Italian Fashion Experience

Fashion Mentor school of style in Rome during the Italian Fashion Experience group trip.

This wasn’t a class. The Italian Fashion Experience was built for anyone who loves fashion.

Stylists, yes, but also the friend who reads every runway recap, the person who plans vacations around museums, the one who just wants to stand inside the history.

Italy isn’t just a backdrop for fashion, it’s the source.

Valentino, Versace, Prada, Armani: some of the most powerful names in the industry didn’t just launch here, they were built on the same streets we walked. Our fashionistas enjoyed a front row seat to what it means to spend time in a true fashion powerhouse.

Every stop on this itinerary was curated because it mattered, vetted ahead of time by someone who knows the industry from the inside.

That means no wasted afternoons and no guessing which atelier is worth the visit. Just the best the Italian fashion scene has to offer, curated for people who love it, by someone who knows exactly where to take them.

Rome • Florence • Milan •

Rome • Florence • Milan •

Florence • The Birthplace of Gucci & Leather Craft

Gucci museum during Fashion Mentor school of style in the Brera District in Milan during the Italian Fashion Experience group trip.

The Gucci Museum

We stood in the birthplace of Gucci, the brand that turned Florentine leather craft into a global house. History you can only really feel in the room it happened in.

A woman sitting at a machines sewing a leather handbag during Fashion Mentor school of style i Italian Fashion Experience group trip.

A Leather Handbag Factory in the Tuscan Hills

Florence is the leather capital of the world, and we went straight to the source, touring a working factory in the hills outside the city.

Milan • Where the Fashion Business Lives

Fashion Mentor school of style in the Brera District in Milan during the Italian Fashion Experience group trip. The tour guide is pointing at a gray blazer and gray pants on display. The group is engaged in a discussion about the clothing.

Touring Brera Fashion District With Local Experts

Local experts walked us through the Brera fashion district, the neighborhood where Milan’s design culture actually lives.

A beige trench coat on a mannequin, a photography light, and a clothing rack with colorful dresses.

Inside Designer Ateliers

We visited working designer ateliers and toured their studios, seeing collections come together in the spaces where they’re made.

Fashion Mentor styling class at the Armani museum during the Italian Fashion Experience group trip.

Armani Museum

We stepped inside Armani Silos, the house's own museum dedicated to decades of Giorgio Armani's work. A look at how one designer built a global empire on quiet, tailored power, decades of archives housed in the same city where the brand still runs the show.

Rome - The Heart Of Italy

No trip to Italy is complete without spending time in its capital city, Rome. We kicked off this amazing tripwith an introduction to Italian culture through visiting the legendary Colosseum, touring the city via Vespa and of course a group pasta making class because when in Rome…🍝

Fashion Mentor school of style students standing in front of the Colosseum in Rome during the Italian Fashion Experience group trip.
Designer Jatcie Smith in front of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy, wearing a colorful dress and carrying a white handbag during Fashion Mentor's Italian Fashion Experience
Group of women participating in a pasta-making class in a restaurant or cooking school, holding sheets of freshly cut pasta.
A young woman and a man riding a yellow scooter on a city street, both wearing helmets and sunglasses; the woman is holding a smartphone and smiling.
A group of women raising glasses outside in front of a yellow textured wall, celebrating.
Fashion Mentor Italy group trip guests sitting on a brick wall in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, smiling at the camera. They are wearing sunglasses, casual summer clothing, and sneakers.
Brittany Diego in a white dress with long braided hair smiling with open arms in front of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy.

Rome, Florence, and Milan hit different when you're living fashion instead of just looking at it.

Next stop: Tokyo. Stay tuned.

Forbes 30 under 30 honoree Brittany Diego wearing a light blue blazer and jeans, smiling, standing next to a clothing rack with various colorful clothes.

Forbes 30 Under 30 Stylist, Brittany Diego

Who’s Leading the Room

Led by Brittany Diego, an LA based stylist, Fashion Mentor Co founder, and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, with over a decade of experience working inside the fashion industry, from styling red carpets to dressing some of the biggest names in music and entertainment.

Every stop on this trip was chosen with intention: the Gucci Museum, a leather factory tucked into the Tuscan hills, and ateliers in Milan's Brera district weren't picked because they're easy to find.

They were chosen because they show fashion lovers something they can't Google: what it actually looks like to work inside the industry, not just admire it from the outside. This is access built from someone who's lived in the rooms most people only see from a distance.