| fashion school | since 1934

30ies and 40ies: the very beginning

• 1934; founded in Treviso by Carlo Secoli who perceived the need to spread tailoring culture and tradition and in the same time the need to give tailor’s an unique and constant landmark for material and services attainment.
• 1945: Istituto Secoli moves from Treviso to Milan cause Carlo Secoli forecasted its future importance into great social and cultural movements concerning industrial fashion.
  First came pattern making courses: the innovations introduced to that subject (concerning geometric, anthropometric, and creative profile)gave the possibility to precisely build, alter and grade any kind of model. That permanently tied up Istituto Secoli and industrial pattern making evolution history.

50ies and 60ies : growth

• 1962: Istituto Secoli, in collaboration with the biggest manufacturing machinery companies research offices and American training institutes, launches “Timing and Methods analysis and industrial organization” course aimed to support professional development in organizing fashion industries activity.
• 1965: Istituto Secoli opens its doors even to those who graduated or got a bachelor’s degree, further than to professionals coming from companies (around 30% of the entire amount of students still now) and establishes two new courses: fashion design basic and advanced.
• 1967: Istituto Secoli sets its courses in some specific areas important for fashion industry like Empoli, Padova, Bologna, Ancona, Bari, Lecce
• 1968: “Planning and Production Control” course was born. The more Planning and Control Function gets valued and improved, the more company profits get better. 
   

70ies and 80ies:

• 1972: Secoli goes under the aegis of Associazione Italiana Tecnici Della Confezione (A.I.T.C.), and it is the only Italian school recognized by “Federation Apparel Industry” as “Technical School”.
• 1975: starting from this date, because of the establishment of “Regioni”, Istituto Secoli courses are recognized by “Regione Lombardia”.
• 1982: first academic courses get started.
• 1984: in June at Hilton hotel in Milan the first fashion show took place
• 1986: first collaboration with Lectra and acquisition of an IT system for size grading.
  

• 1990: first organization consulting coordinated by Danilo Migliorini: nowadays there are more than 100 companies choosing Istituto Secoli as a partner to learn how to improve the organization of their intern functions.
• January 1992 : Mr. Carlo Secoli, president and founder of Istituto Secoli, died. He was suceeded by Stefano Secoli.
  
• 1992: starting from December a new program of short term courses and conferences named "Formazione Continua" get started.
• 1995: collaboration with Japanese journal "Apparel Times" and with AGIC (Japan Italy manufactury associaton) and the institution of some training modules in Japan.
  
• 2000: PC graphics courses get started.
• 2004: starting from this date Istituto Secoli is part of the qualified training structures recognized by Regione Lombardia. Latest renewed in July 2008.
• 2007: 62 years after its foundation Istituto Secoli moves from via Prina to viale Vittorio Veneto in an all brand new building.
• 2008: Istituto Secoli is one of the founder partners in "Piattaforma Sistema Formativo Moda".