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11 Jun

PARIS — Setchu by Satoshi Kuwata, an industry veteran who has worked for everybody from a Savile Row tailor to luxury sneakers brand Golden Goose, on Wednesday won the 2023 edition of the LVMH Prize for Young Designers at a star-studded ceremony in Paris marking the tenth anniversary of the award. Milan-based Kuwata beat some 2,400 applicants from 15 countries to walk away with a grand prize of 400,000 euros, plus a 12 months of coaching from experts at luxury giant LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, parent of brands including Vuitton, Guerlain, Dom Pérignon and Sephora. “I used to be a very naughty boy and my mom was really nervous about me, and now I could make my mom really completely happy,”...

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25 May

Daseul Choi Wins Polimoda Competition Think Bag, in Collaboration

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CELEBRATING BAGS: The ultimate event of the Think Bag competition, sponsored by Leather & Luxury magazine and the Florentine leather goods company Loipell, was held Wednesday in Florence on the Villa Favard campus. The competition involved the scholars of the master in bag design on the Florence-based fashion and design institute Polimoda. On this occasion, the Choi Bag by the Korean student Daseul Choi was named the winner of the project. Choi designed a bag with delicate shapes and an progressive design, in black nappa leather with a steel handle. “For this project I combined my experience in fabrics with a passion for leather and patterns,” said the young designer. “The geometric overlaps of the handle of my bag recall the...

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17 May

Japanese Ceramicist Eriko Inazaki Wins Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2023

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The Loewe Foundation hosted a night of intricate craft at The Noguchi Museum in Queens, Recent York on Tuesday night, culminating in Japanese ceramicist Eriko Inazaki winning the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize for 2023. “The explanation why I selected this location is I’ve been at Loewe for 10 years now and after I first did a show for Loewe, I did it at Unesco in Paris. That garden there is finished by Noguchi, so after we were taking a look at venues, I assumed there was something that actually was book-ended in some way, it made sense to have it here,” creative director Jonathan Anderson said during a mid-day tour of the museum and 30 finalists’ craft works ahead of the...

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15 May

Lagos Space Programme Wins International Woolmark Prize

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PARIS — Adeju Thompson’s label Lagos Space Programme was named the winner of the 2023 International Woolmark Prize at a ceremony hosted on the Petit Palais in Paris on Monday. The Nigerian designer will receive a money prize of 200,000 Australian dollars, or $134,000, the chance to be stocked at top fashion retailers, and business mentorship. Lagos Space Programme was chosen amongst eight finalists who were tasked with designing six merino wool looks as a part of their fall 2023 collections, or a standalone capsule line highlighting “the innate versatility, progressive nature and eco-credentials of merino wool.” They were judged by a panel of industry experts including Alaïa creative director Pieter Mulier; Alessandro Sartori, artistic director of Zegna; Marni creative director Francesco Risso;...

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