Fashion Design
Redesigning Fashion for a more sustainable industry
Rome
ENG
First Level Master’s Degree in Fashion Design*
Language
English
Start date
November 2025
Frequency
Full time
Duration
1 Year
Credits
60
Course Coordination
Italo Marseglia
Price
19.400 €
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Step into your future as a change-maker in the fashion industry, driving towards greater environmental and social sustainability
Be part of a new generation of Fashion Designers who share sustainable thinking and make full use of tailoring techniques -join our Master's Program in Fashion Design in Rome.
Sustainable fashion is not just a trend. In fact, it is the only possible way forward for the fashion industry. With the Master’s Program in Fashion Design, you will learn how to create responsible and eco-conscious fashion, with a focus on environmental awareness at all times.
You will develop a tailor-focused approach to time and resource maximisation, becoming a Designer with a highly developed sense of awareness. You will use the skills acquired as a way to deliver new insight into collection creation and to generate positive and well-needed transformation in the fashion industry, always achieving top notch creative results.
Develop into a professional with a focus on environmental and social sustainability, designing carefully with attention to zero waste, circularity of materials, and supply chain.
With the Master's Program in Fashion Design, you will be part of the change as you become a Fashion Designer with a higher sense of awareness.
Credits:
The course awards 60 CFA (Academic Formative Credits), corresponding to 60 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System).
* This course is currently under review by MUR - Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca - for the academic year 2025/26. The information on this page will be updated once the approval process has been completed.
Information to decide
The Master's Program to boost your career as a Fashion Designer taking a sustainable approach
The Master’s Program in Fashion Design at IED Roma provides practical training combined with both cultural and theoretical focus.
This programme is intended to train you into becoming a "conscious" professional and consists of specific learning modules and design workshops with a focus on sustainability. Extensive coverage will be given to research on sustainable materials and processes, including talks with leaders who bring a perspective where nature and business reconnect with each other.
This Master's Program has a strong workshop focus and consists of three highly specific workshop projects, focusing on the areas of Couture, Menswear, Women's Ready to Wear.
The purpose of this Master's Program is to provide you with all the necessary tools you need to become a Fashion Designer with a strong sense of awareness and innovation, ready to use creative and technical skills as a way to protect the environment.
The Master Course in Fashion Design at IED Roma is the best career path for those who want to approach the challenge of sustainability in fashion, looking to innovation as a way to develop new products with lower environmental impact. This programme would be ideal for those with First Level Academic Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design who want to expand their knowledge and gain specialist skills in the area of sustainable fashion.
Basic knowledge of software such as Photoshop and InDesign and major modelling and sketching software programs is a prerequisite, along with a B2 level of English.
Imagine stepping into a training path that will take you far beyond the classroom walls. The Master’s Program in Fashion Design at IED Roma provides excellence in education with sustainability at its core. With the help of designers and professionals sharing extensive experience in the field of sustainable fashion, this training will better equip you to meet the challenges of the industry in a way that is both innovative and responsible.
As you develop hands-on projects across different fields, you will also be learning how to create fashion products that can be successfully brought to market. With your tailor-focused approach, you will make better use of time and resources available, while also encouraging human relationships between supply and demand across the whole supply chain.
This training is organised as a creative workshop where students are mentored in a step-by-step acquisition of project design methods, where ethics and aesthetics merge with social and environmental concerns. You will learn how to create a collection in a new way, achieving a great deal in terms of creative results.
Upon completion of the training, students will be prepared and ready to step into the fashion industry as Fashion Designers, as well as to work as Textile experts, CSR consultants, Product Developers.
The main software you will need during your course is provided by IED!
On this page you will find all the features you need for your computer.
Syllabus
Throughout the Master’s program, you will alternate between theoretical lectures and hands-on workshops, focusing on the creation of Couture, Menswear, and Women’s Ready-to-Wear collections while developing a design methodology that enhances both craftsmanship and innovation.
You will explore sustainable design, learning how to integrate innovative materials and circular processes, while deepening your knowledge of fashion history, with a particular focus on Made in Italy and the evolution of both menswear and womenswear tailoring. Through dedicated workshops, you will refine your skills in advanced patternmaking, fashion drawing, and creative experimentation, shaping a design approach that balances tradition and research.
The Master’s program will culminate in the creation of your own fashion collection, an individual thesis project that represents the evolution of your creative journey.
Lo stage curriculare costituisce parte integrante del percorso. Può essere svolto presso realtà esterne oppure presso IED nella forma del field project.
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The curricular internship is an integral part of the course. It can be carried out at external realities or at IED in the form of a field project.
Faculty
Italo Marseglia
Fashion Designer
Course Coordinator
Patrizia Valentini
Pattern Maker Specialist
Margherita Presti
Accessories Designer
Alessandra Gallo
Sustainable Fashion Consultant
Domenico Pauciulo
International law researcher
Enrica Alessi
Writer
Giulio Solfrizzi
Fashion Editor
Gian Marco Funari
Fashion Designer
Antonio Caiazza
Made to Measure Expert
Federica Nocita
Haute couture embroidery manager
Giuseppe Castrenze
Creative Director, Image Consultant
Benedetta Urbini
Image consultant
Daniele Santoni
Fashion & Accessories Designer
What people say
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“If we want to try to be more resilient in our life we need to adopt change. Resilience means adaptability. So, if we don't change anything about our habits and the way we go through life we won't get any result. And of course we need the result because we are talking about the human race's existence.”
Italian-Belgian actor active in film and television. Advocate for climate change awareness and green living, he has been a European Climate Pact Ambassador since 2023.
Special Lesson with Italo Marseglia and Enrica Alessi
“We talk about the great craftsmanship values of made in Italy that was born in Rome, when a lot of American movie stars used to come to Italy and used to play those movies in "Cinecittà. These great values, which were held by amazing women, were brought to great couture houses that nowadays are famous”.
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