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Topman launches design competition with ST.ART Gallery

Menswear brand Topman has launched a design competition to spotlight emerging artists from photography, painting, illustration, and printmaking. The open call competition is being launched in collaboration with contemporary London-based space, the ST.ART Gallery, and is looking to discover three winners. The competition is calling on artists to...

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Vinted funds TV design competition celebrating second-hand fashion

Vinted, the leading second-hand fashion marketplace in Europe, is funding a six-part TV series spotlighting eight emerging designers using second-hand items to create unique looks. The TV competition show called ‘RE/Style’ has been co-created with Lion Television Scotland and aims to spotlight second-hand design “as the future of fashion,” with...

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BESTSELLER launches design competition for global talents

In 2025, the international fashion company BESTSELLER celebrates its 50th anniversary. The celebration will include a design competition, inviting international design students and talents to create a capsule collection that interprets five decades of design. Since 1975, when BESTSELLER was founded, fashion has been a kaleidoscope of change, a...

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Kering launches sustainability jewellery award

French luxury fashion conglomerate Kering has launched a new jewellery award to advance sustainability and innovation targeting universities and start-ups. The ‘Kering Generation Award x Jewelry’ has been launched in partnership with CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, and with the scientific coordination of Poli.Design at Politecnico di...

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The Access Group launches workwear design competition

The Access Group, which provides business management software to small and mid-sized organisations, has launched a workwear design competition with Loughborough University. The competition forms part of the fashion design and technology students' first-year degree course and challenges them to design a new capsule workwear wardrobe that...

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Julia Fox and Law Roach to co-host E!’s new design competition series

Actor and model Julia Fox will host and executive produce a new design competition series with US TV network E! called ‘OMG Fashun’. The half-hour show will premiere on May 6 with two episodes and will see Fox co-hosting with Law Roach, known for his styling work with actress Zendaya, to highlight “fashion’s up-and coming disruptors”. In each...

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Six schools represent future of fashion for Supima Design Competition 2021

The Supima Design Competition returned to the runway on Thursday for the first time since Covid forced it into virtual format. Judging by the intensity of color, playful volumes and variety of textile design on display the six finalists were determined to seize the day as one of the first milestones in their burgeoning design careers. Founded in...

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Monica Vinader calls on jewellery designers to enter competition

Jewellery brand Monica Vinader has launched a sustainable design competition open to all jewellery designers and makers in the UK. The competition ‘New From Old’ is focused on creativity and new beginnings to shine a light on the next generation of jewellery designers, added the brand. The brief of the sustainable design competition is for young...

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Red Carpet Green Dress contest announces 2020 winners

Red Carpet Green Dress, a women-led global change-making organisation, has named two winners of its global design competition, which challenged designers to submit a sketch of a red carpet-worthy gown or suit that advocates sustainable fashion. The competition, conceived in 2009 by Suzy Amis Cameron during the press tour for her husband, James...

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Redress Design Award 2020 announces winners

Redress, the environmental charity working to reduce fashion’s waste, has named menswear designer Le Ngoc Ha Thu from Vietnam and womenswear designer Juliana Garcia Bello of Argentina as winners of the Redress Design Awards 2020. The largest sustainable fashion design competition, now in its 10th year, challenged fashion designers to showcase...

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Redress Design Award 2020 names finalists

Redress, the leading non-government organisation working to reduce fashion’s waste, has named its ten Redress Design Award 2020 finalists hailing from nine countries, including graduates from Central Saint Martins, London College of Fashion and Northumbria University. The competition, which challenges fashion designers to showcase sustainable,...

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Red Carpet Green Dress design contest launches for 2020

Global sustainable design competition from Red Carpet Green Dress, a women-led global change-making organisation, has opened for 2020, challenging designers to submit a sketch of a red carpet-worthy gown or suit for the red carpet that advocates sustainable fashion. The competition was conceived in 2009 by Suzy Amis Cameron during the press tour...