Language

English

Start date

October 2026

Frequency

Part-time

Fruition

On campus

Duration

9 Months

Join teams outlining the communication strategies of leading fashion brands, and design new image proposals for the fashion world.

The challenge of dressing and telling: this Master's Degree in Fashion Styling and Communication is for the fashion stylists of the future creating new fashion image trends (styling, creative direction, fashion film, and more). It’s for up-and-coming professionals developing contemporary communication, branding and marketing strategies for fashion brands.

The course gives you more than just a taste of this future career; you’ll be collaborating on numerous projects with a variety of companies (luxury and high street brands, in showrooms, vintage stores, and more). You’ll acquire the theoretical and practical know-how you need to find solutions for the challenges of the modern fashion industry.

And you’ll cultivate a distinctive creative voice that sets you apart from other professionals, and learn to produce images for contemporary themes and narratives in a range of content formats: editorial, moving image and communication campaigns, to name a few.

This programme is taught at IED Palacio de Altamira. 

Information to decide

A creative, practice-based master's degree to explore new narratives in the contemporary fashion world.

By completing the Master's in Fashion Styling and Communication at IED Madrid, you will access interdisciplinary training that will complement your knowledge and enhance your skills, preparing you to be a unique profile in the professional market.

In addition to the subjects in the master's program, you can choose two of the five optional strands that make up the IED student's DNA. These training strands look at the tools that will make a difference to completing your professional profile.

Finally, you will be able to join in the development of a collaborative project in which students from different programs will come together to develop a unique project, all guided by leading professionals in the sector as tutors.

This master's degree is for people with a degree or diploma who want to start their career in the world of fashion by specialising in Fashion Styling, Creative Direction and Communication.

If you want to learn how to use your creative skills to produce unforgettable fashion images that leave a lasting impression on fashion followers and fashion brands alike, this is the course for you.

If you’ve studied communication, PR and marketing, journalism or advertising, you’ll find the course both interesting and useful. And if you’ve studied Fashion Design, Photography or Styling and are looking to further your career in fashion styling and communication, this is exactly the course you’re looking for.

This master's degree gives you first-hand experience in the sector, with the know-how necessary to meet the high standards currently demanded by the fashion industry. You’ll learn to develop original projects of undeniable value, with a critical perspective to constantly evaluate your work, guarantee you’ve met your responsibilities and satisfy your client’s expectations.

Specialise in styling, creative direction, content production and communication; develop photography and film as your core competencies.

Syllabus

In this course you’ll acquire a grounding in the communication skills used in the design sector and specialise in areas such as event communication and digital tools. You’ll develop six projects in different fields to put what you’ve learned into practice.



FASHION CULTURE

Trend Lab

Communication & Events

Styling

Fashion System

Art Direction & Editorial



PROJECTS

Fashion Brand Focus

Editorial Project: Colours Focus



FASHION IMAGE

Photography

Digital Tools

Moving Image for Digital

Portfolio



FINAL PROJECT MASTER'S THESIS

Faculty

Course Coordinator

Ruben Gomez

Teacher

Marta Ochoa

Teacher

Adrián Cuerdo

Teacher

Sky Division

Contemporary casting and management project

News

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

07 November 2025

ADCI Awards 2025: IED on the podium!

Five award-winning projects, including two Golds in the Student category for the projects SPICY:AM by IED Milano and IRREGULAR ITALIC by IED Roma.

06 November 2025

Casa IED opens in New York: a new space for design culture and creative exchange

In Williamsburg, the creative heart of New York, Casa IED has opened as the first of the spaces that IED will dedicate to cultural exchange and collaborative design.

03 November 2025

2 IED Barcelona alumni bring their brands to the Barcelona Fashion Forward pop-up

Until 22 November, Guillermo Justicia and Laia Canales's firm, Alaire, two of the four winners of the 6th edition of this fashion entrepreneurship program, are presenting their collections in a pop-up shop at the Trent space.

28 October 2025

Elna Solans, IED Barcelona alumnus, triumphs in the 13th edition of the Rec.0 and 080 Barcelona Fashion emerging brands competition

With her brand D’Ars, she has won this award recognizing her as the best emerging fashion proposal in the region.

28 October 2025

IED opens Fashion Graduate Italia 2025 with the best of its Fashion Designers

Eight creatives from the Italian campuses of the IED network take to the runway at BASE with their graduation collections

23 October 2025

Danilo Venturi, Director of IED Milan, took part in Miami Fashion Week.

On the occasion of Miami Fashion Week, Danilo Venturi, Director of IED Milan, took part as moderator of the panel titled “The Digital Stitch: Empowering the Next Generation with CLO3D.” The discussion featured Saul Kapilivsky (Assistant Professor, MFI) and Marz Klimaszewska (Business Development, CLO Virtual Fashion) in a conversation dedicated to the role of technology in educating the next generation of fashion professionals.

Close-up of a man in a shirt and with light hair looking at the camera. Black and white photo.

21 October 2025

Edward Cuming wins the Vogue Fashion Fund 2025

The designer, an alumnus of IED Barcelona, has won the most prestigious award in the Spanish fashion industry, promoted by Vogue España and Inditex.

20 October 2025

IED Barcelona, the only Spanish fashion school in The Circularity Master Class by Zalando

A circular fashion project led by the Graduate Fashion Foundation that brings together the best European fashion design universities.