by Paris – As usual now, the MA students of the fashion design and knitting design courses at the Institut Français de la Mode started the Paris fashion week in autumn 2025 with a rehearsal of their upcoming final collections.
But while these young creative people will soon be commissioned to create tomorrow’s desirable product, they are not affected by today’s challenges in the industry or in any other way.
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“I am the proud that they are so aware of the disaster in which we live and they decided to react of beauty,” said Leyla Neri, director of the Master of Arts program. “What else do you have, do you know? So most of the topics are somehow dark, but they don’t even see it. “
The students of the year from 13 nationalities presented an abstract six-look straction that did dark inspirations with beauty and technical skills.
Take the Catalan designer Ricard Baldomà, whose six-look line-up entitled “A Pastar Fang” with the title “A polite opportunity to say to someone that he rejects FK”, later with the title “A Pastar Fang”, he later said.
He frustrates the lack of recognition of his home region of Catalonia at the European level, he showed great criticism with flags and slogans like “Nobody for President” in exuberant ruffles in the colors of France’s flag or glamorous drapa with a European star that is on site.
Oversconsum is what Filip Bejek looked at through a funny line -up that made the relaxation related – for the kleptomaniac with a talent for styling. Another interpretation of this was offered by Reece Liang, who comes from China’s Sichuan region, in a collection that converted Lametta and marked in fake-it-litigy-you-Make-IT personas of epic dimensions.
The Australian Jason Clark offered a portrait of a “immoral, gray, corporate hell of hell” with a broken system, but did this with structurally, layer -distorted silhouettes that are based on intelligent business outfits.
China’s Xingyi Jin tried to counteract the draw of intelligent devices with a collection that was inspired by Chinese umbrellas and traditional ceilings by cash – to be looked up.
For Hawi Akrawi, the starting point was the derogatory term “mother son” or “mummy boy” in German. When I tried to regain the word from his toxic implications, he had his semantics, but also his relationship with his mother, her migration from Kurdistan to Germany and unpack his own experience in a new country after moving to Paris.
As always, the collections were as diverse as they come and the talent, tangible.
The former managing director of the LVMH Fashion Group and Dior Sidney Toledano, who acts as President of this year’s Andam jury, praised the progress of the program, which he saw through the final collections of the year.
“The freshness of ideas, freedom, but also the perfect execution – because they have no freedom without technology – means that they listen [Neri]”, He said to WWD.
When the talents of tomorrow shone brightly on the first day of the Paris Fashion Week, it was in the IFM education teams under the direction of Dean Xavier Romatet and offered the trifecta of “execution, creativity and organization”.
This played well with the appetite of the pupils on learning, which was reinforced by working with French and Italian manufacturers, which contributed to the development of outfits.
Among the companies that sponsored the students included Teints de France, who worked with around 13 students. “It was about getting married for crazy ideas with our know-how and our technical expertise,” said Manager of Design Serge Haouzi.
A new development that was made available to the students was the 3D print on textiles that designer Paul Billot used in order to create an almost holographic representation of a tropical bird on a shirt that telegraphed the “hyper -realistic” sound, which was inspired by Silicon Valley Tech Bros.
It wasn’t the only new technology that Billlot was typing. “I worked with many more machines than ever,” he said, pointing to LED masks and helmets that were made with conventional 3D printing, but also the way he typed AI by a three-way connection to LVMH Digital and the Ecole Polytechnique Engineering School.
“If you explain too much, you have something generic; But if you accept that [AI] Does not understand something like gravity, but brings an interesting creative thrust by working through its imperfections, ”he said.
So on the runway was the work of Steven Chevallier, sojung Lee, Darius Betschart, Cléentine Lagadec Thévoux-Chabuel, Rachel Luursen, Andu Yeonju Jang, Wenji Wu, Kristy Jingyan Chen, Sofia Castellon, Martin Lüttecke, Emilia Seitzn Sarah Corcos, Aurore Montagner, Yuedner Viola Zhang, Xingyu Chen, Ása Bríet, Sara Jamshidilarijani, Yi Melody Ding and Michael Zhang.
The 2025 class will have another month to complete your collections and research work before submitting a jury of industry experts. After that, you will start internships in six months.
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