On March 18, 2020, the list of winners and finalists of the international textile design contest Textile Design Talents Solstudio Award 2020, where Kalibr Technopark is an official partner, was announced.

The results are posted on the websites www.solstudiodesign.com/award/, https://www.souzlegprom.ru/, https://intertkan.ru/ and in the Solstudio Textile Design groups and the Intertkan exhibition on social networks. This year More than 400 designers from 119 cities and 29 countries took part in the competition, including England, Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark, India, China, Israel, the USA, Namibia, Indonesia, Puerto Rico and many others.

Textile Design Talents Solstudio Award for textile designers is held by Kalibr Technopark tenant Solstudio Textile Group and SOYUZLEGPROM with the support of MINPROMTORG and the Intertkan exhibition. His goal is to support talented artists and attract the attention of professionals from all sectors of the fashion industry.

“The first place is great joy and gratitude! For me, a professional designer who has just received a specialized education, this is also a very strong motivation. I defined the sphere of textile design as a matter of my life, and I am grateful to the organizers of the competition for supporting young designers and helping to realize their abilities in the industry, ”the winner of the competition Anastasia Ivanova shares her first impressions.

“This spring has become difficult for the industry and the whole world as a whole. But we are sure that all this will pass, and our competition will continue to open up new talents for the industry. Therefore, together with Alexandra Kaloshina and David Sha, we are now developing a new nomination and a new competitive task, which will reveal to us more winners. So this year we, in full accordance with popular wisdom, will finish counting the winners in the autumn, ”commented the contest on the president of SOYUZLEGPROM, Andrei Razbrodin. - Follow the updates on the contest website! ”

Member of the international jury: Mare-Ann Dunkley, Head of Design, Liberty Fabrics; David Shah, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Textile View, Netherlands; Elsa May, Fashion Department Première Vision, France; Isabel Wharton, Editor, Prints & Graphics WGSN, UK; Giovanni Ottonello, art director of IED Istituto Europeo di Design; Dahbia Roux, CEO of Première Vision in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. As well as leading Russian experts in the field of textile design: Andrey Razbrodin, founder of the DARGEZ company, president of the Russian Union of Entrepreneurs of Textile and Light Industry; Alena Akhmadullina, founder of the brand of the same name; Alexandra Kaloshina, founder of Solstudio TextileGroup; Irina Rybaulina, Head of the Department of Textile and Ornamental Arts, Russian State University A.N. Kosygin.

“As always, it was very difficult to choose the winners, and I am very glad that I am not the only jury member who makes the decision. The professional level of work is growing from year to year. Great job! I would very much like to meet with the finalists in person. Some works are based on very strong conceptual thinking, but there are unfortunate flaws in technical performance, ”commented David Sha, the founder of the international magazine Textile View, a member of the jury, who commented on the first results.

Contest winners

1st place - Anastasia Ivanova (St. Petersburg)

Paid trip to the Premiere Vision exhibition in Paris, a meeting with a representative of the fashion department of the exhibition and a special excursion program.

2nd place - Julia Shora (Moscow)

A certificate from the Fashion Factory School business school for any course of study.

3rd place - Maya Abdullaeva (Munich, Germany)

Digital printing on fabric of a print collection of a participant, consisting of 10 drawings of his choice, at Solstudio Industry. The production is fully funded by the contest organizer.

Prizes in special nominations were provided by partners of the competition: Concept Group, Liberty Fabrics, Epson, Pantone, and Kalibr Technopark.

Competition website: https://solstudiodesign.com/award/

The works of the finalists can be downloaded from the link - https://yadi.sk/d/dVcvpi7e1XvbEg

For reference:

Solstudio Textile Group

The company has been operating in the textile industry for over 20 years.

Solstudio Textile Group are three interconnected divisions.

Solstudio Textile Design - a textile design studio creates a textile pattern - patterns for fabric and sells them in 30 countries, is the only permanent Russian participant of the exhibitions Premiere Vision (Paris), Intertextile Shanghai (Shanghai), Munich Fabric Start (Munich), Indigo (New York). The drawings of the studio are on the stands of the trends of leading textile exhibitions, they are referenced by world authorities in the analysis of the fashion world, such as WGSN. Employees of the company conduct lecture and educational work to promote modern textile design. The studio creates drawings for its own brand, Radical Chic.

Solstudio Industry is a digital fabric printing factory. Drawing is carried out on all types of textile bases: natural, artificial, mixed.

Radical Chic is a brand of accessories (shawls, scarves, umbrellas and clothes). Handkerchiefs made of natural silk, wool and cashmere are presented in four own stores in Moscow and St. Petersburg, at 65 points of sale throughout Russia.