The Fashion Institute was founded by Fernando Burgo in 1962, 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 his 40 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 offer. The teachers are selected from various ateliers in Milan. Their innovative ideas have attributed to the diverse teaching method that the Institute di Moda Burgo has adopted.

The Designer Roberto Cavalli and the director Fernando Burgo show the book " Il Figurino di Moda" edited by our institute.

This garment was created by the student Martina Ghezzi (2008). Picture of Anna Tanga (IIF)

Vittorio Missoni and the director Fernando Burgo. In 2004 Istituto di Moda Burgo in cooperation with the Missoni fashion company took part to a fashion show. The event was organized by the Italian Embassy and the Egyptian Ministry of Industry.

The Honourable Tiziana Maiolo is awarding a prize to the Istituto di Moda Burgo on the occasion of a students' fashion show. In the picture starting from the left side: Honourable Tiziana Maiolo; the President of the Chamber of Fashion of Milan, Mr Mario Boselli; the director Fernando Burgo and the showman Giovanni Battezzato.

At the end of every school year Istituto di Moda Burgo organizes a fashion show for its students. This is a great event for the school staff and also for people who's working in this field because they can discover new talented designers. Moreover the institute takes part to other events with the most important fashion organizations, institutional organs and fashion companies

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 2009) and "Il Figurino" (last edition 2008). These books are constantly up-dated so that can be abreast of the continual evolution in the fashion world.

The Istituto di Moda Burgo during a forty years' activity cooperated with::

Companies
Close cooperation with companies, atelier, style offices placed in Milan and in Italy, such as Dolce & Gabbana, Krizia, Armani, Gucci, Gianfranco Ferré and many more. We give them contacts of the new upcoming Fashion Designers.
Also, we offer fashion advice to companies, such as the planning of a fashion portfolio either women's wear, menswear or children's wear, pattern books, trends, restyling.

Schools and Universities
The institute is cooperating with international schools placed in Japan, Switzerland, Austria, Peru, etc.
The last cooperations in chronological order are:
EGYPT, the Egyptian Ministry of Technology, after a selection of 200 Italian fashion schools, decides to give the management of the Fashion Design Center (FDC) and its fashion style office to Istituto di Moda Burgo.
INDIA, with INIFD the biggest Indian organization of fashion design schools (180 branches), decides to use our didactic books of fashion design e pattern making and to receive the technical cooperation from Istituto di Moda Burgo.
MEXICO with the first fashion school IMB by Loren's
SINGAPORE new fashion courses in Cavalry Institute