The European Fashion Award FASH 2023 returns to the foundation’s headquarters in Munich, where it was established in 1978 and awarded until 2013. The deadline for applications is now mid-July, the award ceremony will take place at the end of November at ISPO Munich, which has been the major supporter of the work of the […] / 24. May 2023

European Fashion Award FASH 2023

The European Fashion Award FASH 2023 returns to the foundation’s headquarters in Munich, where it was established in 1978 and awarded until 2013. The deadline for applications is now mid-July, the award ceremony will take place at the end of November at ISPO Munich, which has been the major supporter of the work of the European Fashion Award FASH since 2004.

Participants from all over Europe
The Europe-wide competition is awarded a prize of 5,000 euros. It is aimed at particularly talented students from all design disciplines – especially from the fields of textile and fashion design – in the three categories of student, bachelor and master including final theses from May 2022.

By creatives, for creatives
The European Fashion Award FASH is supported and founded by Messe München GmbH. The European Fashion Award FASH lives above all through private commitment: be it in the jury or in the organisation. The award for young creative talents is thus largely supported by experienced creatives.

SDBI – Promoting Fashion Talents since 1978
Internationaly, the European Fashion Award FASH is one of the most important awards for fashion students. It is offered by the not-for-profit Stiftung der Deutschen Bekleidungsindustrie (SDBI) – the German Fashion Industry Foundation. The foundation was set up in Munich in 1978, making it the oldest organisation in the world for the promotion of fashion students. The award-winning talents have outstanding career opportunities. They work for internationally renowned companies such as Adidas, Fila, Gucci, Hugo Boss, s.Oliver, Zalando and for designers such as Dries van Noten or Vivienne Westwood; some as senior designers or heads of design. They have often gone on to win numerous further awards.

FASH 2022 / 24. May 2023

Participants

Eligible to participate are students of full age (Bachelor, Diploma) and Master/PhD. They must be registered at a european university or fashion school at the time of registration, or graduated after May 1, 2022. The deadline for applications is 15 July 2023. The award is aimed at exceptionally talented students from all design disciplines – and especially those in the fields of textile and fashion design – in the three categories of Undergraduate, Bachelor and Master including theses, since May 2022.

– Registration deadline: 15. July 2023 – Application deadline: 30. July 2023 24.00 hrs. – Notification of finalists: from 30. October 2023 – European Fashion Award FASH 2023: 28. – 30. November 2023 at ISPO Munich / 24. May 2023

Schedule

– Registration deadline: 15. July 2023
– Application deadline: 30. July 2023 24.00 hrs.
– Notification of finalists: from 30. October 2023
– European Fashion Award FASH 2023: 28. – 30. November 2023 at ISPO Munich

The European Fashion Award FASH usually receives well over 100 entries. In order for your work to be judged in the best possible way, it is important that you meet the following standards. 1. Portfolio – English – 20 pages Contents: photos of previous projects, work process, sketches, moods, details such as draping, technical drawings. […] / 24. May 2023

Task and Documents

The European Fashion Award FASH usually receives well over 100 entries. In order for your work to be judged in the best possible way, it is important that you meet the following standards.

1. Portfolio – English – 20 pages
Contents: photos of previous projects, work process, sketches, moods, details such as draping, technical drawings.
See: The Core of Your Job Application

2. Curriculum vitae – English – 1 page

3. Proof of registration – 1 page
at a university/fashion school or date of final examination

All documents must be summarized in one (!) PDF:
– File format: .pdf, maximum size: 7 MB
–  file name: participant number + FASH23 e.g. 29-S-FASH23.pdf
– max. 25 pages
– Normal upper/lower case, not set in capitals
– Competitor number on the 1st page
The PDF will be uploaded to the OneDrive platform. Access will be sent to you with the confirmation of participation.

Based on these documents, the jury will select up to 15 finalists from all participants. These will be notified from 30. October 2023.

 

FASH 2022 / 24. May 2023

Prizes

The European Fashion Award FASH 2023 is presented in three categories.

Undergraduates
Prize:
– 1.000 euro prizemoney
– the prizewinner will be permanently presented on a separate microsite at www.sdbi.de

Graduates Bachelor
Prize:
– 2.000 euro prizemoney
– the prizewinner will be permanently presented on a separate microsite at www.sdbi.de

Graduates II
Prize:
– 2.000 euro prizemoney
– the prizewinner will be permanently presented on a separate microsite at www.sdbi.de

The jury is free to distribute the prizes differently than they are announced here.
If the realisation of the European Fashion Award FASH is not possible, there is no claim to the benefits associated with them. We will then try to offer appropriate digital formats.

The SDBI Board has appointed a new Advisory Board for 1 May 2023, which will also form the jury of the European Fashion Award FASH 2023. Mela Bauer, Founder & CEO Melagence Mela Bauer founded her fashion sales agency Melagence in Berlin in 2013. With her team she represents international brands like Barena Venezia, Perfect […] / 24. May 2023

Jury

The SDBI Board has appointed a new Advisory Board for 1 May 2023, which will also form the jury of the European Fashion Award FASH 2023.

Mela Bauer, Founder & CEO Melagence
Mela Bauer founded her fashion sales agency Melagence in Berlin in 2013. With her team she represents international brands like Barena Venezia, Perfect Moment, House of Dagmar, Christian Wijnants, Atp Atelier or Lutz Huelle and chooses her labels with a lot of heart and passion. In addition to the HQ and showroom in Berlin, the agency sells its collections twice a year in Paris since January 2022.
In the first Lockdown 2020, Mela Bauer and her husband, Benjamin Höhner, launched their own e-commerce platform, which currently connects stores and customers: the online store Melagence Local supports stores that were previously less present online and offers international luxury fashion that customers can order through stores. Melagence was awarded the TW Forums Prize 2021. www.melagence.com

August Bard-Bringéus, Co-founder and CEO, ASKET, Stockholm.
He is responsible for marketing, e-commerce and technology. ASKET has driven change in the fashion industry, from the launch of the ASKET Traceability Standard, which aims to achieve 100% traceability across the collection’s supply chain – to the launch of an Impact Transparency project, for which the impact of all garments over their lifetime has been tracked.
He studied at the Stockholm School of Economics, worked at Boston Consulting as well as the fintech start-up Klarna, where he gained experience in founding start-ups and bringing new innovative ideas to market. August is a board member of the shoe brand Morjas and a speaker on numerous panels on sustainable fashion.

Katherina Deeken, Managing Director, DEEKEN HR Executive Search, Berlin.
Since 1993, Katherina Deeken has held various management positions in retail for avant-garde fashion as well as in the luxury segment. There she developed her expertise in employee management and development in the context of her tasks in the management of various stores with international purchasing responsibility and finally focused entirely on the area of human resources in the fashion industry and founded the personnel consultancy Deeken HR in 2003.

Joel S. Horwitz, Design Director, Fila Europe. Before Design Consultant (VOGUE Collection, adidas, Review, KIOMI und J. Lindeberg). He won the “Designer for Tomorrow” (Peek & Cloppenburg) and the Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award with his diloma collection at the Berlin University of the Arts and was able to present his designs at the Fashion Week in Tokyo.

Dr. Olaf Kranz heads the Cultural and Creative Industries Team of Excellence of the City of Munich since summer 2022. As an economic development agency, the team advises, qualifies, promotes and networks cultural and creative professionals and makes the sector visible.
He studied sociology and political science at the Martin Luther University Halle/Saale and the University of Edinburgh. Together with his wife Jennifer Brachmann, he founded the Berlin-based fashion label BRACHMANN in 2014. He was a co-founder of the Berlin Fashion Designers Association and helped establish the interdisciplinary fashion presentation format “Fashion Positions” during the Berlin Art Week.

Joachim Schirrmacher, Creative Consultant
After his training as a retailer, he studied design management with a focus on ecology and gender. Since 1994, his work has been involved with sustainable fashion. He has worked for over 20 years as an author (Editor-in-Chief Style in Progress, Tagesspiegel, NZZ), speaker (Copenhagen Business School, Goethe-Institut, HDS/L) and communications expert for companies such as Carroux Caffee, Freitag Lab AG, Messe München or Retail Brand Services as well as institutions such as the German Federal Foreign Office. Since 2004 he has been responsible pro bono for the European Fashion Award FASH of SDBI.DE www.schirrmacher.org

 

FASH 2022 / 12. May 2022

Evaluation Criteria

All works submitted for the European Fashion Award FASH 2023 in accordance with the rules will be judged according to the following criteria, the weighting will be left to the jury:
– Creativity
– Independence/Originality
– Innovation/vision
– Development potential

(Deutsch) FASH 2022 / 12. May 2022

Terms

Organizer
Stiftung der Deutschen Bekleidungsindustrie zur Förderung der Ausbildung von Nachwuchskräften in der Modebranche (German Fashion Industry Foundation for the Promotion and Training of up-and-coming designers in the Fashion Industry), located in Munich.

No Fees
Participation in the award is free of charge. Catering will be provided on the workshop days.

Rights
The copyrights to the works remain with the participant at all times. For publications directly related to the competition (such as exhibitions, documentation, Internet, media work or other activities), the participant grants the organizer the publication rights free of charge with regard to space, time and content. This applies in particular to photos taken on behalf and for the account of SDBI and includes all media (including social media such as Instagram). The prizewinners also agree to the publication of photos of themselves. Excluded from this is commercial advertising.
Each participant is responsible for all questions concerning utility model, design, copyright or patent law. The participant must own the property rights and copyrights (all rights). Submissions that violate applicable law, in particular infringements of criminal law, copyrights, trademark, personal rights and other rights of third parties, may not be shown. The participant therefore assures that he/she has all rights to the submitted works and the corresponding drawings, that these are not limited and that the collection and the corresponding drawings are free of rights of third parties.

Own media work
The awards “Finalist” and “Prizewinner” can be used without restriction in terms of space and time for personal communication. The participant undertakes to submit its own media activity connected with the European Fashion Award FASH 2023, in particular related media reports, documentation, press work and advertising to SDBI at mail@sdbi.de for prior written approval and to distribute these only after approval has been given. For all activities connected with the European Fashion Award FASH, the participant undertakes to use the following names as follows:
– “European Fashion Award – FASH 2022”
– and for English-language publications: “Stiftung der Deutschen Bekleidungsindustrie (German Fashion Industry Foundation) – SDBI”. For texts, the abbreviation “SDBI” can be used after the first entry.

Participant Data Use, Privacy
By sending the entry form the participants grants SDBI the right to use and publish their names. Personal data of each participant is processed and stored digitally for use during the award. Any data collected during the competition will exclusively be used for new talent endorsement activities by SDBI.

Other
The award and all related agreements are subject to the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. By sending the entry form the participant confirms having read these conditions, and agrees to all terms and conditions, including the stipulations on data security and privacy, as well as usage rights.Organizer
Stiftung der Deutschen Bekleidungsindustrie zur Förderung der Ausbildung von Nachwuchskräften in der Modebranche (German Fashion Industry Foundation for the Promotion and Training of up-and-coming designers in the Fashion Industry), located in Munich.

No Fees
Participation in the award is free of charge. Catering will be provided on the workshop days.

Rights
The copyrights to the works remain with the participant at all times. For publications directly related to the competition (such as exhibitions, documentation, Internet, media work or other activities), the participant grants the organizer the publication rights free of charge with regard to space, time and content. This applies in particular to photos taken on behalf and for the account of SDBI and includes all media (including social media such as Instagram). The prizewinners also agree to the publication of photos of themselves. Excluded from this is commercial advertising.
Each participant is responsible for all questions concerning utility model, design, copyright or patent law. The participant must own the property rights and copyrights (all rights). Submissions that violate applicable law, in particular infringements of criminal law, copyrights, trademark, personal rights and other rights of third parties, may not be shown. The participant therefore assures that he/she has all rights to the submitted works and the corresponding drawings, that these are not limited and that the collection and the corresponding drawings are free of rights of third parties.

Own media work
The awards “Finalist” and “Prizewinner” can be used without restriction in terms of space and time for personal communication. The participant undertakes to submit its own media activity connected with the European Fashion Award FASH 2022, in particular related media reports, documentation, press work and advertising to SDBI at mail@sdbi.de for prior written approval and to distribute these only after approval has been given. For all activities connected with the European Fashion Award FASH, the participant undertakes to use the following names as follows:
– “European Fashion Award – FASH 2022”
– and for English-language publications: “Stiftung der Deutschen Bekleidungsindustrie (German Fashion Industry Foundation) – SDBI”. For texts, the abbreviation “SDBI” can be used after the first entry.

Participant Data Use, Privacy
By sending the entry form the participants grants SDBI the right to use and publish their names. Personal data of each participant is processed and stored digitally for use during the award. Any data collected during the competition will exclusively be used for new talent endorsement activities by SDBI.

Other
The award and all related agreements are subject to the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. By sending the entry form the participant confirms having read these conditions, and agrees to all terms and conditions, including the stipulations on data security and privacy, as well as usage rights.