Vision & Mission

VISION

The vision of iLa is to transform and help re-imagine fashion education by providing wider opportunity for talented individuals to obtain high quality, yet affordable training to aspire to and achieve their career goals, centred around holistic and human values.

Our focus is to create a learning environment that promotes:

⁠Innovation
Creativity
Knowledge in historic, contextual, technical areas
Free thinking
Space for testing new ideas
Open to cultural differences and a shared passion for exchange, dialogue, respect
A place that champions difference
Refuting mediocrity as a norm within the academy
‘home’ for alumni to return to
A school recognized at the forefront of innovation and change
Known as an institution that truly nurtures and strengthens the talents of its students

MISSION

Our mission is to bring new talent closer to the skills, craft and creativity within luxury fashion, meet an industry need where there is a critical shortage of skills, digitally-savvy artisans and skillful executives capable of driving change, and for us to act as a life-long partner for learning.

Our focus / core principle is to construct a reality that:

Provides a teaching structure that promotes ideas, risk taking and the opportunity to fail and create a learning experience from practice that strengthens the individual skill set of students
Bespoke learning experiences that nurture the individual and teases out the special, unique and excellent contribution they can make to the future of Luxury in the industry
Providing students with the exposure, experience and skills associated with the advances in technology and the potential for innovative design and business strategies in the field.
A safe space within the community of the institution of a think-tank, both physical and virtual to promote and activate sharing, brainstorming, birthing and structuring of new ideas.