A new talent is born: Yvonne Kwok, a graduate of the AMFI Amsterdam Fashion Institute, has won the "G-Star Raw Talent Award" on 12 July. At the Lichting 2012 show, 14 fashion graduates of AMFI presented their collections to national and international fashion experts.
Lichting is a fashion industry prize that is awarded to the most promising fashion graduate in the Netherlands. Yvonne Kwok’s collection is about the battle with mental disorder caused by the restrictions within the fashion system where pressure plays a major role. Therefore she mocks in her collection the marionette, a person who’s in service of someone else. For inspiration she used elements of the carnival and combined warm tones with bright accents and pastels.
This year, the panel is formed by Margareta van den Bosch (creative advisor H&M), Orsola de Castro (founder From Somewhere, showroom for sustainable fashion), Marieke van Dongen (senior designer at Raf Simons) and Corinna Springer (founder Nouveau pr New York).
Yvonne Kwok received a monetary prize of € 10,000 and the opportunity to contribute her talents in the international catwalk show of G-Star in Berlin. The G-Star RAW Talent Award was presented by Remco de Nijs, G-Star PR Manager and Collection Stylist. J'N'C congratulates!
