Ecamod

What Ecamod does

ECAMOD is a private Parisian fashion school (Établissement privé d'enseignement technique supérieur artistique) operating as an "école-atelier" under Lycée Albert de Mun, a non-profit association under contract with the French State since 1901. Founded in 2011 in Paris's 11th arrondissement after the discontinuation of the historic 1937 BTVCM certification, ECAMOD delivers a three-year Bachelor Créateur de Mode covering styling, pattern making, bespoke couture, textile technology, and luxury ready-to-wear. The school's core product combines classroom instruction with a production atelier where students execute real commissions for paying clients — private individuals (wedding dresses, evening gowns, tailored jackets), emerging designers (prototypes, small-series production), and institutional clients (liturgical garments for the Diocèse de Paris, textile design collaborations with ROUGEGORGE and Made In Sens). The curriculum is delivered by active industry professionals, including Meilleur Ouvrier de France titleholders in Evening Couture and Men's Tailoring.

ECAMOD's technology stack is purpose-built for haute couture training rather than digital innovation: industrial-grade sewing, overlocking, pressing, buttonhole, and embroidery machinery; a fabric library (tissuthèque); and industry-standard digital tools — Lectra MODARIS for pattern grading, CLO3D for 3D virtual prototyping, and the Adobe Creative Suite for graphic design. The business operates a hybrid revenue model: recurring tuition from enrolled students (pricing not publicly disclosed; intake via application, motivation interview, and pre-registration dossier) supplemented by transactional revenue from the atelier's external client work. Distribution is direct, single-campus, on-site at 81 ter rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, with recruitment driven by open days, social media (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn with 100,274 followers), and biennial fashion shows staged at prestigious Parisian venues including the Théâtre du Châtelet, Les Invalides, and the Hôtel de Ville de Versailles.

International reach is exercised through long-standing partnerships with Kobe Fashion Institute (Japan, founded 1937) and Serbia Fashion Week, providing student exchanges, joint juries, and runway participation in Brooklyn, Novi Sad, Kobe, and Paris. Operational governance sits within the Albert de Mun educational group under director Patrice Hauchard, with no disclosed external investment, funding rounds, or private equity involvement. Competitive positioning is anchored on faculty pedigree, heritage, alumni placement at couture houses (Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Balmain, Lanvin, Kitsuné, Sandro), and a track record of student wins at the Redress Design Award, Toile de Jouy competition, and Brooklyn Fashion Week.

Name

Ecamod

Legal name

ECAMOD

Website

https://ecamod.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ECAMOD is a private Parisian fashion school (Bachelor Créateur de Mode) operating as an école-atelier under Lycée Albert de Mun, training aspiring designers in styling, pattern making, and couture via real client commissions, industry-professional faculty including Meilleur Ouvrier de France titleholders, and partnerships with Kobe Fashion Institute and Serbia Fashion Week.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Tuition Fees (Bachelor Créateur de Mode): As a private higher technical and artistic school, ECAMOD generates revenue through tuition fees charged for its three-year Bachelor Créateur de Mode programme, which trains students in styling, pattern making, bespoke couture, and high-end ready-to-wear. Students receive student status with social security affiliation.
2. External Atelier Clients (Bespoke and Prototype Orders): The school atelier accepts external private clients for bespoke garments (wedding dresses, evening gowns, cocktail dresses, tailored jackets, trousers, blouses) and professional clients for prototype development and small-series production, generating additional revenue under the supervision of professional stylists and pattern makers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

ECAMOD is a private Parisian "école-atelier" that delivers a three-year Bachelor Créateur de Mode programme covering stylisme (styling), modélisme (pattern making), bespoke couture, and luxury ready-to-wear, taught by active industry professionals and Meilleur Ouvrier de France titleholders. The school complements classroom training with a fully equipped industrial production atelier where students work on real commissions for external private clients (bespoke wedding dresses, evening gowns, tailored garments) and professional fashion brands (prototypes and small-series ready-to-wear), creating a school-enterprise hybrid that produces paying clients.

Product overview

ECAMOD is a private artistic technical fashion school in Paris operating as an 'école-atelier' (school-workshop). Its offering consists of the Bachelor Créateur de Mode as the core educational program, supplemented by a fully equipped production atelier that accepts external client commissions for bespoke and luxury ready-to-wear garments. Students progress through three years of training in stylisme (styling), modélisme (pattern making), textile technology, and fashion history, while simultaneously gaining practical experience by producing real garments for paying clients and fashion brands through the atelier. The institution also organizes regular fashion shows (défilés) and collaborative projects with industry partners, positioning itself as a bridge between academic fashion education and professional garment production.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bachelor Créateur de Mode Three-year higher-education programme training aspiring stylists, pattern makers, tailors and fashion designers across fashion sketching, trend analysis, flat pattern making, draping, garment construction, textile technology and digital tools (Lectra MODARIS, CLO3D), with practical atelier experience working on real client commissions; targets high-school graduates (Baccalauréat holders).
• Atelier ECAMOD On-site production workshop serving external private clients (bespoke wedding dresses, evening gowns, cocktail dresses, tailored jackets, trousers, blouses) and professional clients (prototypes and small-series ready-to-wear for emerging designers and brands), executed by students under the supervision of professional stylists and pattern makers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Alumni placement at major couture houses and fashion brands including Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Balmain, Lanvin, Kitsuné, Sandro, and others
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Serbia Fashion WeekcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025ECAMOD and Albert de Mun Paris partner with Serbia Fashion Week. Three ECAMOD students (Anaëlle Birtegue, Eden Herzberg, and Hugo Dumas) participated in Serbia Fashion Week (Oct 3–8, 2025) at Novi Sad, presenting their creations at the 'ART MEETS FASHION: The Next Generation of Talents' exhibition. First-year ECAMOD students also served as dressers at Serbia Fashion Week's Paris show at Galerie Bourbon. Serbia's Prime Minister Maja Gojković visited ECAMOD in May 2026 alongside Svetlana Horvat, President of Serbia Fashion Week. The partnership is coordinated by Michel Dupré, Serbia Fashion Week's official correspondent in France.
• ROUGEGORGEminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 May 2025Second-year ECAMOD students participate in a textile design competition for ROUGEGORGE, a women's lingerie brand. Students create original textile print patterns for the brand's Nuit Spring-Summer 2026 collection. Each student develops an all-over pattern, a placed pattern, and a mock-up on the brand's products, mirroring real textile designer professional practice.
• Diocèse de ParisminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2025ECAMOD and Albert de Mun Paris students designed and produced liturgical garments (chasubles, copes, stoles, mitres for Archbishop Laurent Ulrich; 12 chasubles for priests; 2 dalmatics for deacons) for the Easter 2025 celebrations at Notre-Dame de Paris, the first since the 2019 fire. Work was done in collaboration with Latour and Arte Houssard ateliers, covering research, fabric selection, pattern making, prototyping, embroidery, and final production.
• Paris Ynov CampusminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2025Third-year ECAMOD students collaborated with four students from Paris Ynov Campus (a digital-focused school) to produce a promotional video showcasing their capsule collections 2025, filmed in carefully selected locations matching each collection's universe.
• Kobe Fashion Institute (KFI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2023ECAMOD has a long-standing partnership with Kobe Fashion Institute, Japan's oldest fashion school (founded 1937 in Kobe). The partnership involves mutual participation in fashion show juries (ECAMOD 2020, 2022 shows; Kobe Fashion Fair 2021, 2022), student exchanges, and collaborative cultural events. In November 2024, KFI Director Fukutomi Miyoko visited ECAMOD in Paris with 16 students. ECAMOD delegates attended the Kobé Fashion Fair in Japan in February 2024 and presented the ECAMOD Prize to a talented KFI student. A Japanese student from KFI was expected to join ECAMOD's 2nd year in September 2024.
• Made In SensminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 December 2021Ongoing collaboration with women's ready-to-wear brand Made In Sens. Students participated in a textile print competition on the theme 'La vie est un art', with winners receiving prizes and their designs incorporated into the brand's collections. Alix Lefebvre was named winner; Hugo Dumas placed second. The brand also employed ECAMOD graduate Elisa Guandalini as Production Assistant.
• Albert de Mun PariscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2010ECAMOD is an entity attached to Albert de Mun, a multi-disciplinary private technological and professional high school under contract with the French state (non-profit association since 1901). The couture and fashion section of Albert de Mun forms the origin of ECAMOD, dating to 1937 with the Brevet de Technicien Vêtements, Création et Mesure (BTVCM). ECAMOD and Albert de Mun jointly organise major fashion shows (biennial runway events), share facilities, and collaborate on student projects. ECAMOD is registered in the Paris Academy's school registry.
• Savoir Pour FaireminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferenced as a partner on the ECAMOD Partners page, with a link to www.savoirpourfaire.fr, suggesting collaboration in the field of craftsmanship and savoir-faire (expertise) within the fashion and craft sectors.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Parsons Paris: The New School's Parsons School of Design operates a Paris campus offering fashion-focused programs with strong couture and design heritage. Larger, broader institution but overlaps on Paris-based fashion education targeting international students.
• IFM - Institut Français de la Mode: France's premier fashion school (formed from merger of École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and IFM), offers undergraduate and master's programs across design, business, and accessories. Much larger and broader than ECAMOD, but overlaps on couture training and alumni placement at top maisons.

Direct peers

• Paris College of Art: American-accredited private art and design school in Paris offering fashion design and textile programs. Comparable size and international positioning to ECAMOD, targeting similar cohorts of design-oriented students seeking Paris credentials.
• Atelier Chardon Savard: Paris-based fashion school offering three-year programs in fashion design and pattern making with a comparable technical and creative curriculum to ECAMOD's bachelor program. Direct competitor for the same cohort of Parisian applicants.
• LISAA Paris: French network of private design schools with Paris campus offering fashion design bachelor programs. Direct competitor in the same Parisian private-school segment, though broader scope spanning graphic design, interior, and animation.
• École Duperré: Public Parisian fashion and textile school (under Paris municipal authority) with programs in fashion design, pattern making, and textile arts. Competes for the same applicant pool with a comparable curriculum focus on couture and garment construction.
• Mod'Art International: Parisian private fashion school offering bachelor and master's programs in fashion design, pattern making, and luxury ready-to-wear. Closely comparable in size, program structure, and target applicant to ECAMOD.
• ESMOD Paris: Founded in 1841, ESMOD is one of France's oldest and largest private fashion schools with a curriculum covering pattern making, couture, ready-to-wear, and styling — directly comparable to ECAMOD's Bachelor Créateur de Mode, though at significantly larger scale and broader international footprint.
• Studio Berçot: Parisian fashion school renowned for couture technique and styling instruction, with a similarly small, atelier-style pedagogical approach. Competes directly with ECAMOD for couture-focused applicants in Paris.
• Istituto Marangoni: Italian-origin luxury fashion school with Paris campus, offering undergraduate programs in fashion design and styling with premium positioning similar to ECAMOD. Targets the same international student segment seeking Paris-based luxury fashion credentials.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ecamod
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ecamod
• Instagraminstagram.com/ecamod
• TikToktiktok.com/@ecamod?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

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Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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