Finalists of the Woolmark International Prize are announced | Life

NEW YORK, July 14 – Four more finalists for the Woolmark International Award 2018/19 have been announced in New York.

The quartet joins eight other finalists revealed in London and Hong Kong earlier The winners of the New York semifinals are Australian Albus Lumen and Brandon Maxwell, Colovos and Willy Chavarria, all from the United States .

They will go to the final of the competition. Along with the British, Daniel W. Fletcher, Edward Crutchley and Nicholas Daley, Swedish creator CMMN SWDN, Hong Kong's i-am-chen, China's Angel Chen, Japan's Yohei Ohno and Korea's Youser.

The 12 finalists will receive a business mentorship and a cash injection of A $ 70,000 (R205,556.50) to develop a capsule collection to be presented at the prestigious annual final of the competition, which will will be held in London in February 2019. [19659007] Two potential winners – a men's clothing designer and a women's clothing designer – will each receive an additional A $ 200,000 to bring their brands to the next stage of development. A finalist will also receive the "Innovation Award", a title that celebrates creative strategies for the use of wool, and that comes with a reward of $ 100,000 Australian.

For more information, see https://www.woolmarkprize.com/ – AFP- Relaxnews