationally and internationally, with a particular focus on sustainability (environmental, economic, and sociocultural) and digitalization. It includes online lessons&mdash;both on-demand and live&mdash;on UNINETTUNO's e-learning platform and a week of in-person instruction at the NABA campus in Milan.</p> <p>During the Master's program, you will have the opportunity to:</p> <ul> <li>Understand the languages and tools of the disciplines surrounding the fashion system: economics, law, e-commerce, and new technologies</li> <li>Manage dynamics and issues of business and legal management in the national and international fashion system</li> <li>Develop an aptitude for managing case studies in the contexts of sustainability, digitalization, and new opportunities in the sector.</li> </ul>
A collaboration beetween NABA and UNINETTUNO University
Fashion Marketing Management

The course aims to train professionals capable of managing the multidisciplinary complexities of the fashion system, connecting the phases of product ideation and development with marketing, communication, and distribution strategies. Additionally, it provides the cultural, design, and management skills related to supply chain management and fashion marketing.

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BACHELOR OF ARTS IN
Fashion Marketing Management
<p>The Fashion Marketing Management course aims to train a professional capable of managing the multidisciplinary complexities of the fashion system, connecting the phases of product ideation and development with marketing, communication, and distribution strategies.</p> <p>The course provides cultural, design, and management skills related to supply chain management and fashion marketing.</p> <p>Students will develop brand vision and identity projects, digital communication, and distribution, starting from an understanding of the product system and designing strategic processes related to the new demands of the digital marketing market and new models of creative entrepreneurship.</p> <p>During the course, themes related to the supply chain and sustainable design will be addressed, with a focus on a product-system vision that innovatively considers the socio-cultural and sustainable impact of the fashion industry.</p> <p>Throughout the Bachelor's program, students will have the opportunity to:</p> <ul> <li>Acquire cultural and technical design skills related to fashion products</li> <li>Develop brand identity and brand vision projects in line with new market demands, the growth of digital commerce, and new models of creative entrepreneurship</li> <li>Explore multidisciplinary approaches and new scenarios.</li> </ul>

What NABA'S Fashion Design Alumni Say

Fashion Designer
PHAN DANG HOANG
Fashion Design

NABA taught me to understand that we were here not only to study, but also to improve ourselves and to make connections with other people.

I thank NABA, all my professors, my friends and all the people who supported me here at the Academy - they gave me the opportunity to change my life, to change my point of view, and to start my career.

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Undergraduate Fashion Design
PHAN DANG HOANG
<p>NABA taught me to understand that we were here not only to study, but also to improve ourselves and to make connections with other people.</p> <p>I thank NABA, all my professors, my friends and all the people who supported me here at the Academy - they gave me the opportunity to change my life, to change my point of view, and to start my career.</p>
Fashion Designer
Fashion Designer
LORENZO SEGHEZZI
Fashion Design

"The BA at NABA marked the beginning of a journey that I am custom-creating: I could never have had a better experience. First of all, it taught me to have a 360-degree vision on the world of art and fashion, offering me the right momentum to create a conscious business starting from scratch".

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Undergraduate Fashion Design
LORENZO SEGHEZZI
<p>"The BA at NABA marked the beginning of a journey that I am custom-creating: I could never have had a better experience. First of all, it taught me to have a 360-degree vision on the world of art and fashion, offering me the right momentum to create a conscious business starting from scratch".</p>
Fashion Designer
Fashion Designer
SALVATORE VIGNOLA
Fashion Design

"Along the course of my creativity, NABA marked an important step towards the necessary transformation, to experience an idea and attain the embodiment of a dream".

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Undergraduate Fashion Design
SALVATORE VIGNOLA
<p>"Along the course of my creativity, NABA marked an important step towards the necessary transformation, to experience an idea and attain the embodiment of a dream".</p>
Fashion Designer
Develop Your Talent in Fashion Design
  • INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATIONAL PATH
    You will engage in individual and group work, lectures and tutoring, experiments, and workshops.
  • COLLABORATIONS WITH LEADING COMPANIES
    Among the companies NABA collaborates with or has collaborated with are: Armani Hotel, Giulio Iacchetti, Studio Bestenheider, Vittorio Martini 1866, Intégral Ruedi Baur et Associés, The Swatch Group, Giorgio Armani, and Pininfarina Extra.
  • PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
    By choosing a Fashion Design course at NABA, you can start building your career in the world of Fashion! The professional opportunities available include: Fashion Designer, Textile Designer, Accessories Designer, Costume Designer, Product Manager, Art Director, Stylist, Image Consultant, Supply Chain Manager, Brand Manager, Fashion Buyer, Merchandiser, and Brand Designer.
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