Creative Academy

Job description

  

Richemont owns some of the world’s leading luxury goods Maisons, with particular strengths in jewellery, fine watches and premium accessories. Each Maison represents a proud tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont seeks to preserve the heritage and identity of each of its Maisons. At the same time, we are committed to innovation and designing new products which are in keeping with our Maisons’ values, through a process of continuous creativity.

Creative Academy is the corporate school of Richemont founded in 2003 to source the best creative talent in the world to be trained specifically on the competences required to become designers in the field of luxury, specializing in jewellery, watches and accessories.

Conceived as a creative laboratory, Creative Academy offers each year to 20 young designers the possibility to attend the Master of Arts in Design and Applied Arts, a postgraduate 10 month program, with a faculty of top experts and professionals in the field.

With a professional mindset approach and a faculty composed mainly of professionals of the Group, the Master begins in January and lasts 10 months: 7 months of courses in Milan followed by a 3 month internship granted to the most deserving students in one of the Richemont Maisons, the most important luxury houses in the domains of jewellery, watches and accessories.

The course architecture consists of projects, specialized seminars and the constant interaction with the Maisons of the Group, such as Buccellati, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, A. Lange & Söhne, Baume & Mercier, IWC Schaffhausen, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Officine Panerai, Piaget, Roger Dubuis, Vacheron Constantin, Montblanc, Alfred Dunhill, Azzedine Alaïa, Chloé, Peter Millar, Purdey and Serapian.

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION

·  University degree in design or related studies
·  command of the English language, both spoken and written
·  willingness to work on all three specialization areas: jewellery, watches and accessories
·  creativity, dedication & passion
·  propensity for intercultural exchange

 

APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: September 15 th 2020

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