ITS#FOUR Preselections
April 12, 2005
The final count-down has begun. On the 14 - 15 of April the pre-selection juries - fashion and photo- will start the massive job of selecting the finalists from a range of hundreds and hundreds applicants. E V E headquarter in Trieste is just packed with portfolios coming from 70 different countries and 177 fashion schools.
To know who was selected pop back online on the 15 of April. Your name could be right there!
While waiting have a look at the brave juries -fashion and photo:
ITS#FASHION JURY
WILBERT DAS -Diesel Creative Director
Wilbert Das was born in Holland in 1963.
He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem, Holland (which at that time was one of the three most famous fashion institutes worldwide), where he had studied Fashion for 5 years. After graduating in 1988, he joined Diesel where he started out as male designer assistant (working also on the Kids, Accessories and Leather lines).
In 1993 he became not only Head of Design (leading a style office of some 30 people) but also Creative Director of the company, responsible for all the creative concepts, from Advertising (he is one of the founding members of the internal Diesel Creative Team) to Interior Design (he coordinated the restructuring of the Diesel Pelican Hotel in Miami and the creation of all main Diesel flagship stores worldwide), from Product (design and production) to fashion shows and catalogues.
DEANNA FERRETTI -Entrepreneur
Deanna Ferretti Veroni started her career in Reggio Emilia, Italy more than 30 years ago. She has since then successfully collaborated with some of the most important designers of this past century. She met Kenzo when she was barely 25 years old and with him she worked successfully for over 20 years. During the 70’s she collaborated with Yves Saint Laurent (Tricot e Variation), Rena Kraft, Chiwitt, Frapp, Luis London, Blaky Dress, Giorgio Correggiari, Popy Moreni and Michelle Bruyere.
In the 80’s she started to have her first licences with Adrienne Vittadini, Armani and Joseph. Their collections were drawn by John Galliano and John Richmond.
In the 90’s, she worked for Martin Margiela, Gai Mattiolo, Valentino, Neil Barret and for many others brands. She has a wide experience in textiles and knitwear but she cannot be called neither a fashion designer nor simply a business woman. Actually, she is an atypical figure born for realise almost every designer’s dream. Now, every three or four years her company supports a new young talent, because Miss Deanna is a symbol of originality and quality.
BARBARA FRANCHIN -Talent Scout
Barbara Franchin was born in Trieste in 1967. Living in a border zone has led to her openness and curiosity in terms of interfusion in all its forms.
She took her first steps in the fashion world establishing an atelier with a friend aimed to the creation of extravagant womenswear clothing.
Her propensity for exchange, comparison, curiosity and the search for the creative spark lead her to create and organise in 1993 Mittelmoda, a projects created to provide space for the elaboration and search for talent within the fashion world.
Barbara left it after the 2000 edition to launch a new and autonomous entrepreneurial project in Trieste; an agency, EVE, of which she is Director&Project Supervisor.
As director of EVE she is now organising the fourth edition of ITS - International Talent Support.
VALENTINA MAGGI -Floriane de St. Pierre
Valentina Maggi was born in 1972 in Milan and graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1998, with a specialisation in Restoration of Monuments.
After 1 year working as an Architect in a Design Studio in Milan, she left Italy and moved to Paris in 1999.
In the same year she joined Floriane De Saint Pierre&Associes, Executive Search Company specialising in Fashion and Luxury Goods.
After 6 months working as the Assistant of the Consultant in charge of all Creative searches, under Floriane de Saint Pierre’s supervision, she took the Responsibility of all Creative Recruitments for the Company.
Since 2003, Valentina Maggi has become Associate in Floriane De Saint Pierre & Associes.
MARIA LUISA POUMAILLOU -Founder and Buyer for Maria Luisa Boutiques
Maria Luisa’s adventure began in 1988 with the opening of her first boutique in Paris in a very unconventional street - 2, Rue Cambon - as unconventional were at that time the fashion designers’ collections that she had chosen to launch: John Galliano, Helmut Lang, Ann Demeulemeester, Martin Margiela to name just a few! These almost unknown fashion designers were to become fashion icons quite immediately.
In the years to follow Maria Luisa’s fame as a visionary woman spotting the most-famous-to-become designers has never stopped growing.
At 40, rue du Mont Thabor the widest, smartest and biggest space was open in 2002. It will welcome the collection of the winner of the Maria Luisa Award in the form of a dedicated shop-window.
Maria Luisa now owns and directs 4 boutiques where some of the most innovative and outstanding fashion designers - such as Bernhard Willhelm, Lutz, Sharon Wauchob etc - are sold.
ELISA PALOMINO -John Galliano, Head of the Studio
Elisa Palomino’s interest in fashion design started in 1987 when she enrolled at the S. Carlos Faculty of Fine Art in Valencia. After continuing her studies at Istituto Marangoni and Central Saint Martins (MA Fashion&Textiles), she started her professional career in New York in 1992; soon she moved back to London to work for Liberty and Timney Fowler. In 1995, she became full time textile designer and Scarf Collection Director at Moschino, in Milan.
In 2000 Elisa moved to Paris and joined John Galliano as the head of the studio. In the same year, she started a collaboration with Christian Dior.
ITS#PHOTO JURY
JAN WELTERS - Photographer
Jan was born in Holland in 1963. He attended art school in Breda where he discovered his main passion was photography. He began to travel extensively, assist professional photographers and develop his own unique style. In 1995 he chose Paris as his new home and has worked for numerous magazines and advertising clients since. Jan dedicates a lot of time to personal projects. He had his first solo exhibition in Rome in 2001 and has been featured in numerous group shows across Europe and New York.
ANNE URBAUER - Chief Editor MINIInternational magazine
Anne Urbauer was born near Munich, Bavaria, where she studied journalism, politics and history. She has worked as Lifestyle Editor for German 80s Zeitgeist Zentralorgan "Tempo", as head of the modern living department at "Stern" Magazine and "Woche", a weekly newspaper as well as a contributing editor for "Wallpaper" magazine (issues 1 to 50).
Freelancing since 1999, she has founded "H.O.M.E.", a magazine for design and architecture based in Berlin, "Spruce", a fashion oriented line extension for "Wallpaper" magazine, "STIL", the style section of the sunday edition of Neue Züricher Zeitung (NZZ) in Zurich, Switzerland and MINIInternational, the culture friendly corporate magazine sponsored by MINI. In 2004, she edited "Perspectives", a book on the visions of 24 designers and architects, published by Gerd Bulthaup. Currently she is contributing editor to NZZ am Sonntag, executive editor of Amica Germany and editorial director of MINIInternational. She now lives in Munich.
