Dear Shaded Viewers,
The finalists for the Swiss Textiles Award have just been announced:
Bless
Gareth Pugh
Marios Schwab
Ute Ploier
Felipe Oliveira Baptista
Anne-Sofie Back
In order to participate for the 100,000 EUROS Swiss Textiles Award, the designers must be nominated. Among the international professionals that proposed the above designers were: Suzy Menkes, Fashion Editor, International Herald Tribune, Armand Hadida, owner, L’Eclaireur, fashion store, Paris, Armand Limnander, Senior Editor, New York TImes Magazine, NY, Grace Lam, Fashion Style Editor, Vogue China, Shanghai, Floriane de Saint Pierre, Owner, Floriane de Saint Pierre & Associes, Paris, Yasmin Sewell, Senior Buyer Browns Focus, London and Linda Fargo, Fashion Director, Bergdorf Goodmann, NY.
Previous Swiss Textiles awards winners include: Raf Simons, Haider Ackermann, Christian Wijnants and Bruno Pieters.
The awards ceremony will take place November 9th in Zurich.
Later,
Diane