This department trains future fashion designers. It prepares students to become specialists in the artistic design of clothing capable of creating collections with a strong creative component in which manual skills and knowledge of craft and industrial techniques are applied in an innovative way. The department focuses on a cultural training that fosters through research, the development of talent and the deepening of methods of transforming the creative impulse into innovative and competitive fashion collections. The student acquires the ability to realise the project idea, to carry out its correct evaluation, to select and analyse awareness material and to manage the relationship between feasibility and expressive needs including quality/cost/limit of materials. The student is trained in the study and research of textile and non-textile materials with the aim of finding new multi-material formal languages. In the first three years of the Professional Degree, the teaching units are as follows: