Articles by Florence Julienne
IFM Fashion Reboot: recycling and second-hand fashion, the last resort for the industry?
Dec 8, 2022 - News
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,...
La Renverse: a new art programme in and around Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Nov 25, 2022 - Schools
The students are between 18 and 23 years old. Nine of them live in the Seine-Saint-Denis area north of Paris, one in the area of Val-de-Marne and four in eastern Paris. These eight women and six men are involved in various artistic practices such as music, photography, video, design, fashion, etc. and have been selected on the basis of their...
Fashion Film Festival Asvoff celebrates young creatives
Nov 10, 2022 - News
The fourteenth edition of the French fashion film festival Asvoff, ‘A Shaded View on Fashion Film’, founded by Diane Pernet, will be held from today, November 10 to Sunday, November 13 2022, in collaboration with 3537, the Parisian creative hub of Dover Street Market. "I wanted this edition to highlight an emerging generation of artists who...
Leather goods: the Hermès School introduces a new training course
Oct 31, 2022 - Schools
The Fédération Française de la Maroquinerie (French federation for leather goods) has granted the École Hermès accreditation for its professional qualification certificate in cutting and stitching. The training programme will be available in 2023 and will be open to approximately 200 students per year. By the end of 2022, the École Hermès will...
Hyères Festival 2022 shines spotlight on reinterpreted materials
Oct 17, 2022 - Fashion
Hyères - The 37th edition of the Hyères Festival, in conjunction with the Première Vision show, highlighted an exciting and innovative approach to textiles through its winners and finalists. The young generation will not have to sift through the old clothes (dead stocks or upcycling) of the previous generation forever. Especially since these...
PFW SS23: French fashion design academy Casa93 presents a fashion show full of energy
Oct 13, 2022 - News
The fifth batch of graduates from the Casa93 fashion design programme in Montreuil, France, closed Paris Fashion Week with a show that combined the anger of a generation confronted with a system that is not always favourable to them with the energy of a talented youth, ready to take on the world. Tuesday 4 October 2022: for the set design of the...
‘Back To Couture’: Istituto Marangoni Paris fashion students present collections
Sep 29, 2022 - News
Ten young designers from Istituto Marangoni Paris presented their designs during the ‘Back to Couture’ fashion show. It was an opportunity to discover what inspires Gen Z in terms of fashion and to hear what they have to say in order to better understand their approach. The "Back to Couture" fashion show organised by Istituto Marangoni France...
Paris Design Awards 2022 announces Fashion winners
Sep 21, 2022 - News
The lucky winners of the 2022 Paris Design Awards in the fashion and fashion accessories category, are Coltesse, Weinsanto and Aristide. The competition is chaired by the French fashion designer Christine Phung. The Paris Grand Prize for Fashion was awarded to the brand Coltesse, which offers "essential, timeless, comfortable" clothing with a...
IFM students win the Loro Piana Knit Design Award 2022
Jul 4, 2022 - News
Institut Français de la Mode’s students, Po-Chieh Chiu and Shanon Poupard, were the winners of the Knit Design Award 2022, an international design competition dedicated to students, organised by the Loro Piana brand. Students from six fashion and design schools, including North Carolina State University, Institut Français de la Mode, Heriot-Watt...
IFM Panel: Fashion consumption in May 2022 exceeds May 2019
Jun 30, 2022 - Schools
The IFM Panel published the May 2022 figures for the consumption of clothing and textile articles. In May 2022, the distributor panel of the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) communicated an increase in turnover of 21.2 percent compared to May 2021. Still, above all, there was an increase of 11 percent compared to 2019. The end of mandatory...