Three worlds. One way of making them your own.
The Bachelor of Arts in Costume & Fashion at Accademia Costume & Moda brings together Costume, Fashion and Accessories within a single educational journey. Three different yet deeply interconnected worlds that you can explore to discover where to take your creativity and develop a complete vision of the design process.
You start with research, learn how to design, experiment with materials and techniques, and take your ideas through to realisation. You design a collection, imagine a costume, develop an accessory. You study the history and culture behind every project and learn to read the present in order to imagine what comes next.
Here, culture, technical skills and creativity work together. In the workshops, you turn ideas into tangible projects. Through projects with companies, you work on real briefs and challenges. You meet industry professionals and gain first-hand insight into both the fashion system and the world of costume for film, theatre and live performance. Step by step, you build the tools you need to transform an intuition into a project, and a project into a potential career.
Throughout the three years, you broaden your perspective to include textile design, accessories and the wider supply chain, learning to understand not only how a product is created, but everything around it: materials, people, processes, identity and the market.
Then comes the third year. It is time to bring everything you have learnt together and understand what truly belongs to you. Collections, projects, your Final Work and portfolio become the way you communicate who you are and what you can do, preparing you to move from education into the professional world.
Because studying Costume & Fashion is not simply about learning a profession. It means finding your own way of looking at the world and learning how to turn it into a project.
The programme prepares you to work across different areas of fashion, costume and the creative industries, including:
Have you finished secondary school and want to understand how to turn your creativity into a project?
The Bachelor of Arts in Costume & Fashion is for you if you want to explore Fashion Design, Costume and Accessories and learn how to develop an idea from beginning to end: from research to concept, from drawing to material selection, through to the realisation of the project.
It is a programme for curious people who observe what is happening around them and want to learn how to give shape to their ideas. You may come from a background unrelated to fashion: what matters is your desire to experiment, learn and develop your own approach to design.
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Secondary school diploma or equivalent qualification obtained abroad after at least 12 years of schooling;
Minimum B2 level of language proficiency.
The Orientation Office can help you find out about entry requirements, deadlines, scholarships and the admissions process.
In the absence of an ISEE certificate, Accademia automatically assigns the highest bracket.
Deferred payments: the tuition fee can be paid in 2, 5 or 8 instalments without a loan, or in a greater number of instalments with an interest-free loan.
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No. You do not need to have studied fashion before joining ACM. Our students come from a wide range of secondary school backgrounds. What matters is your curiosity, motivation and desire to explore the worlds of fashion, costume and accessories. Throughout the three-year programme, you will progressively develop the skills you need to design and develop your own projects.
No. Being able to draw can be a starting point, but it is not a requirement. Throughout the programme, you will learn the fundamentals of drawing, figure representation, fashion illustration and design and, year after year, develop your own personal way of representing ideas.
The programme opens up a range of professional opportunities across fashion, costume and accessories. You could work, among other roles, as a Fashion Designer, Accessories Designer, Costume Designer, Textile Designer, Fashion Illustrator, Merchandiser, Product Manager or Research & Development Manager. Your professional direction will also depend on the projects you develop throughout the programme and the creative identity you build over the years.
At the end of the three-year programme, you will receive a Bachelor of Arts Diploma, recognised by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) and equivalent to a three-year Bachelor’s degree.
