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Dennis Vanderbroek, founder of SDV and the spatial designer behind Rosalía's Lux Tour, joined Polimoda for the second year running for a session with Fashion Styling and Fashion Art Direction students. Working from artistic references ranging from Wolfgang Tillmans to Anne Imhof, students were challenged to design a space for a fashion brand and translate art history into a contemporary visual language.
We sat down with Vanderbroek to talk about his practice, interdisciplinarity, and what makes the most daring work in fashion. For Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck, design is not a service. It is an artistic practice rooted in research, storytelling and a deep commitment to concept.
Fernanda Castro, a Polimoda alumna, also brought her work to the Lux Tour, designing one of the looks that has captured the world's attention.
Read the full conversation on Polimoda Journal: www.polimoda.com/dennis-vanderbroek-spatial-design…
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Franc D'Ambrosio came to Florence for one night only, and Polimoda was there.
The American actor and singer, known worldwide for playing the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway more than 2,200 times and for his role as Anthony Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather III, brought his one-man show to Teatro Niccolini, Florence's oldest theatre. The evening moved between Broadway, opera, Italian classics, and personal memory, with D'Ambrosio speaking about his childhood in the Bronx, the mentors who shaped him including Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo, and the mother he introduced from the stage, seated in the front row.
Fashion Art Direction students Mariia Chukhrai and Gianluigi Di Maria had backstage access before the curtain rose and spoke with him after the performance. The conversation turned to identity, vulnerability, and a question few people are positioned to answer: what happens when you play the same role for over two decades?
Read the full article and see all the images on the Polimoda Journal. bit.ly/4euKloR
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Written by: Mariia Chukhrai, Undergraduate in Fashion Art Direction
Photos by: Gianluigi Di Maria, Undergraduate in Fashion Art Direction
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Each year, Polimoda dedicates a full week to one goal: connecting students with the fashion and luxury industry.
Business Week is not a career fair. It is a week of real interviews, real feedback, and real conversations between students and the companies they want to work for. This year, students in the final stages of their undergraduate and master programs took part, meeting companies from Italy and abroad across online and in-person sessions.
Alongside the interviews, Blind Date sessions gave students the chance to present their portfolios directly to professionals and receive honest feedback on their work.
What students leave with is not just a list of contacts. It is a clearer sense of where they are headed and what it will take to get there.
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"Anatomy of Memory" is the editorial project developed by Master in Fashion Art Direction students at Polimoda, in collaboration with the creative team of Vogue Italia
The project takes memory as its subject, not as something to look back on, but as something that accumulates on the body and changes its shape. The project moves through five chapters, each built around a distinct visual tone and emotional shift. A large blank album appears in every image, its pages closing as the sequence advances, marking what has been absorbed and left behind. At the centre of the sequence, Elisabetta Dessy, former Olympic swimmer and model for the world's leading fashion houses, anchors every chapter with a presence that makes memory tangible.
The project is published in the June 2026 issue of Vogue Italia, available in newsstands and online. The full story behind the project is on the Polimoda Journal: bit.ly/43CIKqK
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We tend to think of personal taste as something we develop on our own. But the algorithms we use every day to discover music, fashion, and culture are not neutral.
For the Polimoda Journal, Master in Fashion Marketing & Communications student Claudia Nguyen Donate examines what it means when the algorithm, not a person, decides what we see, and what we end up wanting.
The full article is available on the Polimoda Journal: bit.ly/3Q7hEF6
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"Maria La Callas: The Art of Italian Costume Design in the Film" is an exhibition inaugurated at the Benaki Museum in Athens, realised in collaboration with Polimoda as educational partner, under 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. The show traces the aesthetic of Italian elegance from the 1950s to the 1970s, bringing the dialogue between fashion and cinema to one of Greece's most significant cultural institutions.
Students from the Undergraduate in Fashion Art Direction at Polimoda contributed to the visual identity of the show: exhibition layout, invitation, banner, poster, and digital catalogue.
The exhibition is open to the public until 13 September.
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Drawings by Massimo Cantini Parrini for the film Maria by Pablo Larraín
Photos by Andreas Schinas for Benaki Museum
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"Turn It On and Off" is a Fashion Styling Workshop developed with Polimoda students, led by Davide Stucchi.
Working between still life and image-making, students explored styling through light, transparency, silhouette, and disappearance. Garments were treated not as clothes to be worn, but as structures to activate: suspended, backlit, obscured, reflected, or transformed into presence through absence.
The final outcomes move between body and object, intimacy and apparition, where the image evokes more than it describes.
Stucchi's current exhibition at Triennale Milano extends the same inquiry beyond the classroom.
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Paolo Roversi once said that for him, photographing means looking with your eyes closed. Polimoda students Arina Kuzmich and Riccardo Rinaldi attended a talk with him at Fondazione Sozzani in Milan, organised in collaboration with Harper's Bazaar Italia, and tried to understand what that actually means.
Their piece moves between Roversi's early still-life work in Paris, his mastery of the Polaroid, and the quiet radicalism of choosing imperfection in an industry that has spent decades doing the opposite. These days, that body of work has found a permanent home in the Galleria Paolo Roversi, a space conceived as a journey through the artist's mind, where colors, materials, and textures carry the same weight as his photographs.
Read the full article: bit.ly/3RlULhv
Cover image Harper's Bazaar Italia May 2026 Edition
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Fellow students Maddy Oppenhuis and Shai Shariv sat down for a conversation that starts with photography and ends up somewhere more personal.
Shai, a Master in Fashion Marketing and Communications student at Polimoda, talks about growing up in the skate community, about what it means to back yourself before you have any reason to, about the people who made his work possible, and about why staying close to where you started is not a limitation but a strength.
Read the full interview and see all the images on the Polimoda Journal: bit.ly/4tLrJW4
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The Devil Wears Prada 2 has provoked strong reactions from students, editors, and industry professionals alike.
Alara Arslan, Undergraduate in Fashion Marketing Management at Polimoda, went looking for the reason.
Writing for the Polimoda Journal, she finds it in a contradiction the film makes impossible to ignore: fashion exposed at its most hypocritical, and yet still utterly seductive. The dilemma of questioning the system while wanting a front row seat. Her conclusion is not comfortable, but it is honest, and it is worth reading before you decide what you think of the film.
The full review is on the Polimoda Journal. bit.ly/4tLT4Hv
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