Dunedin celebrates 10 years of emerging fashion

Pieces from iD International Emerging Designer Awards finalists Lucilla Gray, Justine Tindley and Sophia Hattingh.

The iD International Emerging Designer Awards will celebrate 10 years of supporting young talent in April, with the finalists for this year's competition just announced.

Selected by a panel including fashion designers Tanya Carlson and Margi Robertson of Nom*d, the international finalists come from as far as India and Croatia, with finalists from several New Zealand fashion schools also featuring.

Justine Tindley's collection was inspired by Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, utilising second hand garments to create new designs. The 41-year-old studied at Otago Polytechnic.

22-year-old Massey University graduate Lucilla Gray has already caught the eye of local stylists with her collection of digital textile prints in saturated colours, and is currently interning at Kate Sylvester.

Fellow finalist Sophia Hattingh, a 20-year-old AUT graduate, has also already found a place in the local fashion industry, working alongside Liz Mitchell as her design assistant.

The winners will be announced with a show at the Dunedin Town Hall on April 3, with a $10,000 prize for the first place winner to mark the ten year anniversary.

The iD International Emerging Designer Awards winners will go on to show their collections at the iD Dunedin Fashion Show held at Dunedin's Railway Station on April 4 and 5. The popular show is also marking a milestone this year - 15 years - and will feature collections from Carlson, Nom*d, Tamsin Cooper and more. World are the special guest, with an international designer to be announced shortly.

Tickets to both shows are available here.

Finalists for the 2014 iD International Emerging Designer Awards are:

From New Zealand:
Auckland University of Technology: Sophia Hattingh; Sarah Morovic
Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland: Kido Deng
Massey University, Wellington: Jack Hill, Lucilla Gray
Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin: Justine Tindley; Hannah Louise Heslop; Georgia Ferguson

From Australia:
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology: Alanna Barca; Chin Hau Tay; Victoria Thaniotis; Yan Wang.
The Fashion Design Studio, Ultimo TAFE, Sydney: Bei Na Wei; Yousef Akbar.
University of Technology, Sydney: Adele Thiel; Anna-Marie Gruber; Lillian Chan; Mook Attakanwong; Roxane Chan; Wing Chiang.
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane: Edwina Sinclair; Tess Gard; Dobin Moon.

From China:
Shanghai University of Engineering Science/Sino-French Institute of Fashion Design: Xinyi Li; Mingcheng Zhu.

From Italy:
Brera Academy, Milan: Mahshid Mahdian.

From Croatia:
University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology and Fashion Design: Matija Cop.

From the Netherlands:
Gerrit Rletveid Academie: Alla Kuzmyk.

From Singapore/UK:
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and University of East London, UK: Jayla Chin.

From Ireland:
National College of Art and Design, Dublin: Jocelyn Boyne.

From India:
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kolkata, India: Vaibhav Singh.

- VIVA