NEW CREATIVITY IN TEXTILE PRINTS

With this contest, textile finishers want to instill a new wave of creative design among today's design and fashion students to give textile prints a new impetus. The contest conditions and prizes are stimulating. The aim is to promote a new demand for in prints, eagerly awaited by all the professionals in Textile & Fashion and end users.

VALORIZING PRINTS AND FINISHING TECHNIQUES

The contest is devoted to textile print designs which will become the main focus of a major promotional campaign to build business for textile industrialists. It is a good teaching project, a sort of case study mobilizing teachers and students and easy to include in a college curriculum. The winning designs will be used in the industry's promotional campaign and receive extensive media coverage. A show featuring prizewinning prints and garments is sure to attract widespread interest from the industry and the general public.

DISCUSSIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN TOMORROW’S DESIGNERS AND TEXTILE FINISHERS

This contest opens a "hotline" between students and textile manufacturers. Discussions start with invitations to students to visit the factories. During the contest, students will have many opportunities to work closely with manufacturers, particularly when the prizewinning designs become real prints. A live forum to discuss each entrant's ideas about prints, work methods and develop efficient production processes. A unique professional experience for students and manufacturers alike.

A GLOBAL TEXTILE PROJECT

Based on their original print designs and garment sketches, students selected for the final will make the womenswear garments they have designed. This contest is a unique opportunity to work on a textile project from start to finish with the active partnership of professionals from every sector of the textile industry.