One-Year Course in Fashion Styling
Becoming Fashion Stylist
A creative attitude, aesthetic sensibility, an eye for emerging trends and the ability to express visionary ideas. This is the profile of the Fashion Stylist, an expert in style and visionary creation, the architect of the final image with which a brand, a flagship or a fashion product presents itself and interfaces with the public. For this strategic role, the Fashion Stylist must not only be talented but also cultivate team spirit, develop marketing communication skills, know the research methodology and deepen the linguistic and metalinguistic codes of his or her public.
You will learn how to become a Fashion Stylist on our one-year course in fashion styling, where you will have the opportunity to learn all the techniques through fieldwork and increase the indispensable skills to handle the styling for fashion shows and advertisement campaigns, fashion reviews, lookbooks and catalogues, digital stores and storytelling…. and you will be able to transform everything else into a unique visual experience.
Aims of the course
The Fashion Styling course aims to create a image professional and develop the stylist’s professional role in many fields: advertising, personal styling, store styling, event styling, styling for publishing and digital media, right up to styling for television.
The 500-hour course includes classes with resident tutors with experience in the industry, external lecturers with an international profile and a programme of seminars and lectures that allows students to approach and have direct contact with the reality of work with the Made in Italy and international companies. In addition, practical lessons on different work sets – show-room, backstage, photographic sets – are organised, as well as shooting sessions that will allow students to acquire the autonomy needed to conceive, plan and create an editorial to include in their own professional portfolio to present to companies, designers, art directors and photographers.
MKS Milano Fashion School, being a core element of Backstage Service Group, can count on deep ties with MKS Milano Fashion Agency, which allows all its students the possibility of gaining high level professional experience while attending the course.
At the end of the academic year, each student will be ready to get work experience as a stylist assistant or to continue their studies by pursing a master’s degree.
Our ideal candidate
The course is open to those who want to embark on a career as a Fashion Stylist, whether they are students with A-levels or equivalent qualifications, or professionals who want to specialise in Fashion Styling.
Contents of the course
The one-year training course for the professional role of Stylist will provide specific grounding in the following:
• History of fashion, costume and art
• Fashion marketing
• Fashion styling
• Semiotics of clothing
• Fashion make-up, basics for the stylist
• Colour theory
• History of photography
• Photographic techniques
• Visual Merchandising
•Technology and marketing of textiles (fabrics and materials)
• Shooting
• Graphic processing and web design
• Final shooting: design of a fashion service
Educational activities
• Classroom lessons
• Workshops and seminars with industry specialists
• Lectures and meetings with industry opinion leaders
• Work groups, exercises and business game
• Internship
• Tutoring and Award participation
Information and dates
Start date and end date of the course: October 12th 2021 - July 2022
Attendance: From Tuesday to Friday - Timetable: from 9.30 am to 6 pm
Location of course secretariat, information and enrolment: Via S. Marta 18, 20123 Milan
Costs:
One-year course in Italian.
Annual fees (enrolment + tuition fees)
Enrolment fee: € 1.200
Tuition fees: € 5,700 to be paid by 30/09/20
Admission Requirements:
• “A” Level or vocational qualifications
• students must be over 18
• interview
Final exam and certificate
Internal + external panel.
The course is accredited by the Lombardy region. At the end of the course, after one or more final tests, the certificate is awarded (Proficiency Certificate) in accordance with the Italian Law 19/2007. The Proficiency Certificate awarded with the logo of the Lombardy Region is valid in accordance with the law in all national regions and across the EQF (European Qualification Framework) system throughout the European Union. Outside the EU, the certificate is recognised on the basis of agreements between the EU/Italy and individual states or international organisations.
Professional opportunities
Fashion Stylist
Visual Merchandiser
Fashion Image Consultant
CONTACT THE SECRETARIAT