IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Florence
Fashion Design: Design your Capsule Collection Summer Course
Florence, Italy
Summer Course
DURATION
3 weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jun 2027
TUITION FEES
EUR 2,600 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* total fee UE and extra UE | enrolment fee: €600 | fee and extra UE: €2000
Key Summary
About: This English-language summer course in Florence introduces fashion design tools in three weeks. It mixes lectures, creative workshops, showroom visits, company trips, and seminars with industry professionals. You'll study fashion history, trend research, drawing, pattern making, tailoring, and garment construction while building organizational and teamwork skills. You'll apply research methods and design concepts to create a capsule collection as your final project and discuss your work with guest lecturers during site visits.
Career Outcomes: Key career opportunities may include fashion designer, pattern maker, technical designer, stylist, product developer, merchandiser, buyer, costume designer, atelier roles, or launching a small label.
This course is held in English language
The Fashion Design: Design your Capsule Collection enables you to experiment with the basic tools of design.
Theoretical lessons are enhanced by creative workshops, visits to companies and trade fairs, and possible seminars with industry professionals.
Florence, with a centuries-old tradition in the world of fashion and its manufacturing excellence, has an enviable international reputation in fields ranging from fashion and artistic craftsmanship to design and technological innovation. In such an incomparable place together with your fellows you will observe and analyze current creative realities and trends.
Methodology and structure
This course introduces the multifaceted industry that is fashion design. During the three weeks, you will cover a wide range of subjects such as fashion history, trend research, and techniques while developing skills such as drawing, pattern making, and tailoring techniques in order to complete a capsule collection as your Final Project.
Also, you will learn how to identify and discuss current trends and leaders in the Italian fashion industry and will acquire organizational skills and experience working as part of an international student team. Furthermore, you will employ the standard research methods, key concepts, and tools necessary to develop a “collection project” based on the chosen “concept” and “target”.
Throughout the course, you will meet with diverse professionals in the field as part of a traditional lecture or showroom visit. Active participation in discussions with guest lecturers and site visit attendance is fundamental.
Study Plan
History of Fashion
The aim of this course is to give you the tools to understand, individuate and differentiate the changes in styles and tendencies and the capacity of analyzing fashion and its most representative personalities.
The Concept of Trend and Florence Ground Research
the course will start with a definition of fashion and style. Particular focus is given to the importance of body communication and how it can be interpreted as an expressive symbol that conveys a unique and personal message.
Furthermore, you will be led to understand the link between past and future throughout analysis of the different elements that nowadays give the basis to a future development towards new scenarios and innovation in the fashion supply chain.
Intro to Collection Project
This program introduces you to the fashion collection concept and is designed to give you the necessary skills to develop original ideas and create a collection. You learn to coordinate the various planning phases: from concept to research, material exploration, and technical design. You have the chance to work on the final project in partnership with an Italian fashion manufacturer or brand. The final output will be a capsule collection, developed according to contemporary fashion trends.
Fashion Drawing
The course focuses on the explanation and realization of a basic female/male drawing, with particular attention on anatomy proportions and the development of graphic techniques for the draping and the patterns of the main fabrics.
Pattern Making and Tailoring Techniques
The course focuses on the moulage technique. Particular emphasis is given to draping techniques of different fabrics, working directly on a and on creative manipulation of unique, vintage garments.
Technology of Materials
This course introduces you to the main aspects of fabric, from the fiber to the finishing, allowing you to have a general overview of the textile manufacturing processes and an understanding of the different types of fabrics. Through visits to Italian textiles manufacturers and museums, you will deepen the theoretical notions acquired during the course.
This course is intended for motivated students interested in learning the fundamentals of fashion design and have no prior knowledge or experience in the discipline. This is an introductory course, no previous studies within the field are required.