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Competitions
And the winner is ...
With numerous publicly funded and private competitions, Berlin
is Germany’s center for the promotion of new fashion talent.
Sissi Goetze collection
The winners – Blaenk
Each year, three fashion labels are awarded the Start your Fashion Business prize. As
part of the state initiative called Project Future (Landesinitiative Projekt Zukunft), this
competition offers its finalists the opportunity to show their collections at Mercedes-
Benz Fashion Week Berlin. After the show, the winners are selected by a jury of media
and fashion professionals. In 2012 the duo behind up-and-coming label Blaenk
secured first place and was awarded 25,000 euros. Total funding surpasses 100,000
euros; this includes prize money and complementary features such as press services
and trade show presentations. www.berlin.de/projektzukunft/wettbewerbe/syfb-2013
Ever since 2008, the Berlin-based Confederation of the German Textile and Fashion
Industry has been awarding the textil+mode Innovation Award in three categories.
The award recognizes developments in fashion, textile and innovative surface design,
and also includes a special category for sustainable design. The 2012 first place award
of 10,000 euros, along with promotional and other benefits, was awarded to Berlin
designer Hoai Huong Vo Ngoc and her label Concis.
www.textil-mode.de
Hoai Huong Vo Ngoc
DfT show July 2012
The Designer for Tomorrow by Peek
& Cloppenburg Düsseldorf has been
providing a platform for new talented
designers since 2009. Thanks to the
patronage of American fashion designer
Marc Jacobs in 2011 and 2012, a highcaliber
jury, and the opportunity for
finalists to present their work during
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin, the
competition is a high-profile fashion
event in Germany.
www.designer-for-tomorrow.com
Fall/winter winners 2013/14
At the beginning of each Berlin
Fashion Week the Premium trade
show recognizes outstanding fashion
and accessories designers with two
prizes. The winners of the Premium
Young Designers Award receive the
opportunity to present at the Premium
fashion show and have their work
stocked at F95, the show’s concept
store. The 2012 Premium Window
Dressers Award winners decorated the
windows of Berlin's Galeries Lafayette
with their collections.
www.premiumexhibitions.com/talents/yda
Silke Geib AND
Nadine Möllenkamp
Winners, “Start your Fashion
Business” 2012, Blaenk
“Along with the prize money, designers
receive a comprehensive package of
benefits over a period of time. The
award increased public awareness of
our brand and amplified the interest in
our label enormously. This allowed us
to gain new contacts in the field, which
will be very useful in the future.”