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Top IED Milan graduates 2024 showcase collections in Milan city centre

Ten IED fashion designers took to the catwalk in the centre of Milan on June 26 and 27. ‘Ied Avant défilé 2024’ is the graduate event of the IED Milano fashion school, sponsored by the City of Milan and the National Chamber of Italian Fashion. The young protagonists, selected from among the best graduating students of the current academic year,...

Fashion

IED students to present installation at menswear fair Pitti Uomo

The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) recently chose a select group of students from its eleven campuses in Italy, Spain and Brazil to design an installation for the June 2024 edition of menswear trade fair Pitti Uomo. The fashion and design institute asked fashion photographer and artist Michel Comte to mentor the selected students. On Wednesday...

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IED Milan names Marco De Vincenzo its new academic mentor

Marco De Vincenzo is the new academic mentor at IED’s Milan School of Fashion, where he is set to guide approximately five hundred students from the three-year courses in fashion design and shoes and accessories design. The founder of his eponymous brand and now the creative director of Etro graduated from the IED Rome campus in 2000, and is...

Culture

Designer Stefan Sagmeister to give talk at IED Madrid, IED Kunsthal Bilbao

Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister is to give a talk as part of his Spanish tour 'Beautiful Numbers' at the campus of design and fashion school IED Madrid and IED Kunsthal Bilbao. He will also visit IED Florence, as well as Hondarribia and Malaga on a tour of talks between November 29 and December 3, in which, coinciding with the publication of...

Fashion

'Madrid Circular': IED Madrid holds sustainability conference and hackathon

From Wednesday November 15 through Friday November 17, IED Madrid will host Madrid Circular, a conference dedicated to sustainable and circular fashion, which aims to inspire the industry and the fashion world to take action and co-create innovative solutions to improve the fashion of the future. Over the course of three days, the IED Community,...

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Fashion Graduate Italia: young designers showcase collections in Milan

Fashion Graduate Italia, a fashion week that showcases the designs of Italy's fashion talents, wraps up its 2023 edition today at Base Milan. The event, which began on 24 October, is organised by Piattaforma sistema formativo moda ente del terzo settore (Ets), a hub that brings together Italian post-diploma training institutions and academies in...

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Former IED Spain CEO joins LCI Education as new head of Europe

The Canada-based global education network group LCI Education has announced the appointment of Alessandro Manetti, who was CEO of IED Group for Spain up until a few months ago, as its new head of Europe. LCI Barcelona announced the news in a press release. Alessandro Manetti is an Italian professional that has been active in the field of...

Fashion

Amazon presents 25 fashion sketches created by IED Roma students

After the official presentation on May 10 in Florence, the fashion design project 'Dress your story' by Amazon, created in collaboration with the European Institute of Design (IED) in Rome and the small Tuscan textile company Dalle Piane Cashmere, has taken shape. The company unveiled the 25 fashion sketches inspired by the stories of the...

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Lucy Orta mentor for IED

Istituto Europeo di Design entrusts international visual artist Lucy Orta with a mentorship role to lead a project that will promote interaction between art and fashion, culminating in an installation at Pitti Uomo 104. 14 June 2023 | Florence | Museo degli Innocenti English artist Lucy Orta has been invited by IED to Mentor a group of students...

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IED announces expansion plans for Florence premises

The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) announced its expansion plans in Italy during a press conference at trade fair Pitti Uomo in Florence, Italy. More specifically, the board of the IED Group detailed its plans for the Florence premises, which will include the use of the city’s Palazzo Pucci. Palazzo Pucci is the private residence of the Pucci...

International mentors lead IED Firenze new master courses on fashion creative and strategic professions

IED Firenze, which offers a wide variety of courses in fashion, art, design and communication, has launched four new fashion master's courses in addition to the existing Fashion Business Master's programme, covering creative direction, trend forecasting, brand management, and merchandising and buying. To find out more about the master courses...

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IED shapes diversity

When it comes to fashion, it may be wrong to reduce diversity only to skin color, gender or age. This is a phenomenon that should be considered from the very first point of the design process. To understand the urgency, let's look at 'diversity' in the fashion industry more generally. People tend to think in binary terms, whereas an inclusive...