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Marked by extremes, driven by global clout: Womenswear in the French market

On Monday September 25, Paris Fashion Week, the most anticipated event in the women's fashion industry, kicks off, presenting an opportunity to evaluate how the sector is performing. In France, the financial performance of the womenswear category is marked by extremes. On one hand, several renowned womenswear brands have gone into liquidation or...

Fashion

IFM presents best undergraduate fashion collections at Bachelor of Arts Show 2023

Now that the fashion graduation show season is coming to a close, it is worth highlighting a few shows that stood out. The IFM bachelor in fashion design graduate class opened the last edition of Paris Fashion Week on June 20, 2023. The graduation shows of the French Fashion Institute or Institut Francais de la Mode (IFM) have become part of the...

Fashion

IFM opens its new vocational training course in dressmaking to disadvantaged students

The Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) is introducing a new programme dedicated to couture and is setting up a system of grants based on social criteria to provide a dozen students with limited financial resources access to the programme. The new course is a one-year post-baccalaureate vocational certification course (known in France as 'CAP')...

Fashion

IFM introduces new advanced management programme in fashion and luxury

Designed as a career accelerator, the new programme at French fashion institute L’Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) focuses on advanced management in the field of fashion and luxury. The programme is aimed at experienced professionals - senior executives, entrepreneurs, heads of strategic units - who wish to develop their careers. Over a period...

Fashion |In Pictures

What do future art directors trained at the French Fashion Institute (IFM) dream of?

Until Sunday, April 2, 2023, the public can discover 'What’s for lunch?', the temporary three-day Parisian exhibition that features the work of students and future graduates of the master in art direction and fashion image at the French fashion school Institut Français de la Mode. The aim of the exhibition is to offer a unique visibility to the...

Fashion

Unveiling the graduates 2023 collection: Institut Français de la Mode

As the class of 2023 completes their academic journey in becoming fashion professionals, Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) recently showcased the graduates' final collections with huge success. Stepping into the fashion industry, those collections play a crucial role for graduates to expand their network and share their work. As the...

Fashion

IFM master students open PFW FW23 with sustainable and accessible designs

Paris - They are barely 20 years old, they believe in sustainable and accessible fashion and dream of breaking the 'vicious' circle of overproduction: the master students 2023 of the French Fashion Institute (IFM) kicked off Paris Fashion Week on Monday. Twenty-five of them are celebrating their transition to professional life with a fashion...

Fashion |OPINION

Fashion Activism: is fashion becoming politicised?

Clothes with a message, motivated muses, designers on the front lines... The fashion industry seems to be embracing a desire to shake up politics in a way that Dame Vivienne Westwood would have appreciated. From study programmes at IFM, to the young designer Jeanne Friot, via Dior, FashionUnited presents a brief account of an activist trend,...

RetailFeatured

The SMCP group creates a training course to revive the fashion sales profession

For several years now, recruiters have been struggling to find their future salespeople and managers. Professionals in the retail sector faced with this situation, are now addressing the issue. Take the SMCP group, the parent company of the ready-to-wear brands Sandro, Maje, Claudie Pierlot and Fursac, which is launching its own training course...

Fashion |REPORT

IFM Fashion Reboot: recycling and second-hand fashion, the last resort for the industry?

Paris - Political and economic conditions, statistics on the evolution of the fashion market, the potential of recycling and second-hand fashion and more. On Thursday December 1 2022, France's fashion industry was invited to the annual seminar of the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) to "rethink fashion". Rethinking, reinventing or, literally,...

BusinessFeatured

AMI Paris collaborates with IFM to launch entrepreneurship prize

Contemporary fashion brand AMI Paris has launched an entrepreneurship prize in collaboration with fashion school Institut Français de la Mode (IFM). It is the first edition of the competition and the objective of the award is to encourage entrepreneurship within the industry through educational means. As well, it is the hope to create a...

Fashion

IFM and Birimian launch accelerator program dedicated to African emerging brands

Paris-based fashion school Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) announced a partnership with Birimian, the first operational investment company dedicated to African luxury and premium heritage brands. Birimian and IFM are launching the IFM-Birimian Accelerator x Africa, an innovative acceleration program for emerging African heritage brands in the...