On 15 May, RUFA will take part in the 2025 edition of Rome Fashion Path, the widespread fashion event that transforms the Capital into a major stage for fashion and contemporary trends.
Thursday 15 May 2025 – 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM – RUFA campus: via Giuseppe Libetta, 7.
Rome Fashion Path brings together boutiques, flagship stores, fashion schools and ateliers in a free programme of collections, talks and exclusive performances. An immersive experience that spans both city centre and outskirts, creating a dialogue between creativity, new aesthetics and professionals across the entire fashion supply chain. Within this context, RUFA presents a selection of projects created by students of the Sustainable Fashion Design course, the first Bachelor’s Degree in Italy to propose a transdisciplinary approach based on integral ecology to rethink the entire fashion system.
Coordinated by Guenda Cermel, the course trains designers capable of combining creativity, technical skills and environmental awareness, promoting a vision of ethical and innovative fashion, and critically reflecting on the cultural and industrial models of the sector, with a focus on sustainability, inclusion and circularity.
The garments on display come from three distinctive projects, each expressing an ethical, creative and conscious approach to fashion:
New Japanese Icons
A personal and contemporary reinterpretation of Japanese aesthetics, known for its refined minimalism and attention to detail. Students created original garments inspired by the “Reduce – Reuse – Recycle” concept, repurposing existing materials and transforming them into new textile narratives.
Back to Black
A collective reflection on the little black dress, an iconic fashion symbol, here deconstructed and reimagined through a no-gender lens using unconventional materials. A project that challenges stereotypes and conventions, giving the garment a new expressive meaning.
Planetary Garden
The garments were created for the fashion performance “Planetary Garden”, inspired by the thinking of Gilles Clément, held at RUFA in June 2024. The collection explores three themes – Cement, Moss and Bubble – to narrate the relationship between humanity and the environment, using certified materials, deadstock and end-of-roll fabrics, also provided thanks to the support of textile companies MANTECO and Berto. A selection of these garments was showcased at the Sustainable Fashion Week in Vilnius, a prestigious international event dedicated to ethical fashion. Students oversaw every phase of the creative process: from design and fabric selection to garment construction, demonstrating skill, commitment and vision.