HONOURING TRADITIONS

INSPIRING INNOVATIONS

BluVelvet Fashion Institute (BFI) was founded in 2020 to nurture students' understanding of the diverse cultural heritage behind global fashion. Through our educational programs, we delve into the historical craftsmanship, classical practices, and design aesthetics unique to diverse cultures worldwide.

This depth of insight empowers students to fuse traditional art with modern sensibilities and future technologies in ways that thoughtfully represent the source of local communities and ingeniously celebrate collective humanity.

OUR MANDATE

The Institute has three core mandates:

1. To raise a new generation of fashion designers and fashion professionals (across the entire fashion value chain) who are driven by standardization and a sound understanding of structured fashion development systems for Proficiency in fashion

2. To provide fashion-related training workshops, for designers and other fashion-facing practices willing to work or partner with the fashion industry.

3. To engage in the research, training, and development and to publish the outcome of such research in books, newsletters, reports, journals and pamphlets to make new research findings available to the fashion industry.

PEDAGOGY

At the core of BFI is a strong focus aimed at promoting the creative excellence of craftmanship inherent in diverse cultures across the world.

When global fashion talent truly understand the fashion heritage behind a culture, their capability to represent that culture in today's design language or tomorrow's innovative voice increases exponentially. The acquisition of that invaluable insight is what underpins our educational approach.