Fashion Cool Hunting

This program is catered to anyone interested in acquiring knowledge on this important part of the Fashion Industry which is trend forecasting.

Launch your favorite brand in Paris!

This hands-on course about the business and design aspects of fashion strongly emphasizes interactivity with frequent field trips around Paris (fabric shops, retail stores, forecasting companies, museums, and more).

Students will launch a foreign brand in Paris. They will identify and research the competition, choose a store location, plan marketing strategies, direct visual merchandising, choose a blogger and a brand ambassador, organize the launch event and plan media coverage and advertising.

After they have worked on all business aspects of their brand, students will update a current fashion trend for the upcoming season and design a capsule collection of 10 items for the store opening. The fashion presentation will include a mood board, fabrics and silhouettes.

This course is taught by Agustina Cattaneo. Agus is a freelance fashion consultant and an expert at identifying trends.

With a powerful double degree as an accountant and a fashion designer and more than six years of experience in New York, she currently works independantly consulting for brands and companies and developing content for social networks as an influencer and coolhunter. She also gives lectures, seminars, courses and workshops all over the world.

She was born in Buenos Aires in 1981. She received her degree in Accounting from UCA (Argentinian Catholic University) and worked as an auditor at Deloitte & Touche. After a radical change of direction in her compass, she developed and drove a brand with her own name. She then studied Fashion Design at Parsons The New School for Design and then went to graduate school and enrolled at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in the Global Fashion Management Program. When in New York, she worked for brands and companies like Lanvin and Li & Fung, styled for fashion photographers and magazine like Elle, and was manager of the Groupe Seize sur Vingt store in Latin America. She started working as Fashion and Design Coordinator and then went to become Trend Coordinator, both positions that implied being constantly informed of the last minute updates in local and international fashion.