ITS#9 – fashion looks forward
Takashi Nishiyama
Takashi Nishiyama
Yong Kyun Shin
Yong Kyun Shin
Sidéral(es)
Sidéral(es)
Michael Kampe
Michael Kampe
Viktor & Rolf were the presidents of the jury of ITS#9, the fashion competition held last weekend in Trieste, Italy.
The famous creative couple and their fellow jurors gave the Fashion Collection of the Year prize and its €15,000 award to Takashi Nishiyama, 23, of Japan’s Coconogacco design school. Nishiyama’s collection, with its voluminous layers, was inspired by Monster Hunter, a hugely popular video game in Japan.
The Fashion Special Collection Creativity award (and €5,000) went to South Korea’s Yong Kyun Shin, 28, a student at Central Saint Martins: she created a women’s collection made from thousands of hair pins, some covered with leather.
Michael Kampe, 23, a student at Belgium’s Hogeschool in Antwerp, won the ITS9 Diesel award, which comes with a six-month internship in design at the company and €25,000.
A special mention of Design Catwalk goes to the fashion collective Sidéral(es), that after ITS will keep the name ES, the only Italians participating to the context. They are an extensive yet very united group of creative people, coming from different paths and backgrounds: Fabrizio Talia is the creative director and coordinator of the project, assisted in style and researchby Linda Calugi, Roberta Weiand for the research activity and loads of other passionate creative people like the guys of Milano Collective, who studied the logo, brand image and guerrilla advertising. And again, their promotional video is by Edoardo Notizia, the ravishing hats are by the Londinese hatter Justin Smith of JSmith Esquire Millinery and the jewels by DNA-79.
About their collection they say: “The excess of what exists is saturating the perception of what was once a passion for few. Re-assembling now means recovering a language that risks to get lost in massification.”
Ariko
