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Museum De Lakenhal is the visual arts, history and crafts museum of the city of Leiden. The museum is housed in the former Leiden Cloth Hall, a building that dates back to 1640. The collection includes highlights by old masters such as Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt van Rijn and Jan Steen, alongside works by modern and contemporary artists such as Theo van Doesburg, Charley Toorop and Erwin Olaf. Leiden's illustrious past is covered in collection presentations such as The Siege and Relief of Leiden (1574) and Seven Centuries of Leiden Cloth.
The production of woollen cloth has determined the identity and position of the city of Leiden for seven centuries. The textile industry made Leiden the largest city in Holland in the 15th century and the most important textile centre in the world in the 17th century. Thousands of textile workers from the Southern Netherlands, England, Germany and France, who fled their countries for political or religious reasons, found work here. The strong, woollen fabric is very popular all over the world and the cloth weights, with which the fabric is given its hallmark, can be found all over the world.
In order to guarantee quality, the city council set up seven hallmarking facilities for cloth, saai, baai, grein, ras, warp and fustein. The most important, the Laecken-Halle, opened in 1641. This building is now part of the building sections that house Museum De Lakenhal. The façade of the old cloth hall is full of references to the textile industry: five tables depict the production process in nine stages, and there are sheep on the roof.
The Woolmark Company is a not-for-profit enterprise that conducts research, development and marketing along the worldwide supply chain for Australian wool on behalf of about 60,000 woolgrowers that help fund the company. Woolmark the world’s most recognised textile fibre brand - the Woolmark logo has been applied to more than 5 billion products since 1964.
The Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC) includes more than 10,000 items of apparel, accessories, and flat textiles dating from the eighteenth century to present, including substantial collections of functional clothing, technical textiles, and ethnographic costume. The collection is used for exhibition, research, and teaching. A gallery displaying selections from the CF+TC is located on the Terrace Level of the Human Ecology Building, and is free and open to the public during normal weekday business hours when the University is in session.
The Journal of Natural Fibers presents new achievements in basic research and the development of multi-purpose applications that further the economical and ecological production of hard fibers, protein fibers, seed, bast, leaf, and cellulosic fibers. An international panel of academics, researchers, and practitioners examines new processing methods and techniques, new trends and economic aspects of processing natural raw materials, sustainable agriculture and eco-friendly techniques that address environmental concerns, the efficient assessment of the life cycle of natural fibers-based products, and the natural reclamation of polluted land.
The Design Library’s business is the sale and licensing of antique, vintage, modern and contemporary textile designs for inspiration to the fashion, home furnishings, textile, wall covering, graphic arts, and paper product industries.
The Design Library has the world’s largest collections of documentary fabrics, original paintings, wallpapers, embroideries and yarn dyes, numbering over seven million designs. The collections date from the 1750s to the present and are sorted into over 1200 categories for easy access.
There exists an infinity of ways to design a piece of paper or fabric. Across three hundred years of highly skilled creative work a marvelous assortment of designs has emerged. Pattern is everywhere and has always been a powerful means of individual and cultural expression.
Located directly on the little river Anger and embedded in an old English landscape park is one of the oldest preserved industrial complexes in Germany: the cotton spinning mill Cromford in Ratingen. Established in 1783/84 by the merchant and entrepreneur Johann Gottfried Brügelmann from Wuppertal, it is now regarded as the first fully mechanised cotton spinning mill on the continent of Europe. The early industrial complex dating from the late 18th century is almost completely preserved. The five-storey "Hohe Fabrik" (High Mill) and the late baroque Cromford mansion – today both buildings belonging to the LVR-Industriemuseum - the "Alte Fabrik" (Old Mill), the plain living quarters of the workers, the office and the wheelhouse which once housed the waterwheel.
Museum de Kantfabriek shows how textile industry was once the basis for the economic prosperity of the North Limburg region. Sheep were kept on the poor soil in order to fertilise it. The wool was spun and woven into cloth in winter. Later, the farmers also grew flax, which they processed themselves into linen. The number of home weaving mills was large. This created an area of expertise for textile crafts and the textile industry, traces of which can still be found today.
Until 2006, the almost antique bobbin lace machines of the Zuid Nederlandse Kantfabriek were still in daily use to produce lace from thousands of tiny threads. Some of these machines have been preserved and you can see them in action in the museum. You can smell the lubricating oil and hear and feel the thumping of the machines. The lace is formed before your eyes by the interplay of machine, bobbins and needles at a rapid pace and with an ingenious logic.
Wherever the textile industry developed, magnificent examples of textile art emerged. Museum de Kantfabriek has an extraordinary collection of old and modern objects, which you can see in permanent and temporary exhibitions. You can see, hear, read and do it yourself.
Fashion for Good is a platform for sustainable innovation to connect those working on sustainable innovation with brands, retailers, manufacturers and funders to bring new ideas and technologies from niche to norm.
The Fashion for Good Museum is an interactive fashion museum for the future of fashion. The museum tells the stories behind the clothes you wear and how your choices can have a positive impact on people and our planet.
Fashion for Good also publishes open-source circular apparel tools, guides and reports.
Markets need trustworthy and accessible information in order to grow. Since 2007, Ecolabel Index has been the provider of that information for the ecolabel market. Ecolabel Index collects and structures data on ecolabels globally, increasing transparency and helping buyers and sellers use them more effectively. Ecolabel Index is operated by Big Room, a corporation based in Vancouver, Canada.
DTB is a knowledge network consisting of member companies that cover the entire textile chain, education facilities, institutes and relevant committees. DTB´s regular events and seminars offer a national and international platform for an open dialogue between experts in order to mutually generate future-oriented solution processes for the textile industry. Accordingly DTB´s competences include, amongst other, the fields of sustainability, sourcing, multi-channel and quality management.
IVGT is a textile association representing the interests of approximately 170 member companies from the sectors of textile raw materials, finishing, yarns and fabrics as well as Technical Textiles. Consequently, IVGT represents more than 60% of the German textile industry. As an industrial association IVGT contributes with its work in a significant way to maintain and strenghten the general framework for textile production. The association supports the professionnal, economic and political concerns of its member companies towards national, European and international institutions.
The Go Textile! campaign shows the diversity of textiles. We encounter textiles and textile composites everywhere in our daily lives. Even in places where you wouldn´t immediately expect to find them. They are used in medicine to ward off viruses and germs, they filter industrial wastewater or turn exhaust fumes into clean air again. From housing and construction to flying, textile composites are the material of the future. In the case of clothing, it´s all about sustainable solutions and a smart circular economy. The career prospects are correspondingly diverse. Go Textile! presents the exciting, versatile textile industry and shows how many opportunities it opens up for exciting, future-proof training.
This collection comprises carpets (mainly Irish-made), tapestries, curtains, embroideries, sampler quilts, fabric fragments and lengths, equipment, pattern designs, and sample books relating to mainly Irish textile production.
The Irish silk and poplin industries of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries are represented as well as Irish sprigging or whitework, and Mountmellick embroidery.
The "International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology" is a specialized journal for all aspects of research regarding clothing science, aimed at all those involved with clothing; whether in fabric, design, production, machinery, management or retailing. Textiles are materials of great complexity and diversity, so their understanding is of paramount importance, and their design, manufacture and end use are expanding to many fields such as Fashion, Interior, Architecture, Medical, Aerospace, Automotive, Civil-engineering and Geotextiles, Well-being, Food, Agriculture and Electronics. In fact, many new textile products are not known as such because of their diverse technology, such as scaffolds for cell growth for example, or membranes with tribological energy harvesting ability, or photonics based on fibre morphology, to name but a few. It is essential therefore that researchers and industry keep pace with these fast-developing sectors by reading and publishing.
The Bunka Gakuen Digital Archive is a specialized archive for fashion and clothing as well as being a learning, education and research support organization for students and faculty belonging to Bunka Gakuen University Library.
The archive can also be utilized by off-campus users if they are students or researcher in the same field.
The Library holds approximately 340,000 books, 3,000 magazine titles, including back numbers, as well as a substantial number of both domestic and foreign fashion magazines. Parts of it are digitized in the Digital Archive and can be accessed according to the criteria of accessories, fashion plates; art deco illustrated books; magazines and Japanese old books.
The General association for textiles and fashion (Gesamtverband textil+mode) is the trade association of the German textile and fashion industry.
The umbrella organization informs its 25 member associations and 1400 (mostly medium-sized) companies, about the entire diversity of the industry, provides expert knowledge, experienced discussion partners, current positions and facts as well as further information.
The annual publications deal with current textile-related topics in connection with architecture, clothing, education, corporate social responsibility (CSR), digital transformation, health, climate, and energy as well as lightweight construction, fashion, smart textiles, environment, living, and many others. The publications are freely accessible.
Pratt Institute is a private university located in Brooklyn, Clinton Hill borough, and Manhattan in New York City, New York State. Another campus is located in Utica, New York. The institute's beginnings date back to 1887.
Today, Pratt consists of six so-called “schools” with degree programmes in the fields of art, architecture, design, creative writing and visual studies, among others. The Pratt Institute is one of the leading art schools worldwide.
It is named after its founder and first president Charles Pratt, a US oil industrialist. The Institute has its own radio station and one of the oldest public libraries in the USA.
The School of Design is home to the Fashion Design programme (BFA).
The four-year fashion design programme encourages the development of individual identity in a collaborative environment characterized by self-reflection and engaged critique.
The department offers international exchange programmes and intensive courses abroad.
The Bloomsbury Fashion Central database describes itself as a dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress.
Content includes reference works, e articles, scholarly e-books, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, photos, and videos of fashion shows on the runway and backstage, and images from museums around the world.
Collections that make up the Bloomsbury Fashion central database include the Berg Fashion Library, Fairchild Books Library, Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive and Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases.
In addition to searching by collections, the database can also be searched by content type, organizations and design houses, by people, period, and places.
Hue is a fashion magazine for the FIT community, alumni, and friends. It is published three times a year by the Division of Communications and External Relations.
The magazine's website reports on the topics of business, design/ art, culture, research, and innovation and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
FITDIL (FIT Digital Image Library) is the exclusive image database of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). The database is divided into accessible open access collections and other collections that are only accessible to FIT users.
The open access collection includes the following libraries:
— Library Design Files
— Library Special Collections
— FIT College Archives
— Library Historical Forecast and Trend Reports
— Library Exhibits & Displays
— Hue Magazine Archives
New York Textile Month (NYTM) is a month-long festival celebrating textile creativity and promoting awareness of textiles.
The festival took place for the first time in 2015 and was created by trend researcher Lidewij Edelkoort.
To explore and celebrate the survival of different textile components and expressions, NYTM will create a calendar listing all the fabric-themed events, talks, walks, screenings and exhibitions to help the public better understand and embrace the textiles of life.
A highlight of the NYTM is the Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize, awarded to a textile or fashion design student who exhibits innovative thinking and inspiring creativity in textiles.
The Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) is a further and higher education university based in Poole, England, specializing in art, performance, design, and media.
It was formerly known as The Arts University College at Bournemouth and The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, and is the home of Bournemouth Film School.
The first art school in Bournemouth was the Bournemouth Government School of Art, established in 1880.
AUB is the second-largest university in Bournemouth and Poole, Bournemouth University being much larger and AECC University College being smaller.
The university was awarded Gold in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework, a government assessment of the quality of undergraduate teaching in universities and other higher education providers in England.
Arts University Bournemouth offers two textile-related degree programmes:
— BA (HONS) Fashion
— BA (HONS) Costume
Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
It is one of the five colleges of The New School.
The school was founded in 1896 by William Merritt Chase in search of individualistic artistic expression. It was the first of its kind in the country to offer programs in fashion design, advertising, interior design, and graphic design.
The school offers undergraduate and graduate programs ranging from architectural design, curatorial studies, to textiles and design and urban ecologies.
Among Parsons alumni are fashion designers, photographers, entrepreneurs, designers, illustrators, and artists who have made significant contributions to their respective fields. The college is a member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
In addition to other theory courses, there is one fashion study course:
— Fashion Studies (MA)
Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
It is one of the five colleges of The New School.
The school was founded in 1896 by William Merritt Chase in search of individualistic artistic expression. It was the first of its kind in the country to offer programs in fashion design, advertising, interior design, and graphic design.
The school offers undergraduate and graduate programs ranging from architectural design, curatorial studies, to textiles and design and urban ecologies.
Among Parsons alumni are fashion designers, photographers, entrepreneurs, designers, illustrators, and artists who have made significant contributions to their respective fields. The college is a member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
In addition to other design courses, there are four textile-related programmes:
— Fashion Design (AAS)
— Fashion Design (BFA)
— Fashion Design and Society (MFA)
— Textiles (MFA)
The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. Until 1988, it was known as North Texas State University. UNT was founded as a non-sectarian, coeducational, private teachers' college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later.
UNT is the flagship institution of the University of North Texas System, which includes additional universities in Dallas and Fort Worth. UNT also has a location in Frisco. It consists of 14 colleges and schools.
The College of Visual Arts offers an undergraduate program (Bachelor of Fine Arts) as well as a postgraduate program (Master of Fine Arts) in Fashion Design.
The UNT Digital Library is home to materials from University of North Texas research, creative, and scholarly activities, and serves as a centralized repository for the rich collections held by University of North Texas libraries, colleges, schools, and departments.
The Texas Fashion Collection comprises historic dress from the 19th century, along with 20th-century examples of haute couture, high fashion and ready-to-wear by notable American and international designers.
The collection is an educational resource for students, researchers and the general public.
The Texas Fashion Collection is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and documentation of historic dress from the 19th century, along with 20th-century examples of haute couture, high fashion and ready-to-wear by notable American and international designers.
The collection of top designers' works began in 1938 through the efforts of Stanley and Edward Marcus. Today, the collection includes over 18,000 items.
It is operated by the University of North Texas through the College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) and housed on the UNT campus in Denton, Texas.
The collection is an educational resource for students, researchers and the general public.
The Fashion History Timeline is an open-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries that span the globe. The Timeline website offers well-researched, accessibly written entries on specific artworks, garments, and films for those interested in fashion and dress history.
Started as a pilot project by FIT art history faculty and students in the Fall of 2015, the Timeline aims to be an important contribution to public knowledge of the history of fashion and to serve as a constantly growing and evolving resource not only for students and faculty, but also for the wider world of those interested in fashion and dress history (from the Renaissance scholar to the simply curious).
The Fashion Studies Journal (FSJ) is an activist-oriented, advocacy-driven online home for members of the global fashion studies community to congregate in solidarity. We invite submissions that go against the grain of traditional academic scholarship, from works-in-progress, to critical think pieces, to profiles written by emerging thinkers as well as seasoned academics, journalists, and practitioners. FSJ provides an eclectic editorial approach that speaks truth to power and amplifies marginalized voices and honest conversations.
Contributions address all facets of the fashion system, but favour those perspectives that are egalitarian, feminist, queer and actively anti-racist.
The precariat of academic labour practices is also foregrounded in the coverage.
The database was created by fashion educator Kimberly M. Jenkins, who had collected resources on fashion and race in the course of her teaching career and decided to create her own database of collected resources.
The goal for the database is to center and amplify the voices of those who have been racialized (and thus marginalized) in fashion, illuminate under-examined histories and address racism throughout the fashion system.
The platform will provide hands-on research and publishing opportunities to students, scholars, and writers both concerned with–and invested in–dismantling racism and bringing critical stories to light.
The Fashion and Race Database is organized into six distinct sections:
The Library, objects that matter, profiles, essays and news, the directory and the Calendar.
About Dressed: The History of Fashion is a podcast all about fashion.
The initiators of the project are April Calahan and Cassady Zachary.
April Calahan is a Special Collections Associate and Manuscript Collections Curator at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she is also a lecturer in the Art History Department.
Cassady Zachary is a fashion historian and writer. The weekly podcast is described as “the gold standard of fashion podcasting” by the renowned fashion magazine Vogue.
Fashion Research Network (FRN), is an interdisciplinary network for researchers in fashion studies. Through collaboration, the network facilitate, disseminate and promote conversations which critically examine the nature of fashion studies and the parameters of the field. FRN brings together researchers from multiple subject areas and institutions to critically examine the role of dress in society.
Founded at a point when the field was both less established and less defined, FRN has played a key part in shaping understanding of fashion studies as a diverse and dynamic field in the UK.
Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) is a European Territorial Cooperation Programme funded by the European Commission with the ambition to make the North-West Europe area a key economic player and an attractive place to work and live, with high levels of innovation, sustainability, and cohesion. It invests EUR 370 million of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in activities based on the cooperation of organizations from eight countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The Fibersort project is about the separation of textiles by type.
The Fibersort is a technology that automatically sorts large volumes of mixed sorted, these materials become reliable, consistent input materials for high value textile to textile recyclers.
Hellenic Clothing Industry Association (HCIA) is a non-profit industrial association established in Athens in 1962. It represents Greek companies from all sub-sectors of the clothing industry (men, women, and children’s clothing, underwear, swimwear, shirts, fashion accessories and raw materials).
The Association represents the sector’s companies in International, European, and National authorities and sectoral organizations. HCIA provides its members with information and consulting relating to the commercial, industrial, and social policy matters as well as disseminates members with information on technological, industrial, commercial and economic issues.
The International Association of Users of Artificial and Synthetic Filament Yarns and of Natural Silk (AIUFFASS) is the representative body of the European synthetic and artificial filament and silk industry. The association was founded in Geneva in 1954 as an association of users of synthetic and artificial filament yarns. In 1987, the silk industry joined the association, which has existed in this constellation ever since and has represented the interests of European industrial users ever since. The focus is on the needs and interests of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice aims to create a forum to facilitate, stimulate and disseminate research in the domain of textile design and practice.
Encompassing a range of approaches, disciplines and outcomes, the journal publishes submissions from the following areas: research through textile designing and making; research informed by textiles; and research on textile design education-encompassing pedagogic studies into the development of textile designers, practitioners, and researchers.
Within these areas, the journal is interested in the following: interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches and the role of collaboration; relationships between traditional and contemporary practices; the application of new and traditional technologies and materials from both technical and aesthetic perspectives; sustainable textile practices, interfaces between research and industry; pedagogy for the education and continuing professional development of textile designers and practitioners; new research methods in the field with illustrative case studies; and the textile design process including the role of drawing and the significance of craft.
The Swiss Textile College (STF) is a training centre for the textile and garment industry and trade, which emerged from the Wattwil Weaving School and the Zurich Silk Weaving School in 1972.
With its courses of study, courses and workshops, the STF covers the entire field of the textile and fashion industry, both in production, marketing and trade.
The School of Textiles is divided into different departments: Textiles, Fashion and Business Management, each with several Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes.
In addition, the area of research and development is another focal point. Research projects are funded by the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) of the Swiss Confederation.
The school also offers start-ups and graduates a start-up centre, the so-called incubator, where start-up projects can be realized. An extensive industrial machine park is available to founders.
The wfk - Cleaning Technology Institute is a research institution organized in the form of a non-profit, member-based association to conduct pre-competitive basic and applied research in the field of cleaning, reprocessing, functionalization and hygiene of various textile and non-textile materials.
In addition, the wfk institute is active in standardization as well as education and training and organizes one of the world's largest conferences in the field of cleaning and hygiene, the International Detergency Conference (IDC), every two years.
Other areas of work include process and equipment testing, disinfection and hygiene controls, as well as test materials for testing cleaning and disinfection processes. In addition to modern laboratories, the premises include a technical centre where new cleaning procedures can be tested under practical conditions.
Isfahan's university of technology (IUT) is one of the pioneers among Iran's Public universities. The university has 14 faculties and departments with about 11000 students and 600 academic members and offers four disciplines of engineering, basic sciences, agriculture, and Natural resources.
The Textile engineering department, established in 1984, is dedicated to advancement of textile technology, colour science, fibre science & chemistry, polymer processing, fibre engineering and innovative applications of textiles. The principle mission of the textile engineering department is training of specialist graduates at B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD levels.
The department offers B.Sc. program in the fields of textile technology, technical textiles, fibre science & textile chemistry and clothing engineering. At post graduate level, the department offers M.Sc. and PhD program in textile technology and textile chemistry & fibre science.
The Wool Research Association (WAR)is an autonomous cooperative research organization established in 1963 in collaboration with the Government of India.
The association provides technological and scientific solutions to the wool sector in particular and the textile industry in general, besides achieving the overall goals of scientific and technological advancement set by the industry leaders and policymakers in India.
In this endeavour, the organization has moulded its own standards to obtain accreditation as an international research and development institution and provide solutions to various technical and techno-economic problems of the growing textile industry in India.
Man-Made Textile Research Association (MANTRA) is an independent textile research association founded in 1981. The idea of establishing a body to meet the growing need for quality control in the growing textile industry around the city of Surat in South Gujarat first came up in the 1970s.
The objective was to carry out research and development activities and provide testing and technical service facilities for the man-made fibre textile industry in particular and other allied industries in general.
MANTRA is one of the eight National Textile Research Associations (TRA) and the leading one in the field of man-made fibres under the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India and recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
The Synthetic & Art Silk Mills' Research Association (SASMIRA) is a cooperative enterprise set up by the Indian textile industry as a multi-functional institute to meet their scientific and technological needs.
SASMIR came into existence at a time when companies in the silk and artificial silk industry, comprising a large number of small mills, initiated the setting up of a cooperative research unit. The venture was supported by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and culminated in the formation of SASMIR, formerly known as the Silk and Art Silk Mills' Research Association, in 1950.
Commencing with the testing of silk and art silk materials, SASMIRA has geared its activities since then to meet the changing needs of the man-made textile industry thereby fulfilling its objectives. At present, SASMIRA is linked to the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.
Northern India Textile Research Association (NITRA)is a textile research institute in the country. The textile industry and Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India jointly established NITRA in 1974 for conducting applied scientific research and providing support services to Indian textile industry.
The organization is situated at NCR Ghaziabad, near national capital New Delhi.
NITRA’s prime activities include research & development, technical consultancy, quality evaluation of materials, manpower training and publishing technical books and papers. The academic wing is the NITRA Technical Campus (NTC), established with the aim to train young professionals for the textile, apparel, fashion, retail, and IT sectors
NITRA Technical Campus (NTC) is the academic wing of NITRA, established with a view to groom youngsters to become corporate professionals in the textile, apparel, fashion, retail and IT sectors.
The South India Textile Research Association (SITRA), founded in 1965, is governed by a Board of Directors consisting of representatives from industry, government, and academia. SITRA is sponsored by the industry and supported by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.
The campus, which covers a stretch of 32.5 hectares, is equipped with a whole range of sophisticated textile testing equipment and modern machinery with textile testing, electronics and calibration laboratories and a library. Within the campus is a pilot mill where real-time simulation testing and research is conducted.
The Bombay Textile Research Association (BTRA) was founded in 1954 by members of the Millowners' Association, Bombay. Since its inception, the number of members has grown considerably. The aim is to meet the technological requirements of the Indian textile industry and to achieve the goals set at the national level in the field of science and technology.
BTRA members include not only textile companies (both from the factory sector and the decentralized sector), but also manufacturers of synthetic fibres, machinery, dyes and chemical auxiliaries.
Industrial research is now seen as a commercial operation, justified solely by the benefits of the results for the textile industry. Therefore, from the beginning, BTRA's limited resources have been efficiently deployed in the areas of research and development where the textile industry derives the greatest benefit.
The Ahmedabad Textile Industries Research Association was founded in 1947 by the textile mills of Ahmedabad as an autonomous, non-profit research and development institution. The activities of the institution cover all aspects from fibre to finished fabric in traditional textiles, as well as in technical textiles, geotextiles, nanotechnology and composites.
The core mission of the association is to support the Indian textile and allied industries to enhance their international competitiveness.
In addition, the focus is on professionalization in technology, engineering and management, as well as the implementation of application-oriented studies.
The National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, popularly known as the National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy, celebrates the rich, diverse, and practising craft traditions of India.
At present the Museum collection consists of over 33,000 specimens in various crafts, acquired over a period of 60 years, collected from various states of India.
The museum collection consists of a variety of traditional artefacts such as Textiles, a vast range of metal lamps, sculptures, utensils etc, Wood-works, Folk/tribal paintings, range of cane and bamboo crafts, clay, and terracotta figures and a lot more. The exquisite examples of textiles include Kalamkaris, Jamawars, Pashmina and Shahtosh shawls, embroidered fabrics especially Kanthas, Chikankari works and chaklas Tie and Die (Bandhani) fabrics, Baluchar and Jamdaani saris, Pichwais, phulkaris, Ikat fabrics of Orissa, Chamba Rumals, Block printed textile fabrics of Gujarat and Rajasthan, Himru textile pieces of Maharashtra, Naga shawls, Chanderi saris and a variety of tribal textiles of the Lambadi, Toda and Naga tribes of North- eastern India.
The Ministry of Textiles is an Indian government national agency responsible for the formulation of policy, planning, development, export promotion and regulation of the textile industry in India. This includes all natural, artificial, and cellulosic fibres that go into the making of textiles, clothing, and Handicrafts. The Ministry of Textiles comprises the Cotton Textile Industry, the Jute Industry, the Silk, and Silk Textile Industry, Man-made Fibre/ Filament Yarn Industry and the wool industry. The Ministry's functions include Textile Policy & Coordination, Export Promotion, and Planning & Economic Analysis of the entire Indian textile value chain.
The Modemuseum Feigel (MMF) presents women's fashion of the 20th century, focusing particularly on the region of Baden-Württemberg and the district of Stuttgart.
The focus of the exhibited garments is on everyday fashion and features more than 3,000 individual pieces, which due to the selection contains a cross-section of the fashion of the last century. The museum also houses a collection of books, magazines and pictorial material from fashion journals, which can be viewed on site and researched on the website. The museum was founded by the collector Gabriele Bauer- Feigel.
The website offers a preview of the collector's fashion exhibits on display, as well as the changing exhibitions.
The Fachverband Textil e.V. Wissenschaft-Forschung-Bildung is an association of textile teachers from the Federal Republic of Germany that was founded in 1975. The association is made up of six different regional groups and provides information about events in the field of textile art, textile design and handicrafts.
Members of the association undertake joint educational trips, organize a national conference once a year, and publish an association magazine four times a year.
The website provides information, tips, and ideas on textile work, as well as information on trade fairs and training courses in the field of textiles.
The Carpet Institute of Australia Limited (CIAL) is a non-profit industry association dedicated to the development of Australia’s carpet industry.
Formed in 1967, the Carpet Institute represents carpet manufacturers, as well as retailers and suppliers of goods and services to industry.
The Carpet Institute of Australia acts as a network and represents the interests of its members in Australian and international standardization committees. Furthermore, it offers training opportunities to members, as well as carpet classification or environmental sustainability policies and programs.
Istanbul Gelisim University (Turkish: İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi), is a private non-profit university in Istanbul, Turkey offering thirty-six educational programmes at six faculties, two vocational schools, two schools, and one institute.
The Istanbul Gelisim Vocational School, founded in 2008, is home to the Fashion and Textile Design training programme. The aim of the Program is to train students in the basic art and design skills, provide basic information about the acquisition of general textile technology.
After successful completion of the vocational school, graduates can attend further academic programmes such as Fashion Clothing Design, Fashion Design, Fashion and Textile Design, Textile Engineering, Textile and Fashion Design.
The Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History was established at the University of Glasgow in 2010 and has since become a thriving environment for teaching and research.
The blog acts as a dynamic platform for the staff and students in Textile Conservation to share their experiences and ongoing projects in the academic school year.
Fashion Magazine, founded in 1977, reports on international, national and local fashion and beauty trends, aimed at affluent, style-conscious urban women.
The magazine went first online as a website in summer 2000.
Fashion Magazine has a tremendous reach in Canada, in part because the brand was an early adopter of social media.
Coverage is provided in the Style (where the latest fashion trends are presented), Beauty and Grooming, wellness and flare sections.
In August 2013, the brand launched an online shopping extension featuring 1,500 clothing and accessory items selected by the editors that can be purchased online.
The Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community (COTANCE) is the representative body of the European Leather Industry.
COTANCE is a non-profit organization established in order to promote the interests of the European tanning industry at an international level. In addition to representing interests, the association also has the task of promoting European leather on both the European and international markets.
The Cape Clothing and Textile Cluster (CCTC) is a not-for-profit initiative jointly established by government and industry in 2005 to boost the competitiveness of the clothing, textile, footwear, and leather (CTFL) manufacturing industry in the Western Cape. The Cluster comprises 25 leading firms, primarily manufacturers but also major retailers, that are committed to supporting the development of the local manufacturing industry.
The Cluster works to support domestic firms to access domestic and selected export markets by driving globally competitive, sustainable clothing and textile value chains, with a high focus on Quick Response principles.
Global Fashion Agenda is a non-profit organization that aims to mobilize and guide the global fashion industry to take bold action on sustainability. Funding for activities comes from both the public and private sectors through five key areas: partners, sponsors, summit ticket sales, public funding and grants. Global Fashion Agenda is behind the leading business event on sustainability in fashion, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, which has been leading the movement for over a decade. Each year, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit brings together members of the fashion industry, multilateral organizations, industry associations, policy makers, among many others to find common solutions to accelerate social and environmental sustainability.
Open Fashion is a project by the Antwerp Fashion Museum (MoMu) and the Artesis University College Antwerp, supported by the Flemish government.
In the database of Open Fashion visitors can search through the collection of MoMu and through the catalogue of the MoMu library, as well as the Contemporary Fashion Archive, an information network on the fashion industry set up through a cooperation from 2002-2007 between five European fashion institutions.
TexTailor Expo exhibition addresses all Bulgarian and foreign companies producing textile and textile products, manufacturers and importers of fabrics, garments, shoes, threads and accessories for the industry, manufacturers and importers of leather and leather products, tailor-made enterprises specialized in manufacturing of ready-made garments, individuals or companies presenting their own fashion lines, design and trademarks.
Once a year for three days Bulgarian and foreign companies present their products and services to manufacturers, dealers from abroad and major customers from all over Europe. The exhibition program also includes fashion shows by young and established designers, as well as keynote speakers presenting industry trends and innovations to the visitors.
The Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) is part of Middlesex University and an accessible research collection.
Much of the textile collection was designed for British homes between about 1880 and the 1960s. Many textiles were produced for well-known manufacturers such as Liberty & Co and Sandersons. In the collection there are both printed and woven furnishing fabrics and some examples of dress fabrics.
Dazed (formerly Dazed & Confused) is a bi-monthly British style magazine founded in 1991. It covers music, fashion, film, art, and literature.
Dazed is published by Dazed Media, an independent media group known for producing stories across its print, digital and video brands. The company's portfolio includes titles AnOther, Dazed Beauty and NOWNESS.
The company's newest division, Dazed Studio, creates brand campaigns across the luxury and lifestyle sectors.
Dazeddigital.com launched in November 2006 with a dedicated editorial and video team covering news, fashion, culture, music and art.
Each year it publishes the Dazed 100, a list of the hundred most influential people shaping youth culture.
Vogue Business is an online publication for the fashion industry, launching in January 2019.
Vogue Business is headquartered in London, from where it reports on a globalised fashion industry. Vogue Business explores how cultural trends and global patterns will impact the fashion industry. With insights from technologists, trend forecasters, futurists and innovators from other industries, Vogue Business is a leading source of information on how new technologies will affect the way products are developed, marketed and sold.
Fashion Revolution Podcast explores the hidden stories behind the global fashion industry.
Through interviews and investigations, Fashion Revolution explores the intersection of sustainability, ethics and transparency in the industry.
International fashion journalist Tamsin Blanchard speaks to researchers, supply chain experts, garment workers, politicians and activists. Each episode will take listeners into fashion’s social and environmental problems but leave them with practical actions to help make a positive difference.
The Fashion Transparency Index analyses and ranks 250 of the world’s biggest fashion brands and retailers based on their public disclosure of human rights and environmental policies, practices and impacts, in their operations and in their supply chains.
The Fashion Transparency Index comprises 239 indicators covering a wide range of social and environmental topics such as animal welfare, biodiversity, chemicals, climate, due diligence, forced labour, freedom of association, gender equality, living wages, purchasing practices, supplier disclosure, waste and recycling, working conditions and more.
The Future Fashion Forward association emerged from the global Fashion Revolution campaign and represents a unified platform in which industry and consumers are to be brought together.
The platform aims to inform about the grievances in the garment industry and thus bring about positive change. Special emphasis is placed on sustainability, the environment, social standards and social justice. The initiators and activists behind Future Fashion Forward are designers, consultants and communication scientists from the fashion industry. Public events are organised at regular intervals to promote an exchange and transfer of knowledge between experts and interested parties.
The magazine Textile Times was founded in 1997 under the name Tex Mach International. The aim was to introduce a high-quality magazine for the international textile industry chain.
The background was to introduce a high-quality magazine for the international textile industry chain. Publication was once a year until 2004, bi-monthly from 2005 and bimonthly in 2007 after successful publication at ITMA in Munich. After changing its name to Textile Times in 2009, the magazine is published monthly.
The Intenet presence provides daily up-to-date reporting on the entire textile production chain.
The Textile Magazine is a leading source of information for the Asian textile industry. Established in 1959, The Textile Magazine provides comprehensive information on the industry, from yarn to garments. In addition to industry news, the online magazine offers in-depth reports, critical analysis and features on the Indian and Asian textile industry.
The non-profit H&M Foundation launched the Global Change Award back in 2015 with a vision to accelerate the process of creating a sustainable future for fashion and thereby protect our planet.
Every year the H&M foundation invites innovators and entrepreneurs from all over the world to submit their early stage ideas on how to improve the sustainable footprint of the fashion industry. The six most promising innovations share a grant of 1 million euros and participate in a one-year tailor-made Innovation Accelerator Program, provided by the H&M Foundation in partnership with Accenture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
The H&M Foundation is an independent non-profit global foundation for public good, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It is privately funded by the Stefan Persson family, founders and main owners of the H&M Group.
Founded to fast-track the realisation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 to improve lives for everyone everywhere, H&M Foundation uses collaboration and innovation to co-create, fund and share solutions for the world’s most urgent challenges.
To help safeguard the welfare of humanity the foundation is charting the fashion industry to become planet positive.
Established in 2006, the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel Limited (HKRITA) is funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong SAR Government and operated by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
The HKRITA supports the textile and fashion industry to develop high value-added manufacturing and service activities and enhance the industry's competitiveness in the global market through research and development and technology transfer.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has adopted four technology focus areas for R&D projects, namely:
1. New Materials and Textiles and Apparel Products;
2. Advanced Textiles and Clothing Production Technologies;
3. Innovative Design and Evaluation Technologies;
4. Enhanced Industrial Systems and Infrastructure.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is the largest state-funded university in Hong Kong.
The history of the university began as early as 1937 and was the first state-funded tertiary educational institution in Hong Kong.
In 1994, PolyU was recognized by the Hong Kong government as a full-fledged university and changed its name to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In Hong Kong.
The Institute of Textiles and Clothing (ITC) is located in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
The Institute was established in 1957 and has become a major institution for fashion and textile education, research, and technology transfer in China.
At the institute, students can obtain a Bachelor (Honours) degree in Fashion & Textiles within 4 years. After successful completion, a Master's degree in Fashion & Textiles or Fashion Merchandising can be added.
The Journal of Global Fashion Marketing (JGFM) is a quarterly journal that publishes peer-reviewed conceptual and empirical papers and business cases of original works that significantly contribute to the overall advancement of marketing theory, research, and practice in fashion, design, and culture. JGFM endeavours to be a “global bridge” connecting marketing scholars and practitioners in fashion, design, and culture throughout the world.
The journal publishes scholarly articles on marketing written by contributors representing the leading academic authors.
Topics of the articles are: 1. Monitor and analyse global fashion marketing trends. 2. Generate and integrate new ideas and theories related to fashion, luxury, and culture marketing theory and practice. 3. Apply new research methods and techniques in fashion, luxury, and culture marketing. 4. Explore and disseminate cutting-edge fashion marketing practices.
TTK University of Applied Sciences (TTK UAS) is a state professional higher education institution, offering professional higher education and applied research in the fields of technology, production, civil engineering, logistics, economics, and welfare.
TTK UA, founded in 1915 is the largest University of Applied Sciences in Estonia, currently educating more than 3000 students that makes TTK UAS the fourth largest higher education institution in Estonia.
TTK UAS offers 19 professional higher education study programmes on bachelor level in six institutes.
The Institute of Engineering and Circular Economy is home to the Bachelor's degree programme Fashion Engineering, which has a well-equipped Textile Testing Laboratory.
The Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Crafts and Design (MOME
for short, in Hungarian Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem) is a Hungarian university of art and design. It is located in Budapest, Hungary. The university is engaged in the education of traditional arts and crafts as well as architecture, design and visual communication.
It was named after the painter, designer, and photographer László Moholy-Nagy.
The predecessor of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, was the Hungarian Royal School of Arts and Crafts, founded in 1880. Like other European art colleges, it developed from a craft-based industrial school.
The Fashion and Textile department is home to the Bachelor's degree programme in Textile Design and the Master's degree programme in Fashion and Textile Design.
The Centro Superior de Diseño de Moda de Madrid (CSDMM) is a private university centre, attached to the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and dependent on the Fundación para la Promoción del Diseño en la Comunidad de Madrid (FUNDISMA).
Since 1986 the CSDMM has been dedicated to teaching, research and refresher training in the field of creation, management, production, and promotion of fashion.
Beckman College of Design is a private educational institution in Stockholm that offers three BA courses : Visual Communication, Fashion, and Design.
Beckman offers courses in fashion design at BA and foundation level.
The Fashion programme at Beckman provides students with the artistic and professional skills required for a career in fashion design and product development.
In addition to the primary subject of Fashion Design, the Bachelor Program includes courses in Artistic Representation and History, Theory and Context, to give students the tools needed to reflect on the contexts of the fashion industry.
KunstModeDesign Herbststrasse in Vienna is a Higher Federal School for Fashion and Artistic Design that was founded in 1874. It offers educational programmes for various forms of design in the fields of fashion, art, and crafts.
KunstModeDesign Herbststrasse runs a fashion school and an art school with training offers for young people and adults.
It offers three training programmes for young people:
— Higher School for Design: a five-year artistic training programme
— The Higher School of Fashion: a five-year design and marketing-oriented training programme
— The three-year technical college for fashion (with final examination)
In addition, there are three training programmes for adults:
— College for FashionDesignTextiles (4 semesters) where students graduate with a diploma
— The Evening College of Art for JewelleryDesign (6 semesters) is an art and design-oriented jewellery training with a focus on craftsmanship and design where Students graduate with a diploma
— The Master School for Ladies' Dressmaking with a focus on haute couture and stage costume is Austria's only training programme preparing students for the master craftsman's examination.
Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo is the oldest Academy of Fine Arts in Norway with over 500 students, 200 undergraduates and 900 temporary and professional staff.
The Academy aim is to promote critical, reflective and experimental art and design within a high international standard. The Artistic education takes place in six several institutes, like the Academy of Dance, Academy of Opera, Academy of Theatre, Academy of Fine Art, the department for Art and Craft and the Design department.
The Design department offers a professionally oriented, three-year Bachelor’s programme in fashion design and costume design. During their studies, students choose one of these two fields as a specialization.
In addition, the university offers students the opportunity to obtain a master's degree in fashion and costume design after completing a bachelor's degree.
Arnhem Fashion Design is a component of the faculty of Art & Design at ArtEZ- University of the Arts in Arnhem.
The department of Fashion Design and Fashion Illustration was established in 1953 by Dutch fashion legend Elly Lamaker, and established its rightful place in the eyes of existing visual art institutes, the fashion industry, and comparable international design programmes.
Fashion Design at ArtEZ is a four-year Bachelor programme at the Higher Vocational Education (HBO) level. Developing the student’s creativity takes a prominent place within the course, followed by the development of craftsman-like and practical skills, and theoretical knowledge.
PANSiK Scuola di Moda is a public school specializing in fashion, art and media, founded in 1977 by Theodoros Panagopoulos.
The school exclusively offers one-year, two-year and three-year academic programmes as well as intensive and short-term courses recognized by the Ministry of Education and EOPPEP (National Organization for Qualification Certification and Professional Orientation).
The school is the first academic institution in Greece to develop specialized programmes in the field of fashion, such as fashion design, fashion styling, fashion management, menswear, garment construction, footwear design and merchandising.
Scandinavian Academy of Fashion Design (SAFD) is the oldest fashion and design school in Scandinavia, and has in more than 85 years educated many of the leading apparel designers, stylists and business people within the Danish and international fashion industry. The aim of SAFD is to educate designers who with their ressources will be capable of developing a quality product encompassing identity and personality. Designers who have learnt to observe and analyse our environment, so that they are able to comply optimally with customers’ wishes.
The Accademia Costume & Moda was founded in 1964 by fashion and costume historian and designer Rosana Pistolese, who created an educational institution to serve both the fashion industry and the entertainment industry's need for costumes.
The Academy is a private educational institution whose educational programmes are recognised by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.
The Academy offers vocational courses as well as study programmes in all facets related to fashion, such as costume design, but also fashion editorial and knitwear design, as well as textile and accessory design and others.
The training programmes are aimed at students who have completed their school education and would like to begin studies in the fields of fashion, accessories and costume design, fashion communication, fashion management or media design and multimedia art.
Accademia Altieri Moda e Arte is a private educational institution in Rome, Italy, founded in 1973. The Academy prepares young people to access the various sectors of creative craftsmanship by organizing courses for: Fashion Designer with Modelling and Tailoring, Modelling and Professional Tailoring, Beauty Makeup, Cineatricatric and special effects, Hairstyle, Window Dresser & Visual Merchandising.
Koefia Fashion Academy is a college in Rome, Italy, which exclusively offers training courses in fashion and textiles. The academy was founded back in 1951 by Countess Alba Toni Brasini, whose stage name was Madame Koefia. At that time, the Academy was the first School of Fashion in Italy. Koefia International Fashion Academy offers different study paths, based on study times, incoming pre-requisites, talent and professional ambitions.
Domus Academy is one of the first post-graduate Design Schools in Italy.
The academic offering is developed around four core areas: design, fashion, business and experience design and offers short courses, semester courses und master courses.
Founded by the fashion designer Gianfranco Ferré in 1982, Domus Academy’s Fashion School teaches fashion design in Milan, the epicenter of the industry. During workshops and internship, students have the chance to collaborate on projects with fashion labels, studios, and companies.
Students can choose their individual programme in Fashion Design, Fashion Management or Fashion Styling & Visual Merchandising.
Istitut Secoli is a private educational institution offering exclusively fashion training courses. The school was founded as early as 1934 and has its headquarters in the fashion metropolis of Milan.
Istitut Secoli offers a wide variety of fashion- and textile related courses for all levels of education, aimed at people at different stages of their career in the fashion business.
— Professional courses
— Executive courses
— Online courses
— Post- graduate courses
— Post-diploma courses
— Short courses
Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) is a private education institute in Italy, organizing Master Courses, Undergraduate Courses and Summer Courses in Design, Fashion, Visual Arts and Communication.
Founded in 1966, IED has Locations in Italy, Spain and Brazil, acting as a network of excellence, operating in the fields of training and research.
The School of Fashion offers an enormous variety of education and training opportunities in fashion, styling, marketing, communication and business.
IFA Paris is an international fashion design and luxury business school with campuses in Shanghai, Paris, and Istanbul offering Bachelor and Master/MBA programs as well as short and summer courses in a wide range of fashion areas.
IFA Paris also offers online distance learning courses as well.
Bachelor's degree programmes include:
— Fashion Design and Technology
— Fashion Marketing
— Fashion Sustainability
Master of Arts Programme:
— Contemporary Fashion Design
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Programme:
— Fashion Management (Apparel, Luxury or Media)
— Fashion Technology
The Parsons School of Design is a design school in New York City, founded in 1896 as the Chase School of Art. It has been part of The New School since 1970. Parsons was the first college in the United States to offer courses in fashion, advertising and graphic design as well as interior design.
In 1921, an offshoot of the American Parson School was founded in Paris, the so-called New School-Parson Paris. In addition to other design courses, there are three textile-related programmes at this school.
Programmes with a fashion focus:
— Fashion Design Programme (Bachelor of Fine Arts)
— Fashion Design and the Arts (Master of Fine Arts)
— Fashion Studies (Master of Arts)
Ecole Conte is a private teaching institution in the field of Fashion, Luxury and Applied Arts.
The school is a founder member of the Collège de Paris, a network of higher education institutions and professional training organizations.
Ecole Conte, founded in 1949, offers two 3-year Bachelor's programmes in Fashion and Textile and Fashion Design as well as a Master Program in Luxury and Fashion Management.
Istituto Marangoni was founded in 1935 in Milano as ‘Istituto Artistico dell’Abbigliamento Marangoni’.
It currently educates 4,000 students per year from 107 countries at its schools, located in Milano (the School of Fashion and the School of Design), Firenze (The School of Fashion & Art), Paris, London, Mumbai, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Miami, the international capitals of fashion, design and luxury.
The school offers courses in fashion, design and art.
In the large subject area of Fashion, which has a special tradition at the school, students can take courses in Fashion Design, Fashion Styling, or Fashion Business in different programmes. These include preparatory, undergraduate, bachelor, master, but also postgraduate courses.
École de Condé is a leading school of higher education for design, illustration, photography, animated film and heritage restoration. The courses are registered with the Répertoire National des Certifications Professionnelles (RNCP) level I and II.
The network of seven campuses in France (Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nice, Nancy, Marseille, and Toulouse), two campuses in Italy (Turin, Bologna), three campuses in Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt) and two campuses in Spain (Barcelona, Madrid) aims to students to encourages mobility, irrigates the territory and opens up to the international scene (Erasmus programme, international internships and workshops…).
The school offers three textile-related degree programmes in the design department:
— Bachelor programme in Fashion Design
— Master programme in Fashion Artistic Direction
— Master programme in Fashion Design (Paris/Florence)
Atelier Chardon Savard was founded in Paris in 1988 and offers private training as a fashion designer.
In cooperation with Macromedia University of Applied Sciences Atelier Chardon Savard offers a practice-oriented fashion design course with a state-recognised degree. The study programme lasts 7 semesters with an integrated practical semester.
Students at the Atelier learn the classic craft of illustration, cut design and processing in fashion design and also deal with current and future-oriented topics in the fashion industry: multifunctional textiles, sustainable production methods and changing consumption patterns. Upcycling, the sharing economy and slow fashion are also addressed in the course and taken up in projects.
The Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués — LISAA — is a private higher education school of the international group Galileo Global Education. It has 3,500 students in 9 locations in France (Paris, Nantes, Rennes, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, and Toulouse), and an international campus in Bangalore, India.
LISAA trains creators in the fields of animation, video games, interior architecture, design, graphic design and fashion.
LISAA trains fashion designers and stylists specialized in pattern making and textile design in Paris and in Nantes. LISAA has developed courses in management, communication, and marketing for the fashion and luxury sectors that allows students to work full time while learning.
ESMOD was founded in 1841 by Alexis Lavigne, a master tailor in 19th century Paris. He was the inventor of many patented tools that are still used in sewing today, including the model's bust and the tape measure.
ESMOD Fashion Design is present in 5 cities in France, namely Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Rennes, and Roubaix.
The school offers two state-recognised diplomas, level 6 and 7 of the RNCP, as well as intensive and short-term courses aimed at preparing students for a career in the fashion industry.
The Duperré School of Applied Arts is a public college of art and design.
Duperré School trains students for creative careers in fashion and textiles, as well as environmental and graphic design. In addition, it offers training programmes for designer-makers in textiles (embroidery, weaving, and tapestry) and ceramics.
Duperré school takes 500 students every year and delivers diplomas in Applied Arts at level III — BTS and DMA, at level II — vocational bachelor's degree carried out in partnership with the university of Marne-la-Vallée and level I — Master's degree, within the framework of a higher diploma in applied arts (DSAA Design. Option: fashion).
Since September 2011 there are further possibilities for study and research after the DSAA with a post-DSAA carried out in partnership with Boule School and Estienne School.
La Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode rassemble des marques de mode qui favorisent la création et le développement international.
Elle cherche à promouvoir la culture française de la mode, où la Haute Couture et la création ont un impact majeur en alliant à tout moment savoir-faire traditionnel et technologie contemporaine. Elle contribue à conforter Paris dans son rôle de capitale mondiale de la mode.
La Fédération compte une centaine de membres, parmi lesquels figurent les marques les plus emblématiques de la scène mondiale. Elle comprend trois Chambres Syndicales ou organes centraux (Haute Couture, Mode Femme, Mode Homme).
Creapole is an educational institution in France, Paris, with a strong practical orientation, which offers different design courses, such as product design, visual communication, luxury design and also fashion design.
After three years of training, the programme concludes with a bachelor's degree, which can be extended with a diploma after 2 further years of training.
The university attaches particular importance to a strong practical orientation, so that students complete at least one month of practical training in a company at every stage of their studies. The university offers a variety of cooperation partners for this purpose.
Paris American Academy is an international public school founded in 1965.
The school offers training in the form of workshops, semester terms, or as a 3-year bachelor's degree programme in fashion or interior design.
The strongly vocational approach prepares students for careers in Fashion, Fine Arts, Creative Writing, and Interior Design.
All classes at PAA are taught in English, preparing students to work internationally and to engage with the English vocabulary used in their different fields.