Eco-Chic Design Award 2014 – meet the finalists

This year’s Eco-Chic Design award is hotting up! Not only we have some amazing finalists, but also some top Bloomsbury authors have joined in as mentors to them.

As many of you know already, we are always keen to get involved with new initiatives out there that help boost the careers and creativity of fashion students out there, and this year we have been proud supporters of ModeConnect’s YourView competition, the Stitch Your Brain research project (more to come on this soon), and for a second year running, the Eco-Chic Design Award.

As we did in 2013, we are supporting this Award by supplying all finalists and semi-finalists with copies of A practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion and the not-yet-published Sustainable Fashion: Past, Present and Future.

 

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The finalists – and winners – will also be receiving a wide array of prizes, which include free access to the Berg Fashion Library, an free subscriptions to our journals.

Several Bloomsbury authors have also come on board for this 2014 edition to provide the finalists with individual mentorship sessions about sustainability, zero-waste fashion and the fashion design industry:

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And last but not least, the protagonists of the show – meet the 2014 candidates:

Name: Cher, Carman Chan Region: Hong Kong Occupation: Designer at The Igloo Studio Design technique: Zero-waste and up-cycling
Name: Cher, Carman Chan
Region: Hong Kong
Occupation: Designer at The Igloo Studio
Design technique: Zero-waste and up-cycling
Name: Kévin Germanier Region: United Kingdom Occupation: Student at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Design technique: Up-cycling
Name: Kévin Germanier
Region: United Kingdom
Occupation: Student at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Design technique: Up-cycling
Name: Aya, Xiating Qi Region:Mainland China Occupation:Graduated from ESMOD Beijing in 2014 Design technique: Reconstruction
Name: Aya, Xiating Qi
Region: Mainland China
Occupation: Graduated from ESMOD Beijing in 2014
Design technique: Reconstruction
Name: Noëlla Tapasu Koy Region: France Occupation: Freelance Designer Design technique: Up-cycling
Name: Noëlla Tapasu Koy
Region: France
Occupation: Freelance Designer
Design technique: Up-cycling
Name: Yvonne, Tien Chun Tsai Region: Taiwan Occupation: Student at Fu Jen Catholic University Design technique: Up-cycling and reconstruction
Name: Yvonne, Tien Chun Tsai
Region: Taiwan
Occupation: Student at Fu Jen Catholic University
Design technique: Up-cycling and reconstruction
Name: Amandah Andersson Region: Sweden Occupation: Freelance designer Design technique: Reconstruction
Name: Amandah Andersson
Region: Sweden
Occupation: Freelance designer
Design technique: Reconstruction
Name: Laurensia Salim Region: Singapore Occupation: Student at Raffles Design Institute Singapore Design technique: Up-cycling and reconstruction
Name: Laurensia Salim
Region: Singapore
Occupation: Student at Raffles Design Institute Singapore
Design technique: Up-cycling and reconstruction
Name: Kirstine Marie Hansen Region: Denmark Occupation: Student at KEA, Copenhagen School of Design and Technology Design technique: Up-cycling and reconstruction
Name: Kirstine Marie Hansen
Region: Denmark
Occupation: Student at KEA, Copenhagen School of Design and Technology
Design technique: Up-cycling and reconstruction
Name: Veronica, Hsiao Huei Lee Country: Malaysia Occupation: Student at Raffles Design Institute Singapore Design technique: Up-cycling
Name: Veronica, Hsiao Huei Lee
Country: Malaysia
Occupation: Student at Raffles Design Institute Singapore
Design technique: Up-cycling
Name: Victor, Shing Hong Chu Region: Hong Kong / Wildcard Finalist* Occupation: Student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Design technique: Zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction
Name: Victor, Shing Hong Chu
Region: Hong Kong / Wildcard Finalist*
Occupation: Student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Design technique: Zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction