Research
Research at IFM deals with the cultural, social, economic, historical and semantic phenomena that fashion at large involves. To this end, we rely on the most promising advances of the relevant disciplines. Our research team is composed of permament professors, in dialogue with a growing international scientific community.
Research at IFM covers two main areas:
- fashion as an industry and a market, through management science, marketing and economics
- Fashion as a social and cultural phenomena, and as a form of art and self-expression, through history, philosophy, and applied social sciences
IFM's research department is in charge of the 'DRESSCODES' seminar, where international lecturers are regularly welcomed, as well as presentations from IFM researchers. We also organize special events like thematic meetings and international symposiums, and we develop partnerships with other labs or universities (we are for instance engaged in a PhD curriculum with several Paris-1 Sorbonne departments).
Despite the diversity of topics and research areas represented by IFM's research staff, we try hard to develop research programs stimulating collaborative work among experts from various fields. For example:
- Transmission and legacy of fashion gestures and savoir-faire
- Fashion semantics
- Perception and appreciation of fashion brands' commitments
- Transformations of fashion organisations for sustainability
