The Woolmark Company has put together its panel of judges to come to a decision its upcoming 2023 International Woolmark Prize winner. 

The worldwide wool authority on Thursday revealed the 12 industry executives, designers and creatives who will determine the winner of the annual prize. 

The jury is made up of Zegna artistic director Alessandro Sartori, CR Fashion Book founder Carine Roitfeld, model Caroline de Maigret, Farfetch chief fashion and merchandising officer Elizabeth von der Goltz, Marni creative director Francesco Risso, The Woolmark Company managing director John Roberts, Alaïa creative director Pieter Mulier, clothier Salehe Bembury, Yehyehyeh founder Shaway Yeh, Tilting the Lens founder Sinéad Burke, fashion author Tim Blanks and photographer Tyler Mitchell.

“The International Woolmark Prize has all the time been a forerunner in fashion by discovering young recent talents and inspiring creativity and ingenuity,” Mulier said. “At a time where recent generations raise recent challenges for the industry, it’s also a necessary process to develop and defend countless innovations to seek out the plural answers. I’m thrilled to be a part of this unique experience which, yr after yr, embodies the long run of fashion.” 

The judges will determine the winner from a gaggle of eight designers, including Rhuigi Villaseñor, founding father of Rhude and artistic director of Bally; Jaehyung Lee, the designer behind South Koren label Maxxij; Anthony Alvarez, founding father of Bluemarble; Amalie Roege Hove, designer of Danish knitwear label A. Roege Hove; menswear designer Robyn Lynch; clothier Marco Rambaldi; design duo Lucile Guilmard and Paolina Russo of fashion label Paolina Russo, and Adeju Thompson, the founding father of Lagos Space Programme. 

The finalists got 60,000 Australian dollars, or $40,000, to design a set out of merino wool as a part of their fall 2023 collections, which will probably be reviewed by the judging panel.

The winner, who will probably be revealed in Paris on May 15, will receive 200,000 Australian dollars, or $133,000, to be invested of their business and may have the chance to be stocked in major international retailers through the International Woolmark Prize Retailer Network. 

The jury panel will even award the Karl Lagerfeld Award for Innovation to a different finalist, which entails a 100,000 Australian dollar prize, and the Woolmark Supply Chain Award, which celebrates outstanding contribution from a trade partner to driving wool supply chain innovation.