The Master of Arts in Fashion Design opens Paris Fashion Week®

On Monday, March 2, students from the Master of Arts in Fashion Design and Knitwear Design presented their graduate collections, composed of 5-6 looks, during the opening of Paris Fashion Week®. Since joining IFM in September 2024, the 23 students, representing 13 nationalities, have benefited from a leading academic program that combines specialized expertise with a distinctly interdisciplinary approach, at the intersection of exploratory design, humanities, technology, and sustainability.

Their training has been meaningfully shaped by collaborations with prestigious fashion houses, including Hermès, Chanel, Dior, Loewe, Balenciaga, Alaïa, and Givenchy, as well as designers from leading Parisian studios, industry experts, manufacturers, technicians, and artisans. Through these partnerships, each student has developed a personal methodology that seamlessly integrates creativity, craftsmanship, technical mastery, and innovation.

Over the course of this 18-month program, followed by a six-month professional internship, highly distinctive collections have emerged, reflecting a wide spectrum of personal research and critical engagement with contemporary social issues. By subtly weaving their diverse cultural heritages together with the enduring métiers d’art and savoir-faire of Parisian couture, the students have generated original explorations of form, volume, and texture. A renewed commitment to handwork and to the essential gestures of cutting, draping, and embellishment resonates throughout their proposals, revealing a profound dedication to preserving artisanal heritage now more than ever as an inexhaustible source of creative vitality and modern relevance.

This year, three students chose to incorporate the creative potential of Artificial Intelligence into their research process. With the support of LVMH, they gained access to Limn.ai, a tool designed to explore latent creative spaces, visualize, distort, and hybridize concepts and narratives, and generate nuanced variations from a reference image. The educational approach positioned AI as a catalyst for expanding the boundaries of creativity, rather than as a mere instrument for accelerating or optimizing prototype production.

The Master of Arts graduate show is supported by DEFI, along with its principal partners: Kitty Events, Titre Provisoire, Make Up For Ever Academy, and Real Campus by L’Oréal.