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Thursday, 29 December 2005 | Elif Sungur
ITS#Five International Talent Support 2006
ITS#FIVE -International Talent Support, the competition for young creatives is getting ready to unleash its fifth edition, which will take place in Trieste, Italy, 12-14 July 2006.
ITS is a project created and developed by EVE, in cooperation with DIESEL who has backed the project since the very beginning.
ITS has always had a primary mission: finding and supporting young talents all over the world, giving them the space to freely express their creativity in front of a professional audience and jury composed of journalists, professors, artists and opinion leaders. Opportunities go from financial support to special projects and prizes. The Diesel Award; gives the winner the opportunity to design a capsule collection, labelled with the winner's name, produced by Diesel and distributed in the most exclusive Diesel stores worldwide: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, London, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris and Tokyo; Fashion Collection of the Year €20.000 towards creating a new collection at the following edition of ITS and a place in the jury and the i-D Styling Award are some of the prizes up for grabs.
ITS#FIVE sees the entry of the all new ITS#ACCESSORIES created with YKK, which opens with two prizes: Accessories Collection of the Year €10.000 and the YKK Accessory Award €10.000 .The winning accessory will also be the star of a YKK 2006-2007 advertising campaign.
MINI returns to the ITS#PHOTO scene with 545 Fashion Photography Competition, involving 5 of the best photography schools in the world. The winner will receive €10.000 and will realise a photo shoot which will be published in MINIInternational magazine.
From supporting young creative talents to showcasing legendary talents. For the first time ITS will host one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century: Andy Warhol. The ITS#FIVE location will host a teaser from Andy Warhol's Time Boxes, which will go on show fully at the end of July in the same location.
ITS is committed to providing opportunities for finalists that go beyond the annual event: internships and collaborations in the fashion world are crucial ITS goals. The jury, guests and press are tailored to assure visibility to the finalists' work. During the last edition, ITS#FOUR, some students were selected to collaborate with John Galliano, Antonio Marras, Diesel, Boudicca.
All applications to participate must arrive by 24th March 2006. In April one jury will choose the finalists for fashion and accessories while another will choose the finalists for the photo competition. In July, the finalists will come to Trieste where they will showcase their work and run for all the prizes at ITS#FIVE.
For more information see the website http://www.itsweb.org
Diesel is ITS presenting partner, the first one that believed in the project and supports young fashion talents with concrete opportunities; ITS#ACCESSORIES is partnered by YKK and ITS#PHOTO is partnered by MINI. Develon is the internet partner. i-D, Le Book, WGSN and Trieste City Council support the event.
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