MANGO, Spain’s most international designer fashion brand, launches the fourth edition of the El Botón-MANGO Fashion Awards, an event which aims to promote the international projection of new fashion …

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MANGO, Spain’s most international designer fashion brand, launches the fourth edition of the El Botón-MANGO Fashion Awards, an event which aims to promote the international projection of new fashion Designer talent. Participants will have the opportunity to present their collections before a prestigious jury and compete for 300,000 euros in prize money, the largest sum offered to date in a competition of this type.

Schedule:
February 2011: Media presentation of the 4th edition of MANGO Fashion Awards.
15 February 2011 – 31 July 2011: Registration period.
30 September 2011: Selection of the final 50 candidates by the MANGO Committee.
15 October 2011: Announcement of the 10 finalists and awarding of €18,000 gross to each one.
March 2012 : Awards Ceremony and presentation of the shortlisted collections

The new registration period will commence on 15 February and designers will have until the end of July to present their applications. In mid-November, the jury, made up of representatives of MANGO and five prestigious international design schools (Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London; Institut Français de la Mode, Paris; Istituto Marangoni, Milan; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp; and l’Escola Superior de Disseny, Barcelona), will select the 10 finalists from all the applications presented.

 

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