Promoting Italian fashion design schools abroad and improving connections between schools and the fashion industry are key for future strategies, participants at a meeting of the national fashion committee's education commission said Thursday.
The commission is the brainchild of newly appointed Industry Minister Carlo Calenda and is coordinated by the Florence Center for Italian Fashion (CFMI), a non-profit set up in 1954 to promote Italian designers internationally.
"The Florence centre has been tasked with coordinating the training commission, which includes many design schools," explained CFMI President Andrea Cavicchi.
CFMI issues the fair trade and promotion guidelines for Pitti Immagine (in which it holds an 85% stake), and Ente Moda Italia (in which it holds a 50% share). The latter is a company that promotes Italian fashion abroad through international trade fairs and events. It also holds a 50% stake in Ente Fiere Maglieria e Abbigliamento (EFIMA), which oversees women's wear events in Milan.
The centre has just announced a donation of 70-100,000 euros for new lighting at Palazzo Pitti.
The lighting was officially presented at an event on Monday night, the eve of this week's 90th edition of Pitti Uomo, which runs in Florence through Friday.
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