Today we began our last day by going to LineaPelle which is a company that manages all of the larger Italian tanneries. They showed us many different types of leathers and all the possible procedures that the hides could go through in order to arrive at the final piece of leather. We learned about different…

Today we began the day by going over to Catolica in order to have a lecture with one of the teachers from the international school. She gave us a presentation about business models and sustainability in the fashion industry. I would say that the most interesting part of the presentation was when she was explaining…

Today we started the day by meeting with the marketing head of a shoe making company called Valasca. This woman gave us a quick breakdown of the history of Valasca, starting out with two guys who wanted to create an online luxury shoe company while keeping the price at an affordable point. They were both…

Today, before going back to Milan, we visited two companies that were part of the Consorzio from yesterday. The first company was called Sartoria Cavour. It was a fashion production company that focused on men’s suits. The man who started the company was originally a tailor, so he was extremely concerned with making sure that…

Today we had a free morning in Verona. A few friends and I went and saw the castle, the amphitheater, and got lunch all before 1 o’clock. Then we took all gather and took a quick bus ride a few minutes down the street for another company visit. This was to a place called Consorzio…

Today we took an hour train ride to get to Venice. After getting there, we went on a tour of the entire city, through many narrow streets and back alleys, over bridges and across canals. It’s full of history because they try extremely hard to preserve whatever they can of how the city was in…

Today we took a three hour bus ride over to Verona. Once we arrived in the city, we were given a wonderful tour that showed us all of the major places in Verona. As we were driving in the city reminded me a little of New York with the style of building and the park…

Today we started our day with a visit to one of the most famous schools for leatherworking, Scuola del Cuoio. After going through the facility there and seeing all that went into creating leather products, we went to the silver museum. Then we went to the Boboli Gardens, which are beautiful botanical gardens, before finishing…

Today we took a long drive to Florence in the morning. After settling in at the hotel we went to one of the most famous art museums in all of Italy, the Uffizi. It is a mainly renaissance art museum, housing many paintings from Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. It’s fascinating how different the people it depicts…

Today we visited a company that specialized in making silk scarves. They make more than just that, but it’s the most famous aspect of what they do. They work with the fashion industry in the production of their silk scarves. They help by aiding them in all the decisions that they have to make on…

Today we went to the Museum of Science and Technology. We had a magnificent, Italian woman take us through the museum and show us the different exhibits. Most of the museum focused on the works of Leonardo Da Vinci. While living in Milan, Leonardo did much of his best work. They say that this is…

After starting off the day with a lesson in Italian from a wonderful, Italian woman named Julieta, we went to see the main part of Milan. We saw the Duomo and then began towards our two different shops still within the main part of Milan, but not within the center. The center had incredibly expensive…

Upon entering Milan the first thing that I noticed was that in terms of architecture, there are many different colors of bricks used for the buildings. Buildings can be next to each other and be completely different colors even thought they might be the exact same design. I was wondering why this would be so…

Hi I’m Jason Sosnowski. I’m studying Electrical Engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering. I’m going to be going to Italy for 2 weeks this summer with Plus3. The pre-departure meetings were where everyone attending the trip gathered together for a few hours on Sundays and discussed business, Italy itself, and travel as a whole….