The Master of Arts gives the students the necessary skills to handle experimental design, laboratory, and cultural projects that are linked to fashion and costume design. The course aims at investigating, over the two years, the topic of narration and mise-en-scène of garments created for specific events and bodies, covering the topic of archives and collections as heritage and starting points for designing.
Over the MA, students will have the opportunity to:
Through a didactical methodology that pairs theoretical with experimental and workshop-based experience, the MA enables the students to deepen their knowledge thanks to specialised courses, and to acquire the tools they need to develop fashion and costume design projects. The course will also provide for a number of activities in collaboration with the Italian fashion and costume design industry (such as guided tours of companies, laboratories, foundations, and archives; meetings with technical and professional figures; targeted projects) that will see the students get to know jobs, techniques, machines, and procedures in the field of garments and costume manufacture.
FIRST YEAR
In the first year, the students are guided into: researching and exploring their individual inclinations with the Fashion and costume design path; in creating prototypes with traditional and/or intuitive methods with the courses of Historical pattern making, Sartorial pattern making, and Draping and Moulage; materials experimentation with Textile design; in-depth study of the cultural themes related to Style, history of art and costume, and Phenomenology of styles.
SECOND YEAR
The second year finalises and directs the students' visions into their fashion and costume design final projects, supported by the knowledge acquired at the Tailoring Lab together with their Visual communication and Multimedia languages notions, showing the students' mastery of research, drawing, prototyping and representation methodologies as well as their consistent, self-sufficient, and professional approach.
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 year
Languages: Italian and English
Campus: Rome
Our faculty
Luca Poncellini is an architect and a designer with a PhD in the History of Architecture and City Planning. As a partner in the architecture office Cliostraat until 2009, he has curated projects and has lectured in Italy and in several countries throughout the world. His works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, at the Van Alen Institute in New York, at ETH in Zürich, at MAGA in Gallarate and at Triennale Milano. In 2008 he co-curated the retrospective exhibition Laszlo Hudec, in collaboration with the Hungarian Consulate in Shanghai. Since 2013 he has been the Course Leader of the MA in Interior Design. Between 2015 and 2019 directed the research lab and the project C-Park. Since 2019 he has been Design and Applied Arts Department Head.
After a number of collaborations with many top fashion designers, including Nanni Strada, Colomba Leddi joined Frammenti in 1992, a group experimenting with artisanal techniques to be applied to the clothing sector. In 1996, she opened her own atelier of tailor-made, unique pieces, and her label can be found in some of the best Italian and foreign boutiques, including Biffi in Milan, Philippe Model Maison in Paris, HP Deco in Japan, Thimbloom in Korea and Bird Boutique in New Zealand. She has participated in several fashion fairs and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including Passeggiata evanescente, with Melina Mulas, at Galleria Le 5 Venice, in Venice (2010), W. Women in Italian Design at Triennale Milano (2016-2017), Documenta 2020 – Windows in pandemic, Tsinghua University Art Museum Beijing (2020). She also works as a theatre and cinema costume designer and has taught at many different universities and academies.
Fashion and costume design historian, she has curated Italian and international exhibitions, catalogues and publications. She is involved in research revolving around applied arts in fashion, collaborating with the most important Italian and international theatrical tailoring and fashion design houses. She didactically directed Accademia Costume & Moda in Rome from 2005 to 2007. She taught History of Fashion Design and Research Techniques at the Accademia Costume & Moda and at the Ludovico Quaroni Faculty of Architecture in Rome until 2011. She collaborates Italian and international museums for the creation of cultural events dedicated to fashion.
NABA provides students with the opportunity to study abroad as part of their academic experience.
NABA Academic Coordination Office, in charge for the management of the exchange programmes, supports students in taking advantage of the international study opportunities through exchange programmes and promoting educational experiences thanks to a network including numerous prestigious international partner universities.
NABA counts more than 70 cooperation agreements with academies and universities through the Erasmus+ Programme in Europe and others international cooperation agreements with several universities outside Europe.
NABA has developed strong relationships with leading companies which that provide internships for NABA students, including 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.
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