Inside: the third campus of Polimoda in Manifattura Tabacchi

The Polimoda International Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing recently opened its doors of the school's third location at Manifattura Tabacchi in Florence. The third location spreads over 6.700 square meters and four levels, in addition to a basement and a panoramic terrace overlooking Florence.

"Polimoda starts 2020 with the first day of school in Manifattura" – announced Polimoda’s Director, Danilo Venturi. "It is a gift and we are pleased to give to our 2.300 students, a group of young people from 70 different countries, hyper-connected and looking for a real future. Therefore, it is also a gift we give to Florence, allowing our city to give life to a new Renaissance in which familiarity with technology, education and creativity may become the new currency for trade."

The Polimoda building was designed by Concrete Architectural Associates in cooperation with Q-bic. The building houses clothes-making and knitwear laboratories, photography studios, IT laboratories, as well as drawing and theory classrooms and a 250-seat Auditorium to accommodate a total of about 800 students hailing from all over the world, as well as teaching personnel and staff.

“We are delighted that Polimoda has chosen Manifattura Tabacchi for its new location in Florence, and we are thrilled by the quality of the space that we were able to provide,” said Giovanni Manfredi, Aermont Managing Director. “Seeing this magnificent industrial building come back to life crowns two years of very hard work and marks the beginning of a new phase of our development. Polimoda, one of the top fashion schools in the world, sets the bar very high for what will come next – we are determined to provide an environment where fashion students, artists, makers and young creative minds can thrive and innovate. Together with Polimoda we have started to build a new, contemporary Florence”.

Images: by Polimoda