Lectra and Senai/Cetiqt—the main training center for the Brazilian textile industry and one of the most distinguished centers in the world—recently signed a “Privilege” Educational Partnership Agreement, the first of its kind in South America.

Since 1991, the Senai/Cetiqt curricula have integrated Lectra technology, in order to equip future professionals with the world’s best practices from the Fashion industry. Today, the two units of SENAI/CETIQT in Rio de Janeiro have 260 licenses of each of the Lectra solutions’ Kaledo Style and Kaledo Print for design, Modaris for pattern-making, and DiaminoFashion for marker-making, used by apparel and fashion companies around the world. Lectra’s cutting solutions are also included with a new generation automatic cutter, a VectorFashion FX that was installed in early 2010.

“For our center, this new Privilege status is extremely strategic, since it amplifies a relationship with a company that is a standard reference in technology, with a global market presence such as Lectra, and which offers extraordinary value to the students of our courses,” stated Prof. Alexandre Figueira Rodrigues, General Director of Senai/Cetiqt.
To know all details about this partnership, please read the press release.

This partnership, which concerns a university dealing intensively with technical applications of textile structure, is one of the first partnerships of its kind worldwide, after the one signed with Ensait in France. Lectra and the Technical University Dresden have been working closely, for many years now, on virtual software solutions which use a 3D prototype. This new step will reinforce the collaboration and help students stay at the forefront of technology.

The signature was announced during a press lunch organized on June 8, 2010 at the Trade Fair & Symposium for Textiles and Composites in Vehicle Manufacturing in Chemnitz, Germany.
Gathering two presentations from Prof. Sybille Krzywinski from TU Dresden and Holger Max-Lang Lectra sales director for Central & Eastern Europe, and advisory member of the board of the TU Dresden, the program allowed journalists to understand better the great value of the partnership. In addition two students presented their master thesis and dissertation based on the work done with Lectra solution Design Concept 3D, thus showing very practical impact of this close relationship.

To know all details about this partnership, please read the press release.

The competition specifically for fashion students of Lectra’s 35 Education Partner schools in the UK, is offering the chance of an internship of 6 - 12 months based at Maria Grachvogel’ s studio in London for the talented winner. The objective will be for the students to create a womenswear garment from design to finished product, using Lectra technologies, at some stage of their project.

The competition, launched on 1st February will finish in May 2010. The initial selection will be done by course tutors and independent experts who will shortlist the most interesting students’ projects. The finalists will be invited to an event in London and asked to present their design project to Maria Grachvogel who will make the final decision.

The ESIV graduation event took place on February 4 in the prestigious “Chambre de commerce et d’Industrie de Paris ”. The students received their diploma from this promotion’s famous sponsor, the designer Agnès B,
Véronique Zoccoletto, Lectra Chief Human Capital Officer, presented the Lectra prize for Best Student of the Year to Célia Balanca. She wins a laptop computer equipped with licenses for Lectra’s Kaledo Style, Modaris ExpertPro and Diamino MarkPro solutions.
The ESIV, which trains future managers for the fashion industry, and Lectra have developed a long-term partnership and the students use Lectra solutions to manage the “mini company project” carried out by each promotion.
The mini company project of this promotion can be seen in a short film available on the video space Click here to view.

Lectra will also be presenting “Transforming trends into textiles: design solutions by Lectra” at 10:00 a.m. on February, 10. Pantone will present “Color your future: How to save money and shorten lead times in your color management process from design to production with PANTONE” on February, 10 at 1:00 p.m.
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In today’s challenging and fast-evolving environment, Lectra and AMFI will be sharing their experience and expertise to better support and prepare students for their professional future.
This session will take place on February 12th 2010 in Amsterdam, and is open to fashion schools and universities under subscription.
This will be a great opportunity for participants to exchange with other schools, know more about Lectra solutions and how AMFI integrates them in its curriculum, as well as and discover undergoing projects.
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Lectra has participated to the 2009 International Textile and Apparel Association’s (ITAA) Annual Conference, recently held in Bellevue, Washington. In addition to showcasing itsleading professional textile and fashion solutions, Lectra also sponsored and presented five awards to the faculty and graduate students.

The “Lectra Outstanding Faculty Designer Award”” was awarded to Vincent Quevedo, Associate Professor from Kent State University for the design submission ‘Midnight’.Lectra Outstanding Graduate Student Designer Award”, was given to Mee Jekal of Hanyang University, Korea for the design submission “The Blooming Scented” (photo).

Congratulations also to: Anne Porterfield of North Carolina State University, Linda Gardner and Allison Young, teachers, Alabama A&M University and, Adriana Petrova of Oklahoma State University.All details are available in the press release.

Lectra invited its "Privilege"partners from the world of Education to its second international congress which was held over two days at the end of October.
This event brought together 36 teachers and directors from 21 of the best-known fashion schools and universities in China, France, Holland, Italy, the UK, the USA and Switzerland. Part of the network of over 680 schools, our "Privilege"partners have built concrete relationships with Lectra over a number of years.
This second education congress was the opportunity for rich exchanges between the different participants--schools universities, major clients and Lectra teams--around teaching methods and schools' projects, the latest developments from Lectra, and the issues and key challenges faced by fashion companies.

The winner of the 2009 edition of Mittel Moda competition is Nicola Morgan from the University of Northumbria, UK who won €10.000 offered by Udine e Gorizia Fiere Spa. Nicola Morgan has also been awarded a Lectra Kaledo Style license + training
Lectra’s Special Prize goes to Francesco Cecchini, Istituto Carlo Secoli. It rewards the best collection whose sketches were done using Kaledo.
Francesco Cecchini also won the “Italian Fabric Award” promoted by Centro Lino Italiano, Shirt Avenue, Sistema Moda Italia for the creation of a brand-new capsule collection interpreting the characteristics of linen, cotton and shirt fabrics.

This year, a new category has been added to the Mittelmoda fashion awards. Lectra, market leader in fashion software, has created a Kaledo award, specially for Lectra’s “Privilege” Partner Schools.

To be eligible for this special new prize, fashion design students from participant schools who enter the Mittelmoda fashion awards competition in 2009 will be required to use Kaledo Suite to design a collection. They must present a collection of five garments, providing the trend board, color and fabric board, collection plan, storyboard and technical specifications for two of these five garments.

The Special Kaledo Prize 2009 will be awarded along with all the other prizes in September, during the fashion awards. The prize itself, contributed by Lectra Italia, consists of a license for Kaledo Style along with training in the use of the solution.

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.