ITS 2015
THE FUTURE
Among the ITS 2015 jurors are Massimo Giorgetti (Founder & Creative Director MSGM), Carlo Capasa (President of CNMI - Italian Fashion Chamber) and Oriole Cullen (Acting Senior Curator of Contemporary Fashion, Victoria & Albert Museum).
Past finalist Aitor Throup receives a recognition for his career. The concept for the edition is “THE FUTURE”.

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