Irene Cerrati was born in 1965 and, after graduating from high school, she trained as a model maker at the Ida Ferri school, graduating in ’89 with top marks. She began her professional training at the Gattinoni atelier and then continued working as an external workshop for several years. At the same time, she began teaching in the technical sector of Fashion, i.e. modelling and tailoring, at various Design and Fine Arts Academies based in Rome. She collaborates as a model maker for several fashion houses and as a teacher with the Italian Institute of Fashion in Rome from 2000 to 2019 and with the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome from 2012 to the present. She has modelling skills both in the industrial sector using cad systems and in tailoring using moulage and TR method techniques, skills that she tries to pass on to her students in the courses she teaches.
