Language

Spanish

Start date

September 2026

Frequency

Full time

Fruition

On campus

Duration

4 Years

Credits

240 ECTS

Explore and transform trends into innovative looks and powerful visual concepts that captivate audiences.

The four-year Fashion Design program, with a specialization in Fashion Styling and Communication, prepares you to interpret fashion and its expressions in response to the evolving needs of society. This pathway encourages you to develop a personal identity and acquire a comprehensive vision of the industry, combining creativity, visual culture, and professional techniques.

Throughout your studies, you will learn to analyze trends, design looks and fashion shoots, and shape editorials and advertising campaigns. Innovation, sustainability, and new technologies will be at the core of your learning experience, enabling you to imagine, create, and communicate with a contemporary perspective. Respect for your individuality and close guidance of your personal growth will ensure that you develop an authentic and transformative vision within an increasingly diverse and inclusive industry.

The Bachelor’s Degree in Higher Artistic Education in Design consists of 240 ECTS credits, distributed over four academic years. It is valid throughout the European Higher Education Area, equivalent to an official university degree, and accredited by the Agency for the Quality of the University System. This program allows access to official master’s degrees and, where applicable, doctoral studies.

IED Madrid: Private institution authorized to award the Bachelor’s Degree in Higher Artistic Education in Design • Order 4391/2011 • Own Fashion Design project authorized by Order 1708/2025 • Center no. 28073045

Information to decide

An official degree that explores creativity and sustainability in fashion, guided by leading professionals in the industry.

The program is structured into four academic years, each one focusing on subjects associated with fundamental technical and creative skills:  

  • Design fundamentals

  • History of art and design

  • History of fashion design

  • Representation and communication languages and techniques

  • The artistic basis of fashion

  • Design and clothing projects

  • Pattern design and garment making

  • Styling

  • Science applied to design

  • Materials and technology applied to fashion design

  • Design management

You will immerse yourself in a critical, flexible and adaptive learning ecosystem, where self-discovery will play a key role throughout the process. 

The methodology has a strong practical component, since it is based on projects, for which you will have numerous spaces where you can experiment with very different tools and processes. Among others, fashion workshops, with industrial quality equipment for different types of sewing or machines for specialized work such as knitting machines, 3D printers, leather, embroidery or triple drive machines.  

For those people who see fashion as a tool of personal expression and, at the same time, with the ability to positively impact present and future society. 

Also for those whose goal is entrepreneurship in the sector, since the program addresses skills and notions of business development and management. 

  • Fashion Stylist

  • Art Director

  • Coolhunter / Trend Analyst

  • Visual Merchandiser

  • Fashion Production Coordinator

  • Fashion Editor

  • Brand Communication Manager

  • Fashion Content Creator

  • Image and Style Consultant

  • Fashion Exhibition Curator

Syllabus

4 ECTS Design Fundamentals. Analysis

4 ECTS Color

6 ECTS Design Fundamentals. Ideation

4 ECTS Scientific Foundations for Design

4 ECTS Drawing. Representation

4 ECTS Ecodesign

4 ECTS Drawing. Communication

4 ECTS Theory and History of Art

4 ECTS Volume

4 ECTS Introduction to Pattern Making

4 ECTS Representation Systems

4 ECTS Sewing Techniques. History

4 ECTS Digital Technology

4 ECTS Project. Recycling and Deconstruction

ECTS (European Credit Transfer System): System adopted by all universities in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) to ensure the homogeneity and quality of the studies offered.

4 ECTS Techniques of Expression and Communication

4 ECTS History of Fashion

4 ECTS Theory and History of Design

6 ECTS Project. Design and Brand

4 ECTS Theory and Culture of Design

6 ECTS Project. Fashion and Technology

4 ECTS New Materials

4 ECTS Embroidery and Knitwear

4 ECTS Digital Modeling

4 ECTS Fashion Communication

4 ECTS Industrial Pattern Making

4 ECTS Fashion Illustration

4 ECTS Industrial Pattern Making. Garment Construction

4 ECTS Draping on Mannequin

ECTS (European Credit Transfer System): System adopted by all universities in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) to ensure the homogeneity and quality of the studies offered.

4 ECTS Photography and Audiovisual Media

4 ECTS Aesthetics

4 ECTS Business Organization

4 ECTS Fashion Narrative Techniques

4 ECTS Audiovisual Editing

4 ECTS Still Life and Lifestyle

4 ECTS Marketing and Brand

4 ECTS Editorial Analysis

6 ECTS Project. Hybridization

6 ECTS Collaborative Company Project

4 ECTS Project. Zero Waste

4 ECTS Fashion Styling and Art Direction

4 ECTS Editorial Identity

4 ECTS Electives

ECTS (European Credit Transfer System): System adopted by all universities in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) to ensure the homogeneity and quality of the studies offered.

4 ECTS Context, Culture and Design

4 ECTS Circular Fashion Management

26 ECTS Electives

26 ECTS Supervised Internship + Final Degree Project

ECTS (European Credit Transfer System): System adopted by all universities in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) to ensure the homogeneity and quality of the studies offered.

Faculty

Federico Antelo

Director of the Fashion School at IED Madrid, Visual Artist, and Textile Designer

Tíscar Espadas

Founder and Creative Director of the TISCAR ESPADAS brand

Carlota Barrera

Founder and Creative Director of her brand

REPARTO

Margil Peña y Ana Viglione

Eva Maldonado Rodríguez

Iván Blanco Fernández

Julio Numar

Eufemio Fernández López

Laura Cerrato

Fashion historian, cultural manager and curator

Rosa Moreno Laorga

Sofía Nieto Recio

Juanjo Gómez

Fashion Designer

Enrique González

Doctor of Philosophy

News

13 January 2026

Cartier opens its doors to IED Torino students

An exclusive experience focused on understanding high jewelry production processes

12 January 2026

Stéphane Rolland’s haute couture at IED Barcelona

The star guest of the 10th Barcelona Bridal Night at Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week 26 visits the school to discover the creations by alumni of the Postgraduate Programme in Bridal and Occasionwear Design, who will open the runway show next 22 April.

19 December 2025

IED Barcelona celebrates Graduation Day for a hundred students from Master's and Specialisation Courses

The event recognises their successful journey through their studies at the school.

18 December 2025

New April intake for Master’s Programs in Italy

Starting April 2026, IED launches new Fashion Masters in English. An international, hands-on path designed to build the skills demanded by the global fashion industry.

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18 December 2025

Welcome event Postgraduate 2025/2026 - IED Barcelona

It will take place on 15 and 16 January for Master's, Postgraduate and Specialization Course students.

01 December 2025

AQU Catalunya and IED Barcelona begin a mass survey to gauge the satisfaction of recent graduates

More than 60,000 people who finished their university and artistic studies last year will receive the survey, which will serve to improve the degrees currently being taught. Participants will be entered into a prize draw for the latest generation iPhone.

Tres premios a Alumni y estudiantes IED Madrid durante el mes de noviembre: Premio Nacional de Innovacion, Frame Awards & Premio Antalia Decora

28 November 2025

Three awards for IED Madrid alumni and students in November: National Innovation Award, Frame Awards & Antalia Decora

Federico Sáinz de Robles wins the National Innovation Award with his brand Sepiia, while Lucas Muñoz receives the FRAME Editor's Pick mention for his COLAB project for Sancal and Jacobo López del Hierro Llopis wins third prize at Antalia Decora

Innovative materials and smart fabrics: the new frontier of textile design

27 November 2025

Innovative materials and smart fabrics: the new frontier of textile design

How textile design merges creativity, innovation and social responsibility, reshaping the future of fashion.

14 November 2025

From all over the world to Turin: IED welcomes its new international students

Two days between campus spaces and the city center, where new international students, guided by a treasure hunt, started to find their way, meet each other, and grow as a group

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