Located in Bandung, West Java, Islamic Fashion Institute (IFI) is the first Muslim fashion school; in Indonesia that has referred to the Indonesian National work competency standards. IFI was founded and supervised by Irna Mutiara, Nuniek Mawardi, and Deden Siswanto in 2015.IFI’s curriculum is designed so that it could implement into the Muslim fashion design teachings, social skills, as well as business acumen aspects of Muslim fashion.
IFI’s mission is to cultivate new talents in the world of muslim fashion industry as the industry has garnered quite a few international partnerships and collaborations. This prompts IFI to keep on growing to be the center of Muslim fashion education that guides students on how to become competitive and creative Muslim fashion practitioners and designers.
Islamic Fashion Institute is expected to educate and prepare future talented Muslim fashion designers, fashionpreneurs, and fashion brand owners who have both the hard and soft competences such as emotional, intellectual, and moral intelligence (“akhlaqul kariman”) as mandated in the Islamic rules and principles. Over the years, the number of students who want to join IFI keeps increasing as the people’s interests in learning Muslim fashion skills and knowledge are getting bigger.