Marco De Vincenzo to Tutor Scholars at IED Type College in Milan
MDV x IED: Marco De Vincenzo is including the position of educator to his résumé.
The ingenious director of Etro has been named instructional educator of IED, an acronym for Ecu Establishment of Design. He’ll handover within the Milan campus of the craze faculty, mentoring about 500 undergraduate scholars of the craze design and footwear and equipment design classes.
This marks a go back to his roots for the Sicilian fashion designer, who graduated from IED in Rome in 2000. “I have never really left the school behind. Several years ago it represented a magical, enlightening moment for me, one of great sharing of my passion with [similar] people. So going back to school renews this feeling,” stated De Vincenzo.
“Only today I have the experience that I didn’t have back then and that I can now offer to people in the same way others did with me. It’s like a handover,” he added.
Scholars at IED.
Courtesy of IED
De Vincenzo will observe explicit periods with scholars from the other categories, pertaining to many issues to encourage and help abilities in defining the concept that they are going to bottom their collections on, in addition to backup with their construction. Subjects will space from bettering cultural identities to consideration to order and assets, in addition to exploring the connection between human contact and pristine applied sciences.
The last come with AI, which De Vincenzo just lately experimented with. As reported earlier this week, he collaborated with virtual artist and advised fashion designer Silvia Badalotti on developing the pristine, AI-generated promoting marketing campaign for Etro.
“AI looks scary because we don’t really know everything about it but we’ll learn to use it. I was very fascinated by it,” stated De Vincenzo, bringing up that the venture he labored on “showed me that the human figure remains fundamental in the process.”
“AI is a medium like a camera or a computer, it’s nothing more than that. As far as I know, the filter of the human person that guided me into this parallel world was fundamental,” he added.
Olivia Spinelli, head of the IED Milano model faculty, praised De Vincenzo for bringing an enchanting and “cultured vision of fashion, made up of a series of elements which he effectively transfers into the clothes and collections he designs.”
“In addition to his creative standpoint, he is also extraordinary from a human point of view. A person with the right ability to listen and to interact empathically: great values, also in fashion,” added Spinelli.
Elisa Bontempo/Courtesy of IED
Along with overseeing the ladies’s, males’s and residential collections for Etro since 2022, De Vincenzo nonetheless keeps his position as head fashion designer for leather-based items at Fendi, which he first joined in 2000.
De Vincenzo introduced his namesake label of womenswear in 2009, when he additionally gained the Style Italia “Who Is on Next?” ability seek festival and joined the Milan Type Generation time table. His sight for daring colours, visible results, lavish materials and complicated gildings briefly stuck the eye of press and consumers, in addition to of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, which struck a three way partnership with the Rome-based fashion designer in 2014.
In 2021, he purchased again his namesake emblem from former companions LVMH and MMGP Srl, an organization that still controls Cieffe Milano, the producing company that old to construct the Marco De Vincenzo collections. In February 2022, he returned to Milan Type Generation next a two-year hiatus to provide an upcycled assortment respiring pristine moment into clothes he scouted at thrift shops.
As instructional educator, De Vincenzo is becoming a member of a lake of designers that had facet gigs in schooling in Italy, starting from Kris Van Assche serving as mentor at Polimoda and Sunnei’s Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo at Naba school to Massimo Giorgetti and Paul Andrew at Istituto Marangoni, to call a couple of.
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