The curriculum of the international program in fashion design includes the basic skills of fashion design, flat pattern, presentation, refinement of design ideas and sewing.
Important ancillary skills include textiles, fashion drawing, fashion marketing, and computer-assisted design, fashion accessories for the apparel industry in the world.
Fashion design encompasses the planning, design, production, and marketing of clothing.
The fashion designer's final products answer physical, aesthetic, psychological, and social needs and employ traditional and advanced technological tools.
The department prepares students for professional employment in the apparel industry as fashion designers, solving industrial problems with professional techniques.
Fashion professionals are invited to work with and critique student designs and prominent speakers visit the campus on a regular basis to lecture on current fashion and industry trends. Fashion services and foreign and domestic fashion publications are available for student reference in the department.
A collection of historic costumes and textiles is used to inspire creative solutions to design problems.
In last semester, students focus on portfolio development and fashion collection.

Accademia Riaci provides the following programs;

One-year course

This course offers a comprehensive and accelerated program, giving a unique opportunity to acquire a wide range of knowledge and techniques related to your field of study.
　Along with practical classes of your major subject - combined with challenging homework and assignments – our Basic Art Lessons will provide you with fundamentals of arts and design.
　Furthermore, you will broaden and enrich your artistic experience - looking beyond the borders of your specialty – through our weekly guided Art Visits and monthly Art Stages.
　Through this program, you will not only acquire a solid foundation in your study area, but also develop specific, advanced skills, immersed in a stimulating learning environment. Moreover, you will have the chance to learn basic business practices, to start up you career as young professional. Diplomas are issued to those who pass the final exam.

• Course contents:
• ・Lessons of specialization
• ・Assistant interpreter during Lessons
• ・Independent Study
• ・Guided Art Visits
• ・Art Stages
• ・Basic Art Lessons (Art History, Basic Painting, Color theory, 3D Drawing)

Atelier course

The same curriculum as One-year Course, except Basic Art Lessons.

• ・Lessons of specialization
• ・Assistant Interpreter during Lessons
• ・Independent Study
• ・Guided Art Visits
• ・Art Stages

The Fashion Design Department offers a full-time, one-year design program leading to  the Master Program in fashion design. This is a first professional program that stresses the development of  technical skills and research and experimentation in the business of fashion design. Studying Fashion Design in Italy stands out a unique experience that offers a first-hand contact with that world, its protagonists and events. As a matter of fact, in Italy only it is possible to experience and perceive the evolution of a fashion system as complex and multifaceted as this one. The Fashion Design Department proposes a wide-ranging approach including design, cultural, productive, and marketing and communication aspects through a constant dialogue with the professionals working in those sectors. Designing fashion is a fascinating, complex adventure that requires talent, outspoken passion and expertise. The Master Course is meant to contribute to the development of professional figures capable of experience pf expressing  their creativity cleverly and addressing appropriately the complex themes of the fashion. The curriculum is organized so that studio, laboratory, and classroom work give the graduate student a directed experience in the study of aesthetics, criticism, and contemporary art concepts; contemporary and historic art and design; current technology; the discipline of drawing; and  the making of art. The goal of the Master program is to integrate the understanding of design with the construction of clothing so that the final products answer physical, aesthetic, psychological, and social needs within the context  of contemporary fashion and industrial limitations. This approach provides a sound basis for a broad range of employment in the fashion industry. Other professional opportunities lie in merchandising, costume design, curatorial work, and computer-aided design.

We don't teach just design but culture, productivity, marketing and communication as well. All of these are connected. Fashion design is closely related to the industries that research new trends for the market. The market looks for professional fashion designers. Students will be given an overview of the Italian Fashion System and stimulated while learning to develop their ideas and their potential to the fullest. At the end of the course students will have learnt to do fashion sketches, to carry out research on a given theme and to properly use the materials gathered from that research to develop a fashion project. Objectives: Completing a portfolio of a mini-collection with sketchbooks.

We don't teach just design but culture, productivity, marketing and communication as well. All of these are connected. Fashion design is closely related to the industries that research new trends for the market. The market looks for professional fashion designers. Students will be given an overview of the Italian Fashion System and stimulated while learning to develop their ideas and their potential to the fullest. At the end of the course students will have learnt to do fashion sketches, to carry out research on a given theme and to properly use the materials gathered from that research to develop a fashion project. Objectives: Completing a portfolio of a mini-collection with sketchbooks.