Some pictures taken during the Collecting :: Connecting 2 fashion show on Tuesday 3 July in Treviso Chamber of Commerce, organized by the undergraduate degree in Fashion Design.

Consult the pictures – fashion show

Backstage

The exhibition displaying clothes and accessories designed by all the students was inaugurated on Tuesday 3 July.

Consult the pictures – exhibition by students in their 1st year

Consult the pictures – exhibition by students in their 2nd year

Consult the pictures – exhibition by students in their 3rd year

Consult the pictures of the press conference

Consult the speech by Maria Luisa Frisa, director of the undergraduate degree in Fashion Design (audio)

Consult the speech by Reho, vice-chancellor (audio)

Consult the speech by Alessandra Pegorer, vice-president of Unindustria Treviso (audio)

Consult the speech by De Michelis, dean of faculty (audio)

Consult the speech by Federico Tessari, president of Treviso Chamber of Commerce (audio)

University Iuav of Venice / Faculty of Design and Arts
Undergraduate degree in Fashion Design

with the collaboration of
Treviso Chamber of Commerce
Unindustria Treviso

Thursday 3 July 2008 - TREVISO

COLLECTING :: CONNECTING  2
at 5 p.m., via Achille Papa, 1
             1 EXHIBITION
at 7 p.m., Sala Borsa of Treviso Chamber of Commerce
             1 FASHION SHOW

Introduction by: Carlo Magnani, chancellor of IUAV University of Venice; Marco De Michelis, dean of the faculty of Design and Arts; Federico Tessari, president of Treviso Chamber of Commerce; Alessandra Pegorer, president of the Gruppo Sistema Moda of Unindustria Treviso, and Maria Luisa Frisa, director of the undergraduate degree in Fashion Design

On 3 July 2008, Treviso will host COLLECTING :: CONNECTING 2 – 1 exhibition and 1 fashion show. This is an event, organized by the undergraduate degree in Fashion Design, in order to celebrate the conclusion of the first cycle of this 3-year period dedicated to fashion and its design: a unique degree, within Italian university context.

It is unique because it aims at excellence, but not only for that. Indeed, it aspires to constitute a new category of creative talents who will be able to deal with all the challenges that the global fashion system poses, and also to define the present-day identity and mission of an Italian fashion school. To understand qualities and specialties of the Italian style, and actively relate them with the fashion system; to try to be the forerunner of an autonomous training project, able to compete with the excellence of the world’s top fashion schools.

Results are already evident, as many students in their third year received job offers from prestigious firms and institutions in Italy and abroad.
The director of faculty, Ms. Maria Luisa Frisa, states that: “Clothing design is a complex process, hard to teach and difficult to learn. Here, students soon discover that fashion is a laborious field, where self-control, concentration and devotion to work are as important as creativity.
As a matter of fact, this undergraduate degree is based in Treviso, the throbbing heart of the productive North-East of Italy, which was recently called – a fitting neologism – INNOVeTION Valley, thanks to its vocation for innovation and research; moreover, it’s a creative core in terms of design as well as production processes and strategies for retail and communication”.

During the fashion show, clothes and accessories by the best students in their third year will be presented in the Sala Borsa of Treviso Chamber of Commerce. The event will be transmitted in the front square by some LED-displays. Before the fashion show starts, the exhibition will be inaugurated in the building in Via Achille Papa 1, displaying the works of students in the first through third years: a precious opportunity to understand how this school functions.

After the admissions test (60 students per year), students of the degree in Fashion Design (Faculty of Design and Arts, IUAV University of Venice) have laboratories of modelling, design and research at their disposal. This undergraduate programme, which is based in Treviso since three years ago thanks to the support and collaboration by Treviso Chamber of Commerce and Unindustria Treviso, boasts an international teaching staff composed of academics and professionals.

The educational programme is divided into design-research workshops and theoretical and technical courses. Over the 3-year degree programme, students acquire techniques and key knowledge in order to manage the design of clothes, accessories and their communication.

The applied workshops give students experience in designing, planning, model dressing, and in defining a collection through material and fabric research.
The programme aims at training fashion designers able to plan, design, and organise a fashion collection, to utilise diverse instruments and languages critically, and to reflect on the fashion industry as a cultural and communicative system.

Exhibition curated by Judith Clark, assistant to the curator Silvia Melatti
Fashion show directed by Maria Laura De Franceschi – MDF fashion&events
Coordinated by Amanda Montanari and Elisa Borghi

Main Sponsor
Banca Treviso

Special thanks to: Astoria vini, Cammelli, Dondi Jersey, Ichinomya Fashion Design Center – Ichinomiya (Japan), INNOVeTION Valley, Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Tipografia Asolana, United Colors of Benetton

Invitation

Registration form

Folder

COLLECTING  :: CONNECTING 1 (in Italian)

COLLECTING  :: CONNECTING 1 (in Italian)

For further information:

claDEM undergraduate degree in Fashion Design
Via Achille Papa 1, 31100 Treviso
designmoda@iuav.it
front desk and didactic secretariat office: +39 0422  54 11 25
fax: +39 0422 541374
www.iuav.it/fda

Press office: Leila Palermo @ Studio Next
t:+39 02 6887400
f: +39 02 684041
press@studionext.it