Italy's Milan is one of the fashion capitals of the world

Italy's Milan is one of the fashion capitals of the world...

Italy's is the second city for population, with over 1,300,000 inhabitants in inner Milan, growing to about 4 million people in the Greater Milan (Grande Milano) with its suburbs, which is the largest urban area in Italy. It constitues an urban continuum of buildings, residences, squares, services and factories that goes well beyond the city limits, expanding mostly North and East for many kilometres.
Recent years have seen the introduction of the new concept of Milan's "Area Metropolitana", the fourth in the European Union for number of inhabitants after the Ruhr district in Germany, Paris and London. It comprises the provinces of Milan, Lodi, Monza e Brianza, Como, Lecco, Varese, Bergamo, Pavia and Novara, and is home to well over 7 million people on an area of about 12,000 km² which include Alpine zones and, common to many European cities, regional parks. a destination for study and work travels from all over the world. It is one of the globe's greatest fashion capitals and creative capitals.

A number of fashion graduates aspire to study fashion in Italy. The University of Milan and Istituto Marangoni offer scholarships covering tuition fees to fashion designing students. Istituto Marangoni is in fact already at the Indo-Italian Chamber looking to recruit students for their university.
The country offers specialised courses in arts, music, choreography, language mediation at polytechnics, academies, higher institutes, recognised music institutes and national academies. There are higher technical education institutions and institutions teaching few specific fields likearchiving, diplomatics, restoration, military studies, etc.
What you should know

Students should know that in Italy, the academic year is divided into two semesters. The duration of each semester is around 20 weeks which is divided into 14 weeks of lectures and 6 weeks of exams. The first semester begins in September-October and ends in January-February. The second semester begins in February and ends in July.
The average fee amounts to somewhere between 850 to 1,000euros (Rs56,546 to Rs66,525) per year. The fee amount varies from one university to another and also depends on the chosen course of study. Private universities are clearly much more expensive. Those doctoral students who have received a grant from the university do not have to pay fees, but non-grant holders are required to pay the fees, which will vary again according to the university chosen.
At present, there are 89 university institutions which are classified as-58 State universities, 17 non-State universities (legally recognised by the State), 2 universities for foreigners, 6 higher schools specialised in postgraduate university studies, 6 telematic universities.
Life in Italy

for a studentEvery foreign student who intends to study in Italy must obtain an Italian student visa before entering into Italy. Students must remember that getting a visa is a long drawn process and the whole procedure can take up to 60 days. To be sure that the visa is issued timely, students need to calculate the time required to obtain a visa and being at the university on the day of admission.
Students can apply at least three month's prior to the programme's initiation. Make sure the Italian institutions provide the necessary letter of acceptance, Letter of enrollment, insurance letter and course schedule to complete your visa application documents. A student visa is issued only for the time the program is valid.
Living costs

The living costs can amount up to 1,000 euros (Rs66,525) a month, inclusive of housing, which is not much, but will vary depending on one's lifestyle. Renting an apartment in cities and large towns will be more expensive and can range from 300 euros to 1000 euros a month, however students can opt for renting student apartments, which are generally cheaper.
Considering accommodation, food, telephone, local travel and leisure costs, students can look at a monthly budget of 1000-1500 euros depending on the location. Prices of groceries etc can vary considerably depending on where you live.
Working in Italy

Students do have the opportunity to work part-time, within as well as outside the university campus. Many Italian students have some form of part time employment to help support themselves while studying.
If you are a citizen of a EU member state you are eligible to work in Italy without a work permit. All other students from outside the EU will require a work permit which is quite difficult to obtain.

New lifestyle, office culture brings Smartphone

New lifestyle, office culture brings Smartphone...
The recent launch of the iPhone is bringing about remarkable changes in the local consumer market and offering challenges to related industries in the country. This is the first of a four-part series on the changes and challenges in the local smartphone market. - Ed.
Jung Hye-won, a 29-year-old PR manager for BK S&P, a local business solution provider, threw away her big, heavy suitcase after she bought an iPhone last week.

"I frequently move around and I had to carry my laptop, camera, MP3 player, PDA, mobile phone and cables to connect them," she said.

The iPhone freed her from the chore of carrying the heavy load.

"I feel much lighter and my work-life seems to have become much easier than before. I also don't have to look for coffee houses that offer Wi-Fi networks anymore. With this smartphone, I can check e-mail and surf the Web anytime, anywhere," she said.

Jung is one of a growing number of iPhone users in Korea who enjoy new lifestyle benefits offered by the smartphone, which is developed and manufactured by U.S. IT giant Apple.

According to KT, Korean customers snapped up 250,000 iPhones as of Jan. 10, less than 50 days after the phone was released here. KT, the country's second-largest mobile carrier, is an official partner with Apple in charge of selling iPhone products and receiving after-sale service requests.

To date, no other mobile has reached more than 250,000 unit sales in less than 50 days, according to a KT official, even though the market has been dominated by popular phones manufactured by Samsung and LG.

Other smartphones have changed office culture as well, asking employees to be more time efficient.

"I am a slave to my smartphone because I have to check my e-mail 24 hours a day. Now I can't give the excuse to my boss that I couldn't check my e-mail because I was away from the office," said Chung Seong-jun, senior associate of the equity sales team at Daewoo Investment and Securities.

Chung added that it is better to send messages to his clients abroad with his Blackberry than talking on the phone.

Unchallengeable tenet of modernism in men's fashion

Unchallengeable tenet of modernism in men" fashion.....
The future of men's fashion ,It is an unchallengeable tenet of modernism that things should be practical: that means clean, simple clothes
Want to know the definition of a fashion victim? It’s someone who, when he is eased into the glowing white interior of a hospital MRI scanner and hears the beast hum into life, thinks about what his legs and feet must look like sticking out of the end, and chides himself that he could have chosen his outfit better.
A psychologist might argue that this was a classic example of displacement, worrying about your clothes instead of your health, but I disagree. You see, the man in the scanner was me — I was a bit poorly before Christmas — and I can tell you, having to spend almost half an hour in a piece of kit straight out of Stanley Kubrick does weird things to you. You can’t move and there’s nowhere to look apart from straight up, so it’s little wonder that your mind goes a-wandering — and mine ended up contemplating this conundrum: if hospital equipment has become so incredibly high-tech, why are we still dressing like our grandfathers (who, let’s face it, would have been impressed by a stethoscope)? And if our sartorial sense had kept pace with advancing technology, what kind of thing would go with your state-of-the-art MRI scanner, anyway?
It would have to be clean and simple. I say this not because I have seen the future and it dresses like the crew of the Starship Enterprise, but because I have seen the past and it is an unchallengeable tenet of modernism that things should be practical and easy to maintain. Take the earliest fitted kitchens, for example. The Frankfurt kitchens of the late Twenties were designed to be hygienic and efficient, just as future fashion will, I believe, be unfussy and ergonomic.
This is the kind of thing that you find at labels such as Jil Sander, Calvin Klein, Prada and Dior Homme, where the look is pared down and simple, eschewing fussy decoration for sleek design. It is a black, partially see-through single-breasted coat for spring by Prada (just in store, £850), made from what the company calls “perforated wool tech” and with matching trousers available; or a white (or black) C.P. Company goose-down quilted short jacket in chintzed cotton poplin, fully reversible with a contrasting colour on the opposite side (this is an autumn/winter style, currently on sale exclusively online at cpcompany.co.uk, down from £395 to £197.50).