Leather Bags for School

Overview

Italian bags is known for sophisticated designs and top-level quality, represented by numerous top brands such as GUCCI or PRADA, to name a few. Especially in Florence is crowded by leather shops and headquarters of many world-class brands including GUCCI and Salvatore Ferragamo.
Such fame of Italian bags with highest quality are maintained by bag making artisans’ insistence on high-level techniques and quality materials.

In Bag Making major at Accademia Riaci, in the center of Florence, you will learn from skilled Florentine bag making artisans techniques with the highest quality, made one by one.

And in Bag Design major, Students will study various bag designs with Italian tastes, colors (new combinations, new decoration), materials (avant-garde application, new materials), patterns, functions, as well as researching on the trend and establishing originality. Students will study also geometric design, realistic design, project design, and design using computer. The program puts emphasis on encouraging each student’s uniqueness and to convey it in designs with original, creative, free and rich expression.

Courses

Curriculum

Language

Italian (with interpreter in English or Spanish)
*Please inquire for other languages.

Bag Making

Master Course students will, after acquiring techniques of all types of bags, pursue more advanced techniques of bag making according to their research topic. During the course, students will explore various aspects of bag industry, including expression of creativity and techniques in bag making process as well as practical process of sales and business side, with emphasis on practical application of their study to the bag industry.

Accademia Riaci offers unique opportunities for students, thanks to its close relationship with leather industry. Students will have chance to learn first-hand how bag production is realized through concept work-production-sales, by visiting bag factories, bag companies, designers’ office and showrooms. During the second semester of the course, students will work on “Corporate Study”, in which students can work on projects together with local companies/designers under supervision of the professor, to learn the actual production process in Italy, which is known for producing bags of the highest quality in the world.

Bag Design

Master Course students will pursue more advanced techniques of bag making according to their research topic. During the course, students will explore various aspects of bag industry, including expression of creativity and techniques in bag making process as well as practical process of sales and business side, with emphasis on practical application of their study to the bag industry.

Accademia Riaci offers unique opportunities for students, thanks to its close relationship with leather industry. Students will have chance to learn first-hand how bag production is realized through concept work – production - sales, by visiting bag factories, bag companies, designers’ office and showrooms. During the second semester of the course, students will work on “Corporate Study”, in which students can work on projects together with local companies/designers under supervision of the professor, to learn the actual production process in Italy, which is known for producing bags of the highest quality in the world.

Curriculum

Italian (with interpreter in English or Spanish)
*Please inquire for other languages.

One-Year Course / Semester Course

The curriculum includes all the necessary techniques of bag making, from the basic to high-level; rough sketch, pattern making and cutting patterns, skiving, edge maneuvering, decoration techniques using holes and accessories, combination of different materials, composing, sewing by machines, as well as purchasing materials at wholesale shops, in order to become a bag maker who can produce various types of bags.