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Arts Thread announces winners for Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2024 in collaboration with WGSN + Coloro and Google Arts & Culture

The Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2024, a nonprofit organisation created by Arts Thread, announces the 2024 winners, judged by 225 highly esteemed judges across all categories. This is the 5th Anniversary of the show which saw over 5000 students, graduating this academic year, enter their work. Over the last 5 years, hundreds of graduates...

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Ba&sh invites IFM students to design shoes for its SS25 collection

The French ready-to-wear brand Ba&sh has invited students specialising in accessories design at the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) to design a shoe model for its spring/summer 2025 collection. The three finalists, selected by a panel of experts, will be announced on Thursday October 24, before the public selects the overall winner. The...

Fashion |In Pictures

‘Manifattura’: Polimoda opens second fashion campus in Florence

Italian fashion school Polimoda unveils Manifattura, a new campus located in Florence at the former Manifattura Tabacchi cigar factory. Manifattura was presented on October 15, 2024 by Ferruccio Ferragamo, chairman of Polimoda, and Massimiliano Giornetti, director of the fashion school, in the presence of the mayor of Florence, Sara Funaro....

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Brioni inaugurates its Nazareno Fonticoli haute couture school

Yesterday in Penne, Italy, Brioni inaugurated its School of Haute Couture Nazareno Fonticoli, named after the Italian master tailor and entrepreneur who founded Brioni with partner Gaetano Savini, and officially launched the Brioni Foundation. The school opened its doors on September 23. The students have already completed the first three weeks...

Fashion |Interview

Fashion Stipend winner Camiel Fortgens: ‘We're going to conquer the world’

The thirteenth Fashion Stipend Netherlands winner has been announced: Designer Camiel Fortgens took home the Culture Fund Fashion Stipend earlier this week. Fortgens joins a list of designers (collectives) who have previously received the incentive award. Fortgens is a Dutch designer who mainly operates abroad. In the Netherlands, he continues...

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'Sustainability Lab': UDIT launches research and development project with Spanish fashion giant Tendam

Determined to support the transformation of fashion from the ground up, Spanish fashion group Tendam has announced the creation of its new Sustainability Lab, a research and development laboratory focused on sustainability, which in collaboration with UDIT University in Madrid and consultancy IDavinci aims to ‘redefine the future of fashion’...

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Marco Sammicheli joins Its Arcademy advisory board

Marco Sammicheli, curator for design, fashion and craftsmanship and director of the Museum of Italian Design at Triennale Milano, joins the advisory board of Its Arcademy, Museum of Art in fashion, a museum dedicated to contemporary fashion based in Trieste. "Joining the board of Its Arcademy is an honour for me," Marco Sammicheli said in a...

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What are the business opportunities for participants in the Hyères Festival?

As the 39th edition of the Hyères Festival drew to a close with Dolev Elron winning the Grand Prix from the Première Vision jury, FashionUnited set out to meet the former candidates of the contest, to find out what they have been up to since taking part, speaking to Laura Sonney, Christophe Lhote, Christoph Rumpf, Emma Bruschi, Normann Mabire...

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LCI Education expands in Europe, inaugurating new Barcelona campus

LCI Barcelona, a school specialising in art, design, communications, fashion and photography that forms a part of the Canadian LCI Education Group, is expanding to become LCI Education's main European hub with the inauguration of its new campus. Inaugurated last week, the campus will serve as the European hub for the LCI Education network. The...

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Hyères Festival announces 2024 prize winners

The Hyères Festival has unveiled the winners of this year’s awards. Here are the names to remember. The Fashion winners • Première Vision Grand Jury Prize: Dolev Elron from Israel • Public and City of Hyères Prize: Gaëlle Lang Halloo from France • Mercedes-Benz Eco-Responsible Collection Prize: Logan GOFF from the US • Atelier des Matières...

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Nicolas Salado appointed managing director of ISIPCA and La Fabrique

Nicolas Salado has been appointed the new managing director of ISIPCA and La Fabrique, two schools within the fashion and luxury division of the chamber of commerce of Paris and the Île-de-France region (CCI Paris Île-de-France). Founded fifty years ago by Jean-Jacques Guerlain, ISIPCA is a leading institution in the perfume, cosmetics, and...

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Brioni reopens Nazareno Fonticoli haute couture school

Italian luxury menswear fashion house Brioni, part of the Kering Group, is reopening the Nazareno Fonticoli haute couture school in Penne, a town in the Italian province of Pescara. Originally founded in 1985, the school is named after Nazareno Fonticoli, the Italian master tailor and entrepreneur who founded Brioni with his business partner...