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.
Fashion school in Milan, Leoni Campus
This is a 4,000 m² structure located in an area of the city that is now undergoing rapid property and urban development, close to the Via Pietrasanta campus.
Located at N° 3 via Pompeo Leoni, the facility houses all the three-year post-secondary school courses, the refresher and specialisation courses and the Masters organised by the Milan IED Fashion and the largest structure in Italy devoted entirely to a school of fashion.
The campus has numerous equipped lecture theatres, several workshops, common rooms, a library and an extensive garden containing a 900 m² theatre used for exhibitions, fashion shows and other events. A structure unlike any other, this is the only school of fashion in Italy to have its own large theatre, where it can old the final presentation of its students’ work, in exhibitions and shows that are open to the public.
More than 200 Italian and international practising professionals and academics hold courses here every year, always keeping one step ahead of the real evolution taking place in world of fashion, a milieu in which Milan is one of the world’s most accredited centres.