The signature of this partnership was announced by Veronique Zoccoletto, Chief Human Capital Officer and Chief Information Officer at Lectra and Nannet van der Kleijn, creative Director of AMFI, just before the Fashion Transit Event in the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam, on June 25. This new step is the result of a strong cooperation between AMFI and Lectra over the past 2 years.

This year’s Graduate Fashion week brought together 43 UK fashion design schools to showcase the collective talent of their graduating students. The exhibition, which launched the careers of John Galliano and Stella McCartney in previous years, also attracted the Vienna School of Art and the Amsterdam fashion Institute.

Lectra teams welcomed students, tutors and customers on their stand. Experts in design and pattern development were also on hand and kept busy giving presentations of the latest Lectra solutions such as the new version of Modaris for pattern making and the whole Kaledo range for fashion and textile design.

Twelve Lectra Education Partners were present at the 5-day event, which saw 18 catwalk shows and 2 gala shows. Two Lectra Advanced Education Partners were among the prize winners with Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication winning the Menswear Design and Textile Design Prizes and Manchester Metropolitan University winning the prize for Knitwear. This year’s Gold prize winner was Myrto Samou of University for the Creative Arts Rochester.

ESMOD Paris held their diploma show in the very “fashionable” Turenne garage on June 4. All the final-year students and their families and friends were invited to this event, which marked the end of their studies. Veronique Zoccoletto, Lectra’s Chief Human Capital Officer and Chief Information Officer presented the «Lectra Prize » to final-year student Xian Zhou in the presence of Christine Walter Bonini, ESMOD International’s Director.

This prize rewarded Xian’s work who had developed the models for her diploma collection with great flair, using Modaris Expert, a software tool taught from second year by Nathalie Coppin. Xian's prize is a license for this software, the reference for patternmaking.

In the framework of the Privilege partnership, the most highly motivated students were able to use the software on their own PC’s. Despite the rush they were thus able to prepare the patterns associated with their models in a very professional manner.

The Lectra teams in Italy have been very busy, forging solid links with the education world, and now have more than one hundred partners.
Working side by side to bring students the best in technological solutions, they also take part in the different events organized by these schools, and, in particular, their eight privilege partners: Accademia del Lusso, Campus della Moda, Istituto di Moda Burgo, Istituto Secoli, Istituto Modartech, Università di Urbino and Studio Moda Rossella in Italy, and STA in Lugano, Switzerland.
Find out more about these fashion schools, currently organizing their end-of-year graduation shows, and in particular the support they receive from their partnership with Lectra.

Discover the testimonial of François Broca, Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la couture Director, Christine Walter-Bonini, Esmod International Director, and Franc' Pairon, IFM Fashion Design program Director, broadcasted on the French TV, France 24.

The three of them speak about the importance of creativity in France's fashion schools. Their testimonials are completed by students’ among which an interview of Laetitia Winter, a student of the Ecole de la chambre syndicale who is currently a Lectra intern.

This new brochure presents the whole program and underlines, through examples and testimonials, the advantages for a leading school to join it.

The objective of the partnership is to reinforce students' training programs on fashion-dedicated technologies to guarantee them the highest job opportunities.

Lectra and the Ensait (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles), a leading European engineering school, have built a strong relationship over the past 20 years. The Privilege Partnership signed is a new step which shows their common will to share and deepen their respective expertise.

Lectra has signed a privileged contract with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a long-time partner. The University’s “Institute of textiles & Clothing” is equipped with Lectra’s most advanced technologies for design, pattern-making, marker-making and 3D prototyping.

Lectra awards a copy of its design software, Kaledo, to the winner of the Mittel Moda 2008 competition, Paolo Valerio FERRARI of CFP Paullo, Milan, Italy.

Twenty seven deans, directors, and teachers, from the world’s most reputed international Fashion Schools and Universities have been welcomed at the end of June, during this 2 days seminar, taking place in Bordeaux, France. Lectra education seminar objective was to network all participants, to allow them and Lectra specialists to share experience & expertise and build a think tank about the way and the means to well prepare students for their professional future.

Strongly involved with students and young designers, Lectra will sponsor the 2008 London Graduate Fashion week. This showcase of the most innovative and creative new talents in the UK, will take place in London from Sunday June 8 to Thursday June 12. This event will gather many Lectra partners.

Lectra and l'Ecole de la chambre syndicale signed the Privilege Partnership contract on May 27th. Lectra and this school which is part of "The Fédération française de la couture, du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode", have worked closely for many years now.

Lectra is a supporting sponsor of the “International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes” annual conference that will be held from 8th March to 11th March 2008 at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.
The theme of this conference, which will gather many Lectra partners, is “The body: connections with fashion”.

Lectra announces the signature of its first Privilege Partnership in China with Donghua University. The signature with the Shanghai Institute of Art of Fudan University, an other major chinese university, has just followed.

Lectra has signed its first privilege partnership in the USA with Central Michigan University.

Lectra signs its first privileged contract in France with the Lycée de la mode, from Cholet.

Lectra awards a copy of its design software, Kaledo, to the winner of the Mittel Moda 2007 competition, Rachel Cassar, from Sydney Technology University (Australia).

Lectra launches its new program and announces the signature of the first privileged partnerships with Royal College of Art, De Monfort University & York St John in the United Kingdom, as well as with Istituto Carlo Secoli & Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, in Italia.