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Once again this year Istituto di Moda Burgo is taking part in Fashion Graduate Italia, an event dedicated to fashion students in Italy, who have here the opportunity to showcase their talent and creativity, at Base Milano. It starts on Sunday, October 24th with the schools' exhibition spaces: you will find us ready to welcome you and show you our students' work until Tuesday, October 26th. On Monday at 5.30 p.m. the designer Luca Cantarelli will hold an online workshop dedicated to jewellery design, while on Tuesday at 1.30 p.m. [...]

After the Indonesian designer Jenny Yohana Kansil, the emerging designer Gianluca Alibrando, also a graduate of Istituto di Moda Burgo, impressed the audience at Palazzo Visconti with his creations on the second day of Milan Fashion Week. His outfits, characterized by elegance and lightness, form a collection designed for all those women who want to make an impression. The fabrics come to life in the hands of this young talent, who knows how to move with ease between total white creations and floral decorations with ribbons and sequins, from warm [...]

Fashion Week is not only a showcase for big, established brands, but it is also an important springboard for new, emerging designers. Among this year's top newcomers for the 2022 spring-summer season is our Fashion Design student, Jenny Yohana Kansil. The Indonesian designer showed the collection of her brand JYK during the first day of Fashion Week at the wonderful Palazzo Visconti:  it was a great success and she amazed the audience with her creations. Jenny's collection blends a 70s punk inspiration with the Indonesian tradition of batik fabric. The [...]

Today, June 24th, 2021, our director Fernando Burgo celebrates his 80th birthday. 2021 is not only an important personal milestone but also a professional one: Istituto di Moda Burgo, founded in 1961, celebrates 60 years of activity. The numerous awards received over the years, including the Ambrogino d'Oro in 2014 and the Stella al Merito Sociale in 2018, have not distracted the director from the goals he has had since the beginning. The training of the student always comes first: it is essential to provide an individual method that allows [...]

Istituto di Moda Burgo was recently involved in an exclusive project born from the collaboration between Fida and Bulgari, which involved the creation of a capsule collection of seven pieces of jewellery or accessories inspired by the Bulgari brand concept. The fashion design students from Istituto Burgo worked under the supervision of the teacher Silvia Schirru, proving great professionalism and talent. Bulgari then carefully selected the designs created, evaluating them both in terms of illustration and jewellery design, up to the creation of the entire collection, choosing the best works. [...]

For the end-of-term exam, the Fashion Design students created a F/W 2022/2023 capsule collection of around 18 outfits following the style of the Albino Teodoro brand. After an accurate study of trends and of the brand's style, with a particular focus on the brand's iconic garment, the overcoat, the students created the collection starting from the creative research, to the study of shapes and volumes, and of the colors and the fabrics most used by the designer, up to the creation of the final collection. The final work was assessed [...]

Between January and March 2021, the students of the Fashion Design course had an exceptional teacher: the designer Luca Cantarelli, who followed them on a particular project together with the Fashion Collection teacher Silvia Schirru. The students were asked to choose a brand, for which they would then create a F/W 2022/2023 CAPSULE COLLECTION, choosing between three categories of jewelry: fashion bijoux, fine jewelry and luxury jewelry. The aim was to create five pieces (a bracelet, an earring, a necklace, a ring and a jewelry accessory of their choice), respecting [...]

We are proud of our student Tara Abbassi who was chosen by Vogue Italia to illustrate the most representative outfits of the Paris Fashion Week Haute of Dior, Chanel, Valentino, Armani, Fendi, Couture Spring Summer 2021. Our student Tara Abbasi presents her illustrations for paris haute couture week 2021 on Vogue Italia. "This is just a dream come true... i still can’t believe that my illustrations actually ended up on vogue!!! I’m beyond happy and excited! I wanted to thank everyone at Vogue Italia. specially the amazing and exceptional Italo [...]

Exclusive partnership: IMB and IDA Fernando Burgo, CEO and founder of Istituto di Moda Burgo (IMB), announced the brand new partnership with International Design Academy (IDA) based in Jabalpur (India). IDA will be authorized to organise training courses using Burgo teaching method all around India. For 60 years IMB has been working to provide their students with the tools they need to develop their creativity and their aspirations, bringing their passion for work and their unique method all around the world, to gain an increasingly international approach (with branches in [...]

Congratulations to our fashion design student MARGARITA DOVGAN who created this illustration chosen directly by Tommy Hilfiger to illustrate the 35th anniversary of her brand. Special thanks to VOGUE ITALIA and TOMMY HILFIGER for choosing one of our students to illustrate the 35th anniversary of the Tommy Hilfiger Brand. A special thanks to the ITALO PANTANO Fashion Editor for his article. https://www.vogue.it/moda/article/tommy-hilfiger-intervista-35-anni