Prix Carmignac 2025
Image: © Nicole Tung for Fondation Carmignac
PHOTOGRAPHY
Nicole Tung
Prix Carmignac
After fifteen years of a highly acclaimed photojournalism award, the final winner of the Prix Carmignac is Nicole Tung, with her project Overfishing in South East Asia, an Ecological and Human Drama. Her report was carried out over a nine-month period with the support of Fondation Carmignac. It examines the complex dynamics of industrial fishing in the region and its consequences for marine ecosystems and coastal communities. Through field reporting in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia, Tung documents a highly opaque industry in which access is often limited, especially at sea, where operations remain largely hidden from public scrutiny. Her report explores issues such as the rollback of fishing regulations, the impact on local fishers by geopolitical pressures and the working conditions of migrant laborers at sea.
2025 LVMH Prize
Image: Soshiotsuki, Tokyo Spring 2026 Collection.
FASHION
Soshiotsuki
LVMH Prize for Young Designers
Soshiotsuki by Japanese designer Soshi Otsuki won the 2025 LVMH Prize for Young Designers. The brand is known for its voluminous 80s-inflected tailoring inspired by Japanese "salarymen." A graduate of Bunka Fashion College, Otsuki also attended Coconogacco, the private fashion school that is producing some of Japan’s most exciting new talents. Shortly after launching Soshiotsuki in 2015, he was short-listed for the 2016 LVMH Prize. Since then he has refined his signature blend of Japanese and Western menswear codes. Suit linings are slashed in reference to kimono sleeves, while some jackets are wrapped like karate uniforms. Steve O Smith and Torishéju won the runner-up Karl Lagerfeld and Savoir-Faire prizes, respectively.
2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Image: ZAV Architects, Majara Residence and Community Redevelopment, Iran.
© Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Deed Studio
ARCHITECTURE
Aga Khan Award for Architecture
The 16th Award Cycle (2023–2025) of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has announced seven winners, selected following on-site reviews of projects by nineteen studios shortlisted earlier in June. Collectively, the awarded works demonstrate architecture's potential to act as a catalyst for pluralism, community resilience, social transformation, cultural dialogue and climate-responsive design. This year's winners include two projects from Iran, and one each from Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Pakistan and Palestine, which will share the prize fund.
About the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
2026 Zurich Art Prize
Image: Rosa Barba, The Ocean of One’s Pause, exhibition view, Kravis Studio at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2025. Photo: Peio Erroteta © Rosa Barba
ART
Rosa Barba
Zurich Art Prize
The 2026 Zurich Art Prize, awarded annually by Museum Haus Konstruktiv and Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, goes to Rosa Barba. Rosa Barba’s work fluctuates between film, sculpture and installation, whereby the boundaries are always fluid. Processes of transformation, perception and incorporation, both in a material and conceptual sense, are her central themes. Her characteristic interest in linking art and science manifests itself both in her film work and in her engagement with landscapes, or so-called ‘future ecologies’. In the past, her gaze often turned to the desert – a space between emptiness, memory and imaginative projection.
Prix du design de l'IMA 2025
Image: Ala Tannir, Yumum Jana Traboulsi. © Vicken Avakian
DESIGN
Ala Tannir
Grand Prix du jury
Ala Tannir, an independent architect and curator from Beirut, is the winner of the Grand Prix du jury in this year's Prix du design de l'Institut du monde arabe. Her winning project and from my heart I blow kisses to the sea and houses (2024) tells the story of a 1920s house on Beirut's rapidly changing coastline. Rather than relying on traditional methods of architectural conservation, the project uses experimental artistic strategies to creatively rehabilitate the architecture of the building. In a city where political instability and speculation regularly displace people, erase memory and tear apart the urban fabric, the rehabilitation of this house and its transformation into a cultural laboratory is a discreet but firm act of resistance against these different forms of violence.
About the Prix du design de l'IMA
FRAME Awards 2025
Image: Atelier Xi, AYDC Public Art Center - Xima Library. Photo: Zhang Chao.
DESIGN
AYDC Public Art Center
Winner of the month for August
Atelier Xi impressed the August FRAME Awards jury with its sculptural forms designed for community use, merging the AYDC Public Art Center seamlessly with the surrounding park. Inspired by the karst mountain caves of Guizhou province, three sculptural buildings make up the AYDC Public Art Center in Guiyang, China. What was originally planned as a single building was broken up into three separate forms by Atelier Xi, each serving distinct purposes. A stage opens toward a public square, providing a venue for public performances while a library floats serenely over the park’s water feature.
Art-o-rama 2025
Image: Season 4 Episode 6 stand, works by David Attwood, Art-o-rama 2025.
ART
Season 4 Episode 6
Prix Roger Pailhas
At Art-o-rama 2025, the Prix Roger Pailhas, launched in 2015 to reward the most daring stand, was won this year by London gallery Season 4 Episode 6, which was exhibiting works by David Attwood. Known for assembling deft combinations of contemporary commodities, the works on show continue Attwood’s interests in housework, its labour conditions and the sculptural potential of its associated appliances, technologies and consumables. Particular to this presentation for Art-o-rama is the globally iconic Red Bull energy drink, which is used to explore ideas around energy, productivity, performance and work.
Maison&Objet 2025
Image: © The Fabrick Lab - Elaine Yan Ling Ng
DESIGN
Elaine Yan Ling Ng
Women&Design Innovation Award Worldwide
Launched in 2025 during the Maison&Objet fair, the Women&Design Awards aim to highlight inspiring journeys and innovative approaches led by female designers from around the world. Elaine Yan Ling Ng is the winner of the Women&Design Innovation Award Worldwide 2025. Designer, artist and technologist, Elaine Yan Ling Ng is renowned for her biomimetic creations that blend traditional craftsmanship with technological innovation. Founder of The Fabrick Lab, she designs environmentally responsive textiles that react to light, humidity and movement, pushing the boundaries of materials as storytelling tools.
Image: © LCasanova - Manufacture de Couleuvre - Sophie Salager
DESIGN
Sophie Salager
Women&Design Innovation Award France
Sophie Salager is the winner of the Women&Design Innovation Award France 2025. An art historian by training, Sophie Salager has breathed new life into a gem of French industrial heritage: the Manufacture de Couleuvre, a porcelain factory founded in 1789. Captivated by this forgotten site, she undertook its revival in 2022, restoring the premises, reviving traditional craftsmanship and repositioning the brand with a strong focus on cultural transmission. With a perspective that is both sensitive and entrepreneurial, she has transformed the manufacture into a laboratory of heritage innovation, blending reissued archival pieces with contemporary creations.
