Reviving savoir faire and craftsmanship is the new mantra of the season. This is what many companies had underlined during the last Milan Fashion Week.
For the occasion, Triennale Milano and Kiton presented the exhibition “Tailoring school. A journey into education” curated by Luca Stoppini, advisor for the fashion archive of the Triennal Museum of Italian Design.
The initiative is part of a project dedicated to education that stems from the experience of the Scuola di Alta Sartoria founded in 2000 by the Neapolitan high-quality men’s and women’s apparel company Kiton.
The exhibition, which can be seen from January 13 to 16, 2024 in the Triennale’s Salone d’Onore, was complemented by a series of appointments with a number of schools in the area that aims to enhance the training experience and raise awareness of a virtuous model that can be replicated in other contexts.
Tailoring School, Triennale, Milan
The exhibition recounts the journey of the Kiton School of Haute Tailoring, which for twenty-three years has represented a training project of excellence, necessary to preserve traditions and ensure the continuity of tailoring art in the world. The exhibition also aims to deepen the cultural heritage and Neapolitan sartorial tradition that the school brings with it.
“That of education is one of the main themes that an institution must set itself, especially thinking about the meaning it holds for new generations and the confrontation it brings. Triennale Milano wants to become a School again,” said Stefano Boeri, president, Triennale Milano.
“We want the Triennale to become a place where the proximity to beautiful objects and spaces, together with the circulation of rhapsodic ideas, unexpected concepts and powerful images, enables the transmission of knowledge, expertise and knowledge. We are happy to open a dialogue with such an extraordinary project as Kiton’s School of High Tailoring, which combines the teaching of a profession with the aspirations of young people,” Boeri added.
“Since the year 2000 Kiton has been focusing on training, through the creation of the Scuola di Alta Sartoria, desired by the founder Ciro Paone to make young people learn the tailor’s trade, thus guaranteeing continuity to the art of tailoring and giving young people a stimulus for their future,” commented Antonio De Matteis, CEO, Kiton.
“Thanks to the commitment dedicated to this project, over the years we have seen our school grow, become a point of reference for young people, and open new opportunities for our graduates both within the company and outside, in other realities or by starting their own businesses. This represents a strong reason for pride for Kiton because it means that young people have understood the importance of learning a trade in order to have a future,” continued De Matteis.
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Corneliani Pilot Room
In the same context, the Italian high-quality menswear brand Corneliani also wanted to emphasize the importance and beauty of making high-quality garments by hand, according to a sartorial and accurate tradition.
“We feel it’s time to sensitize the market and the industry recognizing the importance of well-done products, while showing the younger generations the beauty of craftsmanship work,” explained Stefano Gaudioso Tramonte, general merchandising manager & style director, Corneliani.
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Corneliani Pilot Room
While presenting its f/w 2024/2025 collection, The Italian menswear brand hosted its Corneliani’s new project that showed different working stations presented live all the different steps in the making of a blazer.
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Corneliani Pilot Room
“In our company, the making of a regular jacket requires about 300 minutes, while a made-to-measure or special model jacket can require up to about 580 minutes,” continued Guadioso Tramonte showing how a series of accurate steps, from the pattern , to cutting and assembling all the jacket’s parts leads to obtaining a final excellence product, although it requires time and a competence that cannot be achieved in one day, nor can it be lost.
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