IFM Director General Sylvie Ebel receives the Legion of Honor from Sidney Toledano
PARIS — As the Institut Français de la Mode continues its trajectory towards "the best fashion school in the world,” CEO Sylvie Ebel stood out for fighting the good fight for more than 30 years.
Thursday, the education framework received the Legion of Honor, France's highest honor , in a ceremony at the school campus.
Sidney Toledano, Chairman and CEO of LVMH Fashion Group and President of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture , bestowed the rank of Knight (or Knight) on Ebel.
The fashion director, who this year was elected president of the fashion school based in Paris, repeatedly praised Ebel's "commitment, loyalty, solidity and discretion", adding a personal note on "the calm she diffused throughout the school and her impressive ability to listen ".
Related GalleriesA graduate of the prestigious French business school HEC, Ebel began her career in 1981 when she joined the Printemps boutique department as a fashion, private label and lingerie buyer.
Toledano recalled his comment that this post was a "disruptive choice" at a time when schools doesn't prepare for such career paths, leading him to discover a "less rational and more emotional world".
Chance meeting with another HEC graduate, Pascal Morand, executive president of the Fédération de la Haute Couture and de la Mode, then director general of the IFM, led her on her arrival at the school in 1992. It was the start of a mandate of 31 years and more which saw her become secretary general in 1993 and lead its entire pedagogical branch. .
After the merger in 1999 between the IFM and the Center Textile de Conjoncture et d'Observation Economique, an institution dedicated to studies of production, consumption and trade in the textile industry, Ebel was appointed Deputy Director General of the resulting school.
She was also instrumental in the subsequent merger of the IFM and the School of the Chambre Syndicale, Toledano said, highlighting his role in building the Cité de la Mode et du Design campus, a striking contemporary building on the banks of the Seine.
"As an engineer, I love doing shops, buildings. I was talked about this campus project and I asked where the plans were, so I called in [Ebel],” Toledano said, recalling being impressed by his “rigor and attention to detail” upon seeing the plans.
Serving under three general managers was less a demonstration of Ebel's adaptability than of his "qualities personal intelligence, rigour, benevolence and above all, his competence and knowledge of the IFM.”
"What this story says is the multitude of emotional bonds created by and through the "IFM, way beyond knowledge professional. I could cite several examples with [all of you] who came [to the ceremony]," Ebel said, gazing at an eclectic crowd of fashion executives, friends of industry, fellow directors of higher education and their families.
Calling the school "a company like no other that has a special vibe and spirit to which everyone [person] contributes in their own way”, she welcomed the recognition of the school as a private higher education institution of general interest, or or EESPIG, by the French government.
Beyond him...
PARIS — As the Institut Français de la Mode continues its trajectory towards "the best fashion school in the world,” CEO Sylvie Ebel stood out for fighting the good fight for more than 30 years.
Thursday, the education framework received the Legion of Honor, France's highest honor , in a ceremony at the school campus.
Sidney Toledano, Chairman and CEO of LVMH Fashion Group and President of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture , bestowed the rank of Knight (or Knight) on Ebel.
The fashion director, who this year was elected president of the fashion school based in Paris, repeatedly praised Ebel's "commitment, loyalty, solidity and discretion", adding a personal note on "the calm she diffused throughout the school and her impressive ability to listen ".
Related GalleriesA graduate of the prestigious French business school HEC, Ebel began her career in 1981 when she joined the Printemps boutique department as a fashion, private label and lingerie buyer.
Toledano recalled his comment that this post was a "disruptive choice" at a time when schools doesn't prepare for such career paths, leading him to discover a "less rational and more emotional world".
Chance meeting with another HEC graduate, Pascal Morand, executive president of the Fédération de la Haute Couture and de la Mode, then director general of the IFM, led her on her arrival at the school in 1992. It was the start of a mandate of 31 years and more which saw her become secretary general in 1993 and lead its entire pedagogical branch. .
After the merger in 1999 between the IFM and the Center Textile de Conjoncture et d'Observation Economique, an institution dedicated to studies of production, consumption and trade in the textile industry, Ebel was appointed Deputy Director General of the resulting school.
She was also instrumental in the subsequent merger of the IFM and the School of the Chambre Syndicale, Toledano said, highlighting his role in building the Cité de la Mode et du Design campus, a striking contemporary building on the banks of the Seine.
"As an engineer, I love doing shops, buildings. I was talked about this campus project and I asked where the plans were, so I called in [Ebel],” Toledano said, recalling being impressed by his “rigor and attention to detail” upon seeing the plans.
Serving under three general managers was less a demonstration of Ebel's adaptability than of his "qualities personal intelligence, rigour, benevolence and above all, his competence and knowledge of the IFM.”
"What this story says is the multitude of emotional bonds created by and through the "IFM, way beyond knowledge professional. I could cite several examples with [all of you] who came [to the ceremony]," Ebel said, gazing at an eclectic crowd of fashion executives, friends of industry, fellow directors of higher education and their families.
Calling the school "a company like no other that has a special vibe and spirit to which everyone [person] contributes in their own way”, she welcomed the recognition of the school as a private higher education institution of general interest, or or EESPIG, by the French government.
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