Spanish Fashion Schools: Where to Explore Sustainability

With the start of the new year, fashion companies are surely looking to incorporate sustainability into their resolutions for 2022. At the same time, the demand for higher education courses that combine fashion and sustainability is increasing. Want to contribute to the sustainable future of fashion and want to study in Spain but don’t know where to start looking?

View a selection of fashion sustainability courses in Spain below:

IED Barcelona

The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) Barcelona Escola Superior de Disseny offers courses in the following areas: fashion, design, visual communication and management for creative industries.

Summer Course in Sustainable Fashion

This summer course is taught in Spanish and aims to equip students with a set of skills they will need to promote, develop and manage sustainability, both in individual projects and within an organisation. From creating new products and services to defining new business models or redefining existing processes, always applying a systemic approach. The course is two weeks long and is taught in the evenings from July 2022.

Condé Nast College Spain

The Condé Nast College Spain, based in Madrid, offers courses in fashion styling, journalism, events and interior design, all taught in Spanish.

Vogue Diploma in Sustainability applied to the fashion industry

This 3-month course, developed in collaboration with the Universidad Carlos III, allows students to learn about sustainability as well as the fashion industry and how these two fields are interrelated. Students can approach fashion from any perspective they wish, such as an industrial, social or cultural perspective as well as from the perspective of communication and design.

This four-month Master in Sustainable Fashion (taught in Spanish), encourages students to approach fashion design in a sustainable way. The sustainable fashion course at IADE integrates design, management, user experience and fashion communication in a conscious and ethical way, along the entire value chain.

Elle Education Online

Elle Education is an online educational platform that offers creative programmes to best prepare future fashion professionals and other creatives for the industry.

Online Programme in Sustainable Fashion

Sustainable Fashion at Elle Education Spain is an online course, taught in Spanish, that forms a part of the Expert in Sustainable Brands programme at Elle Education. The course encourages students to look at fashion throughout the supply chain, and learn to identify the key factors to build a sustainable strategy that differentiates a company or designer from its competition.

EASD Valencia

The Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de València (EASD Valencia) is a public school funded by the autonomous region of Valencia. EASD offers programmes in the areas of design and the (plastic) arts.

Master in Artistic Education: Fashion Co-Design and Sustainability

The Master programme in Fashion Co-Design and Sustainability, developed in collaboration with the autonomous region of Valencia, is a programme taught physically and in Spanish. The programme teaches students to question the modus operandi of the fast fashion industry, the relationships between production and consumption as well as the environmental and socioeconomic system in which it is established.

Editor's Note: This article has been updated after publication with the latest information from the schools mentioned.