JURY AND FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR 34th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FASHION, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FASHION ACCESSORIES, HYERES

FROM THURSDAY 25TH - MONDAY 29TH APRIL 2019 - EXHIBITIONS UNTIL MAY 26

The 34th edition of the International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Fashion accessories, Hyères, will take place between Thursday 25 and Monday 29 April 2019 at the villa Noailles. The exhibitions will be open to the public until 26 May 2019. Jean-Pierre Blanc is both the founder and the director of the festival which will be presided over by Pascale Mussard.

Since 1986, the festival has promoted and supported young international fashion design, since 1997 a competition has also existed for emerging photographer and this year, for the third time, a competition will
also recognise young fashion accessory designers.

The festival is acknowledged as the oldest fashion competition aimed at young professionals. Several prizes are awarded to the competing designers thanks to grants provided by the festival’s partners who commit, together with the festival, to provide long term support. Practical assistance is provided right from the selection stage as well as during a period of two years in various different domains: financing, production, workmanship, materials, production, legal, media, exhibitions, workshops and residencies. This year again new partners are providing their support for this young generation by joining together with the arts centre. 

THE JURY 

The fashion jury is presided over by Natacha Ramsay-Levi. The jury met in Paris at Chloé’s creative design studios on January 23, 2019 in order to choose the 10 finalists of the competition (300 entries received from over 50 nationalities, 47 shortlisted).

The jury is composed of:

Natacha Ramsay-Levi
artistic director, Chloé Paris
president of the jury

Michael Amzalag
graphic designer, M/M (Paris) Paris

Mathias Augustiniak
graphic designer, M/M (Paris) Paris

Camille Bidault Waddington
Fashion Editor and consultant Paris

Sigrid Bouaziz
Actress Paris

Charlotte Casiraghi
Paris

Jo Ellison
Fashion Writer, The Financial Times New York

Guillaume Houzé
Image and Communication Director at Galeries Lafayette and BHV Marais Paris

Liya Kebede
Model, fashion designer New York

Ariane Labed
Actress Athens, Paris

Samira Nasr
Fashion Director, Vanity Fair USA New York

Alexia Niedzielski
Editor-in-Chief, SYSTEM London

Jojo Qian
Fashion Director, T Magazine China Shangai

Rushemy Botter & Lisi Herrebrugh
Fashion designers
Grand Prix of the jury Première Vision 2018 Paris

THE FINALISTS

The jury has chosen ten fashion designers from 9 nationalities. Their collections will be presented during 3 fashion shows, open to the public and to the professionnals, directed by Maida Grégory-Boina. The collections will also be presented in showrooms during the festival, then in a collective exhibition in the villa Noailles till May 26, 2019.

The finalists of the 2019 fashion competition are:

Enikova Dita
Latvia womenswear

Tetsuya Doi, Youta Anazawa & Manami Toda
Japan womenswear

Emilia Kuurila
Finland menswear

Milla Lintilä
Finland womenswear

Yana Monk
Russia menswear

Roisin Pierce
Ireland womenswear

Christoph Rumpf
Austria menswear

Tina Schwizgebel
Switzerland menswear

Tsung-Chien Tang
Taiwan menswear

Lucille Thievre
France womenswear

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