Yarn training experience and design award for future knitwear designers A new and richer edition for our contest at Pitti Immagine Filati 83 (June, 27-29): 26 spinners for 26 students coming from 14 fashion schools. Among them the new entries of DK – Designskolen Kolding (Denmark) and the Shenkar – Engineering. Design. Art. (Israel). It’s…
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The ninth edition of the “Feel the Yarn” contest is scheduled for Pitti Immagine Filati 83 (June, 27-29) with a slightly new formula. More than 50 students from 10 International fashion schools have applied this year to participate, submitting their general portfolios, together with the concepts and sketches for the knit outfits they would lke…
2 students per school, for a total of 13 schools and 22 between mills and companies enrolled: these are the numbers of the 2016 contest branded Feel the Yarn, that heated up the motors few weeks ago towards the finish line on the next June 29th, Pitti Filati.
The students that will take part of the Feel the Yarn contest will have to follow a very specific concept, that the coordinator of the project, Ornella Bignami, called ‘Knitting time’.
Last Friday at Pitti Filati the award ceremony of this year contest took place: Verena Winkelmann from Hochschule Niederrhein and NG Siu Mui from The Hong Kong Polytechnic won the competition!
During next Pitti Filati (July 1-3 2015) Feel the Yarn 2015 is going to show all the creations made by the 21 young designers coming from the most famous international fashion and design schools.
Feel the Yarn 2015 contest is supported and sponsored both by the mills you can find listed in this post and by other organizations, such as CELC Masters of Linen, the European Confederation of Linen and Hemp which promotes products made using European linen and certified Masters of Linen 100% Made in Europe.
Feel the Yarn allows students coming from the most famous international fashion schools to test their skills as well to promote them. At the same time the contest allows the mills to meet young knitwear designers and to establish new collaborations.
I already wrote about this year contest theme: Feel the Yarn and the students involved in the project will focus their skills on ‘Dual: Contrast or Fusion’. Now I’m happy to spread the word about the matches between students and mills.
