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Polimoda is in Bucharest during Mercedes-Benz Bucharest Fashion Week, where Director Massimiliano Giornetti confirmed the collaboration between Polimoda and the event for the Next Generation Fashion Talent Award.
The initiative is dedicated to discovering and supporting emerging fashion talent, offering the selected winner the opportunity to pursue a study path at Polimoda.
Through initiatives like this, Polimoda continues to engage with new generations of creatives and support the development of future fashion professionals.
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Changing the World with Your Wardrobe
Can innovation alone solve fashion’s sustainability challenges?
A guest lecture explored the environmental and ethical contradictions embedded in the industry, highlighting innovators working to reinvent fibers, dyes and recycled textiles.
The article examines how next-generation materials could reshape production while questioning whether technological innovation alone can transform the fashion system.
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Design, Think, Change
As conversations around sustainability intensify ahead of Sustainable Day, a student report reflects on how fashion education is engaging with real industry challenges.
Master in Sustainable Fashion student Mhari Reid shares insights from a final project developed within the business context of Ferragamo, exploring how sustainable innovation can be applied to contemporary fashion systems.
The article examines how future professionals are approaching sustainability through design thinking, responsible production, and long-term industry transformation.
Read the full article: bit.ly/3OVgQ5s
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Written by Mhari Reid
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Sustainable Reads
As conversations around sustainability unfold this week ahead of Sustainable Day, a curated selection of books and films offers a deeper look into the systems shaping fashion today.
From Elizabeth L. Cline’s investigation into fast fashion to Aja Barber’s critique of consumer culture, these titles explore the environmental and social dimensions of the industry.
Documentaries such as The True Cost, 2040, and A Life on Our Planet expand the discussion further, examining the broader climate context in which fashion operates.
Read the full article: bit.ly/3Nih1qN
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Library images by Serena Gallorini
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Is sustainability-focused education the future of fashion?
As the community approaches Sustainable Day, a week dedicated to sustainability in fashion, a broader question emerges: how should fashion education evolve to prepare the next generation?
Four professionals working across design, sustainability, and brand strategy reflect on how sustainability has evolved from a marketing concept to a structural reality within the industry.
From design decisions to supply chain transparency, the article explores why future professionals will need a deeper understanding of materials, production systems, and circular models.
Read the full article: bit.ly/4bd7w45
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Frederik Berner Kühl, Designer and Founder, Berner Kühl
Majdouline M’Saad, Head of Collection and Product Development, Camper
Maria Clara Prati, Industrial Sustainability Specialist, Prada Group
Seerat Virdi, Brand Manager, The R Collective
Images by Marco Gualtieri
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Is Fashion Art?
Fashion occupies a unique position among creative disciplines. It can hold both function and cultural meaning at the same time.
Inspired by a visit to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art during Copenhagen Fashion Week, fashion business student Aleksandra Popova examines how fashion relates to art, architecture, and cultural value.
From haute couture collections to the growing vintage archive market, garments often move across a spectrum between practical use and symbolic meaning.
The article proposes a framework for understanding fashion not as a choice between art and utility, but as a system capable of negotiating both.
Read the full article: bit.ly/4bhv8F4
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Written by Aleksandra Popova @popovaproductions
Cover image: AW26 Copenhagen Fashion Week Street Style. Photo by Noor Unisa Khan.
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Why Gen Z Fashion Students Are Rethinking Growth
Polimoda Fashion Business students worked with Copenhagen-based designer Frederik Berner Kühl to develop a real brand strategy proposal.
Instead of aggressive expansion, their project focused on controlled production, long-term brand coherence, and an eyewear collaboration structured through equity partnership.
The result reflects a generational shift in fashion strategy: prioritizing longevity and structural sustainability over rapid scale.
Read the full article
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Written by Polimoda Undergraduate Fashion Business students
Gabriela Buldo, Margherita Silli, Raina Ghashi, Ximena Rodriguez
Cover image: Internal retail display in Copenhagen of Berner Kühl x Projekt Produkt.
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Rebuild the system.
The Master in Fashion Marketing & Communications welcomes Isabella Rose Davey, COO of Copenhagen Fashion Week, as mentor.
With experience across fashion councils, brands and editorial, she brings a strategic, ecosystem-driven perspective to marketing leadership.
This mentorship focuses on:
– Industry structures
– Cultural impact
– Responsible communication
– Systemic change
Discover the program: bit.ly/4r5YSKN
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Sitting with discomfort.
In this new Journal article, @christopherroyalking reflects on the Valentino DeVain campaign, AI image-making, and why unsettling visuals may reveal more about us than polished ones ever could.
The conversation challenges binary thinking around AI and asks what it means to create images that do not resolve easily.
Read the full article: bit.ly/46UtuaQ
Written by Alara Arslan
Cover image by Total Emotional Awareness
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Luke and Lucie Meier are back at Polimoda.
Twenty-five years after meeting in Florence, the creative duo returns to mentor students in Undergraduate Fashion Design.
A full-circle moment leading up to Graduate Show 2026.
More information here: bit.ly/4rRzXve
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