ITS CONTEST
Welcome to the 21st edition of ITS Contest, one of the world’s leading platforms for emerging creative talent.
Applications are open to Fashion, Accessories and Jewellery designers. Finalists are selected by an international Jury composed of fashion industry leaders, artists, stylists, photographers and editors. They benefit from global media exposure, professional opportunities and mentoring, as well as financial awards.
Contest
Welcome to the 21st edition of ITS Contest, one of the world’s leading platforms for emerging creative talent.
Applications are open to Fashion, Accessories and Jewellery designers. Finalists are selected by an international Jury composed of fashion industry leaders, artists, stylists, photographers and editors. They benefit from global media exposure, professional opportunities and mentoring, as well as financial awards.
Born to Create
Rebellious, unconventional, revolutionary: that’s what life is. A strange and improbable occurence, when order was created out of disorder in a universe verging on disgregation. As living beings, our innate talent is to perceive order. Everytime we imagine, everytime we take a different, unpredictable path, we are subverting the flow of events: a revolution starts, and a new world is created. So, if life is the ultimate act of rebellion, then creativity is our tool. And we were born to use this tool. We were born to create.
ITS CONTEST
Apply now!
Click below to begin your application for ITS Contest. The entry is free and the process is entirely digital. You will be required to create an account: this means you do not need to complete the process all in one go, you can get back to it as many times as you need before clicking “send” in time for the deadline on September 10th. Read very carefully the entry requirements before you start!
ITS Contest
Apply Now!
Click below to begin your application for ITS Contest. The entry is free and the process is entirely digital. You will be required to create an account: this means you do not need to complete the process all in one go, you can get back to it as many times as you need before clicking “send” in time for the deadline on September 10th. Read very carefully the entry requirements before you start!
ITS Contest 2023 Timeline
May 10th
Launch of ITS Contest 2023
Applications open.
September 10th
Application deadline
Last day to submit the online application form.
Early November
Finalists announcement
The ITS Contest Jury announces the finalists.
March 2024
Finals & Awards Ceremony
ITS Contest Finals and Residency at ITS Arcademy.
ITS CONTEST
Discover the past finalists
ITS Contest Numbers
80 countries
80 nations
37 nations
50 countries
International Talent Support
The Seismographer
Teaching creativity. Interview with Ike Rust, menswear tutor to former ITS winners.
13 February, 2023
In the twenty years of ITS Contest rarely have we seen such consistency in training young designers that would be then be selected as finalists by the ITS Jury, a first step of brilliant careers in the industry. The quality of Ike Rust’s students is undeniable and the students themselves recall his teaching as a…
The Seismographer
ITS Contest names that ring a bell.
Craig Green, David Koma, Liam Fahy and Lee Matthews in the ITS Arcademy Collection.
12 January, 2023
In the history of contemporary fashion, documented through the perspective of the ITS Arcademy Collection, there are designers who made history. Interestingly, it’s not always names that made it through to the finals. Perhaps because their talent was still too raw when they applied, or maybe because the jury was unable to understand their creativity…
The Seismographer
One Collection, infinite stories: Religion. Looking at the religious elements of the ITS Arcademy collection.
05 December, 2022
Looking for either controversy, beauty, culture or symbolism, it is no mystery why fashion drives inspiration from religion. They are undeniably intertwined: religions and religious orders have dress codes and use fashion to communicate position, sanctity, pureness and the entire spectrum of religious emotions and meaning. And fashion has always been intrigued by how religion…