Scuola Pubblica per la Moda

(Public School for Fashion) Set up in 1999 by the Lombardy Region with the collaboration of the National Chamber of Fashion and Fashion Industry, it offers various courses designed to equip students with the range of skills required to deal with the reality of the whole of the fashion industry. The main courses, which involve doing work experience with firms in the sector, are the two-year Fashion Design and Production/Styling courses. Textile Design, which focuses on textile designing, and Pattern-Making, for those hoping to get into the technical side of making clothes, are one-year courses.