Dylan Westerweel wins Lichting 2019 at Amsterdam Fashion Week

On Friday the 6th of September, Lichting 2019, the debut for up-and-coming fashion talent took place at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam as part of Amsterdam Fashion Week. The fourteen best graduates of the seven Dutch fashion academies presented themselves to an international professional audience. Dylan Westerweel, who graduated from ArtEZ University of the Arts, was chosen by an international panel of fashion professionals as the most promising talent in the Netherlands. He won the Lichting 2019 award of 10,000 EUR-made available by the Meester Koetsier Foundation. In addition, Dylan received the NJAL+ award that gives the designer visibility on leading online fashion platform Not Just A Label. Lichting is an initiative of Amsterdam Fashion Week and HTNK fashion recruitment & consultancy and is supported by the Meester Koetsier Foundation.