International Summer School of La Fabrique

"A fashion tour in Paris" is an international summer school of La Fabrique, Paris fashion and visual merchandising school.

(All courses in English)

Objective:

"A Fashion Tour in Paris" program aims at:
First introducing students to a selective range of highly creative stores and concept stores in Paris must-go Fashion zones. The goal is here to spot all particulars of these stores regarding their own shop identity, product selections, visual merchandising. Besides this Fashion Tour, the Leather Goods Workshop will give opportunity to each students to make up her/ his own "Paris by night" La Fabrique it-bag that she/he will bring back home as a kind of reminder and souvenir of the Fashion French Touch Summer School

Program:

Fashion Tour in Paris

• Men and Womenswear trends analyses
• Store selection: focus on the design, products lines and visual merchandising for each visited shop
• Spotting the new season inspiration: main themes and less important trends
• Decoding the best sellers: creative products, basic and classic ones
• Focus group about the new spotted trends

Visual Merchandising retail tour in Paris

• Main Visual Merchandising trends analyses through a selection of stores in Paris and amongst them the Galeries Lafayette Department store: window and in-store layout, the mission of the Visual merchandising Director in a department store
• Shop Design: store design through the analysis of the windows, materials and identity DNA of a store
• Visual merchandising techniques in fashion retailing and other fields

The Fabrique it bag

Discover the leather goods products with Féoni, a famous Parisian leather goods workshop

Design your made to measure high range bag

• Immersion within a Parisian leather shop
• Learning of the different types of leather and materials
• Introduction to the making-up techniques of a Made In France bag

Workshop: make up your unique bag under the supervision of an expert leather crafstman

• Choice of your bag customized with your initials
• Making-up of the it-bag: from leather cutting, processing and sewing the different pattern pieces together to finishing the bag

Targeted audiences

Any French or Foreign people

Teaching methods (all courses in English)

• Bringing-up of theoretical knowledge throuch lectures
• Practical apprenticeship in workshop for the making-up of the it-bag
• Products discovery and analyses
• Tour of luxury and high fashion boutiques in Avenue Montaigne and Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, the  Galeries Lafayette and Bon Marché department stores, famous and innovative Parisian concepts stores
• Visit of leather good workshop of one of the most famous Luxury "Maison"

Terms and conditions

• Length of program: 5 days
• Date: From July 2rd to July 6th 2018
• 10 people maximum
• Cost: € 2,000
• Location: 6/8 avenue de la Porte de Champerret 75017 Paris
• Contact: summer-school@lafabrique-ecole.fr