As the class of 2024 completes their academic journey in becoming fashion professionals, the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) 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...
Apr 16, 2024
Dutch fashion school the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI), announced earlier this week that it has appointed its new director to be fashion professional José Teunissen. The new director will assume her new position from March 1 2023, as per a press release shared by Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), which AMFI is a part of....
Dec 15, 2022
The Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) has appointed Dutch fashion professional and lecturer Bregje Lampe as its new head of the school’s fashion and branding bachelor programme, as per an official statement published on LinkedIn. Since 2019, Bregje Lampe has worked as a fashion lecturer and coach at AMFI and she has served as chair of the...
Nov 24, 2022
In the last week of October, the Amsterdam Fashion Institute hosts its first open day of the academic year again. Last years’ first fully online open days were a great success, AMFI has therefore decided to host an online and physical open day in the same week. AMFI’s open days will take place on 26th and 30th of October and 7th and 11th of...
Oct 18, 2021
AMFI is unique in her education on 3D virtual prototyping and developments in high-level sustainable products and performances. We like to give you the opportunity to be part of that development and the change of paradigm in fashion by joining our two-week summer course Virtual Fashion Design: the new real. AMFI (Digital) Summer Course 2021...
Apr 6, 2021
Keeping up with an industry that is in a state of constant fluctuation is never easy. As the fashion industry faces radical changes, ranging from the fourth technological revolution to the rise of new forms of consumption, climate change and shifting consumer viewpoints, ensuring the next generation of fashion creators have the correct tools to...
Mar 3, 2020
For three days, students at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) are working in a mock sweatshop in order to shine a spotlight on the terrible conditions in which many textile workers are forced to work. Running between 3 to 5 September, all second-year Fashion & Management students will be producing sustainable denim bags which will then be...
Sep 3, 2019
Dirk Reynders has been appointed as the new director of Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI), effective 1 February 2019. Reynders - who is an experienced lecturer and guest speaker with a background in the media and communication field - will succeed Irene Sparreboom who was director of AMFI until 1 July 2018. Commenting on the appointment in a...
Nov 30, 2018
Last week, Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter were announced as Nina Ricci’s new artistic directors . The duo, which is behind menswear label Botter, won this year’s Première Vision Grand Prize at the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography. Did you know Herrebrush graduated as recently as 2014? She studied at the Amsterdam...
Sep 5, 2018
The Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) partners with Circle Economy and Fashion for Good to transform the current AMFI MA Fashion Enterprise Creation (MA FEC) into the world's first master degree focused on circular fashion entrepreneurship. The MA FEC programme was launched in 2016 and aims to equip its graduates "with the skills to build...
Apr 12, 2018
The days in which women burned their bras and banned make-up from their vanity tables in their fight for equal rights may be long gone, but feminism is more present than ever. The new wave of feminism served as a point of inspiration for the collection presented by Individuals. This collective, consisting of 27 students from the Amsterdam...
Jan 21, 2016
From Tuesday January 19 until Friday January 22, seven short fashion films created by students of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute are screened at cinema Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam. The films are inspired by the latest collection of seven fashion designers, whose collection pieces are included in the art-direction and storyline of the films....
Jan 14, 2016