Master in Creative Knitwear Design

The Master in Creative Knitwear Design, is a highly professionalizing research learning experience, uniquely collaborating withover 50 partners across the sector, including spinning mills, manufacturers, brands and specialised laboratories. The Master is in collaboration with Modateca Deanna, an international fashion archive and research centre, which collects, collates and preserves the history of fashion and knitwear in the prestigious archive used by students with more than 60 thousand knitwear garments and accessories. It is aimed at graduates and professionals intending to complete or deepen their knowledge in knitwear, through an extremely specific education experience, which embraces the creative processes of Knitwear Design at 360°.

Students have the extraordinary opportunity to create knitwear capsule collections with professional projects in collaboration with some of the most important brands on the international scene. These projects created in collaboration with a huge variety of different bands annually; i.e: Max Mara Fashion Group, Marni, Missoni, Etro, The North Face, Blumarine, Napapijri, Benetton, Kway, Roberto Collina, to name just a few. Culminating in the past editions of the course with a unique presentation at Pitti Filati with an exclusive fashion show in collaboration with the Pitti Immagine Discovery Foundation.

The students are followed by the top professionals and experts in the sector who, as tutors, accompany them in tackling a tailor made programme: a theoretical-practical course of study, capable of combining creativity and technique, craft and technology, to develop complete design concepts from yarn to product, organisation and production skills; all fundamental elements to make our students highly competitive on the careers market.

The extraordinary added value of the Master is the indispensable presence of a vast network of leading specialist partners in the knitwear, jersey, embellishment, industrial technologyand craftsmanship production sectors and the international brands. Having created a system that give a new impulse to research, experiment and innovate to create a new fashion product is an important investment by the partner industries that participate annually in the experience of CKD.

The Master’s experience is multifaceted made up of specific workshops and technical instruction, research visits to industries in the areas of spinning, laboratories and knitwear factories, workshops on knitting technologies, stitch development and design processes, visits to the main trade fairs in the sector, and the possibility of carrying out research during the entire course of studies within the vast historical archive of Modateca Deanna and dedicated library.