The Fashion Design Institute was founded in 2008 by the historian and fashion designer Inna Thomas and her husband. They were advised by many national and international fashion companies such as Van Laack, Philipp Plein, Michalsky, Hugo Boss, Joop, Windsor, Strellson and many others.
In the beginning only international fashion designers were trained and in the following years the program was expanded in cooperation with the industry to include fashion journalism, fashion marketing/management.
This did not go unnoticed by the international ranking agencies and so it was only a matter of time before the Fashion Design Institute was nominated among the best in the world.
In Business of Fashion (BOF) , CEO World and Forbes Magazine (USA), the FDI is now the only German fashion school among the world's top 50 schools since 2014.
Reasons for this: