Lectra gives US fashion students a boost
France-based technical solutions provider for the fashion industry Lectra is to run two new ‘Privilege’ education programmes with New York fashion schools Parsons and FIT, and another with North Carolina State University.
The company is building upon its ‘Advanced’ partnership launched in September 2007 including end-of-studies support and sponsoring. The Privilege partnership is designed to support teachers to train their students, to teach useful skills and offer tailored follow up, internships and personalised support for student projects.
Lectra also exhibited at the 63rd International Textile and Apparel Association annual meeting last November as part of its involvement in the US fashion industry. It sponsored three awards at the event, the Lectra Innovation Award for Faculty Research, the Lectra Innovation Award for Teaching and the Lectra Outstanding Faculty Design Award as well as sponsoring the Live Gallery Show.
