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Workshops punctuate the academic year. They combine theory and practice, allowing students to explore creative worlds, cultures, and techniques over an extended period of time, stimulating their imaginations and encouraging the exchange of knowledge.
Some examples of workshops:
Biodesign: Creating with living organisms
This creative research workshop aims to expand the scope of traditional textile design by exploring the world of living organisms. It introduces students to new processes and techniques through the manipulation of mycelium, the root structure of fungi, combining theoretical knowledge, practical exercises, and collaborative creative work.
Led by the studio d'Aléa Work
Research by practice: the power of styling
This hands-on research workshop takes a minimalist approach to exploring personal and collective questions: How can we change the way we wear clothes? How can we reveal everyone's creative power? How can we change the way we look at our wardrobe and extend its life with minimal intervention?
The workshop combines a series of fun collaborative styling exercises based on creative instinct and co-creation.
Led by Elisabeth Jayot
Reflecting on the challenges facing the future of fashion and outlining its social and environmental footprint requires knowledge that is both theoretical and rooted in the reality of the industry and the regions. Each academic year is punctuated by visits to key sites to gain an understanding of the activities that contribute to the design and production of clothing. Each visit helps to bridge distances, share knowledge and human experiences, inspire, and spark debate. Students discover various ecosystems through visits to industrial, agricultural, and artisanal sites, as well as research centers, start-ups, and cultural and artistic venues. Most visits take place in France and sometimes in Europe.
Some examples of visits in 2024-25:
Authentic Material visit
Leather, a noble material and symbol of excellence in craftsmanship, now faces a major challenge: how to make the most of this precious resource without wasting it?
Authentic Material, a Toulouse-based company founded in 2016, provides a concrete and innovative answer to this question. Using a process with low environmental impact, Authentic Material breathes new life into previously unusable waste, creating a new generation of materials for the worlds of design, fashion, luxury goods, and crafts.
More information about Authentic Material
Bugis visit
For over 60 years, Bugis has been designing, developing, and manufacturing fabrics based on knitting techniques for fashion and industry. The company, which has been awarded the “Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant” (Living Heritage Company) label, designs and produces textiles with a strong commitment to environmental responsibility.
The expertise of the team and the diversity of the factory's crafts enable a wide range of styles and sensory and technical properties to be offered. Bugis is located in the Troyes region, where it can work in a short supply chain with dyeing and manufacturing partners.
CETI visit
CETI is a private industrial research, development, and prototyping center for sustainable textiles, located in Roubaix, the historic home of French textiles.
The center provides a collaborative space dedicated to creativity, engineering, and prototyping, supporting research into processes involving biomaterials, recycling systems, eco-design, and circularity.
Created in 2012, the center works with leading brands in the fields of technical textiles, professional equipment, sports, fashion, and luxury goods to help accelerate the digital and environmental transformation of the textile industry.
EMO visit
Founded in 1979, EMO specializes in textile manufacturing. Based in Troyes, the historic cradle of hosiery, it handles every stage of production, from prototype to finished product.
It draws on its local roots, technical expertise, and ability to meet the expectations of brands seeking high-quality French production, particularly in sportswear and knitwear. Its CEO, Jean-Dominique Regazzoni, also heads the nearby Sotratex dyeing plant.
La Chanvrière visit
With a rich history rooted in the Aube region, the agricultural cooperative was behind the creation of Interchanvre and the Technical Institute for Hemp, providing the industry with structures that bring together producers and processors.
La Chanvrière is present in a variety of markets: mulching, animal bedding, construction and insulation, paper products, plastics, food, cosmetics, and textiles. The business relies on hemp's potential for circularity and biodiversity, using certified seeds and constant soil enrichment without pesticides or irrigation.
LE LAB by IFTH visit
The French Textile and Clothing Institute (IFTH) is a leading technology center for industrial companies and brands in the textile and fashion industries. LE LAB by IFTH was created in Paris in 2021 within La Caserne, an ecological transition accelerator dedicated to the fashion and luxury industries.
LE LAB is a technical platform offering services and training for fashion professionals who want to embrace eco-responsible and innovative manufacturing. It enables brands to design, prototype, assess sustainability, and accelerate their digital and environmental transition.
It is a place to build, experiment, and validate projects with a professional and multidisciplinary team
The Soulages Museum visit
The Soulages Museum, which opened in Rodez in May 2014, is a cultural and scientific project designed to bring together the history of Pierre Soulages and the various manifestations of his creativity—paintings on paper and canvas, printed works, and stained glass.
The cladding of its remarkable architecture is made of Corten steel, also known as weathering steel. As it oxidizes, this material creates a protective patina with shades that evoke the artist's work.
Arnal tannerie visit
Since 1880, the Arnal tannery, located in the Aveyron region, has specialized in the manufacture of vegetable-tanned, chrome-tanned, or mixed-tanned bovine leather. Labeled “Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant” (Living Heritage Company), the tannery is recognized worldwide for its saddlery and harness products.
It also offers carefully selected and crafted leathers for artisans working in leather goods, footwear, and furniture: calfskin, bull leather, aniline, full-grain, natural vegetable-tanned, or dyed-through leather, etc.
More information about the Arnal tannerie
Every year, the ENAMOMA-PSL program showcases the work of its graduating class through an exhibition open to the public. This event is an opportunity to discover the diversity of creative, scientific, and experimental projects carried out by students throughout their studies.
Immerse yourself in previous exhibitions to discover the projects and creations of those who bring the Master's in Fashion & Materials to life.
Discover our latest exhibitions:
FAIRE [CORE] exhibition
The Faire [Core] exhibition, featuring the work of students from the class of 24/25, took place on September 17, 2025, at the Mazet Center at PSL.
"Faire [Core] explores the power of gesture and the strength of connection. Through our projects, we forge links between materials, expertise, identities, and commitments, in a constant dialogue between tradition and innovation. We draw on what connects us, this vibrant core, to imagine stories that are accurate, inclusive, and full of hope. Working together means embodying responsible practices, where creativity blends with social and environmental issues in a conscious and committed approach. Together, we take on these challenges and transform them to build open and living models, rooted in the present and looking to the future, where every gesture counts."
TURBULENCE Exhibition
The Turbulence exhibition, featuring the work of students from the class of 23/24, took place on September 19, 2024, at the Mazet Center at PSL.
"The Turbulence exhibition found its roots in the energy of chaos. The students' projects and theses explore the creative dynamics born of turmoil. Through this theme, we examine how inner turmoil, in confronting the constraints of the present and the uncertainties of the future, allows us to develop our resilience and transform turmoil into meaningful works. Each project reflects a collective journey marked by an interdisciplinary perspective, where challenges are transmuted into personal expression. Immerse yourself in this fertile universe and discover how adversity shapes and enriches our ability to express ourselves and innovate."
PSL Weeks bring together students from various programs at PSL University for a single course. They allow students to personalize their academic path by discovering a new discipline with an introductory PSL Week, broadening their skills with an interdisciplinary PSL Week, or deepening their knowledge with a specialized PSL Week.
Fashion tech workshop – Exploring from constraints
“The creative potential of constraints”
The workshop draws on the creative potential of constraints to explore flexible materials. It brings together students from a variety of disciplines (architecture, design, humanities and social sciences, engineering, life sciences) to explore material innovation through the design of a proof of concept, a fashion accessory, or an active surface.
Practical explorations are organized in a fablab and a sewing workshop, which facilitate the use of accessible techniques and technologies (sewing, laser cutting, electronics, 3D printing, origami-kirigami, hot plates, etc.). As they experiment, each team compiles a life cycle inventory.
Led by Joséphine Schmitt & Alice Giordani
Color, arts, industry
“Understand, perceive, be moved”
This multidisciplinary week offers a comprehensive approach to color through the physical and human sciences and its industrial and artistic applications. It includes lectures, practical work, and visits to the Manufacture des Gobelins and dyeing workshop, and the Mineralogy Museum of Mines Paris – PSL.
The rest of the time is devoted to group work so that, by the end of the course, students are able to understand the origin of an object's color, classify and measure color, analyze the factors of color vision and perception, make the connection between color and other factors of appearance, identify color choices in an industrial and environmental context, understand color image processing, and finally explain the constraints of color reproduction.
Led by Eloïse Gaillou and Pascaline Wilhelm