YNAP Joins Forces With Prince Charles’ Foundation
LONDON — Yoox Net-a-porter and Prince Charles’ foundation have forged an Anglo-Italian alliance with the aim of helping young artisans by marrying artisanal and data-driven design. An announcement is expected today. The project, dubbed the Modern Artisan, will bring together two groups of students and recent graduates from Italy and the U.K. to work on design projects and undergo training that will help them gain employment in the future. Six Italian students from the design school Politecnico di Milano will be tasked with designing a collection inspired by the convergence of art and science in Leonardo da Vinci’s work in the lead up to the 500th anniversary of his death. The final collection, which will range across men’s and women’s wear, will be brought to market in the middle of next year and be sold across all four YNAP platforms, Net-a-porter, Mr Porter, Yoox and The Outnet. Profits from the sale will be donated to the Prince’s Foundation, which is a charitable organization set up by Prince Charles and focusing on community building and offering skills-based courses across the arts, architecture, hospitality and science. The project will also engage six U.K. graduates and offer them the opportunity to undertake a four-month training on “luxury small batch
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