Institut Francais de la Mode news and archive

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...

Mar 1, 2023

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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,...

Dec 8, 2022

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Four new members have joined the IFM Foundation

Now that fashion week season is over, partnerships between the industry and fashion schools are once again more important than ever. Paris fashion school the Institut Français de la Mode has its own foundation that aims to forge these partnerships in the long term, while at the same time collecting funds for the school’s scholarship...

Oct 11, 2022

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AMI x IFM Entrepreneurship Prize announces winners

The Ami x IFM Entrepreneurship Prize announced Guillaume Hiriat Carriat, founder of ATXI, a leather goods brand developed at the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) and Leopolda Contaux-Bellina, creator of the leather goods label Sed Nove Studio, which is experimenting with an innovative method of assembling leather (IFM incubator), as the...

Jul 4, 2022

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IFM students win the Loro Piana Knit Design Award 2022

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...

Jul 4, 2022

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IFM Panel: Fashion consumption in May 2022 exceeds May 2019

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...

Jun 30, 2022

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Loro Piana announces Knit Design Award winners

Italian fashion brand Loro Piana has named two students from the Institut Français de la Mode, Paris as winners of its Knit Design Award 2022. The international competition challenged students from six schools of fashion and design including North Carolina State University, the Institut Français de la Mode, Heriot Watt University of Edinburgh,...

Jun 22, 2022

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Institut Français de la Mode appoints Sidney Toledano as chairman

Parisian fashion school Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) has named LVMH’s chairman and chief executive Sidney Toledano as its new chairman. Toledano, who has been a board member at Institut Français de la Mode for more than 20 years and vice president for the past five years, takes over the chairman role from André Beirnaert, who did not renew...

Jun 14, 2022

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Institut Français de la Mode organises first physical fashion show

The Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) has organised its first physical fashion show to be presented on June 20 at the campus of the Parisian school, Quai d'Austerlitz. The event will highlight the creations of the students from the Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design. Resulting from the merger with the School of the Chambre Syndicale de Couture...

May 31, 2022

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IFM to host online masterclass in eco-responsible design

Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) is hosting an online masterclass in eco-responsible design on 10 May, as per a post on the French fashion institute’s official LinkedIn page. The masterclass will be presented by Stéphane Piot, a consultant on eco-responsible fashion and the co-founder of French sustainable textile manufacturing company PANDO....

May 5, 2022

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Institut Français de la Mode presents Master of Arts graduate show at PFW

Institut Français de la Mode’s (IFM) Master of Arts graduate students have opened Paris Fashion Week (PFW) for the second time with a film that combines both actual and virtual dimensions to reveal their final collections. 59 students from studies including accessory design, fashion design, fashion image and knitwear design took part in the...

Mar 3, 2022

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Chloé developing a social impact measuring tool

French luxury fashion house Chloé has announced that it is developing the industry’s first social impact measuring tool, which it hopes can be adopted across the fashion industry. The tool is being designed to help a brand measure, evaluate and visualise its social impact to address the fact that while there are many tools to measure fashion’s...

Feb 22, 2022