The Alpaca Awards: Big Winners Revealed
ESMOD Lyon, Paris 9, Rennes, Roubaix, Bordeaux • NEWS ESMOD France
PROMPERU, an agency charged with promoting Peruvian exports in France, launched a design contest concentrating on alpaca wool in honor of the Bicentenary of Peruvian Independance and to highlight the brand Alpaca del Perù.
PROMPERU, an agency charged with promoting Peruvian exports in France, launched a design contest concentrating on alpaca wool in honor of the Bicentenary of Peruvian Independance and to highlight the brand Alpaca del Perù.
PROMPERU, an agency charged with promoting Peruvian exports in France, launched a design contest concentrating on alpaca wool in honor of the Bicentenary of Peruvian Independance and to highlight the brand Alpaca del Perù. This presented a unique opportunity for our young designers to discover this fiber with numerous qualities (soft, thermo-regular, elastic…), the pride of the Peruvian textile industry. The hope being that this would not only promote, but reinvigorate alpaca wool’s image via the vision of our young designers and their modern, original ideas.
Nearly 75kg of alpaca fiber, supplied by Peruvian spinners Incatops, Itessa and Michell, were distributed to the 21 students selected from ESMOD France (Bordeaux, Lyon, Paris, Rennes & Roubaix, all years combined) for their designs. Over the course of 4 months, they worked, alone or in groups, on pieces that allowed them to learn knitting techniques either by hand or machine.
A panel of judges met on Tuesday, June 8, before which our Esmodians presented their concepts and final products. The jury was composed of :
Cinthya Guerrero, Founder of the brand Stella Pardo
Marie-Emmanuelle Belzung, Delegate of the European Flax and Hemp Confederation
Alicia Rousseau Jourdan, Founder of the brand Anaychay
Marie-Emmanuelle Fron, Journalist for Journal du Textile
Diana Leon, Journalist for Fashion Network
Valeria Valdivia, Fashion and Trends Consultant
Adriana Seminario, Founder of SHARED Magazine
Sylvie Pourrat, Sales Director of the Who’s Next trade show
Roberto & Paulo Ruiz Munoz, Co-founders of the brand D.N.I.
Henry Veraleva, Founder of the brand Henry Vela
Maco Calderon, Founder of the brand Marco Calderon
Véronique Beaumont, Director of ESMOD
The technical and artistic qualities of the designs were highly praised by these professionals who awarded prizes to the following 5 students:
1st Prize:
Manon Coiffard (1st Year ESMOD Bordeaux student)
Winning an internship in a Peruvian fashion company in the Cusco region (all expenses paid)
2nd Prize :
Louise Le Loch (1st Year ESMOD Rennes student)
Winning an internship in a Peruvian fashion company in the Arequipa region (all expenses paid)
3rd Prize :
Lou Grandpré et Elanor Le Blanc (2nd Year ESMOD Paris students)
Winning an internship in a Peruvian fashion company in the Junin region (all expenses paid)
4th Prize
Juan Franco Quiliche Calderon (2nd Year ESMOD Paris student)
Winning an Alpaga Le Monde 100€ gift card
5th Prize:
Nora Garcia (Intensive Course ESMOD Rennes student)
Winning an Alpaga Le Monde 100€ gift card
The awards ceremony, which concluded the day, was the occasion for a final exchange between the jury members and students, some of whom have already been offered internship opportunities for this summer.
Check out all of the student designs in the lookbook:
