School of Fashion in Venice

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 school in Venice, Certosa campus

A campus in the middle of the sea, yet only a few hundred metres from one of the world’s liveliest and best known centres of history, art and culture. The city opposite and nature all around: the island of Certosa (Charterhouse) is situated in the centre of the Lagoon, between the city, the Lido and Murano.

On this island, the Vento di Venezia Nautical Hub has launched an economic and cultural rejuvenation programme, in which IED is acting as a full partner, contributing to bring about an original, experimental reinterpretation of Venetian traditions. The courses available here are based on the syntheses achieved by factoring IED into Venice and its traditions, relating closely to the shipyard industry, glass craftsmanship, the cinema, fashion and art.

So the Certosa campus, which houses all four schools in the system, is an experimental centre that offers Masters and advanced training courses, seminars and workshops to a heterogeneous public: university students, practising professionals, business concerns and, in general, everyone who wants to learn more about certain topics in the cultural sphere.

“The market gardener’s house” is a completely renovated structure that houses the lecture theatres, located in a garden and equipped with a network server and Internet connectivity. The IT workshops and classrooms are located in the nearby “Valeria” building.

The island has a restaurant with an agreement with IED, a yachting harbour with moorings for about 100 vessels and a shipyard. For students who want to discover the experience of campus life with their peers, there are ten double and single rooms available.