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2016 Fashion Talent Award “Designer for Tomorrow”

Edda Gimnes is the winner of the 2016 fashion talent award “Designer for Tomorrow” by Peek & Cloppenburg and its online shop Fashion ID. The graduate from the London College of Fashion presented her womenswear collection “The Ragpicker” on the catwalk at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin and won over the Jury Board led by Patron Alber Elbaz with her hand-drawn prints in black and white. The award show kicked off with the new collection by Mareike Massing, the 2015 DfT winner.

 

The 700 guests included Naomie Harris, Sofía Sanchez de Betak, Emilia Schüle, Sara Nuru, Franz Dinda, Ursula Karven, Franziska Knuppe, Katja Flint, Johanna Klum, who was hosting, and Lena Meyer-Landrut, who performed two songs live at the beginning of the evening.

 

Jury Board

Christiane Arp (Editor-in-Chief VOGUE), John Cloppenburg (Member of the Executive Committee Peek & Cloppenburg KG, Düsseldorf), Melissa Drier (German Correspondent Women’s Wear Daily), Karen Heumann (Founder and Chairwoman (Spokesperson) thjnk), Marcus Luft (Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Fashion Director GALA), Jessica Weiß (Founder and chief writer on the Journelles.de fashion blog), Kerstin Weng (Editor-in-Chief InStyle), Michael Werner (Editor-in-Chief TextilWirtschaft).

 

About the award

The fashion talent award “Designer for Tomorrow” has been presented as part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin since 2009. As an initiative of Peek & Cloppenburg and its online shop Fashion ID, the award provides a visible platform for creativity. It offers up-and-coming fashion talent the opportunity to be discovered as such and to receive a great deal of attention from the fashion industry and the public.

 

This year’s finalists:

Edda Gimnes (London College of Fashion), David Kälble (Academy of Fashion & Design Düsseldorf (AMD)), Elisa Kley (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover), Marc Morris Mok (London College of Fashion), and Ancuta Sarca (University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca).

 

View photos from the event below and Enjoy!