White paper on creativity - ebla center

Chapter 15system. As the “global fashion city” of Milan demonstrates, transformations anddevelopments in fashion can be driven by a policy based on a multidimensionalmodel of the fashion district, with suitable spaces for proposals to createmuseums, workshops for young stylists, temporary events and exhibitions, andservices for experimental production involving a wider public of visitors andconnoisseurs of elegance.There are five possible strategic lines for constructing the initial hub of a fashiondistrict:• exhibitions and events• creative workshops• setting up Fashion Commissions• fashion collections and museums• the creation of archive centres providing creatives with original historicmodels; this service would be especially useful for small firms with in-housestylists.The strategic lines not only suggest five development projects, but also afunctional sequence which could lead to the practical implementation of thesystem itself.In fact the district may be considered a national and international source ofcommunications about fashion, and also a place for cultural events, experimentalresearch and training of highly specialised professional profiles.Action 11 : Creative WorkshopsMake available creative workshops, spaces, and production, legal andcommercial services to a group of young stylists, chosen on the basis of theircapacity for projects and an international competition. These facilities wouldenable the stylists to experiment, produce collections and have a scaffolding forpromoting their activities.The services will include incentives for study trips and research in Italy andabroad.Creative workshops would attract foreign talents and help recruit new Italiantalents and thus make up for the lack of professional skills currentlycharacterising fashion. A system monitoring and training various professionalfigures could be organised for various profiles: managers of cultural events,project managers in the fashion industry, product managers, managers ofcollections, images, and cultural mediators.Action 12 : Fashion CommissionsSet up, along the lines of film commissions, Fashion Commissions operating atcity or a macro area level in the areas most concerned with the textiles sector andfashion. Fashion Commissions should be non-profit organisations funded bypublic institutions, local government bodies and other private foundingWHITE PAPER ON CREATIVITY 355