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Supima Design Competition 2022 marks fifteenth anniversary during NYFW

The Supima Design Competition celebrated its fifteenth anniversary this NYFW and honored the occasion by welcoming two hosts for its runway show event. The dynamic duo were designer Christian Siriano who is well-accustomed to the fashion competition setting with his role on Project Runway, and model and entrepreneur Coco Rocha who wore a...

Sep 13, 2022

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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...

Sep 13, 2021

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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...

Dec 16, 2020

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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...

Oct 14, 2020

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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...

Sep 7, 2020

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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,...

May 13, 2020

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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...

May 13, 2020

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Abury Design Experience is looking for emerging talents

For the third time, the Abury Design Experience (ADEx) takes place, an annual, international design competition with a social cause, looking for the best talent, whose task will be to create an accessory capsule collection using traditional crafts knowledge from different cultures. This year, the winner will spend two months in Ethiopia. The...

Apr 20, 2017

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Abury Design Experience is looking for emerging talents

Apr 20, 2017