Experience the future of fashion with ITS Residency 2025!

Discover how 10 visionary designers explored craftsmanship, innovation, and creativity in Friuli Venezia Giulia, from traditional Scarpetti shoes to groundbreaking workshops in ITS Arcademy. 🔗 Learn more: https://itsweb.org 🔗 ITS Contest: https://itscontest.org Key element in the ITS Contest experience, ITS Residency offers up-and-coming designers a unique opportunity to develop new skills and build lasting relationships. During their stay in Trieste, in the spaces of ITS Arcademy and in other iconic locations in Friuli Venezia Giulia such as the Villa Manin museum, the 10 selected designers took part in experimental workshops and discovered local craft techniques, such as those, hundreds of years old, related to the production of the traditional Scarpetti shoes, in a workshop organised jointly with the Michele Gortani Carnic Museum of Folk Arts in Tolmezzo. In addition to practical learning, meetings with leaders and experts from the fashion industry, as well as with internationally renowned scientists and philosophers, were also planned. ITS Residency was developed in cooperation with the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, in the year of GO! 2025 Nova Gorica and Gorizia European Capital of Cross-border Culture. A strong signal of synergy of the territory in an important year for the whole region. Fondazione ITS Established in 2022, Fondazione ITS (International Talent Support) is based in Trieste, Italy but international in scope. Our mission is to protect, preserve and