Lagos Area Programme Wins Global Woolmark Prize

Lagos Area Programme, the nonbinary luxurious label by means of Adeju Thompson, used to be named winner of the Global Woolmark Prize on Monday.

The Nigerian dressmaker triumphed over seven alternative designers who have been tasked with making a pill assortment the use of merino thread and has clinched the money prize of AU $200,000 ($134025) to place towards the advance in their industry.

Danish knitwear label A. Roege Hove took house the Karl Lagerfeld Award for Innovation which comes with a AU $100,000 ($67,000) money prize.

This life’s festival used to be judged by means of a panel of trade heavyweights together with Alessandro Sartori, Zegna’s inventive director, Franceso Risso, inventive director of Marni, fashion Caroline de Maigret, photographer Tyler Mitchell and Trade of Style’s editor-at-large, Tim Blanks.

Thompson’s designs positioned them within the shortlist for the LVMH Prize in 2021. The dressmaker has proven collections in Milan, Lagos and Paris. Lagos Area Programme used to be additionally featured within the Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Africa Fashion” showcase in London ultimate life.

Alternative finalists of the prize come with Paris-based label Bluemarble, Italy’s Marco Rambaldi, South Korean menswear label MAXXIJ, London-based knitwear emblem Paulina Russo, Los Angeles-based Rhude and Irish menswear dressmaker Robyn Lynch.

All finalists are granted access into the Woolmark Alumni Programme and their collections might be carried at outlets around the globe.

Based in 1937 to advertise thread at the international marketplace, the contest has advanced right into a pipeline funnelling rising and cutting edge designers into the trade. Former recipients of the prize come with Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Ralph Lauren and Dion Lee.

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