2023 LVMH Prize
Image: Setchu, SS 2023 collection
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Setchu
LVMH Prize for Young Designers
Satoshi Kuwata’s Setchu is the winner of the 2023 LVMH Prize for Young Designers. The 39-year-old Japanese creator, stood out for his vision that includes "not only clothes, but a philosophy," said jury member Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior’s creative director for womenswear. After graduating from Central Saint Martins, Kuwata went on to work at Givenchy under Riccardo Tisci and LVMH’s now-defunct Edun label before starting his own brand. Now in its fifth season, Milan-based Setchu mixes British tailoring techniques with Japanese traditions like origami. Clients are given instructions on how to roll or fold jackets for storage and travel, using techniques inspired by kimono culture that both minimise the space taken up by garments and preserve pleats and creases integrated in the design.
2023 ANDAM Fashion Awards
Image: LGN Louis Gabriel Nouchi, Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2024 fashion show.
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LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi
Grand Prize
LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi is the Grand Prize winner of the 2023 ANDAM Fashion Awards. Paris-based Nouchi, who sought to redefine male sensuality with his spring 2024 collection inspired by the 1964 novel "A Single Man" and presented on June 22, proposes gender-fluid collections with a literary inspiration, prioritizing the use of fabrics with low environmental impact, natural dyes and buttons and labels made of recycled plastic. Ester Manas and Duran Lantink were jointly awarded the Special Prize, Avellano was the Pierre Bergé Prize winner.
Image: Ruslan Baginskiy
ACCESSORIES
Ruslan Baginskiy
Accessories Prize
Ukrainian designer Ruslan Baginskiy, whose hats were featured on Beyoncé's "Renaissance" tour, won the Accessories Prize. Ruslan Baginskiy brand has been revitalizing headwear in the landscape of contemporary fashion since 2015. Melding artisanal craftsmanship and classic shapes with a fresh multidisciplinary approach to design. RB collections are inspired by art, photography, folklore, nature and cultural heritage of the brand’s home country, Ukraine.
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2023 International Woolmark Prize
Image: © Lagos Space Programme
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Lagos Space Programme
International Woolmark Prize
Lagos Space Programme from Nigeria was awarded the 2023 International Woolmark Prize. Lagos Space Programme is a conceptual non-binary design label by Adeju Thompson. It offers intellectual, ready-to-wear, high-end crafted collections while exploring parallel concepts through multidisciplinary collaboration projects. The brand impressed judges with its completeness in the collection and the way it explored and used Merino wool to tailor each piece. Denmark’s A. ROEGE HOVE was presented with the Karl Lagerfeld Award for Innovation, after impressing the judges with the freshness of her collection and the attention paid to the supply chain and manufacturing process.
About the International Woolmark Prize
Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires de mode, Hyères 2022
Image: Jenny Hytönen, Finland. © Antoine Harinthe
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Jenny Hytönen
Grand Prix du jury Première Vision
Prix du public de la ville de Hyères
Jenny Hytönen, 25-year-old Finnish artist and designer, won the Grand Prix du jury Première Vision and the Prix du public de la ville de Hyères. Her subversive approach to clothing, enhanced by exceptional know-how, won over a jury presided by Glenn Martens, the creative director of Y/Project and Diesel. In her collection with punk accents, the designer played on the contrasts between armor and sensuality. The fabrics, sometimes fluid, sometimes very rigid, compose silhouettes with an assumed BDSM spirit, where rivers of pearls, devastating nudity, outrageous transparency and abundance of studs mingle.
Image: Joshua Cannone, France.
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Joshua Cannone
Grand Prix du jury Accessoires de Mode
Joshua Cannone won the Grand Prix du jury Accessoires de Mode headed by Aska Yamashita, artistic director of Montex. It is with a collection of mysterious and disturbing bags that the young French designer of 23 years old caught the attention of the jury, between bags looking like voodoo dolls, silicone bags in the shape of rats and decorated with human hair, or a black leather backpack, made of a single skin, with an excessive size.
About the Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires de mode, Hyères
2023 BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund
Image: © Christina Ebenezer
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Grace Wales Bonner
BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund
Grace Wales Bonner, founder of WALES BONNER, is the winner of the 2023 BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund. Caroline Rush, chief executive officer of the BFC, said the designer has "created a space for a cultural conversation that inspires future generations. Her intellectual approach to design has resulted in multiple collaborations across the creative space, demonstrating the brand’s clear ability to resonate with consumers and achieve commercial success." Wales Bonner, an LVMH Prize winner, founded her label in 2014 shortly after graduating from London’s Central Saint Martins.
About the BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund
2022 CFDA Fashion Awards
Image: Khaite, Spring-Summer 2023.
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Catherine Holstein
American Womenswear Designer of the Year Award
Catherine Holstein won the American Womenswear Designer of the Year Award. She is the founder and Creative Director of KHAITE. Renowned for her ability to create pieces that are at once refined and relatable, Holstein has been lauded by Vogue as "a resource for the clothes women truly want to wear." Since launching in 2016, KHAITE has grown rapidly from its origins in reimagined American sportswear. In February 2019 Holstein expanded the line to include handbags, footwear and accessories.
Image: Bode, Fall-Winter 2022.
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Emily Bode Aujla
American Menswear Designer of the Year
Emily Bode Aujla of Bode won the American Menswear Designer of the Year for the second year in a row. She was the first female designer to show at NYFW: Men’s. She is paving the way for women entrepreneurs in the menswear industry. In 2016, the brand began with a collection of one-of-a-kind garments composed entirely of antique textiles. She continues to reinvigorate American menswear through the art of storytelling and preservation with these foundational one-of-a-kind pieces alongside collections of historical reproductions.
