Kering focuses on the future of luxury with the launch of the Kering Accademia per le Eccellenze, a training project presented during the 3rd edition of the Made in Italy Day, at the historic Gucci Archive in Florence. By launching the Accademia on Made in Italy Day, Kering also places the focus on Italy’s excellence and craftsmanship heritage, reaffirming the Group’s commitment to safeguarding and actively participating in the renewal of the country’s cultural and industrial excellence. This new Academy also represents a long‑term generational commitment to nurturing and empowering the creators of tomorrow’s luxury.
The initiative aims not only to transmit exceptional techniques, but to nurture a new generation of talent capable of interpreting their time and shaping the future of the luxury Houses. It also seeks to transform heritage crafts into dynamic, future‑oriented professions, ensuring that traditional know‑how evolves in step with new cultural and technological expectations.
The Accademia will consolidate and strengthen the training initiatives already developed by the Group’s Houses, including Bottega Veneta, Brioni, Gucci, and Pomellato, while relying on a robust network of partner schools and institutions of excellence, including the Politecnico di Milano, Galdus, and HModa. As a distributed ecosystem, it will operate across multiple sites and centers of expertise throughout Italy, reflecting the richness and diversity of the Group’s savoir‑faire. Its ambition is to create a broad, coherent learning environment that positions craftsmanship not as a legacy practice, but as a dynamic, forward‑looking laboratory.
Students will be able to acquire both traditional competencies across four core domains, ready-to-wear, menswear tailoring, leather goods, and jewelry, and the emerging capabilities set to reshape the industry, including technology, artificial intelligence, and new materials. The Accademia will offer training paths ranging from one semester to seven years, with some programs leading to diplomas recognized under Italian law. Open to both internal and external talents, it will raise the total training capacity to 1,000 people per year before progressively expanding to accommodate at least 2,000 annually.
Based at the Valore Italia Campus (MIND – Milano Innovation District), the Accademia will act as a central node within this ecosystem, a space for dialogue, collaboration, and innovation. It will train the next generation of professionals who will support the sector’s evolution through to 2035. The first courses will begin in the first half of September 2026.
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