Polimoda

04/06/2026

During Polimoda's Business Week, the latest episode of Case of Wonders brought Fashion Styling students into a format designed to replicate real industry conditions: a portfolio speed dating session, one professional at a time, no second chances to make a first impression.

Students presented their work individually to six guests: Augusto Arduini (Creative Director), Riccardo Maria Chiacchio (Stylist and Art Director), Alessandra Corvasce (Special Project Lead, iO Donna), Matteo Maggini (Stylist and fashion contributor, D la Repubblica), Nicola Pantano (Digital Content Director and Fashion Editor, The Collector), and Letizia Schatzinger (Journalist and Fashion Disseminator).
The recurring lesson was clear. Strong visuals need a strong narrative behind them, or the work stays closed.

Read the full article on the Polimoda Journal. https://bit.ly/3Q6P9au

04/06/2026

Who do you think is hiding behind those curtains? 🙂‍↕️

03/06/2026

Business Week is one of the most concrete things Polimoda offers its students: a full week dedicated to meeting companies, attending interviews, and getting direct feedback on their work from people already working in the industry.

This year's edition brought together final-year undergraduate and master students from 14 courses, with companies from fashion and luxury joining from Italy and abroad. More than 1,000 interviews took place over the course of the week, online and in person. Some students also had the chance to present their portfolios in Blind Date sessions, in conversation with professionals who gave them honest, direct feedback.

Fashion is a competitive field. Knowing how to enter it is part of the education.

29/05/2026

29/05/2026

What happens when a student project earns a page in Vogue Italia?

The Vogue Italia team came to Polimoda's photography studios to share the real mechanics of editorial production: how a shoot is built, how decisions are made between art direction, styling, casting, and set design. Master in Fashion Art Direction students were then asked to develop their own proposals around a shared concept. One was chosen. That project was "Anatomy of Memory."

The editorial project reads as a visual progression through five distinct chapters, each with its own atmosphere and palette. Elisabetta Dessy, former Olympic swimmer and model for the world's leading fashion houses, carries the sequence forward as a figure that accumulates history with every image. A blank album runs through every frame, its pages closing one by one as the story settles.

The June 2026 issue of Vogue Italia, available in newsstands and online, features the work in full. Explore the project in depth on the Polimoda Journal: https://bit.ly/4nYEhIj

CREDITS
Photos by Kevin Rashid Giaquinto
Photography assistance by Giulia Calbi
Art direction by Carlota Costa Pessoa
Styling by Omer Goren
Casting by Marta Ribeiro Ferreira
Set design by Ivan Calbi
Glam by New Line Academy
Model: Elisabetta Dessy
Garments: Jacket by Tagliatore. Earrings and bracelet by Giovanni Raspini. Balenciaga dress from The AP Archive.
Cotton dress by Paul Molina Keziah. Jacket by Hyancinth Ottoman. Dress by Lessico Familiare. White dress by Alberta Ferretti. Pink dress by Lanvin from The AP Archive

28/05/2026

Taste has always been influenced by the world around us. What is new is how quietly that influence now operates.
For the Polimoda Journal, Master in Fashion Marketing & Communications student Claudia Nguyen Donate examines what happens when the forces shaping our aesthetic preferences are no longer editors or critics, but recommendation systems optimised for engagement.

Who benefits from that shift? And what gets left out?
Her essay engages with questions of cultural authority, digital visibility, and what it would take to develop a more conscious relationship with the content we consume.

Read the full article: https://bit.ly/4u5Pzfx

CREDITS
Photo by Lapo Quagli

27/05/2026

"Maria La Callas: The Art of Italian Costume Design in the Film" opened at the Benaki Museumin Athens, inaugurated with the patronage of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana.

At the centre of the exhibition: 18 costumes designed by Massimo Cantini Parrini for Angelina Jolie in the role of Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain's film "Maria", accompanied by jewellery and accessories. A project that brings the dialogue between fashion and cinema to one of Greece's most prestigious museums.

Polimoda is educational partner of the project. Students from the Undergraduate in Fashion Art Direction contributed to the visual identity of the exhibition, working on the layout, invitation, banner, poster, and digital catalogue. Polimoda was represented in Athens by its Director, Massimiliano Giornetti, who attended the inauguration and the press conference.

On view until 13 September, as part of the Giornate della Moda Italiana nel Mondo, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

CREDITS
Drawings by Massimo Cantini Parrini for the film Maria by Pablo Larraín
Photos by Andreas Schinas for Benaki Museum

25/05/2026

What happens when a garment is not worn, but activated?

"Turn It On and Off" is a Fashion Styling Workshop developed with Polimoda's Fashion Styling students, led by Davide Stucchi. Working between still life and image-making, students explored light, transparency, silhouette, and disappearance as styling tools.

Clothes became structures. Backlight, reflection, and obscurity became decisions. The final outcomes move between body and object, presence and absence, where styling is understood as something that can exist beyond the garment itself.

Stucchi's own practice around these questions is currently on view at Triennale Milano.

CREDITS
Image 1 and 2�Photography, art direction and styling by Mrittika Aurin Kuasha
Model: Lucia Fini
Image 3�Photography, art direction and styling by Manaswini Dash
Image 4�Photography, art direction and styling by Lucia Fini
Image 5�Photography, art direction and styling by Titus Rõer
Model: Ada Bassu
Image 6�Photography, art direction and styling by Alexander Bergman

21/05/2026

Two Polimoda students walked into a talk at Fondazione Sozzani in Milan and came out with something harder to name than notes.

Arina Kuzmich and Riccardo Rinaldi, both Undergraduate in Fashion Business students, attended an evening with Paolo Roversi, held in collaboration with Harper's Bazaar Italia. Roversi, whose career spans decades of work with Dior, the Pirelli Calendar, and some of the most quietly devastating portraits in fashion photography, spoke about what it actually means to be behind a camera. Not the mechanics of it, but the feeling.

In their piece for the Polimoda Journal, Arina and Riccardo reflect on his words, his Polaroids, and the idea that a mistake in a photograph is not something to correct but something to read. A new permanent space dedicated to his work, the Galleria Paolo Roversi, has opened these days: a place that moves through color, material, and texture the way his photographs move through light.

Read the full article: https://bit.ly/3PgOqn3

CREDITS
Written by Arina Kuzmich and Riccardo Rinaldi
Photos provided by Arina and Riccardo
Cover image Harper's Bazaar Italia May 2026 Edition

20/05/2026

Maddy Oppenhuis, Master in Fashion Marketing and Communications student at Polimoda, interviewed her fellow student and photographer Shai Shariv.

What came out of that conversation is a portrait of someone who believed in his own eye long before the industry did. Shai talks about starting out by shooting his friends, about the skate community that shaped how he sees people, and about what it means to stay true to that vision when the work grows into something much bigger.

His answer is not a strategy. It is a relationship with the people around him that has never really changed.

Read the full interview and see all the images. https://bit.ly/4v1httT

CREDITS
Written by: Maddy Oppenhuis
Images by: Shai Shariv