Director BA Fashion Design
Leyla Neri is a fashion designer and cultural anthropologist. Following her Master of Fine Arts in Fashion Design at Accademia di Arte e Design in Florence, her first experience in a luxury company took place within the context of the burgeoning heritage center of Gucci, in the late nineties.
She initially pursued a career in fashion design in Milan prior to holding a faculty position in Geneva. She spent five years as professor and head of the Fashion department at the Geneva School of Art and Design where she developed new programs following the European Higher Education Bologna Process. She was also the founding director of the Master in Luxury Management at the Geneva School of Business Administration.
Her recent consulting activities reflect her perception of fashion as a cultural phenomenon that goes far beyond the fashion system. In particular, she ran the project that led to the registration of the first dress ever acknowledged as an element of the UNESCO Representative List of Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
She completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology of Art and Design at the Université Lumière in Lyon.
