PARIS — Nicolas Di Felice, artistic director of Courrèges, will head the fashion jury at the 39th edition of the International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories — Hyères.
The festival’s founder Jean-Pierre Blanc, accompanied by actress Audrey Marnay who will serve as MC throughout the year, announced the details Wednesday at the Maison de l’Unesco during Paris Couture Week.
The accessories jury will be headed by the Finnish designer Achilles Ion Gabriel. He is creative director of the Spanish footwear label Camper, and its youthful experimental range Camperlab. He also debuted his eponymous genderless label at Pitti Uomo in January.
The photographer and artist Coco Capitán will lead the photography jury.
Di Felice will work with a number of prople to determine who will succeed the 2023 winner Igor Dieryck.
They include Laura Arguelles, director of the textile department of embroiderer Lesage Paris; actress Hari Nef; artist Marine Brutti, who cofounded the (La)Horde collective and is codirector of Ballet National de Marseille, and stylist and consultant Marie Chaix.
Casting directors Piergiorio Del Moro and Samuel Ellis are also on the list, as are photographer Carljin Jacobs; visual artist and stage director Theo Mercier; Interview Magazine’s editor in chief Mel Ottenberg and Julian Sarr-Jamois, fashion director of British Vogue.
Per tradition, Dieryck will also take a seat on the 2024 jury.
Selected for the 2024 the fashion prize are Romain Bichot (Belgium), Dolev Elron (Israel), Logan Goff (U.S.), Gaëlle Halloo Lang (France), Fabian Kis-Juhasz (Hungary), Victor Koehler and Victoria Baia (France), Tal Maslavi (Israel), Julie Mouly-Pommerol (France), Lilian Navarro (France) and Kenshiro Suzuki (Japan).
The 10 finalists will be competing for the Première Vision Grand Prize, the main fashion prize; the 19M Chanel Métiers d’Art prize; the Mercedes-Benz sustainable collection prize, and the “Atelier des Matières” prize introduced in 2022.
Endowments across the different fashion prizes also net winners plenty of materials to create future collections, with selections from the likes of L’Atelier des Matières, the Alliance for European Flax-Linen and Hemp and Supima and even the possibility of creating their own fabric with textile manufacturer Puntoseta. They will also get a year of mentoring by recruitment specialist Stirling International.
The designer who scoops up the top prize will also be invited to create capsules with festival partners Chinese luxury label Icicle and Galeries Lafayette.
Actress and Hyères festival MC Audrey Marnay and festival founder Jean-Pierre Blanc
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The Hyères fashion competition is considered a major launchpad for designers since its creation in 1985, helping raise the profile of talents such as Viktor & Rolf; Saint Laurent artistic director Anthony Vaccarello; Paco Rabanne’s Julien Dossena, and Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh, who design men’s label Botter.
Most recently, its 2022 winner Jenny Hytönen guest-designed the spring 2024 couture collection of AZ Factory.
For accessories, Ion Gabriel will be able to count on Rossy de Palma; Irish singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy; architect and Crosby Studios founder Harry Nuriev; stylist and creative consultant Imruh Asha; Alice Bouleau, principal and head of the creative pole at Sterling International; Campers product director Cecilia Llorens Bobadilla; Bottega Veneta’s design director Krzysztof Lukazik; photographer Kito Muñoz; stylist Lorenzo Posocco; journalist Robery Williams, and last year’s grand prize winner Gabrielle Huguenot.
After leather accessories, gloves and costume jewelry, the fifth challenge Hermès is setting for the competing designers is to create a jewelry accessory or leather belt from dormant materials.
Tasked with evaluating the year’s top photographers, Capitán will have alongside her a jury that includes 2023 winner Thaddé Comar; designer Paula Canovas Del Vas, 7L’s director of communication and programming Coralie Gauthier and Simon Baker, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, among others.
The winner of the top Grand Prix du Jury de la Photographie 7L will get to create a book in collaboration with 7L Editions, Atelier EXB and the Villa Noailles. Chanel is also giving a 20,000-euro purse.
Source: WWD