Through the involvement of fashion Houses and drawing upon its teams and experts, the FHCM provides support to its Members on numerous subjects, within the framework of Paris Fashion Week® and Haute Couture Week, the Emerging Brands Initiative, as well as through holding committees bringing together its Members and the professional branch it leads. It also ensures regular communications on key themes and current affairs, particularly regarding sustainable development, legislative and regulatory changes, or digital services. It offers training on major CSR challenges (certifications, responsible sourcing, product lifecycle analysis).
 

It also keeps its Members informed daily of new French and European legislative and regulatory provisions and the procedures for their implementation.

Representation and support

Commissions

The Commissions are forums for reflection and exchange that regularly meet within a defined and programmed framework.
They establish synergies and recommend the implementation of innovative tools adapted to the new challenges that companies and professionals are facing.

  • The Commission of Legal Affairs

    The role of the Commission of Legal Affairs is to analyze cross-cutting issues related to, in particular, intellectual property, new technologies, corporate social and environmental responsibility as well as distribution law. Each year, a jurisprudence review of fashion and luxury law is presented to all members.

  • The Social Commission

    The Social Commission addresses social law issues specific to the fashion sector, and sets the employers' positions for discussions with the social partners within the Professional Joint Committee. Its expertise allows it to be at the forefront of constantly evolving issues such as diversity and inclusion (parity and professional equality, disability, etc.).

  • The Training and Education Commission

    The Training and Education Commission acts as a reference point for all matters relating to training and education and the evolution of the trades in the fashion industry. It regularly exchanges with the OPCO 2i on the existing employment, training and education measures available within the Couture Parisienne Professional Branch. It participates in actions to promote and make fashion professions more attractive, notably through the national campaign Savoir Pour Faire.

  • The Innovation & Sustainability Commission

    The Innovation & Sustainability Commission contributes to the development of initiatives, methods that are provided to Members, and standards that respect creativity, know-how and social responsibility. It identifies technological evolutions and their implications. It supports the Federation within the bodies in which it is involved at French and European levels

  • The Couture Parisienne Professional Branch

    The Couture Parisienne Professional Branch brings together a large number of Fashion Houses that are members of the FHCM Chambres Syndicales. It conducts the social dialogue with the representative trade unions within the National Joint Employment Commission (CPNE) and the Permanent Joint Negotiation and Interpretation Commission (CPPNI). The Branch's social agenda includes guaranteed minimum annual remuneration, professional equality, disability, professional classifications and training schemes.

Public Affairs

  • The Fédération plays a key role in representing and defending the interests of creative and luxury fashion before French and European public authorities. Having actively contributed to discussions that led to the adoption of the AGEC laws in 2020 and Climate and Resilience in 2021, the Fédération has supported their implementation and continues to participate in the resulting regulatory debates. These actions aim to preserve the specificities and high-quality requirements inherent to the creative fashion and luxury sector.

     

    At European level, the Fédération has strengthened its role by collaborating with organisations such as the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and actively participating in the creation of the European Fashion Alliance (EFA), which it co-founded in June 2022. This alliance brings together Fashion Councils and organisations around four strategic pillars: public policy, sustainability, innovation and education. During the formal establishment of the EFA in February 2023, the Fédération was appointed as a Member of its Board alongside major players such as the Camera della Moda Italiana, Copenhagen Fashion Week, British Fashion Council, Fashion Council Germany, Slovak Fashion Council, and Flanders DC.

    These initiatives confirm the Fédération's leading role in European debates to promote responsible fashion whilst preserving craftsmanship and creativity.

     

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Professional representation

  • The FHCM maintains close relationships with the Institut Français de la Mode, which merged in 2019 with the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, established in 1927, and sits via a college of six representatives on its board of directors. It also ensures representation of its Members and promotes their viewpoints and specificities within various professional bodies such as LE DEFI, the Institut Français du Textile et de l'Habillement, the Fashion and Luxury Strategic Sector Committee, OPCO 2i, ANDAM, and the International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères.

SPHERE - Paris Fashion Week® Emerging Brands Initiative

SPHERE - Emerging Brands Initiative

Discover the Emerging Brands

  • In 2019, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode introduced the SPHERE - Emerging Brands Initiative program to structure, coordinate and consolidate its actions to support the growth of eighty young brands identified as the most creative and talented of the world.

    Each brand member of the SPHERE - Emerging Brands Initiative program benefits from the expertise of professionals partners of the FHCM, and from various support services in such fields as: financing, legal, digital, logistics, information systems, material sourcing and CSR. 

    In 2020, the FHCM also created the Emerging Brands Support Fund, dedicated to young brands based outside France, and financed by FHCM Members. This financial support comes in addition to that provided by LE DEFI to the FHCM for emerging French brands.

    The SPHERE - Emerging Brands Initiative is supported by L'Oréal Paris, Official Partner of Paris Fashion Week®.

  • Join SPHERE - Emerging Brands Initiative

    SPHERE Emerging Brands Initiative welcomes brands from all over the world.

    Candidate Houses must have been established for less than ten years; have a turnover of less than 5 million euros; have been selected as a Guest Member of the Official Calendars of Paris Fashion Week® and/or have won major international prizes.

SPHERE - Paris Fashion Week® Showroom

  • Every Paris Fashion Week®, the FHCM holds the SPHERE PFW® Showroom, providing a presentation and marketing space for a selection of young brands.

    The SPHERE PFW® Showroom has a dual mission: to increase sales with major French and international physical and digital retailers while strengthening the visibility of emerging brands.

    Professionals accredited by the FHCM are invited, including the most important buyers and the French and international press. The SPHERE PFW® Showroom benefits from the financial support of DEFI. L'Oréal Paris also provides support as an Official Partner.

    Since 2021, the SPHERE PFW® Showroom is available in a digital version thanks to the support of professional partners allowing the marketing and the digitalization of the collections.