Istituto Marangoni – School of Design

Istituto Marangoni is an international higher education group for fashion, art and design that began in Milan in 1935, when Giulio Marangoni founded the Istituto Artistico dell’Abbigliamento Marangoni to answer a question he had posed himself: whether fashion could be taught. It describes itself as the only higher-education group focused on luxury, with schools in Milan, Florence, Paris, London, Dubai and Riyadh.

The School of Design is its Milanese design arm, opened in 2014 at Via Pietro Verri 4. Its teaching areas cover interior, product and visual communication design, plus a Design Innovation strand joining creativity to technology through artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, robotics and generative design, with a deliberate cross-pollination with fashion, colour and materials.

The offer runs from three-year undergraduate programmes to master’s courses, short courses and professional routes. Mentorships assign practising designers to specific courses built on company-commissioned projects, and the school presents work publicly, as with Design Awakens during Milan Design Week 2026.

The group declares a 91 per cent employability rate, a place at number 45 in the QS World University Rankings and a spot among the top ten fashion schools according to Vogue Business. Its student body counts over 4,000 participants from 107 countries.