Institut francais de la mode news and archive

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,...

22 Jun 2022

People

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...

14 Jun 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...

22 Feb 2022

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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...

26 Nov 2021

Fashion

Institut Français de la Mode free online fashion course attracts 100,000 learners

Institut Français de la Mode has launched the second run of its free online fashion course, ‘Understanding Fashion: from Business to Culture’, on FutureLearn.com, the global social learning platform. The free online fashion course, which includes insights and video testimonials from the world’s leading fashion experts, including designers Sir...

15 Apr 2020

Fashion

French fashion academy to offer free online course

French schools may be closed until further notice, but the prestigious Institut Français de la Mode announced it will offer a free online course, starting March 30th. The famous fashion academy will launch the 4-week course ‘Understanding Fashion: from Business to Culture’. The lessons will be free and open to any participant to follow lecturer...

26 Mar 2020

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Institut Français de la Mode launches online courses

The Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) is offering online courses for the first time through a partnership with FutureLearn, an online platform used by 10 million people across the world. Called "Understanding Fashion: from Business to Culture", the course is delivered by IFM professor Benjamin Simmenauer, who is in charge of teaching brand...

5 Dec 2019