ITS Contest 2025 Jury

Fashion veteran Serge Carreira is currently Director of Emerging Brands Initiative at the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode. He is also affiliated Professor at Sciences Po in Paris, one of the global leading schools in the field of social sciences. Carreira has contributed to the LVMH Inside Certificate with the module "Past, Present and Future : the Luxury Formula.". Over his 20 years career in fashion and luxury, he held diverse management positions at Galeries Lafayette, Prada, Miu Miu and Mary Katrantzou.

Emanuele Coccia is the author of The Life of Plants (2018), Metamorphosis (2021) and Philosophy of the Home (2024). He recently published a photo-theory book with Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen (Modern Alchemy 2022), a philosophical epistolary on light with photographer Paolo Roversi (Lettres sur la lumières, 2024) and a book on the relationship between fashion and philosophy with Valentino's creative director Alessandro Michele (The Life of forms. Philosophy or Re-enchantment, 2024).

Together with Olivier Saillard he curated the exhibition "The Many Lives of a Garment" at ITS Arcademy, and together with Yuko Hasegawa an exhibition on Art and Ecology (Dancing with All) at the Museum for 21st Century in Kanazawa (Japan). He is currently developing (once again with Olivier Saillard) the next exhibition at ITS Arcademy that will open in March 2025.

Tom Eerebout, a stylist and fashion consultant from Belgium, has made a significant impact in the industry. After refining his skills as an assistant in London, he developed a distinctive storytelling aesthetic. Some of Eerebout's impressive clientele include Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue, Banks, Austin Butler, Rebecca Ferguson, and Sylvie Kreusch. With a decade of experience, he has worked on international tours, music videos, red carpets, editorials, and campaigns. Notably, Eerebout served as the Fashion Director for Lady Gaga's Las Vegas residencies, "Enigma," "Jazz and Piano," and "The Chromatica Ball" alongside Sandra Amador. Most recently he has also designed a capsule collection of sunglasses for Komono and a Unisex jewelry line for Elliot & Ostrich. His versatile and captivating styles demonstrate his exceptional eye for detail. Through his styling and fashion consultancy, Eerebout continues to leave a lasting impact, harnessing fashion's power to tell compelling stories.

Maria Sole Ferragamo is a multidisciplinary designer working at the intersection of leather craftsmanship, jewelry design, architecture, and visual arts. She holds a degree in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a Master’s in Jewelry Design from Central Saint Martins, London. In 2019, she founded SO-LE STUDIO, driven by a mission to transform high-quality leftover materials such as leather and brass into unique jewelry and wearable sculptures.

SO-LE STUDIO releases two main collections annually, known for statement pieces that play with illusion and contrast. The jewelry appears voluminous and heavy, yet the use of lightweight materials like leather ensures practicality and comfort. Maria Sole’s approach emphasizes sustainability, working with found materials to create limited-edition, dynamic, and versatile designs.

Her work has been exhibited at renowned galleries, including the Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery, Art Basel, MiArt, PAD London, and museums such as Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan and Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence. In 2021, she exhibited at the Rossana Orlandi gallery during Milan Design Week and won the Jewellery Prize at the ‘Premio Giovani Imprese - Believing in the Future’ by Fondazione Altagamma.

Born in 1996 in Teor, in the district of Udine, Stefano Gallici grew up between this little burg and Venice. Crossing the threshold of punk rock, indie and garage he discovered fashion, attracted by the continuity between musical and aesthetic expression, making it the foundation of his own creative quest.

He learned the rudiments of sewing from a seamstress, precisely to be able to dress according to the fantasies he had. In 2016 he enrolled at the Fashion Design course at IUAV university in Venice, a school which, shaped by the vision of Maria Luisa Frisa and Mario Lupano, addresses fashion in its technical and cultural aspects. In these early years he sharpened his knowledge of sewing and pattern making through various apprenticeships.

In 2017 he collaborated with Haider Ackermann for nine months, swinging between Paris and Antwerp, before returning to Venice and graduating in 2018. At the beginning of the following year he moved to Milan and began working for Antonioli Group. Since 2020, the year of the brand’s acquisition, he has been part of the Ann Demeulemeester team. In 2023 he has been appointed creative director. His vision of the brand is nourished by a mixture of musical leanings and respect for Ann’s work, synthesized in a vibrant and individual signature.

Carlo Giordanetti is member of the Product & Design Committee of Swatch Ltd. As CEO of the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, he is in charge of developing the project as a strategic element of the overall brand program. He comes to Swatch from Montblanc (2007-2012), where he served as Creative Director for all product groups. Previously, as Co-Founder and Creative Director of Brand DNA (2000-2007), he specialized in the development of branding concepts and brand (re)positioning in the luxury goods market.

Carlo also brings extensive experience at Swatch to his new role. For ten years (1987-1992 and 1995-2000) he served in a variety of positions, including Vice President, Marketing, contributing actively to numerous projects involving art, brand-building events, new product development and the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. He was also a member of the team that founded both the Milan and New York design labs of Swatch. From 2012 to 2019 he has been Creative Director at Swatch, responsible for a unified brand message across product, communications and retail. From 1992-1995 Mr. Giordanetti worked at Piaggio, makers of Vespa scooters, where he established a new retail concept and directed the company’s first international communications campaign. He is fluent in several European languages and has lived and worked in Milan, Florence, New York, Paris, Hamburg, Zurich and now Bern.

Graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, Valentina Maggi began her professional career in the Conservation and History of Architecture Department of the Politecnico di Milano. With her passion for Design in the wider sense, Valentina Maggi joined FLORIANE DE SAINT PIERRE & ASSOCIÉS in 1999 and has headed up the Design Practice since 2000.

Massimo Nicosia is an Italian fashion designer with a background in architecture, known for his technical craftsmanship and modern menswear.

In 2024, Nicosia became Creative Director of EssilorLuxottica’s ready-to-wear Sport Performance Hub division, leading Oakley’s apparel evolution for its 50th anniversary. His expertise in blending tailoring with performance-wear is setting a new direction for the brand, balancing technical function with refined design.

He joined Zegna in 2017 as Head of Design, where he fused modern tailoring with activewear, introducing sharp, sculptural monochromatic silhouettes that embodied quiet luxury.

In 2014, as Design Director of Pringle of Scotland, he redefined the brand’s knitwear for its 200th anniversary, pioneering advanced textile techniques and 3D-printed knitwear.

With a career spanning fashion luxury, heritage bridging tradition and innovation with technical precision.

Mark C. O’Flaherty is a London-based interiors and portrait photographer. He has worked for Issey Miyake, Hermès and Diane von Furstenberg, as well as international editions of AD, World of Interiors, Financial Times Weekend, HTSI, MiLK Decoration and Sunday Times Style. He also writes about design regularly for many of the same publications, as well as The New York Times. In the 1990s he was DJ for MTV and a variety of major London nightclubs, and produced shows at London Fashion Week. He wrote and photographed ‘Narrative Thread – Conversations on Fashion Collections’, published by Bloomsbury in 2023, which was reviewed to wide international acclaim. Norma Kamali: “Rarely does one person have such a high level of talent for both photography and writing. Mark C. O’Flaherty absolutely does.”

Dame Zandra Rhodes is a British fashion and textile designer renowned for her bold and colourful prints and unmistakable personal style. Having graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Printed Textiles in 1964, Rhodes went on to revolutionize the fashion industry, launching her iconic brand, designing five decades of groundbreaking fashion collections, dressing rockstars and royalty and founding London’s Fashion and Textile Museum. In 2014, she was honoured with a DBE for her contributions to British fashion and textiles. Her designs are housed in prestigious museums globally such as The Met in New York and the V&A in London. In 2020, she established the Zandra Rhodes Foundation to preserve her legacy and open up her vast archive as a learning resource for current and future generations. Rhodes continues to work from her London studio, focusing on both archiving her life’s output and designing new collaborations with leading fashion and lifestyle brands. She recently published her memoir, ICONIC: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects.

She graduated in Literature with a specialization in Art History from the University of Florence; in 1984 she began to work with the Galleria del Costume of Palazzo Pitti and with Pitti Immagine, curating the realization of some exhibitions and catalogues such as “La Sala Bianca: nascita della moda Italiana” (Electa) in 1992 and, in 1996, on the occasion of the Biennale d’Arte e Moda in Florence, the catalogue of the Emilio Pucci exhibition (Skira). In 1985, she curated the first retrospective exhibition on Salvatore Ferragamo at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and its various venues at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (1987), at the Los Angeles County Museum (1992), at the Sogetsu Kai Foundation in Tokyo (1998) and at the Museo Palacio des Bellas Artes in Mexico City (2006), starting with the organization of the company’s archive. Since 1995 she has been the director of the Museo Ferragamo and she has also been responsible for cultural events around the world; since then, she has curated all the exhibitions organized by the museum and the related catalogues, including “Audrey Hepburn. Una donna, lo stile” (Audrey Hepburn. A woman, the style) (Leonardo Arte) in 1999, “Evolving Legend. Salvatore Ferragamo 1928-2008” (Skira, 2009), “Greta Garbo. Il mistero dello stile” (Greta Garbo. The mystery of style) (Skira, 2010), “Marilyn” (Skira, 2012), “Il calzolaio prodigioso” (The Amazing Shoemaker) (Skira, 2013), “Equilibrium” (Skira, 2014), “Un palazzo e la città” (A Palace and the City) (Skira, 2015), “Tra arte e moda” (Across Art and Fashion) (Mandragora, 2016), “1927 Il ritorno in Italia” (1927 The Return to Italy) (Skira, 2017), “L’Italia a Hollywood” (Italy in Hollywood) (Skira, 2018), “Sustainable Thinking” (Electa, 2019), “Seta” (Silk) (Electa, 2021), “Donne in equilibrio” (Women in Balance) (Electa, 2022), “Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960” (Electa, 2023).
In 2019, she was appointed as a member of the Study Commission, established by the Ministero della Cultura, for the identification of public policies for the protection, conservation, enhancement and use of Italian fashion as cultural heritage. She has been director of the Ferragamo Foundation since 2013.

Andrea Rosso, born in Bassano del Grappa, embodies curiosity and passion. His love for music, graphic art, and flea markets fuels his creativity. As a descendant of Diesel’s founder, he was drawn to fashion, studying pattern cutting in Padua and later discovering a passion for nonconformist skills in California.

He pursued Textile Development and Marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, before conceiving his role inside the family business. Andrea led the creative development of Diesel Living, launched in 2008 as home textiles, now including partnerships with top design firms like Moroso, Lodes, and Scavolini. In 2014, he launched MYAR, a sustainable fashion project focused on upcycled military garments, blending history with modern style.

In 2020, Andrea took on the role of Diesel Sustainability Ambassador, and in the same year the brand launched its ‘For Responsible Living’ strategy, a commitment to benefit current and future generations.

Marco Sammicheli is curator of the design, fashion and crafts sector at Triennale Milano and Director of Museo del Design Italiano. As supervisor of the International Exhibition program, he has been the institutional representative of Triennale at the Bureau International des Expositions in Paris since 2018. He curated exhibitions for museums and galleries on different designers: Estùdio Campana (Power Station of Art, Shanghai); Bruno Munari (Museo del Novecento, Milan); Carlo Mollino, Ettore Sottsass, Alberto Meda, Mario Bellini, Inga Sempé (Triennale Milano). He has written monographs and contributed to several publications on design. He teaches at the Catholic University in Milan where he leads a research unit on sacred design in collaboration with the Vatican Museums.

Grown up “breathing” fashion in the family’s company, she has developed, since a very young age, a passion and competence linked to the creation of knitwear collections for some of the most important Italian and international designers. After having graduated and after an experience at Miss Deanna, she moves to New York and Paris from 1997 to 2001, working as Director of Creative Service for Badger & Partners, marketing, advertising and communication agency. In 2003 she returns to Italy and works as a stylist for different fashion brands and for the music industry curating, among many projects, also the music videos for the famous rock star Vasco Rossi. From 2004 to 2011 she is Artistic Director for the Knitwear Company GOTHA.

Between 2008 and 2010 she is Professor for Fashion Materials at IUAV, in Venice. In 2005 she is the founder of Modateca Deanna, International Centre for Fashion Documentation, and continues promoting Made in Italy with particular interest in Knitwear Design, through the creation and realization of exhibition projects in Italy and abroad.

Since 2016, Sonia Veroni is also the Director of the academic Master in Creative Knitwear Design (CKD Master) of Accademia Costume & Moda, in collaboration with Modateca Deanna. The Master in Creative Knitwear Design is a new concept in advanced knitwear education, offering to young fashion designers a complete and specific education in Knitwear.

In partnership with some of the Italian most prestigious Knitwear and Yarns Companies and with the technical support offered by highly specialized partners, the course is based on the on-site learning, interactive lessons and the collaboration with the most innovative and important Italian companies specialized in fashion knitwear. CKD philosophy is to create knitwear projects with the care and ethic of the past mastering technology innovation of the present and the future.

Matteo Ward is an Italian entrepreneur and sustainability advocate, CEO of IO Fashion, Textiles & Home.

He is best known as the CEO and co-founder of WRÅD. Matteo serves as Vice President of Fashion Revolution Italia and is a member of their Education team. In 2023, Matteo co-authored and hosted "JUNK," a docu-series co-produced by Sky Italia and Will Media, while in 2024 he published his first book, FUORIMODA!, with DeAgostini Mondadori.

As a Food Hero, he collaborated with FAO on a children's activity book.