Parisian Dreams Come True for 24 FIDM Students

Each year FIDM students, escorted by instructors and administrators, have the opportunity to participate in a specialized study tour to Paris.

If you had your pick of fashionable cities to visit during the summer, where would you go? Why, Paris, of course! Every year, FIDM students in all majors do just that--they travel to the city of lights and explore the beating heart of fashion. Oui, oui, it's a dream trip with three weeks of Parisian bliss! This year's highlights? The group of 24 students toured the atelier of a well-known French fashion designer and attended a fashion show. They visited a family-owned business that has been handcrafting fabric flowers for couturiers since the 1800s. Students from the Garden Design Program explored all kinds of gorgeous Parisian gardens and found special inspiration in the famous water gardens at Monet's home in Giverney.

This year, students on the tour were treated to the first annual "President's Luncheon" hosted by FIDM President Tonian Hohberg. Ms. Hohberg held an exquisite luncheon for students at Fouquets, a historic restaurant on the famous Champs Elyses.

Of course, no trip to Paris would be complete without museums, shows, shops, and restaurants. Students on the tour shopped some of the most fashionable thoroughfares in the world where they focused on lingerie design and marketing trends. They also went to the Louvre, the Picasso Museum, enjoyed a guided tour of the Orsay Museum, caught a ballet, and spent plenty of free time sight-seeing in Paris by day and night!