Fashion schools around the World

The Istituto di Moda Burgo is a school made 100% in Italy. A guarantee of quality and uniqueness in a city like Milan, where many fashion schools were sold to foreign partners. Style, methodology and Italian passion that the Institute has exported in many fashion schools abroad like Mexico, Indonesia, Malaysia, Jordan, Armenia, Peru, Egypt, Brazil, Albania, Kosovo, Nigeria, Qatar and finally in Los Angeles.


Based in Milan, Italy, Istituto di Moda
Burgo – IMB is one of the most traditional and
respected fashion schools in Europe.

The Institute was founded by the publisher Fernando Burgo in 1961. His long and thriving experience in the area of fashion has proven to be successfully. His commitment to share in his knowledge with each and every student interested in fashion is the result of 50 years of experience in the fashion industry. His direction enables the students to be in touch with the fashion world and all opportunities of training and work the fashion industry has to

Its founder, Fernando Burgo, worked hard to create a methodological content, taking into account the intense development of the sector. Leading a team of renowned professionals, Burgo was responsible for the design of exclusive and advanced didactic supports, based on extensive research, ensuring the entry of several generations of designers into the production system with differentiated quality.

Expanding its global presence, in 2015 Istituto opened its first branch in Brazil. The school's implementation process was coordinated by award-winning stylist Daniela Colzani, who took a specialization course at the school itself and later became an IMB consultant.

Director Fernando Burgo

with Roberto Cavalli

Vittorio Missoni and

the director Fernando Burgo

IMB Fashion books

Since the beginning of its activity, the Istituto di Moda Burgo tried to give its students suitable instruments, such as books, duplicated lecture notes, curves, squares, in order to teach the fashion system. The experience reached through several books’ editions culminated in the realization of two books which the experts of fashion consider the milestones of the fashion teaching methods. They are “Il Modellismo” (last edition 2018) and “Il Figurino” (last edition 2019). These books are constantly up-dated so that can be abreast of the continual evolution in the fashion world.

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