The future of fashion design and art direction has planted roots in the third headquarters of the Polimoda institute in Florence, built on a project by the Q-bic studio in a place with a historical and cultural influence from the 1930s: the sector’s advanced training school fashion has in fact opened the doors inside the building once intended for the General Services of the State Monopoly, in the context of the complex of 16 buildings of the former Manifattura Tabacchi, originally designed by Pier Luigi Nervi.