Supported by
THE TEAM
of the Web Fashion Academy
Web Fashion Academy is an association, founded by a team, an operating core, compounded by people who met for their common goals and who, in the development of their own activities, commit their whole passion to create a project, able to generate new synergies and a virtuous circle for the future, their own and of the others.
Rossana Diana, president and creative director of the Web Fashion Academy, she is also the mind behind the project Venette Waste, the synthesis of a long professional experience in fashion. Eclectic, with a deep product knowledge and extraordinarily creative, she reached important goals since the opening of “Zeus”, High Tech fashion temple of Milan in the 80’s, and after establishing important partnerships with companies such as Alberto Biani, Staff International, Vivienne Westwood, Diesel, Larusmiani, Plein Sud e Bomisa. Her great passion for Nature, makes her a strong supporter of the fact that there is no aesthetic without ethics. Her tenacity, her unconditional commitment and her sensibility, took her here, a new place where to offer her great experience in fashion to others.
ROSSANA DIANA
President and creative director
Marco Timelli is the operation manager of the Web Fashion Academy, born with Carosello and raised on bread and communication, passionate of motorbikes and photography, he learnt the functioning of a group of work “team building” as a production process defined by a number of resources and aiming to a final product, within the big Milanese agencies of the 80’s. From communication to journalism, he coordinated the publication of magazines about fashion trade and lifestyle, growing skills in the disclosure of the value of the message and of marketing management within fashion industries, textile yarn and fiber, luxury, hi-tech, boating and yachts, art, architecture, design, polo and golf.
Passionate and tenacious, ready to catch new sustainable challenges together with his work team in order to transform the changing market needs in favorable opportunities, with the aim of creating value, offering the best solutions, while saving effort and time for the research and the transition, and offering the highest welfare/result rate.
MARCO TIMELLI
Operation manager
Irene Bassi, artistic director of the Web Fashion Academy, she takes care of the image coordination. She has always been passionate for the feminine figure, women, she observes them and portrays them. Illustration and painting are the channel she explores, creating characters and bring them to life. Childish sensibility, to her sustainability is the highest existing shape beauty can get. Graphic and fashion designer, she communicates the beautiful through the image, it is her warmest kind of rebellion.
IRENE BASSI
Artistic director
Marco Rodigari, community manager of the Web Fashion Academy, he takes care of the definition of the blog contents and manages the social instruments. He has a cross-cutting role and supports many other aspects of the activities. Complicity of the education in Fashion Design, a Master in Fashion Project Management and an experience within research, he is attracted by the processes integrity, by the inner value of fashion, by its deepest meaning in the social context it lives and by the feedback it is able to generate today. A fanatic of fairness and respect in any shape, he believes in a special world, and he is sure fashion can be the way to make it.
MARCO RODIGARI
Community manager