Stefania Gulina, is an Italian fashion expert, specialized in fashion Education and graduated from the prestigious Italian University IULM. As a young fashion designer, Stefania won a competition, Riccione Moda Italia, winning the possibility of having an internship with Jean Paul Gaultier, at the same time she was offered to re-launch a fashion school in Egypt and that’s the latter that she chose.
She started as a Fashion Education consultant in Egyptian projects, related to the Ready-Made industry, together with the Egyptian Government as well as some of the most prominent embassies like the Italian and the Swiss ones, in order to run women empowerment projects in some remote areas of Egypt, such as Sohag, Siwa, Fayoum, El Areesh, Saint Catherine.
While working in Egypt, Stefania started travelling in Middle East to launch some fashion institutes, such as Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Soon after she was requested in India, in order to run some seminaries related to fashion and communication, in some of the most famous Fashion Institutes all over India, INFTD.
Nowadays Stefania is the managing director of Italian Fashion Academy, the leader Fashion Institute in Middle East, she runs an incubator for young designers, she manages many parallel projects in the fashion technology field and she has her own private label.
Pioneer in the Fashion Education in Egypt, she has graduated some of the most important designers currently working in Egypt, Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain and more, creating the path for fashion to expand and become one of the trendy fields in the area.
The Mission of the Italian Fashion Academy is to provide a high level of knowledge yet targeting the need of innovation and research the Design world is looking for.
Through the use of International Techniques of Design, Pattern and Sewing in order to reach high level of competitiveness, finally rewarded with a professional diploma or certificate. The Academy allows the young talents to deepen their knowledge and complete their education, covering both theoretical and practical aspects, reaching the Design Culture, needed nowadays in a new world where “Style and Design” are a must …. a new world, made of style, taste and full of inspiration…in order to allow your dream of a Fashion Career, come through.
The Academy’s objective is to be in continuous relation with the market and follow its evolution as well as its needs, in order to allow all the young talents to flourish and to become part of the change that the Middle East is aiming to, continuous up-dated courses, international experts and joint-ventures, semester’s evaluation and distinguished high professionalism will allow you to be the most requested experts in the Fashion Field.
