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AIFS Abroad offers a unique global educational experience for students on this program, with placements and coursework to suit a variety of interests.
This company is a prominent global real estate consultancy recognized for its significant revenue achievements in 2014. It has earned a prestigious spot on the "FORTUNE 500" list, ranking the largest U.S. companies, making it the sole representative from the real estate services sector to achieve this distinction. With approximately 52,000 employees, the company is dedicated to addressing the needs of investors, property owners, and end-users alike. Its operations span over 370 offices worldwide, excluding those affiliated with partner firms. This extensive network enables the company to deliver tailored solutions, solidifying its reputation as a leader in the real estate industry while fostering strong relationships with clients across various markets.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting with business analysis of the projects
– Developing of best strategies option
– Assisting with data analysis
This company is an agency for short term rental focusing on students and foreign clients. Their strengths are the communication with clients and a excellent website where is possible explore the apartments with 360 virtual tour, all inclusive price and video reviews. Their goal is to be the best and honest short term rental agency in Milan.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting supervisor in Search Engine Optimization
– Managing and editing social media networks and website
– Assisting in facility management
– Helping in coding company website if interested/able
– Assisting with invoices recording and collecting
– Assisting with payments recordings and receipts collecting
– Assisting with guests check-in and check-out
This company plays a pivotal role in the development process, focusing on the successful completion of projects while meeting established financial, technical, temporal, and qualitative goals. As the single point of reference, BEAR PM coordinates professionals, contractors, and the client’s team, ensuring seamless collaboration throughout the project. They manage costs, timelines, and quality to deliver exceptional results. Offering comprehensive project management, cost management, and construction management services, they guide clients from strategic planning to project completion. Additionally, the company provides integrated design and engineering, strategic programming, cost control, technical due diligence, and project monitoring during both design and construction phases.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Supporting administrative activities from the economic point of view
– Supporting in cost analysis
– Assisting in optimization activities for projects
This company is a fashion house founded in Milan in 2020. The first collection was presented in February 2021. The house revolves, both literally and metaphorically, around the atelier. Here the designer and his team mold fabrics and textures, with an emphasis on beauty and made in Italy craft. The same emphasis on artisan excellence shapes the supply chain, from fabrics to manufacturing, relying on a roster of some of the best workshops that operate in Italy today. The designer integrates made-to-measure designs with ready-to-wear, creating uniquely feminine pieces that marry the flowing and the architectural.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting in management and handling of garments and accessories for editorial shoots for Italian and international press, celebrity dressing, advertising campaigns and videos
– Managing of the seeding activities for celebrities, press and talent
– Editing and updating of databases and contacts
– Supporting staff for press reviews and creation of reports and presentations
– Helping with competitor research and talent scouting
– Understanding the dynamics of the communication within a luxury brand in an international and dynamic environment: press office, social media and celebrity relations
This Milan-based agency specializes in providing comprehensive integrated solutions for sales, communication, and brand consultancy across the realms of menswear, womenswear, and accessories. With strategically located offices in both Milan and Paris, the agency operates year-round, ensuring a continuous presence in two of the fashion capitals of the world. They focus on showcasing emerging Italian designers, highlighting the craftsmanship and creativity that Italy is renowned for, while also establishing international brands in the competitive fashion market. Their mission is to connect these brands with the most influential independent shops and prestigious department stores globally, fostering valuable relationships that drive brand visibility and growth.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting in organizing the agenda for sales period
– Assisting vendors in presenting collection
– Assisting in showroom displays
– Welcoming clients
– Direct communication with buyers/clients
– Helping prepare boxes at the end of sale period
– Helping in planning events in showroom
This agency, based in Milan, specializes in integrated solutions for sales, communication, and brand consultancy across menswear, womenswear, and accessories. Operating from two locations—Milan and Paris—they showcase emerging Made in Italy designers alongside established international brands throughout four seasons each year. The agency connects these talented designers with the most influential independent shops and department stores worldwide, ensuring that their unique offerings reach a global audience. By fostering relationships within the fashion industry, they help elevate brands and drive successful collaborations, making them a key player in the contemporary fashion landscape.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
-Assisting in organize the agenda for sales period
– Assisting vendors in presenting collection
– Assisting in displaying collections in showroom
– Welcoming clients
– Assisting with communication with buyers/clients
– Helping to prepare boxes at the end of sale period
– Helping with events planning in showroom
– helping with marketing and social media activities
This multi-brand showroom was established in the heart of Milan in the 1990s. Today, the showroom has expanded to three locations, each thoughtfully transformed into welcoming and warm environments for customers. The designers vision ensures that every space reflects a sense of hospitality, making the shopping experience enjoyable and inviting. By creating an atmosphere where clients feel valued and comfortable, the showrooms successfully combine style and service, solidifying their reputation in Milan’s vibrant fashion scene.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting vendors to present collections
– Assisting to take orders from the buyers
– Welcoming to the clients
– Assisting to display collection in showroom
– Assisting to put orders in database
This is a boutique fashion & beauty business consulting firm based in Milan, Italy. They offer business and branding strategy advice for start-ups and established brands all over the world. Achieving maximum impact in all touch points is no easy task. They love connecting the dots and bringing clients’ visions to life. They work with clients to build a creative brand with punch and impact by outlining the strongest aspects of their vision and amplifying them. They aim to ensure that the road map created are aligned with the client’s vision and easy to follow.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Managing and editing of social media tools
– Creating blog posts for both TDF and clients’ websites
– Assisting with the implementation of the strategic development
– Assisting with taking orders from clients, checking the order, and preparing boxes for clients
– Answering phones and providing information to buyers
– Interacting with buyers and merchandisers
– Maintaining organization of showroom
– Learning how a high-end showroom runs
This fashion showroom in downtown Milan features a host of well known exclusive designers. The international distribution and high service to top retailers are supported through the second showroom in Paris. For over two decades this showroom has been keen to find new talents and helped to launch and establish the collections of important designers such as Helmut Lang, Michael Kors, Viktor & Rolf, Raf Simons, Matthew Williamson, Andrew Mackenzie, Walter Van Beirendonck, Carol Christian Poell, Julien Macdonald, Luella, Mulberry, and many more.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting with taking orders from clients, checking the order, and preparing boxes for clients
– Answering phones and providing information to buyers
– Interacting with buys and merchandisers
– Maintaining organization of showroom
– Learning how a high-end showroom runs
– Assisting with expanding the showroom’s international capabilities
Since its inception, this company has aimed for the perfect blend of casual and classic styles. Their leather shopping bags, totes, and accessories pay homage to architecture, design, and fashion, serving as their main sources of inspiration. Entirely designed and manufactured in Italy, their collections feature luxurious, timeless bags that exude urban character. The fusion of style and elegance is enhanced by exquisite artisan details and the thoughtful use of bold, vibrant colors. With high-quality leathers and meticulous craftsmanship, the online collection embodies both quality and sophistication, appealing to those who appreciate the art of fine accessories.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting with analysis and monitoring of competitor’s activities
– Updating contents for social media
– Assisting with marketing data analysis
A meticulous selection of partners, from labels to retailers, combined with tailored strategies, has positioned this showroom as a cornerstone of the fashion industry. The secret to its success lies in the founders’ extensive experience, collaborative efforts with partners’ creative teams, and the dynamic presence of a young, cohesive team. A must-visit destination for buyers, the showroom boasts over 1,500 national and international clients, including boutiques, department stores, and online platforms. 999 Showroom curates the best of market trends, consistently presenting a fresh and contemporary image that ensures end customers enjoy an exciting shopping experience.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting with scheduling appointments with clients
– Assisting to display collection in showroom
– Assisting in managing and editing social media
– Collecting clients orders
– Helping present collections to buyers
This agency, based in Milan, specializes in integrated solutions for sales, communication, and brand consultancy across menswear, womenswear, and accessories. Operating from two locations—Milan and Paris—they showcase emerging Made in Italy designers alongside established international brands throughout four seasons each year. The agency connects these talented designers with the most influential independent shops and department stores worldwide, ensuring that their unique offerings reach a global audience. By fostering relationships within the fashion industry, they help elevate brands and drive successful collaborations, making them a key player in the contemporary fashion landscape.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting in organizing the agenda for sales period
– Assisting vendors in presenting collection
– Assisting in displaying collections in showroom
– Welcoming clients
– Direct communication with buyers/clients
– Helping prepare boxes at the end of sale period
– Helping in planning events in showroom
-Helping with social media updates and editing
This company’s origins in the fashion industry date back to the early 1960s when its founder established a small fashion distribution showroom in downtown Beirut. In the late 1970s, amid the civil war in Lebanon, the business relocated to Milan, Italy, the epicenter of fashion. Since then, the Group has achieved significant international success, successfully introducing renowned European brands to the Middle Eastern and Far Eastern markets. Over the years, their business model has evolved from a simple distribution house to a comprehensive international network, covering multiple regions and diverse channels. Key assets include customer satisfaction, optimal sell-out figures, and meticulous brand control in each territory.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting with collection presentation
– Assisting buyers and vendors
– Assisting in meetings with clients
– Assisting in display collection in showroom
– Coordinating with vendors staff
– Use of Digital Tools
The founder of this atelier, born in Milan, inherited her artistic talent from her father, an oil painter. She pursued her passion for design and fashion by attending a five-year design school. In 1994, after gaining valuable experience at various fashion and bridal houses, she opened her first atelier, specializing in custom-made wedding, evening, and formal dresses. Her creations have received multiple awards for their unique cuts and exquisite fabric selections. A member of the Maestri Sartori of Milan, she has showcased her collection at her eponymous fashion show for 14 years and holds Wedding Planner courses, organizing fashion shows and styling photo shoots.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Beginning with knowledge of fabrics, fashion history (especially Italian)
– Assisting in pattern making of evening and bridal gowns
– Learning traditional tailoring – Making a garment to their liking
The company was founded in February of 2006 by introducing a small collection of 30 pieces during the Milan Fashion Week and, thanks to cuts and trims made by his own hand, immediately gets excellent feedback from Japanese buyers and Italian press. In 2008 the brand takes part in the “Fashion Incubator” project organized by the National Chamber of Italian Fashion, and is a finalist for the 2012 Who Is On Next? the prestigious project organized by VOGUE Italy. They are currently part of the official calendar of Milan Fashion Week and is available in Italy, Asia, Russia and the Middle East.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Contributing to the design of the collection from start to finish
– Designing patterns
– Sketching designs
– Assisiting in tailoring
– Researching themes for potential collections
– Taking photos of the collection for social media exposure
– Posting on social media/Facebook
– Manufacturing duties as needed
This company is an electronic communications provider, a payment institution, a digital product and service developer, and a digital branding agency. They created their company, which has met the needs and desires of clients and consumers since 2000. They are a team of creatives, engineers, and marketing experts distributed across 4 highly specialized locations in Italy. They are electronic communication operators, payment institute, digital services developers, and communication agency and they are here together to rapidly create integrated solutions that produce measurable value.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting the creative teams in the creation of social media assets (concepts/design/photography)
– Assisting our global production team in the development of on/offline materials to be distributed worldwide
– Assisting an art director in updating the product site
This company became the largest independent Italian music distributor. The activities include the creation, development, production, selling, and promotion of CDs, Vinyl, and DVDs. Through the years the company has taken over the distribution of many Italian and international labels. They work together with publishers and music managers, counting on a vast choice of artists, catalogues, and musical genres. The Strategic Marketing department collaborates with many of the Italian radio and TV channels for the production of compilations based on famous shows. Support the artists during music awards and competition.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting with the conception and development of artwork for digital releases and physical record products, thumbnails for YouTube videos
– Assisting with development of 3D graphics to be implemented in videos and graphic banners
This multibrand showroom was established in the heart of Milan by Damiano Boiocchi in the 1990s. Today, the showroom has expanded to three locations, each thoughtfully transformed into welcoming and warm environments for customers. Damiano’s vision ensures that every space reflects a sense of hospitality, making the shopping experience enjoyable and inviting. By creating an atmosphere where clients feel valued and comfortable, the showrooms successfully combine style and service, solidifying their reputation in Milan’s vibrant fashion scene.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting with digital graphic projects
– Editing images of website
– Creating graphic designs for brands or showroom company
This company is an all-Italian brand, founded in 2010 by creating products with a young, creative and fashionable spirit. From a small unknown brand, the reality of the brand has expanded over the last eleven years, to reach the size of a franchise. The products are in demand throughout Italy and have given life to a look that is now unmistakable. The bags allow the buyer to manage many details of the design during the purchase phase, making customization their strong point. What makes it a unique product is the possibility of combining its objects with any type of clothing without them overpowering it, but with the certainty of not going unnoticed.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Editing posts and contents about company’s social media
– Managing products descriptions
– Assisting with Analysis of KPI and sales
– Assisting with campaigns and social media sponsorship
This company is an exclusive online shop specializing in luxury handbags, wallets, eyewear, bijoux, and scarves from top brands. Our mission is to make iconic fashion items accessible by curating both recent and vintage pieces from private individuals, ensuring a safe and easy shopping experience. Our journey began with "Svuotalarmadio," a Milanese event showcasing selected clothing and accessories from prestigious private wardrobes. Building on our success in Milan, we now offer a year-round platform to give designer items a new life at reasonable prices, making exquisite Italian fashion accessible to a broader audience while celebrating sustainability and style.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting with video and photo production
– Assisting with video and photo editing
– Assisting with archive
– Assisting with sale management
– Editing social media content, video and photo
This company is a global strategic consultancy with over fifteen years of experience tracking cultural developments and consumer attitudes for clients within and beyond Europe. They build future-proof brands by applying a range of new generation insight tools designed to anticipate rapidly shifting consumer expectations and to bring fresh perspective on the underlying drivers shaping our world. For them innovation and marketing inspiration is clarity, visual synthesis and
brand narrative: the most effective way to distill value from insight, and transform it into actions that resonate across new markets and mediums.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Participating in qualitative market research
– Studying trend analysis: scenario analysis and semiotic analysis
– Collaborating on reports
– Analyzing and content editing for internal and external documents
This company arises from the two founders’ desire to transform their experience in event planning and communication into an agency that is structurally flexible, swiftly functional, and creatively diverse. The agency offers integrated services for organizing events, public relations, and communication strategies. It leverages a significant network of collaborations spanning the fashion industry and trendy lifestyle brands. Their consultancy equips clients with targeted communication strategies, highly effective events, engaging set-ups, and comprehensive technical support.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Participating and assisting with photoshoots
– Helping with lights and display of the stage
– Helping with editing video
– Assisting with client meetings
This PR company is a “global family” of journalists, public relations personnel, social media managers and web intelligence experts. But we have always counted on partners in many sectors such as IT, web design, video and photo production, research and development. They organize events of all kinds, from press meetings to street events, events for our customers, designing them from time to time four-handedly with the company’s marketing department to create them as much as possible in line with their values and market trends.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Assisting PR tasks
– Assisiting with market research
– Editing Social media
– Assisting with client meetings
– Assisitng with Graphic design, if needed
– Simulating PR projects
This fashion marketing company was born from the ten years of experience of its CEO in public relations, image consulting, and communication for fashion/design companies and young designers. They are specialized in press office and public relation activities with a strong focus on the fashion industry. With a dynamic and contemporary approach using both traditional strategies and digital PR the founder and the staff are one of the most sought after PR companies in Milan.
Internship tasks include but are not limited to:
– Contributing to the design of the collection from start to finish
– Designing patterns
– Sketching designs
– Assisting in tailoring
– Researching themes for potential collections
– Taking photos of the collection for social media exposure
– Posting on social media/Facebook
– Manufacturing duties as needed
Course Code: AIFS 298 (Semester)
Instruction Language: English
Students will engage in a work experience with organizations in a wide variety of fields. The experience is designed to be relevant to the student’s academic pursuits, personal development, and professional preparation. The internship is a substantive career development experience and provides students with the opportunity to gain experience in workplace settings and to translate classroom learning into practice. The intent is for the student to be exposed to business ideas and concepts while being mentored. Doing analysis, contributing to decisions, and communicating meaningful ideas should form the bulk of the work, although some low skill work (for example, data entry and making phone calls) can be a part of the assignment. At the end of the internship experience, students will be able to reflect on their personal and professional growth and begin seeing themselves on their career path.
Course Code: AIFS 298 (Semester)
Instruction Language: English
Students will engage in a work experience with organizations in a wide variety of fields. The experience is designed to be relevant to the student’s academic pursuits, personal development, and professional preparation. The internship is a substantive career development experience and provides students with the opportunity to gain experience in workplace settings and to translate classroom learning into practice. The intent is for the student to be exposed to business ideas and concepts while being mentored. Doing analysis, contributing to decisions, and communicating meaningful ideas should form the bulk of the work, although some low skill work (for example, data entry and making phone calls) can be a part of the assignment. At the end of the internship experience, students will be able to reflect on their personal and professional growth and begin seeing themselves on their career path.
Course Code: AIFS 301
Instruction Language: English
This course is intended to help students gain an understanding of the Attributes Employers Want to See on New College Graduates’ Resumes as defined by industry assessment conducted by the World Economic Forum. Learning and developing these attributes will increase students’ marketability to future global employers, contribute to their leadership capacity and their ability to attain professional success in a global economy.
Course Code: AIFS 302
Instruction Language: English
Students will learn to identify culture, cultural differences, how culture manifests in the work-place and communication in a global market. They will build their own intercultural competence in terms of their own awareness, skills, and knowledge as a necessary basis for learning about communication in the global workplace, especially as it may be applied to their host country where their experience is taking place.
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If you would like to earn academic credit for your internship and your university does not offer academic credit for your internship, it’s possible that you can receive transfer credit through our School of Record, Fairfield University.
AIFS Abroad interns have the option to receive up to 12 credits during a full summer or semester program, which is done through credit-bearing internships and online coursework. AIFS Abroad is able to share detailed syllabi to both students and advisors upon request.
There is an additional fee for full-time interns to enroll in AIFS Abroad Internship Coursework.
Transcripts will include Fairfield letter grade and credit. Your university academic advisor or study abroad advisor will determine how the credit transfers back for your coursework.