TESSITURA STAMPERIA LUIGI VERGA E SIDIVAL FILA INDUSTRY PROJECT | MA IN ALTA MODA, FASHION DESIGN

After months of research, experimentation and creative dialogue, our Master in Alta Moda, Fashion Design students presented the final outcomes of the Industry Project developed in collaboration with Tessitura Stamperia Luigi Verga and artist Sidival Fila O.F.M., under the guidance of Project Leader Albino D’Amato.

The project represented far more than a simple academic exercise: it became a truly immersive experience at the heart of contemporary textile research, bringing together manufacturing heritage, artistic experimentation and design vision.

From the very beginning, the project “REDEMPTION – The New Life of Matter”encouraged students to engage with one of fashion’s most profound and complex dimensions: fabric as narrative language, emotional surface and living material.

Through their dialogue with Tessitura Stamperia Luigi Verga — a historic excellence of the Como textile district — students had the opportunity to closely explore production processes, printing techniques and innovative craftsmanship, coming into direct contact with a company that has collaborated for years with some of the world’s leading fashion maisons.

Alongside this industrial dimension, the exchange with artist Sidival Fila O.F.M. opened up a more intimate and conceptual reflection on the value of time, memory and the transformation of matter.

The artist’s works, renowned for their recovery and layering of fabrics, paper and lived materials, offered students a powerful starting point to develop a personal research process capable of going beyond the product itself and questioning the very meaning of creating fashion today.

The project concluded with the final presentation of the capsule collections and textiles specifically developed by the students for this occasion.

Among those attending the Final Presentation were Marila Gambini for Tessitura Stamperia Luigi Verga and artist Sidival Fila O.F.M., who followed the students’ creative journeys with great interest, engaging directly with them on concepts, creative choices and material development.

Each collection expressed a different approach to the relationship between textile, body and contemporaneity — from the symbolic value of artisanal gestures to the use of fabric as an expressive and identity-defining medium.

What makes this kind of experience truly unique is the opportunity for students to work directly with the real dynamics of the fashion industry, engaging with companies, artists and professionals from the very earliest stages of the creative process.

Within our Master in Alta Moda, Fashion Design, education is developed through a deeply immersive and project-based approach, where research, experimentation and dialogue with the professional world become an integral part of the learning journey.

For those who dream of transforming their creative sensibility into an authentic professional path, experiences like this represent far more than an academic project: they are the first concrete step into the fashion system.

Because designing fashion today means building visions, engaging with materials, imagining new languages and transforming research into experience.

And this is exactly where the journey of Accademia Costume & Moda students begins.

A heartfelt thank you to Marila, the entire Tessitura Stamperia Luigi Verga team, and Sidival for their continuous support of our students.