The Stiftung der Deutschen Bekleidungsindustrie (German Apparel Industry Foundation) would like to thank all participating partners.

AGD - Alliance of German Designers
The Alliance of German Designers (AGD) is a professional association of independent designers, offering members the advantages of a professional association in the sphere of design along with the security provided by a collective agreement on fees. It addresses the professional needs of independent designers. The AGD is open to designers in all fields, and with approximately 3,000 members it is by far the largest association of designers in Germany - and one of the biggest in Europe.
The AGD supports and promotes young talents since 31 years -- we are glad to cooperate in this field with the German Apparel Industry Foundation at the ispo winter 2007.
www.agd.de

Akris
Akris stands for a new kind of luxury and modernity. With a special sensitivity to a woman's personality, self-confident and feminine. With clear lines and straightforward language. Costly to produce and artisanale. Unobtrusive and yet unmistakable in its expression. Akris is directed at the woman who understands fashion, not as a fleeting expression of the times, but rather as the means to defining her own personal style. She doesn’t let trends distract her, she follows her own path.
www.akris.ch

Freitag
Since 1993 Freitag produces and distributes bags and accessories made of used material coming from the streets: recycled truck canvas covers, inner tubes and car straps. Inspired by the heavy goods vehicle traffic on the route Hamburg – Palermo in front of their house and the bags of bike couriers seen in New York, the brothers and graphic designers Daniel and Markus Freitag developed their first Messenger bag. With this functional, water resistant and robust bag a new trend was born. Since 2003 one of the first FREITAG TOP CAT messenger bags is presented in the design collecton of MoMA, New York. Today FREITAG produces more than 120,000 products a year, that corresponds with a traffic jam of 60 kilometres length. 

As bag producers, the “Fine Art of Travelling” is our daily business. Therefore FREITAG is pleased to support the European Award of the Stiftung der Deutschen Bekleidungsindustrie 2007.
www.freitag.ch

Dr.Hauschka Skincare
Drawing on its experience in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, Wala Heilmittel GmbH went on to develop the Dr.Hauschka Skincare which went on the market in 1967. Finest natural ingredients and choice medicinal herb extracts are the basis for the particularly nurturing qualities of these products. By addressing the skin as a holistic organ and stimulating its natural functions, Dr.Hauschka Skincare encourage the skin to utilise its own powers of self-regeneration. All Dr.Hauschka Skincare products carry the "Certified Natural Cosmetics" seal of the German BDIH.
In the fashion industry, too, the development of products with a sustainable design which reflects the social values and identity of the company is becoming increasingly important. Rapidly changing fashions and short-lived trends are giving way to quality and trust in the product - aspects which are central to Dr.Hauschka cosmetics, too. This is why Dr.Hauschka Skin Care is supporting young talent in the fashion industry through the German Apparel Industry Foundation, a foundation dedicated to the promotion and training of up-and-coming designers .

Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux
Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux advises companies in the development, management, and evaluation of brands. In order for a brand to be powerful, the idea behind it is crucial – it governs all forms of communication, the brand experience, and thus the way the brand and the company are perceived. Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux directs and oversees this process for its clients, and for more than 30 years has been serving international companies as their lead agency for corporate and brand identity, among them the BMW Group (the BMW, MINI, and Rolls-Royce brands), Deutsche Telekom, Swiss Post, TUI, Unilever Bestfoods, Jura, and many others.
As an identity-creating culture, fashion is the ideal marketplace for strong ideas. Because fashion is subject to short-lived yet prominent trends, the requirements imposed on the continuous long-term refinement and management of brand identity are considerable and diversified. “Our intention with the Special Award ‘Fashion Branding’ is not only to inspire this process but also to support and commend efforts that showcase the long-term brand idea and make it experienceable,” says Gion-Men Krügel-Hanna, senior designer and unit leader at Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux.
www.interbrand.ch

ispovision
Sport has influenced fashion inexorably over the past years, and fashion inspired by sports has become part of our everyday life with its potential for generating emotions. 
ispovision is the first trade show for sports-inspired fashion. Neue Messe München GmbH has created an up-to-date business and communication platform for the sports style segment and its suppliers with it, which links the strengths and advantages of a traditional trade fair with the emotions of a life-style event. The fashion at ispovision focuses on the transfer of sport stimuli into fashion. Brands exhibit there, which mainly have their roots in sports, but which also achieve a high degree of their sales in the fashion trade.
www.ispovision.com

Mover Sportswear, Dress to ski
Focused on quality and function, Mover develops high-tech ski clothes. Our fluid design concept leads us to simple, efficient and often beautiful solutions. To dare, challenge, imagine is our way to go. Beyond sportiveness, Mover’s future is to remain exclusive, stylish and innovative.
Dress to move
When we heard about the « fine art of travelling », it felt obvious that Mover had to support the 2007 German apparel Industry Foundation Award. Passionate skiers in winter, we are also frequent flyers and dedicated summer travellers. Building on our experience in technical materials, we will work together with the award winner on an ultra light collection system adapted to travel as well as climatic changes. For Mover everything lies in movement: be it the freedom to move in our clothes or the freedom to move with our clothes.
www.mover.se

Quiksilver
Quiksilver Inc., founded 1969 in Australia, developed into a worldwide boardriding lifestyle company from the first boardshort onwards. The core of the company’s philosophy is authenticity and passion as well as respect towards people, the environment, and other cultures.
„As a global leader in the boardsports lifestyle apparell business, Quiksilver are strongly involved in supporting young local designers to display their artistic expression, creative ability, and textile expertise.The designers of tomorrow are already developing our markets today, influencing a wide range of fashions and trends - we're proud to be involved in motivating and rewarding such individuals." Peter Knoll, General Manager Germany - Austria - Eastern Europe

Tumi
Tumi, founded in 1975, is one of the leading brands for prestige luggage and business acessories as well as day bags and a variety of personal accessories for discerning individuals around the world. Ist headquarter is located in South Plainfield, New Jersey. Tumi's core values are driven by performance, thus incorporating technical innovation, unmatched functionality, style and outstanding quality. “We hope and expect to get innovative designs from creative people of the next generation, which we would be happy to include in the development of new Tumi products with observation of copyrights and usufractuary rights at customary market conditions,” Timm Fenton, Vice President of Design at Tumi, explained.
www.tumi.de


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