The Worldwide Woolmark Prize has revealed the eight finalists for the 2025 version of the esteemed vogue award. This 12 months’s contenders embrace ACT N°1 (Italy), Diotima (USA), Duran Lantink (The Netherlands), Ester Manas (Belgium), LGN Louis Gabriel Nouchi (France), Luar (USA), Meryll Rogge (Belgium), and Standing Floor (UK/Eire).
Chosen from tons of of purposes, every designer will obtain $60,000 AUD (roughly $37,775 USD) to develop six Merino wool appears both as a part of their Fall/Winter 2025 assortment or as a standalone challenge. Notably, Woolmark has appointed Ib Kamara, the editor-in-chief of Dazed and artistic director of Off-White™, because the visitor inventive director for the 2025 closing occasion.
“I’m honored to be becoming a member of the superb workforce at Woolmark for the 2025 Woolmark Prize, bringing recent creativity as we have fun these design skills,” Kamara stated. “It’s so vital that we nurture and encourage the expertise who’re shaping the way forward for the style trade, and I can’t wait to fulfill the finalists.”
He’ll be judging every designer’s work alongside an esteemed jury led by Donatella Versace. This 12 months’s judging panel contains picture architect Legislation Roach, Zegna’s Alessandro Sartori, BoF editor-at-large Tim Blanks, Titling the Lens founder Sinéad Burke, DJ and producer Honey Dijon, N21 founder Alessandro Dell’Acqua, Vainness Truthful‘s Simone Marchetti, Saks’ Roopal Patel and stylist Danielle Goldberg.
All finalists will obtain help from Woolmark’s Innovation Academy, which presents mentorship from trade heavyweights like Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Sara Sozzani Maino, Burke, Patel, and Blanks. Moreover, every finalist could have the chance to be stocked at main shops internationally.
The Worldwide Woolmark Prize is among the many highest honors in vogue, beforehand received by the likes of Saul Nash, Matty Bovan, Rahul Mishra, Gabriela Hearst, Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino Garavani, amongst others.
One designer will be a part of the spectacular roster in Milan on April 2, when this 12 months’s Worldwide Woolmark Prize winner can be introduced. Notably, the awarded designer will obtain a $300,000 AUD ($188,877 USD) money prize.
