Laura Santanera

Fashion Merchandising consultant

Laura has 30 years of corporate experience in the fashion system, before as a manager for different fashion companies in the OTB group and La Rinascente (in Product/Brand/Merchandising/Buying Management positions) and today as a consultant. Along this journey, she always dedicated time in universities and schools as visiting professor of the professional faculty, training future managers in the fashion field. She has a long experience in MAFED, SDA Bocconi; and today dedicating most of her time in fashion schools like Polimoda, Domus Academy, Moodart, and also other universities where she created courses related to the fashion marketing/management like Usac (University Studies Abroad Corsortium) and IUSVE.

Thanks to a journey of personal grow that brought her to invest on a passion, she became 13 years ago an holistic therapist. This allows her to experiment with a new teaching approach, based on listening, deeply entering in relation with the others and working on personal skills like creativity and authenticity.

AZ Academy is more than an academic course - it’s a strategic business acceleration platform for the new era of fashion.

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