Talented young American designers company used to have only a few options for protection of the elite – the heartbreakingly difficult to achieve, at Cooper Union, Parsons and FIT famous tough-yet-friendly.
However, the Marangoni Institute, an Italian school known as one of Europe’s best fashion reasons for training, wants more American students to come to its campus in Milan, Paris and London. And with alums and Domenico Dolce, Franco Moschino and Alessandra Facchinetti – not to mention his connections with some of the houses the best in the world of fashion – is a bit surprising that no Americans have students working more now.
The New York Post reports that the school, despite having come from U.S. property in 2007, only about 3-5 percent of U.S. students. Part of this has to do with the fact that Marangoni has a campus in the U.S., but that should change in coming years. Until then, a new recruiting office opened in New York has been accused of beefing the percentage of American matriculants.
One of the main ways they plan to do that? Do not use purely academic instructors.
“We have teachers who are just academic because we believe that academics can become detached from reality,” says Roberto Riccio, managing director of Marangoni. ”Time is crucial in fashion. If you can not change yourself and your mind at least twice a year, you risk losing touch.
Ouch. Sounds a bit like a stab to people like Tim Gunn, right?
But that’s okay. If you really want Marangoni more American students, who learn very quickly that you can catch more flies with honey than with cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil.
