Every year, in its Milanese premises in Via Morimondo, Creative Academy selects twenty talented designers who come to Milan from the best-renowned international designs schools, to attend a one-of-a-kind Master in the world of jewellery, watchmaking and accessories.
Creative Academy is the design school of Richemont, one of the leading luxury groups in the world, owner of an extraordinary portfolio of Maisons, internationally recognised for their distinctive heritage, craftsmanship and creativity.
Every year, Creative Academy hosts the Master of Arts in Design and Applied Arts, a post-graduate course providing the students with all the skills that a contemporary designer needs to work for a global luxury brand. Twenty talented designers, coming from the best-renowned international design schools, are accurately selected to join a unique educational experience that will offer them all the tools and skills that can pave their way to a successful career in the creative studios of the Richemont Maisons, where the most deserving students have the opportunity to be selected for an internship at the end of the Master and begin their professional career.
The Master’s programme specialises in three fields corresponding to the three business areas operated by Richemont: Jewellery Maisons with Buccellati, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Vhernier; Specialist Watchmakers with A. Lange & Söhne, Baume & Mercier, IWC Schaffhausen, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Piaget, Roger Dubuis and Vacheron Constantin; and Other, primarily Fashion & Accessories Maisons with Alaïa, Chloé, Delvaux, dunhill, G/FORE, Gianvito Rossi, Montblanc, Peter Millar, Purdey, Serapian, TimeVallée, and Watchfinder & Co.
Over more than twenty years since its foundation in 2003, Creative Academy has trained hundreds of professionals, who are holding now prominent positions in the Richemont Maisons and not only. A prestigious and international network of Alumni, who contribute to spreading a culture of luxury made up of excellence in design, creativity, craftsmanship, authenticity and sustainability.