IED is an international Group, the largest Higher Education Network in the creative field to have maintained a global outlook and a deeply Italian cultural matrix since 1966. It is present with 11 venues at 3 countries, Italy, Spain and Brazil.
IED is a inclusive and transdisciplinary school which uses design as a universal language for change. Each year it initiates innovation projects in education in the disciplines of the Design, of the Fashion, of the Communication and Management, of the Visual Arts, Of Art and Restoration, developing forms of learning and new models for interpreting the future.
IED can count on a network of more than 3,000 faculty members, active in their respective fields, with whom it constantly collaborates to ensure the smooth running of the training activities of its campuses.
A journey through the IED Italy locations through the concepts of 8 students presenting their own capsule collections:
Mia Agopian with project Between the lines outsiders (IED Florence), Chiara Cavalieri with project Being for oneself (IED Milan), Nicola Demontis with project Resilience (IED Cagliari), Umberto Fenicchia with project Teche (IED Rome), Chiara Gallo with project La brava bambina and Stiven Harapi with project Tyaga (both from IED Turin), Arian Mahmoudzadeh with project The new Persia (Academy of Como) and Filippo Sansalone with project Say Cheese (IED Milan).
The fashion show combines men's, women's and genderless capsule collections in a cross-section of the current state of fashion: a personal reading of the contemporary, filtered through the changes that take place in each individual's life.
Each project explores current influences and cultures, the looks reflecting urgent issues such as climate change, which drives the design of sustainable and functional solutions through modular garments, capable of transforming to cope with changing climatic contexts; the utterly topical theme of love in its distorted forms, when intertwined with abuse and control; or even the ancestral theme of the human being as a primordial opposition between form and essence, the body then becomes a transformable surface to accommodate deconstructed garments. A multifaceted scenario of visual languages, textures, fabrics and color combinations create the IED Graduate Fashion Show experience.
