Applications for Hyères Fashion Festival now open
Nicola Mira
Applications are open for the Hyères International Fashion, Photography and Accessories Festival. Emerging designers aged 18 or over are invited to register and submit their applications by December 5, in order to enter the renowned young designer competition that was won this year by Jenny Hytönen from Finland. The Festival’s 38th edition will be held again in the autumn, after the September fashion week
The festival, staged at Villa Noailles
Collective applications are accepted, but up to a maximum of two names. Entrants can apply only with men’s, women’s or unisex collections. “Mixed-collection entries will be refused,” the organisers have indicated on the Villa Noailles website, encouraging candidates to present “unique” collections, and to make “use of sustainable materials and processes.”
An initial longlist will be drawn up in Hyères in December 2022. A jury will meet in January 2023 to select the finalists, whose names will be revealed then, as well as the composition of the final’s three juries, and their respective presidents’ names.
To produce their collections, the designers selected will be able to benefit from support by Première Vision Paris, the Aymeric Ledeun atelier, for buckles and covered buttons, Puntoseta, SupimaCELCChanel
In the past three decades, the fashion competition’s winners have included names like Viktor & RolfGaspard YurkievichFelipe Oliveira BaptistaChristian WijnantsRichard René, Anthony Vaccarello
The winners of the most recent editions were Kenta MatsushigeWataru TominagaRushemy BotterLisi Herrebrugh
