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Luxury fashion group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy has named Hed Mayner the first winner of the Karl Lagerfeld Prize for emerging fashion designers, which has been renamed after the late designer.
Every year, the prestigious LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers awards a Grand Prize, alongside a secondary special prize and recognition of three graduates.
Alongside Mayner, South African-designer Thebe Magugu took home the Grand Prize for 2019.
Winner of Karl Lagerfeld Prize Hed Mayner with members of the jury
Delphine Arnault, director and executive vice president of Louis Vuitton, started the prize schemes to “recognise the emergence of fresh talent is essential to the vitality and diversity of the fashion ecosystem”.
Since the launch of the prize in 2014, Lagerfeld was a returning member of the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) jury panel whilst working as artistic director of houses Chanel and Fendi.
Mayner’s winning clothing “blends simplicity and luxury”
Winners of both the grand and Karl Lagerfeld prizes were chosen from eight finalists, where each applicant is required to be under the age of 40 have sold two previous collections in either women’s or men’s wear.
The judges’ pick for the Karl Lagerfeld Prize went to Hed Mayner who “seduced the jury” with layered shirts worn underneath boxy, oversized suit jackets that created the voluminous silhouettes of his gender-neutral collection.
“His collections question the notion of gender through an aesthetic that blends soft lines and structure, simplicity and luxury,” said Arnault.
Thebe Magugu, who designed the Prosopography collection, was the winner of the Grand Prize
26-year-old designer Thebe Magugu marks another first for the LVMH Prize as the first African and youngest candidate to be awarded the Grand Prize.
Based in Johannesburg, Magugu‘s winning womenswear collection titled Prosopography was created in homage to the Black Sash – a “revolutionary group of women” who fought for the rights and dignity for people of colour during the apartheid.
“My mission as a designer is to build a global fashion brand that acts as a sort of sanctuary women can turn to for not only beautiful and functional clothes, but a place to learn about our culture and heritage, reinterpreted through a modern lens,” he explained in a post on Instagram.
Arnault praised his work, saying his collection appropriates the traditional and the experimental codes of womenswear and menswear, playing with volumes and traditional South-African know-how.
Magugu with Delphine Arnault (right) and actress Alicia Vikander (left) who presented the prizes
As winner of the Grand Prize, Magugu will receive a €300,000 grant, in addition to one year of mentorship working with a designated LVMH team.
Israeli designer, and first winner of the renamed Karl Lagerfeld Prize, Mayner will receive €150,000 and a mentorship programme.
Through the mentorship scheme, both will be taught and advised in skills to help future businesses, including production, distribution and sustainable development.
A third tier of the LVMH Prizes is reserved for fashion school graduates, where three winners each €10,000 and join the design teams of a house under the LVMH group for one year.
Alice Paris from the Accademica Costume & Moda will join Givenchy, Daisy Yu from London’s Central Saint Martins joins Louis Vuitton and Juliette Tréhorel from Atelier Chardon Savard in Paris will join Christian Dior.
The LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers, which is in its sixth year, was held at the Fondation Louis Vuitton designed by architect Frank Gehry and welcomed more than 1,700 young designers from over 100 countries vying for the esteemed title.
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London-based designer Ab Rogers, AI Design founder Eva Jiricna and Claesson Koivisto Rune co-founder Eero Koivisto were on the interiors master jury panel.
They were joined by French designer Matali Crasset and design journalist and communication consultant Yoko Choy.
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The design master jury panel included Philippe Starck for the morning session and London-based designer Nelly Ben Hayoun who joined for the afternoon.
Guests enjoyed Pierre Mignon Champagne supplied by Alliance Wines and Israeli red and white wine supplied by Kedem Europe, and Or Haganuz Amuka Blanc.
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After the master jury day the next big date on the Dezeen Awards calendar is the culmination of this year’s programme – the Dezeen Awards party.
This dazzling event held on 30 October at a the beautiful and historic Ennismore Sessions House will feature music, drinks and canapés, plus Dezeen Awards winners will be able to collect their trophies.
The party will be a chance for everyone who entered Dezeen Awards or attended Dezeen Day to celebrate and network.
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A ladder-like seat inspired by a biblical tale and an armchair that appears to have been swallowed by a rug are some of the pieces to appear in this installation curated by designer Gitta Gschwendtner.
The installation, titled Please Sit, sees six contemporary chairs displayed amongst the ornate living spaces of Fenton House – a 17th-century residence in London’s affluent Hampstead neighbourhood.
It’s presided over by UK conservation charity The National Trust, which commissioned German designer Gitta Gschwendtner to revitalise the home’s rooms.
The designer chose to install a selection of her works that foster conversation amongst visitors and encourage them to consider the historical setting from a different perspective.
Each designer produced a chair inspired by Fenton House’s interiors or its array of antique ornaments and furnishings procured from different inhabitants that have lived in the property over the years.
“Asking the visitor to sit, makes them more than just a spectator; they become a guest, invited to participate in the setting,” explained Gschwendtner.
“I am interested in how the six designers will interpret the house differently, look at different aspects of the house and create very different seats, which become objects in the room. This creates a much richer narrative.”
The interactive nature of the installation is also meant to offer visitors a different experience of National Trust properties, where touching furnishings is typically restricted.
For her contribution, Gschwendtner took cues from an embroidered silk hanging in the house which depicts Jacob’s Ladder: a story from the Book of Genesis that tells of biblical figure Jacob climbing a ladder leading to heaven.
The resulting chair is crafted from perforated gold metal and features an unusually high backrest with ladder-like rungs. Gschwendtner is also making versions of the seat from galvanised steel, which will be dotted throughout the house’s walled garden.
Broadhead alternatively looked into the backstory of Fenton House’s last occupant, Lady Binning, a widow who allegedly isolated herself within the property after the death of her husband.
Her chair has been upholstered with thick patterned fabric so as to appear to have been engulfed by a rug that lies underneath, suggestive of the “trapped” existence of Binning.
Clerkin has fashioned a musical wingback black chair with integrated speakers, nodding to the property’s extensive collection of harpsichords.
Throughout the installation, it will play a fictional audio story that describes the lives of the home’s past owners. The wooden, bench-style chair designed by Tolstrup also references the form of harpsichords, and boasts a sweeping backrest.
Tall, neon-yellow boards made from plywood close-off the seat of Marriot’s chair, which has a geometric shape inspired by the 43 trinket boxes and perfume boxes that decorate the house’s Oriental Room.
Meanwhile Kerr’s bed-like chair plays with the idea of good and bad taste, and is dressed with clashing green and peachy orange satin cushions.
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