Samsung Galaxy Award
Supporting young talents and encouraging them to create what enriches people’s lives constitutes the common grounds for the partnership established by ITS with Samsung Galaxy, which has been leading the mobile device industry pursuing not only technological inventiveness but also lifestyle enrichment. Samsung has a rich history of collaborating with the fashion industry and consistently looks for groundbreaking ways that allow consumers to express their personal style through their mobile devices.
As an everyday companion, a mobile device must be stylized with fashionable creativity. The Samsung Galaxy Award showcased the young talents’ creative blending of technology with fashion, accessories and jewelry design.
As an innovator of mobile industry, Samsung Galaxy partnered with ITS to encourage young talents to explore their creative ideas, and ultimately create a product that unites technology and fashion. Ten finalists were selected from ITS FASHION, ITS ACCESSORIES, ITS JEWELRY, and ITS ARTWORK, and were asked to develop proposals for two assignments to reinforce the features of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge: produce a new type of smartphone case for the Galaxy S6 or S6 edge and create a fashion item or art piece based on their design expertise, inspired by Galaxy S6 or S6 edge design or features.
There were no limitations in the form of the output nor in the use of materials. A selection of Swarovski Crystals was freely available to be used. The best prototype received the Samsung Galaxy Award, a cash prize of €10,000.
Matching the requested task and the Samsung Galaxy’s brand essence, creativeness and way of presentation were the judging criteria.
Generali Special Award
In 2015 the Generali Special Award was assigned to a designer whose career development has been, and continues to be, a remarkable pursue of unique ideas achieving a sustainable synthesis between creativity and entrepreneurship.
Among the over 550 finalists represented in the ITS Creative Archive, 54 - now working on their own brands - ran for the Generali Special Award, assigned by a committee including Simone Bemporad (Generali Group Director of Communications and Public Affairs), Barbara Franchin (ITS Director), Angelo Flaccavento (Indipendent Fashion Journalist) and Sara Maino (Senior editor of Vogue Italia and Vogue Talents).
Aitor Throup was the winner of the Generali Special Award due to the following reasons:
- He is an artist almost in the Renaissance meaning of the term, with a 360° scope vision, proposing revolutionary ideas, sourced by fine intelligence and amazing technical skills.
- He shows a complexly structured and coherent aesthetic corpus of his idea. His innovative vision blossoms from strong traditional roots.
- His Weltanschaung is unique and precious: it would be limiting to call fashion design what he expresses and does, as it is a mixture of art, architecture, engineering, experimentation and design.
Finalists and Winners
Adi Lev Dori
Jewellery finalist
Alexis Gautier
Fashion finalist
WINNER
ITS 2015 Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award
Attila Lajos
Fashion finalist
Bianca Chong
Accessories finalist
Bojana Nikodijevic
Accessories finalist
Bokyum Suh
Jewellery finalist
Christine Charlebois & Polina Yakobson
Fashion finalists
Daniella Saraya
Jewellery finalist
Elina Määttänen
Fashion finalist
WINNER
ITS 2015 Vogue Talents Award
Higasi Nobuhiro
Artwork finalist
Hiroki Kataoka
Accessories finalist
In Wai Kwok
Jewellery finalist
WINNER
ITS 2015 ITS JEWELRY Award in partnership with Swarovski
Isabel Helf
Accessories finalist
WINNER
ITS 2015 ITS ACCESSORIES Award in partnership with YKK
Iskren Lozanov
Jewellery finalist
Jenifer Thévenaz - Burdet
Fashion finalist
WINNER
ITS 2015 Eyes on Talents Award
Kaat De Groef
Jewellery finalist
Kim Shui
Fashion finalist
Kota Okuda
Jewellery finalist
WINNER
ITS 2015 ITS JEWELRY Award in partnership with Swarovski
Leo Carlton
Accessories finalist
Liat Ginzburg
Jewellery finalist
Marta Twarowska
Artwork finalist
Nadide Begum Yildirim
Accessories finalist
Nadine Eismann
Accessories finalist
Paula Knorr
Fashion finalist
WINNER
ITS 2015 ITS FASHION Award in partnership with OTB
Quoï Alexander
Fashion finalist
Richard Quinn
Fashion finalist
Shay Tako
Artwork finalist
WINNER
ITS 2015 Swatch Award
Sonja Iglic
Jewellery finalist
Tom Van Der Borght & Shalva Nikvashvili
Artwork finalists
Viktorija Agne
Accessories finalist
Wataru Sato
Accessories finalist
Yang Wang
Accessories finalist
Yuko Koike
Fashion finalist
Yun Sun Jang
Jewellery finalist
Yunseo Choi
Fashion finalist
Fashion Jury
Barbara Franchin
ITS Founder & Director
Nicola Formichetti
Diesel Artistic Director
Sara Maino
Senior Editor Vogue Italia and Vogue Talents
Deanna Ferretti
Maglificio Miss Deanna, Modateca
Anna Orsini
Strategic Consultant British Fashion Council
Oriole Cullen
Acting Senior Curator of Contemporary Fashion, Victoria & Albert Museum
Massimo Giorgietti
Founder & Designer MSGM
Angelo Flaccavento
Independent Fashion Writer
Floriane De Saint Pierre
Founder & Head of FSPSA
Carlo Capasa
CNMI President
Demna Gvasalia
Founder & Designer Vetements
Barbara Grispini
Curator, British Fashion Council Designer Brand Development Consultant
Simone Marchetti
Fashion editor D.Repubblica.it, La Repubblica, Repubblica.it
Katherine Roberts-Wood
ITS 2014 Winner of Fashion Collection of the Year
Accessories Jury
Kei Kagami
Designer & YKK Consultant
Marco Grandi
Sales Manager YKK Italy
Valentina Maggi
Director of Design Practice at Floriane de St. Pierre
Elena Ghisellini
Leather goods designer
Claudio Marenco Mores
Fashion Design Teacher & Mentor
Franco Gabbrielli
Leather Goods Designer
Antonio Mancinelli
News Editor-in-Chief Marie Claire Italia
Barbara Franchin
ITS Founder & Director
Diego Dolcini
Fashion Designer
Fabio Messina
Fashion Editor Vogue Accessory
Mirja Pitkaart
ITS 2014 Winner of Accessories Collection of the Year
Artwork Jury
Carlo Giordanetti
Creative Director SWATCH
Barbara Franchin
ITS Founder & Director
Sigrid Calon
Swatch Artist
Darryl Von Daniken
Owner International Radio Festival
Sabrina Pesenti
Fashion Blogger
Oliver Borgeaud
Curator
Gea Politi
Flash Art Magazine
Uma Wangn
Fashion Designer
Jewelry Jury
Ute Schumacher
Vice President Design Center HQ, Swarovski Professional
Harry Eisenberg
Head of Jewelry Design Swarovski Professional
Isaiah Kincaid
Vice President of Licenced Product at Guess
Paolo Giacomelli
IOSSELLIANI
Miranda Konstantinidou
Founder and Designer KONPLOTT
Barbara Franchin
ITS Founder & Director
Samsung Jury
Younghee Lee
Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, IT & Mobile Division, Samsung Electronics
Sangsoo Lee
Principal Designer of Product Design, IT & Mobile Division, Samsung Electronics
Luca Lanzoni
Editor in Chief Elle.it
Giampietro Baudo
Editor in Chief MFFashion
Gianluca Cantaro
Editor in Chief L'Officiel Italia