OUR INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
- The initiatives led by the Institut de la Mode- IMM- have created a real economic dynamism within the Fashion-Garment industry.
- Curently, Marseilles is considered as a main hub in this sector which represents 23,000 firms and 6,800 positions.
- The IMM has transformed Marseilles into a Fashion City where a fashion culture has developed.
- The IMM not only helps freshly graduated IICC-MODE fashion designers but also our students with its numerous ranges of lectures and its well documented reference library managed by the “ Musée de la Mode “.
- The Cité Euroméditerranéenne de la Mode – the Euromediterranean fashion hub- created in 2005 with whom IICC-MODE has developed a partnership, has gathered all the wills and skills of the Fashion-Garment industry of the different Euromediterranean countries in order to foster internships, jobs and exchanges.
- The Charte des créateurs-Creator charter- set up by the Cité, co-funded by the PACA area and BdR councils have supported our freshly graduated students to set up their own collections and to be sponsored by healthy corporations.
- On display at the Marseilles Fashion Museum - third in France after The Galliéra Museum and Musée de la mode et du Textile in Paris- many prestigious designers such as Chanel, Yves Saint-Laurent, Madeleine Vionnet, Paco Rabanne, Chritian Lacroix, Topolino….
- Marseilles has been elected ‘European culture capital’ in 2013, a prestigious label to be exploited to develop and make the city influential.
Marseilles aims at becoming a European exchange and cultural cooperation platform as far as artistic and cultural activities are concerned.
IICC-MODE has been asked to take part in the different activities and catwalk shows that are going to take place.