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Haute Future Fashion Academy (HFFA) modifica
Haute Future Fashion Academy is an innovative reality high-level training in the field of High End Luxury Fashion, Haute Couture Concept and Design, founded in 2011 in partnership with the National Chamber of Italian Fashion (CNMI). The HFFA Campus is situated in the historic centre of Milan and occupies a strategic position, full of style offices and boutiques, just a stone’s throw away from the Duomo and via Montenapoleone, on Via Santa Marta, 18 (Mi), in the center of 5 Vie.
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Haute Future Fashion Academy is founded in 2011 in partnership with the National Chamber of Italian Fashion (CNMI).
It was set up in Milan, the international capital of Fashion and Design, with the aim of training a new generation of Creative Directors and Strategic Managers and to provide a practical response to the demand for increasingly diversified and specialised professional figures. Using an avant-garde approach, HFFA intends to restructure training within an international dimension geared towards the future. The aim is to rediscover craft skills and enhance Italian fashion goods.
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The HFFA is situated in the historic premises of the SIAM Institute, the Society for the Furtherment of Arts and Crafts (Società d'incoraggiamento d'arti e mestieri): set up as long ago as 1838, before national unification, it has always accompanied the processes of innovation that have involved the city of Milan and the whole of Italy.
The building has a surface area of over 5,000 m² and hosts, within its ancient Roman walls, prestigious historical and cultural resources such as the old Great Hall and the renowned Carlo Cattaneo Library, which contains over 6,500 texts and manuscripts dating to the eighteenth century. The structure is a true paradise in the centre of Milan; with two large courtyards full of plants and flowers and a terrace with wonderful views, the premises are designed to offer students the highest levels of comfort. Open from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm, the Academy also offers fantastic opportunities to socialise, thanks to large study areas, an elegant cafeteria and a Fashion Club, accessible to students and professionals in the Fashion and Design sector.
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The HFFA Method is composed by manual craft skills, combined with a search for expressive and artistic qualities, have returned to prominence thanks to a renewed interest in the practical aspects of “creating fashion”. This is why it is so important to provide students with the cultural tools and design skills that will prepare them for the world of work and enable them to make a successful impact at the highest levels of the Fashion System. An integral part of the HFFA teaching method consists of professional skills workshops, run on company-style lines, which enable the students to get hands-on experience of the requirements, rhythms and attitudes of the working environment. All our courses are designed in conjunction with the National Chamber of Italian Fashion and are designed on the basis of the practical needs and specific requirements of companies in the sector, with which we are in constant contact. The Teaching staff include experts with excellent academic and professional backgrounds who have established themselves in the Fashion and Luxury sector. This provides our students with the chance of working in direct contact both with professionals as well as with leading organisations and companies in the Fashion sector. Through their own job placement assistance service, HFFA supports and guides students in making the delicate transition from student to working professional helping companies find qualified resources. An expert in human resources will help the students look for an internship or their first job by supporting them all the way through by thoroughly illustrating the various job opportunities in the Fashion and Design industry, preparing clear and efficient CV’s, putting together an impact portfolio, and sustaining job interviews confidently.
Once the young professionals attain their qualification and pass the initial stage into the working world, they will have access to the Career Service HFFA: a narrowly-specialized professional consultancy service. Career Service HFFA was born with the objective of facilitating and accelerating career growth in the Fashion industry to reach rewarding, stable, and prestigious positions.
LET YOUR TALENT SHINE modifica
Haute Future Fashion Academy is pleased to announce “LET YOUR TALENT SHINE". An extraordinary opportunity for top talents to participate in the selection procedure for scholarships to attend a Master and Intenssive One Year course in Milano starting on October 5th , 2015.
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HFFA is the first Advanced Training Academy. The lecture halls for teaching provide a friendly and stimulating environment, steeped in elegance and technology, and are equipped with Mac computers and a Wi-Fi connection. As well as lecture halls, there are also laboratories designed exclusively for various practical activities, such as the Dressmaking and Tailoring Atelier, Perfumery and Sound Design. During the activities, students will be assisted by a technical expert, a tutor who will guide them in learning the technologies and the equipment.
As well as the old Library of the Siam Institute, the Academy also offers its extraordinarily well-stocked Library of Fashion and Design. With over 6,000 volumes, including both old and modern texts, the library is accessible to students and professionals who can carry out academic research or consult texts for their own purposes.
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This complete, innovative course has high academic standards as well as firmly established relations with leading institutions and companies in the Fashion System. This makes HFFA a centre of excellence for students and a reference point for businesses that choose to invest and innovate in this strategic sector.
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Important ex student now stars of the fashion word are Luca Lin winner of Elle for Next Generation, the fashion contest promoted by Camera della Moda Italiana, and Galib Gasanov finalist on the 25th Riccione Fashion Show on Italy both Master in Art Direction for Fashion Design & Haute Couture in HFFA 2014-15.
CNMI - CAMERA NAZIONALE DELLA MODA ITALIANA modifica
The National Chamber for Italian Fashion, founded in 1958, is the leading international Association for Fashion and the institution which has accompanied the history and success of Italian fashion worldwide. It coordinates, safeguards and promotes the image and excellence of Italian fashion. The National Chamber for Italian Fashion represents over 150 Italian companies which are leaders in the following sectors: pret-à-porter, haute couture, textiles, accessories, leather goods, shoes, services and distribution. CNMI is the organising body of Milano Moda Donna and Milano Moda Uomo, the most important Fashion Weeks for presenting pret-à-porter collections which are attended by over 2000 journalists from all over the world and over 15,000 buyers. As well as the eagerly awaited fashion weeks, CNMI organises events devoted to the sector throughout the year, focusing on pre-collections, sales campaigns in showrooms and synergies with the world of design. CNMI is also involved in forging strategic alliances and International agreements, such as the agreement with the Fédération Française and the China Fashion Association.