Master - Fashion Design (Haute Couture)
- 1 year
- Duration
- 20,100 EUR
- Price
- Nov 2025
- Start
- June 2025
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Milan / Italy
- Location
Program description
In recent years, Haute Couture has seen a great deal of transformation.
Numerous opportunities to showcase Haute Couture items have proliferated, both in real life and online, thanks to the expansion of the television and music industries, as well as the Internet Society.
There has always been, and will always be, a small but devoted subset of the world's super-rich who have an eye for style, value culture, and can afford to dress in the most exquisite fabrics and most intricate patterns. The clientele has grown in different ways throughout the years. Younger, more mobile, concerned in status symbols as much as product quality, and hailing from faraway places, these consumers are here to stay. Additionally, premium fashion brands have begun to launch men's collections of their own.
Haute Couture, a subfield of fashion design, is based on meticulous attention to detail, high-quality materials (fabric and accessories), and innovative thinking and experimentation.
Program structure
- Contemporary Fashion History
- Fashion Sociology and Trends
- Fabric Merchandise
- Embellishment Lab
- Draping
- Project 1
- Project 2
- Project 3
- Sartorial Techniques
- Drawing (and illustrations) for Haute Couture
- Graphic Lab
- Celebrity Lab
- Lecture, Case History And Visiting
- Marketing
- Thesis Project
Price
Fee for 1 year education is 20100.00 EUR for international students
Requirements for applicants
Entry requirements
The application can be sent by anyone who holds a First Level Academic Diploma, a BA Degree or other equivalent qualification (graduates of private schools at University level) or with an equivalent professional experience in the disciplinary area of the course. Grad students may also participate, provided that they get their degree by the date of discussion of the Master’s Final Project.
Language requirements
- To ensure course contents are fully understood, IED demands applicants a B2 level - Vantage or upper intermediate - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages - of the language in which the course is taught.
- In order to demonstrate the required language proficiency, non-native speakers have to submit a language certificate or undergo a language test run by IED.
About the university
Since 1966, we have been the largest Higher Education Network in the creative area to keep both a worldwide perspective and a strongly Italian cultural matrix.
Our educational strategy has evolved over time, but at its core remains the same: we mix theoretical study with hands-on experience and the expertise of working experts. One of the things we emphasize in our classes is always thinking ahead, in the here and now. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary institution that views design as a tool for social transformation.
Among the many international academic networks in which we participate are Cumulus, Elia, and WDO, just to name a few.
Campuses
In the 1970s and 1980s, we expanded to Rome (1973), Cagliari (1984), and Turin (1989) in Italy.
Beginning in 1994 with the Madrid campus and continuing on to Barcelona in 2002, Spain's modern era began in the 1990s.
The Group also spread internationally, establishing a presence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2005, and then in Venice, Italy, in 2007, Florence, Italy, in 2009, and Como, Italy, in 2009, with the acquisition of the Aldo Galli Academy of Fine Arts. The Group expanded its footprint in Brazil in 2014 by renovating the Cassino da Urca and opening a campus in Rio de Janeiro; in 2020, the Group will expand its presence in Spain by purchasing the Centro Superior de Diseo Kunsthal in Bilbao.
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