Hennes & Mauritz AB has selected their final 24 design students from 37 fashion schools worldwide for the fourth edition of its annual H&M Design Award.
Here are the 24 design students who had the opportunity to dazzle the jury with their styles:
Andreas Ekelöf, Textilhögskolan Borås
Leonard Kocic, Beckmans
Magdalena Brozda, Head Geneve
Charlotte Knowles, LCF
James Kelly, RCA
Janni Turtiainen, RCA
Katherine Roberts-Wood, RCA
Fiona O´Neill, CSM
Graham Fan, CSM
Franscesca Reberschegg, Polimoda
Juyan Zhou, IFM
Elina Määttänen, Aalto
Ximon Lee, Parsons
Andrea Jiapei Li, Parsons
Peter Do, FIT
Yiyu Chen, Artez
Laure Severac, Royal Antwerpen
Sarah Effenberger, UDK
Simone Schmidt Adrian, Royal Danish Academy
Clara Jungman, Royal Antwerpen
Yumiko Sei, Vantan
Hirotaka Shintani, BFGU
In Seo, BUNKA
Younchan Chung, SADI
The jury - led by H&M's Ann-Sofie Johansson head of design, New Development - will now pick the eight finalists. The result will be revealed at designaward.hm.com on November 27th. Make sure to mark the date in your calendar!
Find out more about the semifinalist on their website.
About the H&M Design Award:
H&M Design Award is a design competition for students at selected design schools around the world. Their ambition is to bring up the most promising talents in fashion and give them a springboard in their careers.
The prize is €50,000 plus the chance to show their graduation collection at Fashion Week Stockholm in January 2015. The winner will also get to develop key pieces from their collection to be sold in selected H&M stores. Who can sign up? 2014 BA and MA graduates (or equivalent to that) from participating colleges with collections based on garments.
H&M also lets the people choose their own favourite from the eight finalists in People's Prize, where the most voted designer gets an internship at a renowned fashion studio.
