Paris - As we move further into 2025 and the impacts of 2024 recede, the fashion market appears to be in a state of deceptive stability. Beneath the surface, however, shifts are occurring: the precarious balance between physical and digital commerce is wavering, distribution channels are being reinvented, and consumer expectations are shaping a...
Feb 14, 2025
As the class of 2024 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...
Jul 1, 2024
"If we want to send out market signals, we're going to have to work on taxes to help consumers move towards responsible fashion", Olivia Grégoire, the French minister responsible for small and medium-sized businesses, trade, craft industries and tourism, said at the Fashion Reboot 2023 organised by the Parisian fashion school Institut Français...
Dec 5, 2023
The University of Antwerp announced the opening for this year’s applications for its Summer School on Responsible Fashion Management which has been set up in collaboration with French fashion institute Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) in Paris and Academia Cerebra Milan in Italy. The course aims to provide a thorough understanding of the...
Apr 26, 2023
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...
Apr 7, 2023
Until Sunday, April 2, 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...
Mar 31, 2023
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
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
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
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
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...
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