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Dirk Reynders named as new director of Amsterdam Fashion Institute

Dirk Reynders has been appointed as the new director of Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) with effect from 1 February 2019. Dr Dirk Reynders - who is best known as an experienced lecturer and guest speaker, and who has also made his mark in the media and communication field - will be succeeding Irene Sparreboom, who was director of AMFI until 1...

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Video: Experts' Top 3 Tips - Connect with Customer

What are the essential ingredients to build a deep and meaningful relationship with your customers? In this video Marian Spier, Social Entrepreneur and TEDxAMSWomen founder, Esmerij van Loon, Editor in Chief at FashionUnited, and also Dan Lopez Cardozo, Premium Fashion Strategist share their business insights. Source: FashionUnited TV, YouTube.

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Video: Experts' Top 3 Tips - Strengthen Visibility

What is the key to a great publicity as a brand? In this video Peter Leferink, Managing director M-ODE Foundation, Marian Spier, Social Entrepreneur and TEDxAMSWomen founder and Dan Lopez Cardozo, Premium Fashion Strategist share their thoughts. Source: FashionUnited TV, YouTube.

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Video: Experts' Top 3 Tips - Foster Sustainability

Sustainability is the 'it'-word of the industry, but how do you apply it as a starting designer in a way that fits your company? Gwen Cunningham, lead of the Circle Textiles Program at Circle Economy and sustainability coordinator at AMFI, and Peter Leferink explain what it means to be sustainable these days. Source: FashionUnited TV, YouTube.

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Amsterdam Fashion Institute to develop master degree in circular fashion entrepreneurship

The Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) partners with Circle Economy and Fashion for Good to transform the current AMFI MA Fashion Enterprise Creation (MA FEC) into the world's first master degree focused on circular fashion entrepreneurship. The MA FEC programme was launched in 2016 and aims to equip its graduates "with the skills to build...

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Valérie Lamontagne appointed as professor of Fashion at AUAS

The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has appointed Canadian Dr. Valérie Lamontagne as professor of the Fashion Research and Technology research group at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI). Lamontagne will start her professorship, affiliated to the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries, this month and will move to...

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AMFI students exhibit photos in Amsterdam

Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) students enrolled in the minor program Fashion & Visual Culture will be showing some of their works exploring creative processes in the center of the Dutch capital. Each of the 44 students chose a fashion designer to start their own creative process and translated their "inspiration into storytelling images",...

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Video: Amfi students as sweatshop workers

Students of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (Amfi) are experiencing what it's like to work in a clothing factory in for example Bangladesh or India. Source: Folia, YouTube

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In Picture: Individuals SS17 collection

Individuals, the label designed by the third and fourth year students at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI), recently presented their Spring/Summer collection in Loods 6, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The collection is said to have designed to act as "a reaction against the loud and aggressive sounds that responded to the many (social)...

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Individuals to introduce 'see now, buy now' model to SS17 Show

The impact of the 'see now, buy model' business model, embraced by luxury fashion houses such as Burberry, Tom Ford and Balmain has trickled down into the educational associations. The Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) student collective brand Individuals, is set to launch its debut after-catwalk store, following its Spring-Summer 2017 show. In...

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AMFI´s Individuals AW 16/17 presents fashion for modern day feminists

The days in which women burned their bras and banned make-up from their vanity tables in their fight for equal rights may be long gone, but feminism is more present than ever. The new wave of feminism served as a point of inspiration for the collection presented by Individuals. This collective, consisting of 27 students from the Amsterdam...

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Amsterdam Fashion Institute Shows Seven Short Fashion Films

From Tuesday January 19 until Friday January 22, seven short fashion films created by students of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute are screened at cinema Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam. The films are inspired by the latest collection of seven fashion designers, whose collection pieces are included in the art-direction and storyline of the films....