A fashion Tour in Paris

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
Round table 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: “Paris by night”

Analysis of different types of leather: original materials processing and care
Workshop visits and learning of the different tools and machines to be used for the making-up ot the it-bag
Making-up of the it-bag: leather cutting, processing, sewing of the different pattern pieces and 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"