Program Overview
The Máster Universitario en Diseño de Moda is a two-semester program designed to prepare students for a successful career in the fashion industry. It integrates sustainability and digital transformation into its curriculum, addressing the challenges of global change and equipping students with the skills to lead the future of fashion. The program features a prestigious faculty and collaborations with industry professionals, providing students with practical experience and connections. Graduates are prepared for various career paths in fashion, including fashion designer, pattern maker, and fashion product manager.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Máster Universitario en Diseño de Moda is a master's degree program designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to lead the future of the fashion industry. It addresses the challenges of global change, including climate change, environmental degradation, and the demand for greater social responsibility. The program integrates sustainable approaches and digital transformation as essential components of its curriculum. The program's objective is to prepare graduates to meet the demands of contemporary fashion design practice, fostering adaptability and innovative thinking. Graduates will be equipped with a conscious, responsible, pluralistic, and critical perspective, capable of holistically implementing digital transformation and sustainability throughout the fashion value chain, with a focus on viability and circularity.
Outline:
It fosters a critical understanding of fashion's evolution, its societal relevance, and its potential to shape the industry's future. Students will gain knowledge of trends and the diverse structures of the fashion ecosystem from a strategic perspective on the behavior of fashion products.
- Metodologías de diseño aplicadas al producto de moda (6 ECTS): This module delves into the language of fashion, exploring tools for collecting, generating, and conceptualizing ideas used in fashion design. It covers creative techniques for developing viable design projects and the creative methodologies needed to create fashion products. The module also examines the creation of the product life cycle and the strategies of circular design applicable to creating fashion products with social and environmental impact.
- Innovación textil aplicada a materiales y procesos (6 ECTS): This module reviews traditional textile materials and processes, exploring the latest trends and advancements in the field of materials and processes used in the contemporary textile and fashion industry. It covers new materials, emerging technologies, and innovative manufacturing processes that enable sustainability, efficiency, and the development of digital craftsmanship in a constantly evolving sector.
- Sistemas de representación y comunicación gráfica en diseño de moda (6 ECTS): This module provides the expressive resources, supports, materials, and graphic-plastic tools that distinguish each of the systems of representation and communication in fashion design. It covers the vocabulary, methodologies, and theoretical-practical content of fashion drawing, as well as the editing, digital retouching, and vector design software necessary to represent and communicate the image of fashion.
- Patronaje y construcción digital (6 ECTS): This module focuses on the study of pattern-making techniques, emphasizing zero-waste construction, and the use of 3D garment construction software that enables the creation of virtual patterns and prototyping of virtual garments. This optimizes the design process, pattern fitting, and fabric consumption, resulting in greater precision and efficiency in garment creation, as well as reduced materials and development time.
2nd Semester:
- Proyecto y planificación de la colección de moda (6 ECTS): This module proposes the practical application and experimentation of the methodological theoretical knowledge acquired in the "Visual Thinking and Methodologies Applied to Fashion Design" module to define, conceptualize, design, and plan new fashion products or collections. It addresses the material, functional, and aesthetic requirements of each specific project, incorporating technological innovations, promoting craftsmanship, and adhering to sustainability and circularity criteria. It also focuses on planning the production of fashion collections, considering aspects such as material selection, time scheduling, and the technical feasibility of designs.
- Marketing aplicado al mercado de la moda sostenible (6 ECTS): This module focuses on brand creation and strategic planning of fashion businesses, market analysis, and opportunity identification. It also covers supply chain management, marketing, and effective promotion of brands and products. The module explores key topics such as sustainability in the fashion business, emerging trends, and the digital revolution of AI in the sector, preparing students to lead and manage successful businesses in a competitive and constantly evolving market.
- Trabajo Fin de Máster (6 ECTS): This module allows students to apply their acquired knowledge and skills to a comprehensive research project or design project. It provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate their understanding of the program's core concepts and their ability to conduct independent research or design work.
- Prácticas profesionales (6 ECTS): This module provides students with the opportunity to gain practical experience in the fashion industry through internships or work placements.
Teaching:
The program features a prestigious faculty composed of active professionals with recognized prestige in the fashion sector. The program emphasizes personalized learning with a humanistic approach that promotes equity, freedom, tolerance, respect for diversity, universal accessibility, and social inclusion in the fashion industry.
Careers:
Graduates of the Máster Universitario en Diseño de Moda are prepared for a variety of career paths in the fashion industry, including:
- Fashion Designer: Digital fashion, sustainable fashion, commercial fashion, Prêt-à-Porter, Couture, workwear, corporate wear, party wear.
- Pattern Maker: 3D pattern making, zero-waste pattern making, industrial pattern making, sewing.
- Fashion Product Manager.
- Quality and Sustainability Manager/Technician.
- Fashion Buyer.
- Sustainable and Circular Fashion Supply Chain Manager.
- Technical Manager in Textile Innovation.
- Strategic Sustainability Manager/Technician/Consultant in Fashion.
- Coolhunter.
- Fashion Artistic Director.
- Fashion Reseller.
Other:
The program is taught in collaboration with IADE, Escuela de Diseño, a school with over 60 years of experience and a recognized center of prestige and avant-garde in the field of interior design and fashion design, both nationally and internationally. IADE's primary objective is to provide personalized teaching to help students discover and develop their own abilities. The teacher-student relationship is crucial, based on encouragement, flexibility, closeness, and dialogue. The program utilizes Style 3D Studio, a software that allows students to create hyper-realistic garments, immersing them in the present and future of fashion design and production, based on more sustainable and efficient practices. Students will also learn to use Style3D Fabric to create digital fabrics that enhance the realism of digital samples. The program also includes Style3D Cloud, a platform for managing digital assets, collaborative work, and access to a marketplace with over 50,000 assets. The Máster Universitario en Diseño de Moda equips students with the tools and software most sought after by companies, making them highly competitive and interdisciplinary professionals.
