Mango has launched “Craft Your Future”, a new training program aimed at promoting technical profiles capable of responding to the current challenges of the fashion industry through a practical, collaborative methodology connected to real environments. The course is developed in collaboration with LCI Barcelona, one of the most recognized design schools in the sector, and was created with the aim of responding to the lack of generational change in key disciplines such as pattern making and clothing.
The training, fully subsidized by Mango and given at the LCI Barcelona facilities, lasts five months. About twenty students will participate in this first edition, including fashion design students seeking to specialize in pattern making and industrial clothing, and young professionals interested in updating themselves in digital and sustainable processes.
The study plan is articulated in four modules that combine technical knowledge, innovation and sustainability:
- Challenges of the sector and sustainability
- Industrialization of garments and quality processes
- Digital design and prototyping
- A final project in which participants will develop real prototypes that they will present to a professional jury.
Throughout the course, students will delve into industrial pattern making, advanced manufacturing, quality control and digital tools applied to product development.
“We want to guarantee generational change in essential trades by offering real training opportunities”
“Craft Your Future” is part of Mango’s 4E strategic plan and, specifically, its first “E”, Elevatefocused on reinforcing the company’s value proposition through aspiration, quality and its own style designed in Barcelona, with sustainability as a transversal axis. The initiative focuses on craft as a differential element of the firm’s creative model.
“Craft has been part of our identity for 40 years. It is the know-how that gives value to the craft of fashion and that is at the heart of everything we do at Mango”explains Blanca Muñiz, Mango Brand Director. “With “Craft Your Future” we want to open this knowledge to the sector and transmit it to new generations, helping to guarantee generational change in essential trades and offering real training and professional development opportunities to young talents.”
The program will also have a committee of experts made up of professionals from fashion, education and communication, who will accompany the evolution of the project and ensure that the contents respond to the real needs of the market.
Mango’s initiative connects with a broader movement within the industry to recover and update the technical trades of fashion. In recent days, brands like Levi’s have launched educational programs aimed at institutes to teach how to repair clothing and combat disposable culture. While Levi’s acts from the base of consumption and durability, Mango addresses the challenge from the core of the production system, betting on specialized training as a lever to ensure quality, sustainability and industrial future in fashion.
Mango recalls that it has been developing a fashion proposal based on its own style for more than four decades and that all its garments are designed and made in the atelier of the Mango Campus in Barcelona, where more than 500 design, pattern-making and clothing professionals work to translate global trends into collections with high standards of quality and durability. In this process, pattern making, cutting, sewing and quality control continue to be structural pieces of the company’s creative model.
