About the Founder

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.

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Over this experience I have not only studied in many world recognized fashion institutes, but I’ve opened myself different Centres of education related to fashion, all extremely successful and at the same time, which have generated hundreds of professionals in the market, from designers to pattern makers, from stylists to make up artists, and much much more. On top of all Italian Fashion Academy located in the developing and extremely crowded Cairo, Egypt.

Our Mission

I’ve decided to extend my knowledge worldwide, giving, whoever interested the chance of learning, the Italian way of drawing, render and finish a drawing, by the use of the latest up to date mediums and techniques. During the years I’ve, indeed learned, and tried all possible mediums, and I’ve reached the conclusion that by using all of them, you can obtain realistic and amazing results. The courses contained in this web site, will contribute to improve your knowledge or to start one, courses can be for beginners or for advanced, and aside from learning the basics of anatomy, you will be learning how to dress a croqui from a photo, how to render different types of textile from tulle to chiffon, from jeans to velvet Nd leather, tartan, houndstooth and much more and then design elements, how to create, what elements to consider by creating a mood board, and so on Choose the course that fits you the most, from beginner to advanced, from rendering casual to haute couture, from lingerie to beach wear, etc. The web site will later include also a section for pattern making and for fashion communication. So stay tuned and ….enjoy

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