Summer Course in Fashion Design: Design your Capsule Collection - IED Firenze

Language

English

Start date

June 2026

Frequency

Full time

Fruition

On campus

Duration

3 Weeks

Course Coordination

Claudia Gelosa

Price

2.800 €

The Fashion Design: Design your Capsule Collection enables you to experiment the basic tools of design. 

Theoretical lessons are enhanced by creative workshops, visits to companies and trade fairs, and possible seminars with industry professionals.

Florence, with a centuries-old tradition in the world of fashion and its manufacturing excellence, has an enviable international reputation in fields ranging from fashion and artistic craftsmanship to design and technological innovation. In such incomparable place together with your fellows you will observe and analyze current creative realities and trends.

Information to decide

This course introduces the multifaceted industry that is fashion design. During the three weeks you will cover a wide range of subjects such as fashion history, trend research and techniques while developing skills such as drawing, patternmaking and tailoring techniques in order to complete a capsule collection as your Final Project. 

Also you will learn how to identify and discuss current trends and leaders in the Italian fashion industry and will acquire organisation skills and experience working as part of an international student team. Furthermore, you will employ the standard research methods, key concepts and tools necessary to develop a “collection project” based on the chosen “concept” and “target”.

Throughout the course, you will meet with diverse professionals in the field as part of traditional lecture or showroom visit. Active participation in discussions with guest lecturers and site visit attendance is fundamental.
 

The course is intended for students who have competence or basic professional expertise in the area of study and are interested in developing their professional skills. Participants must be familiar with the main features of Fashion Design and keen to understand the main tools to design.

Syllabus

Study Plan

HISTORY OF FASHION
THE CONCEPT OF TREND AND FLORENCE GROUND RESEARCH
INTRO TO COLLECTION PROJECT
FASHION DRAWING
PATTERN MAKING AND TAILORING TECHNIQUES
TECHNOLOGY OF MATERIALS

Faculty

Course Coordinator

Claudia Gelosa

Professor

Eva Di Franco

Fashion Designer    

Alberto Caselli Manzini

Art e Fashion director

Rodolfo Bargelli

Professor

Projects

Fashion Design and Styling

Florence

Final projects / thesis projects
Waxmore

Fashion Design and Styling

Florence

Final projects / thesis projects
Twins Florence

What people say

Fashion Design: Design your Capsule Collection

Cicely, student from London, talks about her experience during the Summer Course in Florence.

Cicely Rose Rutnam

Alumna IED

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