Istituto Secoli, a fashion school founded in 1934, aims to spread the Made in Italy culture transmitting to students a working method and full knowledge of creative, technical and manufacturing development processes in the industry. Studying at Istituto Secoli means becoming a fashion maker capable of creating clothes designed in every detail and, for students in the three-year program, parading their collections during the Century Fashion Show, an event in which the skills acquired during the course of study come to fruition. For talented graduates, the Institute brings to the stage, on the most important catwalks for young creatives, the Designer to Watch project where the school's emerging talents interpret styles and trends within unprecedented collections.
Each collection is born from a process of research, in which fashion becomes a tool for social, personal and moral expression. Themes such as identity and connection represent the common thread of each creation; within an increasingly complex global context, fashion is no longer conceived only as pure aesthetics, but takes on deeper connotations that identify it as a means through which to build bridges between different cultures, values and generations. The Fashion Graduate Italia catwalk is transformed, therefore, into a space open to dialogue, where each dress is able to tell of worlds as yet unexplored.
7 Designers to Watch, 7 collections, 35 outfits: these are the numbers of Istituto Secoli's Fashion Show scheduled at Fashion Graduate Italia 2025. Taking the runway at Base Milano will be the school's top talents-Elena Rasia, Ilaria Nolli, Ilaria Pansera, Anna Bettoli, Claudia Romeo, Vittorio Visentin and Andrea Edna Gobbi-who will bring their unreleased capsules to the runway.
