Every year, in its Milanese premises in Via Morimondo, Creative Academy selects twenty talented designers who come to Milan from the best-renowned international designs schools, to attend a one-of-a-kind Master in the world of jewellery, watchmaking and accessories.

Creative Academy is the design school of Richemont, one of the leading luxury groups in the world, owner of an extraordinary portfolio of Maisons, internationally recognised for their distinctive heritage, craftsmanship and creativity.

Every year, Creative Academy hosts the Master of Arts in Design and Applied Arts, a post-graduate course providing the students with all the skills that a contemporary designer needs to work for a global luxury brand. Twenty talented designers, coming from the best-renowned international design schools, are accurately selected to join a unique educational experience that will offer them all the tools and skills that can pave their way to a successful career in the creative studios of the Richemont Maisons, where the most deserving students have the opportunity to be selected for an internship at the end of the Master and begin their professional career.

The Master’s programme specialises in three fields corresponding to the three business areas operated by Richemont: Jewellery Maisons with Buccellati, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Vhernier; Specialist Watchmakers with A. Lange & Söhne, Baume & Mercier, IWC Schaffhausen, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Piaget, Roger Dubuis and Vacheron Constantin; and Other, primarily Fashion & Accessories Maisons with Alaïa, Chloé, Delvaux, dunhill, G/FORE, Gianvito Rossi, Montblanc, Peter Millar, Purdey, Serapian, TimeVallée, and Watchfinder & Co.

Over more than twenty years since its foundation in 2003, Creative Academy has trained hundreds of professionals, who are holding now prominent positions in the Richemont Maisons and not only. A prestigious and international network of Alumni, who contribute to spreading a culture of luxury made up of excellence in design, creativity, craftsmanship, authenticity and sustainability. 

Theoretical learning with a hands-on creative laboratory approach

Creative Academy’s Master of Arts in Design and Applied Arts ensures the development of all the skills required by a contemporary designer to work in a global luxury brand. Over the course of seven months of full-time classroom work, students learn to master hand and digital drawing techniques (sketch, gouache, 2D and 3D), are trained on the distinctive characteristics of the luxury market and delve into history, trends and design in the three areas of specialisation of the Master (jewellery, watchmaking and accessories). 

Throughout the Master’s course, students have the opportunity to work on actual projects in collaboration with professionals from the Richemont universe, also relating directly to the Group’s CEOs, who present the Maisons they lead and their strategic positioning, and to the Creative Directors, who entrust them with the delicate exercise of dealing with the design and the extraordinary heritage of some of the most iconic creations in the history of luxury. 

The Master’s programme is completed with lectures and seminars aimed at transmitting the transversal skills necessary to excel in a contemporary professional and competitive environment: project methodology, time management, sustainability, principles of intellectual property. 

In addition to classroom projects and a rich programme of visits to the places where artistic creation becomes reality – factories, ateliers, museum spaces, industry events – every year the students take part in a new project created on the occasion of the Milan Design Week, in collaboration with one of the Richemont Maisons and the Cologni Foundation for the Métiers d’Art. In front of the demanding international audience of the most important annual event in the world of design, the students learn the importance of the creative dialogue between designer and craftsman and create a collection of unique pieces, entirely designed by them and shaped by the skilled hands of a master craftsman. 

A the end of the Master, the most deserving students have the opportunity to be selected by a Maison Richemont for a minimum three-month internship.

Application submissions 

In order to apply for the Master, candidates are required to:

1. Complete the online application (www.creative-academy.com/apply)
2. Send by traceable mail or in person your A4 format portfolio including: projects, process, sketches, manual and digital renderings (“gouaches” if possible) to the following address: Creative Academy, via Morimondo 17 - 20143 Milano, Italy. Please note that the material sent to Creative Academy will not be returned.

The application deadline is September 15th 2025.

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