School of Fashion in Barcelona

IED Fashion is a complete, exhaustive response to the increasingly diversified and specialised training requirements expressed by the fashion system.

A complete school in its own right, based on the principle of cross-fertilisation and the completeness of its teaching methods which, in line with IED philosophy, combines knowledge with know how, theory with practice. Fundamental to this approach is the school’s relationship with the entrepreneurs and professionals working in the Italian fashion business, the world’s largest concentration of clothing industrialists and creatives.

The people who work in this industry have achieved success and international renown as a result of the fashion system’s ability to blend an entrepreneurial spirit with creativity and a perception for innovation.

IED Fashion points the way for its students to live and feel this sense of fashion, in an embracing whole and in its individual parts, as an interaction between different perspectives and a combination of diverse professional skills.

As the courses aim at training the professional profiles vital to the industry, these range from the more purely creative to the strategic areas, from organisational to commercial aspects, from marketing to image and communications work.

IED Fashion is a didactic and research project that covers every training requirement in a field of fundamental importance to the Italian and world economies.

From its more specifically creative facets to those of management and commercial enterprise, from the stylist to the fabric or jewellery designer, from the journalist to the events organiser, the fashion industry needs well-trained professionals, with a solid cultural grounding and an acute ability to discern and predict future trends.

These courses are tailored for high-school leavers, young graduates and professionals who want to improve their skills.

Fashion school in Barcelona, Olla campus

IED Barcelona is housed in an old example of totally refurbished industrial archaeology, a building that used to be a chocolate factory in the neighbourhood of Gracia, one of the most characteristic and “alternative” areas in this eternally active, dynamic city.

The building covers an area of about 1,900 m², featuring a central block that now houses the lecture theatres and a related but independent structure used for cultural events, meetings, round tables and exhibitions open to the general public.

The campus also has two further 300 m² facilities, which are home to its media library, several laboratories, workshops and the IED Showcase space, where shows of the best work created by students alternate with those of design professionals.

The school’s strong links with the fabric of local enterprise and the distinctly international vocation, both of IED itself and of the host city, have naturally generated a special focus on new technologies as an element of connection and interchange with the professional world in Italy and the rest of Europe and the development of an eLearning platform as a tool for integrating and further exploring the activities undertaken in the classroom.