FIDM History

Earlier company descriptions, brand line-ups, store counts and photographs from the history of FIDM, kept for historical reference.

Historical reference: This page keeps earlier information about FIDM for historical reference. The descriptions, brand line-ups and figures below reflect the periods in which they were published and may no longer describe the company today. For the company as it stands now, see the current FIDM company profile.
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The Company Description of Its Time

FIDM - the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - is filed as a co-educational, specialized, private college dedicated to educating students for the Fashion, Graphics, Interior Design and Entertainment industries. Every word of that description does work: private and specialized, where its New York counterpart in this letter is public and broad; four industries, not one, because Los Angeles makes fashion beside film. FIDM's curriculum is intense, concentrated, and rewarding; its purpose is preparing students for careers in the Fashion, Interior Design, Graphics, and Entertainment industries. FIDM challenges you to live up to your greatest potential, the filing says, and their graduates enter the global market as highly trained professionals ready to make a contribution.

The Majors: From Apparel Management to Costume Design

The majors list in the historical record is the profile's core document, and it is kept here in full because applicants use this page to find their field: Apparel Industry Management, Merchandise Marketing, Merchandise Product Development, Beauty Industry Merchandising & Marketing, Apparel Manufacturing Management, International Manufacturing & Product Development, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Digital Media, Visual Communications, Fashion Design, Textile Design, Jewelry Design, Footwear Design, Theatre Costume Design, Film & TV Costume Design, and Business Management. Read the list geographically: footwear, jewelry and beauty merchandising belong to Los Angeles's product industries; theatre and film & TV costume design belong to its entertainment industry; international manufacturing and product development belong to its Pacific-facing garment trade.

Alongside the majors, the filing notes many Associate of Arts Degree Two Year Programs, Professional Designation Programs, Advanced Study Programs and a Bachelor of Science Program - the same ladder seen from the programme side. Set beside FIT's profile in this letter, the contrast is the point of filing both schools under F: FIT is a State University of New York college in Manhattan with seventeen art and design majors, ten business majors and graduate schools; FIDM is a private, specialized California college whose majors bend toward entertainment and merchandising. Same industry, two coasts, two institutional answers to how fashion should be taught. The routes lead to the Apparel Search fashion schools, LA fashion and California fashion industry pages the historical record linked.

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