IFFTI Annual Conferences
IFFTI Conferences bring together its member institutions from around the world, providing a platform for sharing knowledge and fostering intercultural understanding. These conferences are pivotal in shaping and advancing fashion and textile curricula and research, offering valuable insights that inform and direct the future of the industry.
We offer a platform that highlights diverse global institutions, facilitating the exchange of knowledge and fostering intercultural understanding to shape and advance fashion and textile curricula and research.
Upcoming and Past Conferences
2025
27th IFFTI Annual Conference at London College of Fashion, UK March 24th - 28th, 2025
Theme:- “Forming Futures”
2024
26th IFFTI Annual Conference at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea April 23rd - 26th, 2024
Theme:- Fashion Towards Post Humanism
2023
25th IFFTI Annual Conference at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand April 3rd - 6th, 2023
Theme:- “ARA HONOHONO CONNECTING PATHWAYS”
2022
24th IFFTI Annual Conference at Nottingham Trent University, UK April 5th - 8th, 2022
Theme:- “Fashion Re-Imagined”
2021
23rd IFFTI Annual Conference at Pearl Academy, India October 26th - 28th, 2021
Theme:- “Fashioning Resurgence – Our Time is Now”
2020
22nd IFFTI Annual Conference at Kent State University, USA March 23rd - 25th, 2020
(Cancelled Due To Extraordinary Circumstances)
Theme:- “Between Individual and Society: Social Justice Through Fashion”
2019
21st IFFTI Annual Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK April 8th - 12th, 2019
Theme:- “Fashion: ID”
2018
20th IFFTI Annual Conference at Donghua University, P.R. China April 9th - 13th, 2018
Theme:- “Fashion Futures”
Archive
2017
19th IFFTI Annual Conference at Amsterdam Fashion Institute (Hogeschool), Netherlands March 27th - 30th, 2017
Theme:- “Breaking The Fashion Rules”
2016
18th IFFTI Annual Conference at Donghua University, P.R. China March 21st - 26th, 2016
Theme :- “Fashion Futures”
2015
17th IFFTI Annual Conference at Polimoda University, P.R. China May 12th - 16th, 2015
Theme :- “Momenting The Memento and Fashion, Education & The City”
2014
16th IFFTI Annual Conference at Bunka Gakuen University, Japan January 27th - 31st, 2014
Theme :- “THE POWER OF FASHION”
2013
15th IFFTI Annual Conference at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles April 2nd - 5th, 2013
Theme :- “THE BUSINESS & MARKETING OF ICONS”
2012
14th IFFTI Annual Conference at Pearl Academy, India March 17th - 21st, 2012
Theme :- “Fashion Beyond Borders”
2011
13th IFFTI Annual Conference at Institut Français de la Mode, France April 11th - 14th, 2011
Theme :- “Fashion and Luxury: Between Heritage and Innovation”
2010
12th IFFTI Annual Conference at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan March 17th - 21st, 2010
Theme :- “Fashion: Sustainability and Creativity”
2009
11th IFFTI Annual Conference at London College of Fashion, UK March 31st - April 3rd, 2009
Theme :- “Fashion & Well – Being”
2008
10th IFFTI Annual Conference at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia March 8th - 11th, 2008
Theme:- “The Body: Connections with Fashion”
2007
9th IFFTI Annual Conference at Ryerson University, Canada April 12th - 14th, 2007
Theme :- “Extreme Fashion: Pushing The Boundaries Of Design, Business And Technology”
2006
8th IFFTI Annual Conference at North Carolina State University, USA 18th - 22nd June 2006
Theme :- “FASHION IN THE DIGITAL AGE”
2005
7th IFFTI Annual Conference at Bunka Gakuen University, Japan October 31st - November 5th, 2005
Theme :- “THE GLOBALIZATION OF FASHION: FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATION & BUSINESS”
2004
6th IFFTI Annual Conference at NIFT, India March 29th - April 1st, 2004
Theme :- “INTEGRATED OF FASHION VALUE CHAIN (FROM DESIGN TO RETAIL – DESTINATION INDIA)”
2003
5th IFFTI Annual Conference at Donghua University, P.R. China March 18th - 22nd, 2003
Theme :- “GLOBALIZATION OF FASHION EDUCATION”
2002
4th IFFTI Annual Conference at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong November 7th - 11th, 2002
Theme :- “FASHION AND TEXTILES: THE NEW FRONTIERS – DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS”
2000
3rd IFFTI Annual Conference at London College of Fashion, UK November 7th - 10th, 2000
Theme :- “FASHION DIRECTIONS: VISIONING THE FUTURE”
1999
2nd IFFTI Annual Conference at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, South America November 17th - 19th, 1999
Theme :- “DESIGN AND MARKETS: POST 2004 SCENARIO”
1998
1st IFFTI Annual Conference at NIFT, India November 17th - 19th, 1998
Theme :- “PLENARY CONFERENCE”