Young designers earn a place on the catwalk and a plane ticket to Italy
The winners of the inaugural Vodafone id Dunedin Emerging Designer Awards have been announced.
Three young fashion designers from Australia and New
Zealand have received prizes, and a fourth young designer
has won a special new prize that has just been announced.
First prize goes to Carla Bergs, of QUT in Brisbane,
who wins a cash prize of $3000 and gets to show her
collection alongside high profile Dunedin designers at the
Vodafone id Dunedin Fashion Show on the evening of Saturday
12 March at the Dunedin Railway Station.
Second prize
of $1000 goes to Patrick Li, of the Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, and third
prizewinner is Otago Polytechnic School of Fashion graduate
Marcia Hudson.
All winners receive gift packs from Revlon and Redken.
Tara Viggo, a student at Otago
Polytechnic School of Fashion, has been awarded a special
prize to attend the Mittelmoda event in Rado, Italy, in
September 2005.
Mittelmoda director Stefano Sopelza
was pleased to announce the special prize which will see
Tara Viggo flown to Italy as a finalist in the prestigious
Italian fashion event.
Mr Sopelza is in Dunedin as
one of a panel of judges for the inaugural Fashion Awards
held as part of the Vodafone id Dunedin Fashion Week 2005.
"Tara really matched my standards, and she has a very
strong collection," says Mr Sopelza.
He says she will
be included in the Mittelmoda Show as one of 37 finalists
selected from over 1000 entries.
The international
judging panel for the Fashion Awards was Sara Aspinall of
Nom*D, fashion designer Tanya Carlson, Chris Lorimer (Staple
Magazine, Wellington), Stefano Sopelza (Mittelmoda, Italy),
and Rex Turnbull (LINO Magazine, Sydney.)
For online
news, events and information about the Vodafone id Dunedin
Fashion Week 2005 go to
www.id-dunedinfashion.com