IED Barcelona Marks 60 Years With a Runway Full of Rising Talent

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If you scrolled your way onto IED’s Instagram yesterday and felt like you missed one of the most important nights for emerging talent, don’t worry, we’ve got you. IED Barcelona took over the Palau Reial de Pedralbes for the 22nd edition of “Fashioners of the World”, a runway showcase celebrating 60 years of the school’s legacy as a design powerhouse. Twenty-five collections from graduating designers hit the runway, each one demonstrating the kind of technical precision and conceptual depth that makes you forget these are student projects.

The biggest takeaway of the night came at the awards. Jon Navales took Best Collection for “Unsent”, a menswear line-up exploring vulnerability through wool and fluid fabrics while drawing on Napoleonic and military codes. Carla Àvila walked away with the Fashion Film Award for a project unpacking how oversharing culture has blurred the line between public and private, while Carmen Celedonio’s moody, sculptural womenswear in red, black and off-white snagged the Photography Prize. Natalia Tselousova’s “LIMINAL”, built around the eerie feeling of sleep paralysis, took the Illustration Award for its push-pull between rigid structure and dissolving form, and Simran Niraj Madlani closed it out with the IED x Commons Impact Award for “Taste in Art”, a sharp call-out of how the same textures get labelled “luxury” or “ignored” depending on who’s wearing them.