IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Barcelona
Summer Course in Fashion Design and Creative Methodology
Barcelona, Spain
Summer Course
DURATION
3 weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jul 2027
TUITION FEES
EUR 3,200 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* total fee for UE and total fee extra UE: EUR 3,200 | fee and fee extra UE: EUR 2,200 | enrolment fee: EUR 1,000
Key Summary
About: The Summer Course in Fashion Design and Creative Methodology at IED Barcelona links creative method and research to material culture while shaping a collection. The one-month intensive mixes sketchbook research, group work, mystery trips, print development and prototyping, can include a 3D garment. Staff work with couture houses like Rick Owens and Dior.
Career Outcomes: As an introductory course it adapts to varied profiles and prior experience. Graduates can pursue career paths as fashion designers, print and textile designers, collection developers, couture atelier assistants or studio assistants, or continue study. The course builds research, concept, sketching and prototyping skills.
Creative Methodology in Fashion Design is a one-month intensive Summer Course that leads students through a creative methodology to open a different perspective and vision of creating a collection.
It is a course to have a vibrating brushstroke of how to discover your own creative universe through a very specific methodology to arrive at an unexpected and surprising result. Having in mind a very fashionable and couture point of view, because most of the team is working for renamed Couture Houses in Paris, such as Rick Owens, Céline, Dior, Acne, Saint Laurent, Balmain.
The disposal of an expense and rich research using a practical methodology including work in groups, mystery trips, preparing a personal print for your final garment, using the world of the sketchbook as a very important tool, and very specific research to create a collection with the option of having a unique garment in 3D.
The course provides the opportunity to discover each own creative universe, which makes us distinct and unique among the rest, through different methods and exercises. There will also be a mystery trip, in order to broaden the research.
Moulage is put into practice with an easy-going, method-based approach, setting the foundations of your own collection, enriching research with prints and embroidery.
With special emphasis on creating a personal, unique, yet professional collection, some exercises are developed on teams, as luxury fashion emerges from teamwork, blending all elements to enrich the final garment.
- Generate curiosity for each own creative universe.
- To teach an expense creative methodology to enrich each research arriving at the unusual.
- To provide knowledge about fashion tools such as the sketchbook, to know how to order the ideas in a professional way.
- To teach through the amazing world of prints a very personal and playful print to include in the collection.
- To give independence to the students to create through technics such as draping (moulage) a final garment.
The introductory nature of the course favors the use and adaptation of its content to various professional opportunities according to the profile and prior experience of the students.
Student profile
This course is for professionals or students of several fields related to design interested in obtaining an approach to the fashion research processes. It’s also open to curious people fascinated by the fashion field and ready to live a unique experience.