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Istituto Europeo di Design Opens Casa IED in New York

The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) has opened Casa IED in Brooklyn, marking the institution’s first space in the United States dedicated to cultural exchange and creative collaboration. Developed in partnership with Salotto, a Brooklyn-based hub founded by IED alumni and Italian creatives, Casa IED aims to serve as a venue for dialogue,...

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Kiwi Vapor and IED Milan launch scholarship for emerging designers

KIWI Vapor has partnered with the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) to launch a scholarship supporting young designers and visual communicators. The initiative invites students to create accessible, functional, and expressive accessories for KIWI Air, the brand’s latest product. The projects will be judged by a panel including designer Daniele...

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Ied students showcase at Fashion Graduate Italia 2025

Ied students showcased their collections in Milan today, opening Fashion Graduate Italia. The event, which runs until October 30, is organised by Piattaforma Sistema Formativo Moda. This third-sector body is a hub that brings together Italian post-graduate institutions and academies in the fashion sector. It is sponsored by the Lombardy Region...

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And, they also teach… Federico Antelo Granero, Visual Artist, Textile Designer and Educator

What happens when the creative process becomes the central focus of design education? Federico Antelo Granero, visual artist, textile designer, and current director of the fashion school at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid, answers this question from his own practice. Trained in Fine Arts and with professional experience in the...

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The school behind Spain’s most promising design voices shines at the Spanish Fashion Academy Awards

The future of Spanish fashion is taking shape inside the classrooms of the Istituto Europeo di Design. This became clear during the second edition of the Spanish Fashion Academy Awards (Premios Academia de la Moda Española), an event organized by the Spanish Fashion Academy Foundation (FAME) in collaboration with RTVE, which honors the most...

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IED Roma students create eight looks with Albini 1876 fabrics

Twenty-seven fashion designers from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, together with Albini 1876, a brand of the fabric and yarn production company Albini Group, have created a series of garments that express their creative spirit. The young talents presented their eight looks at the Albini Group showroom earlier this week. "The workshop is...

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Executive changes at IED: Danilo Venturi to manage Milan office, new director in Florence

Fashion and design school IED has announced changes to the management of two of its main locations. In the context of its development plan, the Italian institution has named Danilo Venturi director of IED Milan, with Benedetta Lenzi set to occupy the Florence office Venturi has been managing since 2022. Danilo Venturi comes from a...

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IED introduces its fashion and design programmes in Portugal with Escola Superior Artística do Porto

The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) has signed a joint venture with Cesap, the parent organisation of Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP) in Porto, Portugal, to create new academic opportunities in fashion and design and foster international exchange. The two institutions plan to jointly develop undergraduate and postgraduate programmes...

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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,...

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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...

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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...