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FIND YOUR DIFFERENCE Milano Master course Master Diploma IED FASHION DESIGN MILANO | BARCELONA | CAGLIARI | COMO | FIRENZE | MADRID | RIO DE JANEIRO | ROMA | SÃO PAULO | TORINO | VENEZIA th EDITION 19 “ELEGANT IS NOT WHAT Visiting Pitti Uomo at Florence YOU WEAR, AND IT’S NOT ABOUT HOW YOU WEAR IT, BUT IT’S MORE ABOUT WHO YOU ARE.” ALBER ELBAZ Title Master Diploma IED in Fashion Design Coordinator Fabio Di Nicola Starting date January Duration 1 year, full-time Location Milan Language English Students from the previous editions of the Master course collaborated with: MASTER COURSE IN FASHION DESIGN Photo by M. Siracusano “Fashion is changing and developing faster nowadays. Everything is on the move and needs to be refreshed constantly. The Master in Fashion Design aims at post graduate students who already have skills in fashion but need to upgrade their vision and enhance their abilities. A fashion designer today has to bring new ideas, new perspectives but also has to know how to create the fashion idea and make it real. The Master in Fashion Design ambitions are: create young professionals, aware of the fashion industry and ready to face the fashion world. Through different workshops, with real professionals, students will approach different experiences and various themes, going into deep every subject. Also the Master wants to develop the designers’ personality, the unique taste and the personal perspectives of the students to better define their personality both as creators and artists.” Fabio Di Nicola OVERVIEW IED Masters constitute an experience that allows students to explore concepts and develop projects aimed at the definition of their own professional identity. Contemporary Project exhibited at “Festival della Filosofia” “Festival exhibited at Contemporary Project The study path is designed to lead students towards the complete mastery of a fashion product creation process: participants deal with concept creation, research phase, sketching, colours and materials definition, assessment of economic feasibility, prototyping and communication of the project. The goal is to train Fashion Designers with high-quality practical skills in the creation and management of different products typologies and production’s steps. The garments created are endowed with their own identity, and carry a message that is clear and recognisable, chosen and elaborated by the Designer by analysing the contemporary. The Master is aimed at graduates in Fashion Design or Designers working in the field who need to develop their know-how using contemporary approaches in research and design. Knowledge of Fashion Design techniques are fundamental. In order to tell you about this course at the best, we would like to provide you an insight into the activities carried out by the students. Take a look at the projects realised by the former classes: ied.edu/master-in-fashion WHAT’S NEXT Working with internationally renowned professionals, becoming aware of the real job’s dynamics, acquiring new contacts and getting into a network: these are the main achievements of IED Master students. Project Lovidentity by M. Thao, in collaboration with N°21. Thao, in collaboration Lovidentity by M. Project This educational pathway provides high Serena Sala Among the students of the past editions: Some of the agencies and companies quality experiences allowing students to Sociologist, Image Work Communication - that activated internships in past meet the main characters in the chosen field Consultant and Teacher of the Master course Martina Sorghi editions: of study, to strengthen their competences “In these days, studying fashion means to Freelance Fashion Designer Agnona, Anticamera, Aquilano Rimondi, Armani, and to acquire new ones, towards the cross the boundaries among the various “This Master taught me to be consistent in Attila&Co, Balenciaga, Bally, Bottega Veneta, Brioni, progressive definition of their future. disciplines. It means to acquire a multi- everything you do. I used to complain about Calvin Klein, Camera Nazionale della Moda, semantic language, capable of decoding having many deadlines. But I learned that if Clara Kito, Coccinelle, CondéNast, Daniela Dallavalle, Today, the career path of a Fashion Designer contemporaneity and narrating stories using you use your time with consistency and Diesel, Dior, Dirk Bikkembergs, D&G, Ermenegildo can develop in many different contexts. liquid aesthetic codes in order to create an courage, this will help you getting through Zegna, Etro, Excelsior Milano, Fendi, Gabriele At the end of the course, students are unexpected story. This design vision, capable the tough moments that life and the job you Colangelo, Gianfranco Ferré, Gruppo Marzotto, qualified to work as specialists in the creative of mixing scenarios, knowledge, information, chose and love will necessarily put you in.” Gucci, Italia Independent, Jacked, Jil Sander, Jimmy process of designing all sort of apparel suggestions, images and references, allows Choo, Karla Otto, Lampoon, Lardini, Les Hommes, collections. They can collaborate with to obtain a result that is superior to the Xia Zhi Logos PR, Loro Piana, Lucio Vanotti, Luxottica, wholesalers, manufacturers or individual simple sum of the parts. In addition to the Womenswear Fashion Designer Maison Albino, Mantero seta, Marina Rinaldi, Max clients, being able to create designs in various fashion world in its many forms (product, “I’ve had a wonderful experience during the Mara, Maximilian Linz, MFfashion, Missoni, Moncler, sizes, colours and materials. Moreover, with styling, marketing, communication), cinema, Master course. Currently i’m working as a Moschino, M&C Saatchi PR, Nakedbutsafe Magazine, locations of production moving to specific theater, performing arts, photography, video womenswear designer for a newly lunched Nike Italia, Prada, Puma, Ratti, Roberto Cavalli, countries and fast fashion pushing towards and fashion film are just some of the fields fashion company in Shanghai in China. I think Rossignol, Safilo, Spektre Sunglasses, Tod’s, a higher speed of cycles, independent Fashion that can be approached and explored, the most useful thing IED had brought to me Trussardi, Valentino, Versace, Vivienne Westwood, Designers can challenge the system by offering an extended declination of the for my professional work is actually the WP Lavori in Corso, Umit Benan, Yoox. showing new business models and strategies concept “fashion and style”, far beyond the concept of how to build up a complete and and by supporting the sustainability mere dress and the limits of the past.” successful collection, which was also the revolution that is about to happen. reason why this company hired me.” METHODOLOGY AND STRUCTURE PROGRAMME The course works as a creative laboratory Nurture courses Professors: they are PRELIMINARY INTENSIVE COURSES History of Fashion Photography that guides participants to the progressive in charge of sharing and discussing projects Fashion Culture This course introduces students to the history acquisition of a clear project development with the different teams, “nurturing” The aim is to give the students an in-depth and developments of contemporary fashion methodology applied to the Made in Italy students with incitement and inspirations. view on the cultural and social sides of photography from the 1970s to the present know-how. fashion. From an introduction to the 20th day. With an international outlook, it explores Lecturers: allow participants to face and century fashion to the most contemporary fashion editorials published in important Students enhance their creative talents get in touch with eminent economics and and groundbreaking fashion phenomena. magazines as well as the most popular by practising on 4 different thematic business profiles, in order to increase cultural The new aspects and the most relevant young publicity campaigns and the new workshops dedicated to Womenswear, influences to apply to project themes. designers today and new trend are among the phenomenon of fashion films. Menswear, Bespoke, and Contemporary. topics of this course too. The course links fashion to contemporary art, These projects provide students with Structure music, and cinema, to consider how fashion high-level tailoring methods, research and Traditional lectures, workshops Methodology of Project Development reflects social, cultural and political ideas project development tools, in order to meet and laboratory sessions are structured in The research of informations, trends, pictures concerning dress, body and identity. the market needs of the future. parallel in order to allow participants to be and cultural phenomena are very important aligned to same cultural and creative design to create and develop a fashion project. Fashion Sociology & Trends Professionals interacting tools. Students deal with the different Students on every subjects concerning the Overview about the future changes with students phases of the design process, consisting creation of a project after a brief. Analysing the of contemporary scenarios and their Coordinator: Fashion designers who follow of experimental and interactive work-flows best sources and learning how to create a final transformation in relationship between up on all relations with companies, sync (each with different aims, complexity moodboard. The process helps to find out the persons and products. Being in constant methodological tools with the projects, and objectives). During all the projects, best views, the best suggestions, and