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18-24 Quai de la Marne, Paris, France 3-year course
350 Xianxia Road, Shanghai, China
Introducion

Internaional Fashion Academy, beter known as IFA Paris, offers students undergraduate
courses in design and markeing, and postgraduate courses in design, business, communicaion
and luxury brand management in an environment of mulidisciplinary collaboraion. With
schools in Paris and Shanghai, IFA Paris is at the forefront of fashion and luxury educaion and
offers courses that reflect the breadth of opportuniies available in this vibrant industry.

The Bachelor course in Fashion Design & Technology was created with the vision that French
fashion educaion needed to internaionalize to remain compeiive in the rapidly changing
fashion industry by combining our French draping heritage with the modern globalized world
of fashion design.

To succeed in today’s fashion world, designers need to do much more than competently sketch
garments on sheets of paper. To achieve the goal of transmiing a broader range of
competencies, IFA created its innovaive curriculum that addresses the needs of
world-renowned fashion companies by bringing its students into a workshop environment
from the first year. The course develops their creaivity while also teaching key technical skills
needed to succeed in this compeiive industry.

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Paris School

IFA Paris was established in 1982 to combine French fashion heritage with the modern
globalized world. As the only school in Paris offering all its undergraduate and postgraduate
courses taught in English, IFA Paris caters to a highly internaional student body from all
corners of the world.

Recently relocated to 18-24 Quai de la Marne, IFA Paris overlooks the famous canal of
“Ourcq”and is at the heart of the developing 19th arrondissement. The new locaion has
trippled the size of the previous academic faciliies and added extensive new ameniies to
benefit students, including bigger classrooms, a student lounge space, and a resource and study
center. The building will also house several new fashion workshop spaces to accommodate
hands-on projects.

This vibrant and arisic neighborhood is also home to many cultural landmarks, including the
MK2 cinemas, Point Ephémère performance space for concerts and ballets, and le
CENTQUATRE art centre with a wide range of cultural offerings, exhibits and high-profile
fashion shows. The district is also the locaion of other presigious schools devoted to creaive
arts, including École Naionale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villete (ENSAPLV) and
the Conservatoire Naional Supérieur de Musique, and is close to the École Internaionale de
Créaion Audiovisuelle et de Réalisaion (EICAR). “The 19th” is emerging as one of the most
exciing and simulaing area for students in all of Paris, and IFA Paris is excited to become a
part of this neighborhood.

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Shanghai School

Founded in Shanghai in 2002 in partnership with the Shanghai University of Engineering

Sciences (SUES), IFA Paris is the first Sino-French joint-venture in fashion educaion and is
today seen as the leading school in the fashion and luxury goods sectors in China. It is
considered as one of the best performing schools in terms of combining teaching to creaivity
and business sense. Its teachers, most of whom recruited globally, are all experienced
professionals in the world of fashion.

Thanks to innovaive iniiaives and in partnership with the fashion and luxury goods and
service industries, IFA Paris is also the only school in Shanghai to offer first and second cycle
courses taught enirely in English.

The School is ideal for Chinese and internaional students with a global outlook, who wish to
pursue careers in the fields of creaion, fashion, design, luxury and business management. It is
also intended for those looking for sales and media posiions such as business managers or
roles in large organizaions offering fashion or luxury goods and service.

Set in a mulicultural and internaional environment, the aim of IFA Paris is of course to bring
out the creaive talent of its students, but it also aims to develop their technical, IT and digital
skills.

IFA Paris in Shanghai is a higher educaion academy that is fully registered with the Chinese
Ministry of Educaion, and is recognized by both the Chinese and the local Shanghai govern-
ments. It occupies a huge site that it has organized itself in order to create the perfect condi-
ions for transferring its knowledge and pracical skills in the soundest way possible.

Its campus in Shanghai offers a unique learning opportunity, via an iniial full ime program and
ongoing hands-on training courses for professionals who have already started their careers.

IFA Paris in Shanghai also gives its students the chance to witness the breathtaking growth of
the Chinese fashion and luxury goods markets. It aims to ensure that its students meet the
requirements of the local and global talent search and opportuniies.

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Paris
Paris holds a special place at the top of the fashion world. As fashion’s birthplace, it introduced some of its most world
renowned designers and luxury fashion houses including Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior and Hermes. Paris is sill the
world’s fashion capital and coninues to draw atenion with important fashion events such as its biannual Prêt à Porter
fashion week, fairs and trade shows, fascinaing concept stores, and industry leading trend agencies. Consequently, it
remains the place where contemporary fashion designers including Marin Margiela, Rick Owens, and Alber Elbaz choose
to live and work. In recent history, Paris has turned almost every part of its economy into luxury through fashion, jewelry,
beauty care as well as gastronomy, wine and travel. Paris remains an essenial stop for young fashion and luxury
professionals who wish to understand the cultural, industrial and market forces that shape the fashion world today.
Pont Alexandre III and the Invalides
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Shanghai
Shanghai is an open and extroversive metropolis and its ascent into the ranks as a fashion capital is no doubt a serious
topic. Since late 19th century, Shanghai has been the fashion center of China. The Shanghai style has travelled the world
in the 1920s and 30s, and has recently re-emerged with fashion designers’ innovaive works
of fusion trends. Remarkably, it is the country’s consumers who are transforming today’s China into the world’s largest
market of luxury and high-end fashion products. With internaional fashion and jewelry brands - from luxury to mass
markets - forming the prosperous retailing scene in the city’s numerous fashion districts, Shanghai is unquesionably
China’s Mecca for the fashion and luxury industry.
Lujiazui, Shanghai’s Finanial District
 Teaching and Learning Methodology

IFA aims to provide a fully inclusive educaional experience research demands of their future workplaces. Students are
for all students that prepares them for the possibility of anencouraged to be flexible, resourceful, socially
internaional fashion-related career and travel, and co-operaive and culturally aware of the relevance of
communicaion with others across cultural and language global events and market trends. Tasks are set at levels of
divides. All bachelor level classes are taught in English. being achievable and saisfying at each stage, whilst
demonstraing individual creaivity and capacity. In
Students are primarily taught in workshops that simulate the pracice, there is a balance of direct class and face-to-face
working environments of Fashion industry design rooms and learning, guided study and personal study ime, together
offices. Learning aciviies develop the process of reflecive with expectaions for homework assignments.
learning and problem-solving and of paience in working
across language barriers. For those students who do not ulimately wish to be
designers, the skills and atributes developed on the
At IFA we guide students to gradually become more program will equip them to take up a broad range of design
self-actuaing and proacive and to learn the skills and careers, or to progress a specialism further by studying at
methodologies that will help them negoiate the work and postgraduate level.

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Curriculum
The course is organized around 3 Ateliers lasing each 30
academic weeks Each atelier encompasses specific module
groupings structured around various themes.
The 3 Ateliers correspond to the 3 levels idenified within
the Higher Educaion Framework. The course is
constructed in compliance with the Bologna Convenion
principles and grant paricipants, upon compleion, a total
of 180 ECTS (60 ECTS per Atelier or year).
The underlying raionale behind this course construcion is
to allow students to be immersed in an environment that
mimics what their working condiions will be like in a
fashion studio. The assessment strategy uses a perfect
balance between summaive and formaive assessments in
order to improve skills not only on core disciplines but also
in project planning and ime management. Projects are
concurrently conducted between all modules in order to
improve students’ transferrable skills, allowing them to link
skills and competencies from various domains.
Premier Atelier: Discovery
The course is organized around 3 Ateliers lasing each 30
academic weeks Each atelier encompasses specific module
groupings structured around various themes.
The 3 Ateliers correspond to the 3 levels idenified within
the Higher Educaion Framework. The course is
constructed in compliance with the Bologna Convenion
principles and grant paricipants, upon compleion, a total
of 180 ECTS (60 ECTS per Atelier or year)
Deuxieme Atelier: Experimentaion
The second atelier is conducted as the second year of the
Bachelor Course. Under the Higher Educaion Programs
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framework, the second atelier is equivalent to a HE Level 5.
In this stage of their learning experience, students are
invited to develop their creaivity through experimentaion.
Specific themes such as men’s wear, children’s wear or
kniing workshop will be covered through interlinked
module. The pedagogical objecive is to improve
paricipants’ criical thinking.
Troisieme Atelier: Imprint
The third atelier is conducted as the third year of the
Bachelor Course. Under the Higher Educaion Programs
framework, the second atelier is equivalent to a HE Level 6.
In the final process of their learning experience, students
will focus on expressing their own voice as a designer.
Through the development of a Mini-Collecion they will be
asked to think in terms of personal creaivity, appropriate
construcion techniques, contemporaneity and unique
selling proposiion and posiioning. The final objecive here
is to prepare a unique porfolio of garments to be used as
stepping stone for job search within the industry or access
to the Master Course at IFA called “Master of Arts in
Contemporary Fashion Design”.
IFA Career and Alumni Center:
The 3 Ateliers will be complemented on a yearly basis by 60
hours of industry relaions. Students will get the
opportunity to atend special guest lectures given by
industry professionals. Field trips to factories, studios and
workshops will also complement the series of guest
lectures. Through IFA Career and Alumni Center’s
database, students will be able to be exposed to the latest
and most current industry techniques while increasing their
own professional network of contacts.
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The third year collecion
The final stage of the course aims to consolidate, synthesize
and extend students’ previous learning. They are supported
in their negoiaion and proposal of a personal concept and
its creaion to follow through a mini-collecion to a
professional level of realizaion and presentaion. This will
provide an opportunity for paricipants to demonstrate and
confirm the evoluion of their unique strengths and their
career aspiraions. The major final collecion project
comprises disinct but interrelated units, each one
represening a criical phase of the development process
and each demanding its own paricular skills combined with
creaively expressing students’ interests and taste.
Upon successful compleion of their personal collecion
students will be able to plan, criically review, consolidate
and extend a systemaic and coherent body of theoreical
and pracical knowledge and design work. They will uilize
specialized skills across a discipline; and apply diagnosic
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Career & Alumni Center
and creaive skills and exercise significant aestheic The 3 Ateliers will be complemented on a yearly basis by
judgement. They will be able to accept complete 60 hours of industry relaions. Students will get the
accountability for determining and achieving personal opportunity to atend special guest lectures given by
outcomes and be pro-acive in promoing their own skills industry professionals. Field trips to factories, studios
through their porfolio/ book and in planning their career and workshops will also complement the series of guest
path.The collecion is also an integrated project that lectures. Through IFA Paris Career and Alumni Center’s
includes a business component illustrated through the database, students will be able to be exposed to the
development of specific markeing researches and latest and most current industry techniques while
collaterals. Students are required not only to develop a increasing their own professional network of contacts.
visually atracive and cohesive body of work, they are
encouraged to analyze the specificiies of the target market
they are developing their collecions for. As the strategic
aspect of their markeing research is completed, students
are invited to develop their own logo and implement the
visual idenity through the creaion of a catalogue and a
look-boo which gives them, in addiion with their porfolio,
a complete array of documents allowing them to promote
themselves professionally when graduaing.
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 Graduaion Fashion Show
The annual IFA Paris Graduaion Fashion Show is the pinnacle event for graduaing students to showcase what they
have learned throughout their studies, and to reveal their intricate designs to fashion media and fashion company
representaives. Ater innumerable hours of research, sketching and design, the best graduates will display their work
on the runways of their own fashion show. Combining their imaginaion, industry trends, and guidance from IFA’s
faculty, graduates demonstrate their readiness to transform their dreams into reality at IFA Paris’s Graduaion Fashion
Show.

The world of fashion is always looking for fresh designers with original ideas. As a fashion school, IFA Paris coninues to
grab headlines from different enterprises, luxury brands, famous designers and prominent media personaliies. Every year,
hundreds of disinguished guests from the fashion industry and media atend IFA Paris’ Graduaion Fashion Show to find
the next promising young designer who will work for their company, or to meet tomorrow’s rising star of the fashion world.

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Faculty
Aleksandra Olenska
Following several years assising at Dazed & Confused
magazine, Aleksandra Olenska honed her style on the MA
at Central Saint Marins, whereupon her talent was
immediately picked up by 10 Magazine, Italian Vogue, W
and Self Service, among others. Her idiosyncraic approach
has appeared on the catwalks for Clements Ribeiro, Peter
Jensen and Roksanda Ilincic, just to name a few. She has
created insillaions for SHOWstudio, a line for Topshop,
and provided consultancy services for brands including
Céline, Daks London, Pringle, Tom Ford and Vanessa
Bruno.
Sophie Dulaurent
Graduated from LISAA and IFM Paris as a disincion
student, Sophie Dulaurent coninued her fashion career
with Peclers and Lidewij Edelkoort. She then worked for
Balmain, Maje, Vanessa Bruno as stylist and trend analyst.
Irfan Cheema
Irfan Cheema graduated from La Chambre Syndicale de la
Couture Parisienne and has been in the industry since
1999. He was menswear designer for ChenOne, brand
manager and art director of Texilion, and a lecturer on
patern making and draping in La Chambre Syndicale de la
Couture Parisienne.
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Lise Parmenier
As a graduate of Studio Berçot, Lise Parmenier met the
well-respected designer Veronique Leroy, and later became
her business partner. Lise then spent six years working in
the studio of Belgian designer Marin Margiela, and
launched her own luxury womenswear brand.
Andreas Grimberg
Born in Germany, Andreas Grimberg came to China in 2005
and created fashion products for key European account
fashion retailers like Kauhof, Karstadt, Metro, Takko, Kik,
Orsay and Pimkie. He started a markeing consuling
company in China, Parallel, to support Chinese fashion
producers with European market-entry strategies. He also
supported European fashion companies with sourcing,
product-placement, supplier-controlling and QC aciviies
in China.
Tanja Wiedner
Tanja Wiedner graduated from ESMOD, Academie
Internaional de Coupe de Paris, and University of Munich.
She then worked for top fashion brands such as John
Galliano, Zadig & Voltaire, Valenino, Karl Lagerfeld, and
Chrisian Lacroix as patern designer. Before joining IFA
Paris, Tanja was a patern design lecturer at Parsons.
*Lecturers are subject to change. For a complete list of lecturers please
visit our website www.ifaparis.com
 Admission Informaion
Start Date Applicaion Deadline
• Paris: Priority list before May 30th. Ater May 30th any applica-
September 2015 ions will only be considered as long as there are sill
• Shanghai: places available in the chosen course.
Spring Intake: March 2015
Fall Intake: September 2015 Admission Requirements
• High school graduates or above
Course Length and Locaion • Above 18 years of age
Course Length: 3 years • A strong interest in fashion
Course Locaion: Paris and/or Shanghai • As modules in Paris and Shanghai are taught in English,
it is preferable to have the requisite language skills before
Accreditaion commencing the course.
Internaional Bachelor cerified by IDEL. • When applying to our school in Paris, non-naive
English speakers are required to provide an IELTS score.
Credenials An overall score of 5.5 is preferred.
Upon saisfactory compleion of the 3-year course, • In Shanghai, students whose English proficiency is
students receive a Bachelor in Fashion Design & Technol- below par are required to atend addiional language
ogy issued by IFA Paris. classes.

Transfer Applicaion Process

Students who have already atended a fashion school and All applicants must:
wish to transfer to IFA Paris are also welcome. Those • Fill up an Online Applicaion Form
candidates will be evaluated in design, patern making • Provide all required documents, including high school
and draping in order to determine if they can be admited cerificate, moivaion leter, passport copy, passport
directly to the second or third year. photo, and IELTS score (if required)
• Complete an applicaion fee of €150
Tuiion Fee
• Paris:
€8,400/academic year
• Shanghai:
￥70,000 + ￥12,000 service fee/academic year

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Study Overseas
We encourage students to study at both of our schools in
Paris and Shanghai while enrolled in the 3-year
Bachelor’s course. Both offer the same top-notch
educaion, and each provides unique experiences and
perspecives. In Paris, IFA students can explore fashion’s
rich French heritage; while in Shanghai, they can discover
and experience fashion’s fastest growing market.
Student Body
By bringing together a diverse, internaional group of
students, IFA Paris gives students the opportunity to gain
a global perspecive on fashion. Students across the
world have been part of the unique learning experience
made possible through IFA Paris. To date, our courses
have enrolled students from: France, Italy, Spain, USA,
Canada, Australia, Germany, UK, Mexico, Brazil, Russia,
Colombia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Ghana, India,
Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China, only
to name a few.
Moving Forward
Further Studies at IFA
An IFA educaion need not end with the Bachelor’s
course. IFA also offers a variety of specialized
postgraduate courses including:
• MBA Fashion Business
• MBA Luxury Brand Management
• MBA Global Fashion Media
• Master of Arts in Contemporary Fashion Design
Career Center
Upon graduaion, our Career Center assists students in
finding their ideal internships and jobs. The center is an
essenial liaison between the fashion and luxury
industries and our students during their studies, upon
graduaion and throughout their careers.
Industry Connecions
IFA Paris has various partners from the industry, including
Chanel, Louis Vuiton, Prada, Armani, Dior, Versace,
Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Balmain, Calvin Klein,
Dunhill, Coach, Guess, MaxMara, Tod’s, Polo Ralph
Lauren, Diesel, Carier, Swarovski, Ferrari, Zara, H&M,
MAC, Etam, Cache Cache, Natuzzi, Pimkie, Promod, and
Replay, just to name a few.
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