Istituto Carlo Secoli

This partnership between Istituto Secoli and Lectra has existed for over 30 years. The school recognized early on how Lectra could help companies streamline their industrial processes. It also realized the importance of training students in the solutions they will eventually use in their day-to-day work. Their partnership with Lectra gives students hands-on experience using computer aided design software, a key competence in the fashion industry.

Istituto Secoli is a leading Italian fashion school, known for its industrial pattern-making savoir-faire.

Originally located in Treviso to train tailors and dressmakers, the school moved to Milan in 1945 to benefit from a boom in industrial pattern making. Now offering advanced design and pattern-making courses, Istituto Secoli has trained more than 80,000 of the best professionals in the fashion industry since 1934. Students come from around the world, over 30 nationalities are represented, to attend Secoli and learn about this Italian know-how and Italian heritage.

“It makes sense for us to use the best and most widely used solutions on the market.”

Stefano Secoli

Istituto Secoli's President

In 2011 Secoli started working with Lectra on the school’s “Master Pattern” course to answer the need for advanced pattern-making skills. “With Lectra we can offer courses that are aligned with companies’ design production process. We couldn’t simply transfer the Secoli method from paper to computer – we needed an innovative and advanced computer - aided design patternmaking solution,” says Alice Molteni a pattern-making teacher at Secoli.

Today the school is taking its pattern-making education one step further, and have therefore decided to incorporate the teaching of 3D virtual prototyping with Lectra into its courses to help them be even more accurate.

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