January 2023

Highsnobiety and Spring Studios at Amsterdam Fashion Academy

 

    During the past weeks we hosted many professionals of the fashion industry at the Amsterdam Fashion Academy and more will visit us by the end of the current academic year! Masterclasses, company visits, special projects: we believe that connecting students with our industry network is essential to develop the future game changers of the fashion system.   Among the guest lecturers, we had the pleasure to host Highsnobiety and Spring Studios. Read more below.   Highsnobiety   Stefanos Constantinou, Brand Partnerships & General Manager, offered our students an insight into the company. Stefanos talked about the brand's process ...

 

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December 2022

Diving into licensed merchandise at Difuzed

 

  At the Amsterdam Fashion Academy we believe that our students should experience first-hand how the fashion industry works. Therefore, we implement industry external visits so they can have an insight.   Some days ago we had the opportunity to visit Difuzed, which develops lifestyle products from a variety of brands based on entertainment, fashion, sports, and consumer goods across apparel & fashion accessories. They currently partner up with more than 100 of the most recognised and reputable brands in the world. Our students visited their office, including their warehouse, showroom, sourcing, photo studio, and design and sales departments.   ...

 

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June 2022

Graduation Fashion Show 2022: photos of the catwalk

 

  On Saturday, 18th of June 2022, Amsterdam Fashion Academy celebrated its Graduation Fashion Show 2022. Seven BA (Hons) Fashion Design students showed their collections to the press, industry professionals, friends and families, in the setting of Amsterdam Fashion Academy’s beautiful historical building.   During the show, among other collections, a non-binary/gender fluid luxury collection, a collection entirely designed on Clo3D and a parody collection that borrows brand's logos and styles that represent popular culture and consumerism of 1980’s Italy were shown.   In addition to the fashion show, there also was the possibility to visit the exhibition of final ...

 

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November 2021

Studiekeuzebeurs Midden: November 26th-27th

 

On Friday 26th and Saturday 17th of November 2021, Amsterdam Fashion Academy will be at the university fair Studiekeuzbeurs Midden in Utrecht. You can find us at the stand number 103 from 9:00am to 5:00pm CET. We will be more than happy to meet you and tell you more about our programmes, show you students projects and answer to your questions.     We offer 3-year full-time Bachelor’s degrees with Honours validated by the reputable Buckinghamshire New University. A British Bachelor’s Honours degree is one of the most widely established and recognised degrees worldwide.   BA (Hons) Fashion Business - 3 ...

 

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September 2021

We are going to the Dutch Design Week!

 

Thanks to a collaboration with Mediamatic, our first-year BA (Hons) degree students will participate to the next DDW Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, Netherlands, from the 16th until the 24th of October, 2021. This collaboration led to the creation of 30 costume designs of a variety of species to advocate and celebrate biodiversity. Mediamatic is an Amsterdam-based art centre dedicated to new developments in the arts focusing on nature, biotechnology and art+science.     How can we promote more empathy for the other species on the planet using fashion? Can we see the world from a non-human perspective by dressing ...

 

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July 2019

2019 Fashion Graduates aim to clean up fashion

 

On Sunday the 30th of June 2019 the Amsterdam Fashion Academy celebrated the graduation of its students from the Bachelor’s (Hons) degree programmes in Fashion Business and Fashion with Textiles Design, at the exclusive Andaz hotel in Amsterdam. The event included an open exhibition of some Final Major Projects of the BA (Hons) Fashion Business graduates and a fashion show presenting the final collections of the 2019 fashion graduates from the BA (Hons) Fashion with Textiles Design.     After an introduction speech by Cristiano Carciani, Head of Academic Affairs, the stage was set for a celebration of sustainable, highly ...

 

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June 2019

Fashion Files 2019: one year of students’ projects

 

  Written by Rosemonde Wang.   Always been curious about what students do at fashion university? Wondering what can you learn in a fashion school? The academic year has successfully wrapped up with the exhibition “Fashion Files 2019” that took place last Thursday, 6th of June 2019. The fashion event welcomed students and families, and fashion lovers. From garments to sketchbooks, visitors were able to look at projects, collections and all students' achievements.   Together with the fashion exhibition, we offered a workshop on Design Methods for Sustainability, opened to everyone interested in sustainable fashion. Our lecturer Alexandra Barker talked ...

 

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May 2019

Fashion Files 2019 Exhibition: one year of students’ projects

 

  Would you like to see what the students have created during this academic year at our international fashion academy? Are you interested in studying a Bachelor's degree in fashion? Do you dream of living in Amsterdam? Or are you simply looking for a fashion exhibition in Amsterdam? Come and attend our end-of-year "Fashion Files 2019 Exhibition: one year of students' projects” on Thursday, 6th of June between 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm at the Amsterdam Fashion Academy, Oosteinde 1, 1017 WT Amsterdam.   The Fashion Files 2019 exhibition is a celebration of a year full of ideas, creativity, challenges ...

 

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May 2019

Amsterdam’s fashion trade fair Modefabriek: how did it go?

 

By Heidi Law, FashionUnited       The Amsterdam Fashion Academy always works hard to provide the students with direct work experience in the fashion industry. With this purpose, students and lecturers of the BA (Hons) Fashion Business went to Modefabriek last January as press to cover the event on the students' blog. Our top picks were the virtual reality at Elvine’s booth, Fraenck business and social production model, and Purewhite collection display concept. Discover more about Modefabriek and European fashion fairs on FashionUnited. As an independent platform which collects, creates and communicates content relevant to the industry, it helps to ...

 

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March 2019

Paris Fashion Week: 3rd-year students present final collections

 

Last day of preparations before ParIsfashion on March 5th, international runway while Paris Fashion Week where our 3rd-year students of the BA (Hons) Fashion Design will present part of their final collections.   Evelina Anglickaite, Isabelle Wildenburg, Joanna Grice, Myrthe van der Leden and Zara Kanaan have worked during the first semester in the conceptualisation, research and design of their final major projects and are now in the process of creating the collections. FashionUnited will cover the students' experience during Paris Fashion Week on its Instagram stories on March 5th from 3:00pm.   "For my final collection I made a ...

 

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January 2019

Fashion Design programme exhibition: how did it go?

 

What a lovely vibe at the Amsterdam Fashion Academy last Thursday, 13th of December 2018! Many people and friends came to visit our exhibition of students works created in the BA (Hons) Fashion Design, BA (Hons) Fashion Business, Fashion Foundation and Fast-Track programmes.     Garments, coats, designs, styling and textiles: the visitors had the opportunity to check what the fashion students did in just 3 months in our fashion design programme. The exhibition was also the excuse to celebrate the students of the Fast-Track Fashion Design & Business course, a group of international students coming from different countries who studies ...

 

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December 2018

Dec. 13th: fashion show exhibition and branding lecture

 

The Amsterdam Fashion Academy is happy to invite you to visit its first world-inspired fashion show exhibition on Thursday, the 13th of December 2018 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Simultaneously, a lecture about branding will be offered by the creative boutique agency Mamma Soup. The fashion show exhibition and the lecture will be open to the public with no cost. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet students and lectures, beside exploring the works that the talented students have created during the last three months as part of the BA (Hons) Fashion Design, Fashion Foundation Diploma and Fast-Track Fashion Design & ...

 

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November 2018

Meetup + Fashion Exhibition: UNlearning to Learn

 

    We would like to invite our fashion community to visit us on the 13th of December 2018 from 6:00pm for a new Meetup "UNlearning to Learn: build a brand now that is future proof" and for the Fashion Exhibition of students' works.   We are programmed into a society of rights and wrongs. This directs us to make decisions and/or shy away from ideas constantly. This session will get you to challenge some ‘facts’ and opinions so you can get better at developing and creating communications and brands. Forget about the codes and rules and how things should ...

 

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September 2017

Fashion Buyer: “This is how you will dress this season”

 

  Do you know that each dress, pair of shoes, bathing suit or bracelet you bought has been selected with great care among thousands of alternative pieces? And do you know who the person is who decides that this season’s colour trend is red or green?   The fashion chain is very long and complex, but there is an expert who selects the products that stores sell: the fashion buyer. Buyers are not only purchasing agents, but also analysers, negotiators and deal-makers. They research, evaluate and buy products for companies to either resell to customers or use in their everyday ...

 

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August 2017

FASHION STYLING MEET UP: create a story through clothing

 

        Fashion Styling Meet Up & Workshop: September 6, 2017 at 6:30pm   It’s the new academic year and even more exciting we are now in our beautiful new boutique building at Oosteinde 1, in the city centre. So to celebrate the start of the academic year, we would like to ask all our fashion community to join us for a creative storytelling fashion styling meet up.   Do you get inspired by those beautiful editorial fashion magazine images and think "I’d like to be able to create a story through clothing"? Well, why not join our ...

 

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