Global Fashion Awards 2013 Shortlist Announced

 

Raf Simons, Phillip Lim, Erdem Moralioğlu, Guillaume Henry and Isabel Marant Vie for Victoria Beckham’s Womenswear Title

Harrods, Gandys, Christian Louboutin, Topshop, Dries Van Noten, Sophie Hulme, Absolute Black, Monki, The Walt Disney Company, PODIUM MARKET, Melissa, Seafolly, Orta Anadolu and Victoria Beckham Denim amongst truly international line up of nominees

Raf Simons (Dior), Phillip Lim, Erdem Moralioğlu (Erdem), Guillaume Henry (Carven) and Isabel Marant have all been shortlisted for the coveted WGSN Global Fashion Awards, Catrice Womenswear Designer Award, which was won last year by Victoria Beckham.

Meanwhile Beckham is once again nominated but this year in the iSKO Denim Design Team category as Victoria Beckham Denim competes with G-Star Raw, A G Jeans, Hudson and MiH.

The shortlist of nominees for a total of 20 fashion design and retail categories was revealed at an exclusive summer drinks party at the St Martin’s Lane Hotel by platinum-selling music artist, fashion week front row regular and GFA judge, Kate Nash, and WGSN Awards Director, Lauretta Roberts.

The hotly contested awards once again feature an international cast of nominees from Hong Kong, India and Brazil to Russia, France, Italy, USA and UK and beyond.

 Oliver Spencer, Dries Van Noten, Christophe Lemaire and Meadham Kirchhoff are nominated for the Menswear Designer Award, won by Kim Jones of Louis Vuitton in 2012, whilst the winner of Footwear & Accessories Designer, last year won by Charlotte Olympia, will be either one of Sophie Hulme, Edgardo Osorio of Aquazurra, Nicholas Kirkwood or Christian Louboutin.

Up-and-coming Gandys goes head to head with Clarks, Melissa and Absolute Black in the Preciosa Footwear & Accessories Design Team category which was last year won by global success story; The Cambridge Satchel Company.

Outlets including Topshop, John Lewis, Saks Fifth Avenue, Monki, Evoluzione, Dafiti, Karl Lagerfeld and PUMA are amongst the nominees in the four store design categories. While sister companies Net-a-Porter and MRPORTER.com will fight it out for the best buying team prize along with Russia’s PODIUM MARKET and Opening Ceremony.

Other award winners, to be announced at the fourth annual WGSN Global Fashion Awards to be held at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday 30 October, will be for the prestigious Hall of Fame, LYCRA® Future Designers Award and the Empiria Woman Award for a humanitarian style icon.

Roberts said: “This is a very strong shortlist which includes some of the world’s most exciting talent. We have representatives from every continent and had the highest number of entries in the event’s four-year history. I’m really looking forward to seeing who wins these prizes. Whoever they are will be truly able to lay claim to being the best in the world. My personal highlight will be the big reveal of our really exciting Hall of Fame winner but we’re not saying who that is just yet!”

The shortlists were compiled from entries and nominations by a judging panel consisting of an international roll call of specially selected figures from within the fashion and style industries; bloggers, models, designers, stylists and buying directors including Livia Firth, Giles Deacon, Laura Bailey, Avsh Alom Gur, Bip Ling, Rebecca Minkoff, Lucy Choi, Bora Asku, VV Brown, Katie Eary, Mr Porter’s Jeremy Langmead, Bloomingdale’s Brooke Jaffe and Eric Jennings of Saks Fifth Avenue, as well as the designer of the GFA 2012 award, Lily Kamper and winner of the 2012 Hall of Fame and internationally renowned, photographer, Rankin.

The full shortlist is: