Learn fashion design at Instituto Marangoni, Milan

If spending a month away from reality, immersed in the heady world of high fashion and exploring your own creative potential as a designer sounds like heaven, then Milan is surely the place to do it. With the trendy Via Montenapoleone and the beautiful Galleria Vittorio Emanuele just streets away, and fashion finding expression in everything from pizza toppings to pets’ outfits—you certainly won’t be short of inspiration. Even as a beginner, it’s the perfect place to focus your ideas and discover your potential through fashion sketching and planning the colours and links between pieces in your own collection. You can even learn how trends are instigated and some of the tricks of marketing a new collection as part of a summer school in fashion design.

Give Instituto Marangoni a try—founded in 1935, it’s one of the world’s best, as well as summer schools in various aspects of fashion and product design, they also offer year-long course and degrees for those who want to progress further. You can do their courses in English, but they run Italian language courses alongside their main programmes for those who want to stay longer, or just get further into the spirit of the experience!