LIGNES DE FUITE is an independent post-educational fashion incubator and production ecosystem based in Montréal.
It intervenes after formal education and before economic stabilization — a critical phase where many trained designers leave the sector due to lack of continuity, infrastructure, and professional conditions.
Public reference documents
→ Roadmap 2025–2030 (EN – PDF)
→ Feuille de route 2025–2030 (FR – PDF)
LIGNES DE FUITE addresses a structural gap in the fashion ecosystem: the absence of continuity after formal education.
Despite strong training programs, many designers leave the sector in the years immediately following graduation due to lack of infrastructure, professional conditions, and access to production and market channels.
LIGNES DE FUITE operates precisely at this point of rupture, providing the conditions required for independent practice to stabilize over time.
LIGNES DE FUITE emerged from over a decade of sustained observation and practice within the fashion ecosystem.
While working as an educator, Milan Tanedjikov observed that many graduates possessed strong creative and technical skills but lacked the structural support required to sustain independent careers.
Early collaborations with designers and artists outside traditional institutional frameworks tested alternative models of mentoring, visibility, and production. These experiments demonstrated the need for a structure operating beyond education alone.
LIGNES DE FUITE operates as an integrated ecosystem structured around four complementary pillars.
Studio
Mentoring programs, designer residencies, advanced units, open studio access, and production support.
Supply
A curated marketplace connecting designers to the public through retail, pop-ups, and digital distribution.
Happenings
Fashion shows, exhibitions, launches, and public events that activate work in professional and cultural contexts.
Archive
Editorial content and documentation preserving research, process, and designer trajectories.Together, these pillars form a continuous system rather than isolated initiatives.
LIGNES DE FUITE functions as a retention mechanism within the fashion ecosystem.
By providing shared infrastructure, mentoring, production support, and access to public platforms and markets, LDF enables designers to remain active, visible, and professionally engaged during a critical phase of their careers.
This contributes to sustained professional practice, skills retention, and the circulation of independent fashion practices across cultural and commercial contexts.
LIGNES DE FUITE’s long-term objective is to operate a permanent, shared infrastructure dedicated to independent fashion practice.
This includes access to production facilities, image-making resources, distribution channels, and essential shared services that individual designers cannot sustainably maintain alone.
LDF is conceived as a durable structure, not a temporary platform, supporting designers from early development through professional consolidation.