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UpToDate Fashion Academy

Fashion Hair-Styling Specialist

Location: Italy: Milan

Term: Throughout the year, Academic Year, Fall, Spring

Dates: session: 01/10/2012 - 19/12/2012 II session: 07/01/2013 - 26/03/2013 III session: 08/04/2013 - 25/06/2013

UpToDate Fashion Academy

http://www.fashionuptodate.com

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, n. 15 Milano, Milan 20122 Italy

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Phone: + 39 02 76 26 79 1

Fax: +39 02 7626 7929

Description

The Fashion Hair-styling Specialist course is a natural evolution of a profession and of an art that expresses aesthetic values aims to complete a fashion concept.

The course is comprehensive and complete; it consists of three parts; fundamental, advanced and Trend Hair-styling. This program is highly specialized for students to learn the technique of immediate impact.

The objectives of the course are to provide the tools and to enhance the skills necessary for preparation of the actual trend of Hair Styling and the construction of a portfolio for own presentation to agencies and editorials.

Professional opportunities
Professionals that work as free-lance or with cosmetic firms creating hair styles that determines the fashion trend. They work with photographers in the fashion shows, events, or bridal.
Also, they can work as research consultants and experts of hair-styling trends.

Course program
* Fo 02 Fashion Fundamental Hair-Styling
* Fa 02 Advanced Fashion Hair-Styling
* Ft 02 Fashion Hair-Styling Trend Portfolio

Attendance and duration
The number of students is limited and the inscriptions are open until classes are full.

Attendance: daily, Monday, Wednesday and Friday 09:30 - 12:30
Tuesday and Thursday 09:30 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 17:00
Course total hours: 324 hours (228 h. classroom and project work)
Duration single lessons: 3-6 hours
Language: Italian/English
Enrollment fee: EU 600 euros / Non EU 700 euros
Course fee: 6,900 euros
Requirement: Fundamental prerequisite to attend the course is to have already turned 18 years old.

Highlights

Course Program
* Hair styling tools
* Work station organization
* Straight hair: brush and hair dryer, flat iron and frisies
* Wavy hair: brushes and hair driers, curling iron, diffuser and hot rollers
* Raised hair
* Extensions
* Hair styles for weddings
* Updo hairstyles
* Extensions
* Bridal hair
* Photographers influence on hair styles
* Fashion hair styles in the: 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
* Images research for a continuous updating
* Relationship with client, photographer, stylist and model
* Choosing an image or a layout and realizing an hair style
* The current fashion hair styles (catwalks and fashion magazines)
* Hair styling Trend
* Wigs to use in a photographic set or during a catwalk
* Portfolio preparation
* Agency and portfolio management
* The new frontier: computer enhanced hair styling
* Visiting professor: a fashion hair stylist freelance
* Final Exam

Course program
Fo 02 Fashion Fundamental Hair-Styling
Fa 02 Advanced Fashion Hair-Styling
Ft 02 Fashion Hair-Styling Trend Portfolio

Degree Level

Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Minimum Education

High School

Cost in US$:

Enrollment fee: 600 Euro (UE) / 700 Euro (Non UE); Tution fee: 6900 Euro

Cost Includes:

Cost Include Description:

Credit Available

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This Program is open to

Worldwide Participant.

Typical Living Arrangements
  • Group living
  • Apartment/Flat
  • Home-stays
  • Independent living
  • Other

Participants Travel to Italy

Independently or in Groups

Application Process Involves
  • Online Application plus Application Assessment
  • In-Person Interview when Feasible
  • Other
  • Phone/Video Interview
  • Written Application
Post Services Include
  • Job and Internship Network
UpToDate Fashion Academy's Mission Statement

Uptodate Fashion Academy was established with the basic aim of developing a high quality educational project focused on specific and strongly sought-after branches of the fashion business. Since then, Uptodate has developed and specialized on markedly innovative sides of the fashion business, quickly building up a reputation as a distinguished, unique player in the Milan fashion scene and attracting an increasingly large international audience. The Academy's vision is to give untrained students the chance to turn into high qualified professionals thanks to intensive, full time programs steadily connected to the strongest demands of the current fashion business. Located in a two storey facility in the very heart of Milan, close to the major fashion streets of the city, Uptodate Fashion Academy relies upon a stunning location, internationally renowned teachers, a special and certified didactic method and a strong job placement service in order to provide students with the highest level of quality to study and learn fashion in Milan.

Year Founded

2001

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