Croatian designer prevail top iD fashion prize
Croatian fashion designer Igor Galas took the chief prize of $5000 and direct entry into the Mittelmoda fashion show in Italy at the iD Emerging Designer Awards in Dunedin last night.
It is the first time anyone from Croatia has pierced the awards. Galas, who have competed in fashion competitions in China and Europe, admired the Dunedin awards.
I believe this competition is so much better and much stronger. The other designers are all of a high superiority. He believed more designers from Europe would attend the awards because it was gaining such a good standing internationally.
Ryota Shiga, of Japan, won the $3000 second prize, though British designer Ichiro Suzuki took the $1000 third prize.
Auckland University’s Sandra Tupu ($2500) and Glenn Yungnickel won the sustainability and Pulp Magazine awards correspondingly. The jewellery honor was won by Australian Paula Kyle Walden ($1000).
Whitecliffe College of Art and Design graduate Brooke Fairgray won the three-month residency among the Dunedin Fashion Incubator.
International fashion designer and Judge Zandra Rhodes were also frightened with the standard. The fashion here is of a very high standard.
Galas’ range consisted of woollen headgear with long woven dreadlocks hanging nearly to the ground, and ruched backs, related to dinosaur ridges. Many of the ranges were reminiscent of the 80s, with pipe-leg pants, inflated shoulder pads, jodhpur pants, riding boots and lots of black and white.
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