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Fashion Network
3 days ago
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- Fashion Network
Andam 2025 Grand Prix awarded to Meryll Rogge
The verdict fell on Monday evening in the Jardins du Palais Royal, where the atmosphere was feverish. The Meryll Rogge label, founded by the eponymous Belgian designer, won the grand prize at Andam 2025. The fashion competition, founded in 1989 by managing director Nathalie Dufour at the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture and Le Défi to support young designers, and chaired by Guillaume Houzé, also awarded its special prize to the young French brand Alainpaul. For his part, Frenchman of Turkish origin Burc Akyol won the Pierre Bergé prize for a young French fashion company. As for Belgian Sarah Levy, she took home the prize for fashion accessories. The fifth prize, for innovation, created in 2017, had been announced in May, crowning this eighth edition Losanje, which has invented a technology to industrialize textile upcycling. Also awarded for the first time on this occasion was a special prize, to Goldeneye Smart Vision, a solution developed by the company Apollo Plus, which relies on advanced machine learning and AI to revolutionize fabric quality control. The total prize fund for the competition is 700,000 euros, including the Andam Grand Prize (300,000 euros), the Special Grand Prize (100,000 euros), the Pierre Bergé Prize (100,000 euros), the Fashion Accessories Prize (100,000 euros) and the Innovation Prize (100,000 euros). The winners also each benefit from a year's mentoring with a patron of the arts. Sidney Toledano, advisor to LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, will accompany the Grand Prix winner this year, as patron of the 36th edition and president of the jury, while Alexandre Mattiussi is the mentor for the Pierre Bergé prize. Meryll Rogge was already one of Andam's finalists in 2024. A lifelong fashion enthusiast, after graduating from the Royal Academy of Antwerp in 2008, the designer flew to New York, where she landed an internship with Marc Jacobs, one of her favorite designers. She stayed for seven years, working on women's ready-to-wear. Back in Antwerp, she joined the teams at Dries Van Noten, another house she adores, where as head of design she steered the design of the women's collections and worked on the designer's perfume project. In 2020, she took the plunge and launched her own label: a contemporary women's wardrobe, mixing classic pieces and strict tailoring, outerwear and eveningwear, in daring and unexpected combinations. Despite Covid, her cheerful creations, at once sensual and masculine, artisanal and pop, caught the eye of buyers and today number around fifty. Also a finalist in 2025 for the Woolmark Prize, crowned Designer of the Year 2024 at the Belgian Fashion Awards, Meryll Rogge, the designer who presents her collections at Paris Women's Fashion Week, was also among the semi-finalists for the LVMH Prize in 2022. This year, Alainpaul is also a finalist for the LVMH Prize. The women's, men's and unisex brand, which has been parading at Paris Women's Fashion Week since September 2024, was launched in 2023 by former dancer-turned-designer Alain Paul (36) with his husband Luis Philippe, who was store manager and visual merchandiser at Colette. The designer, who has worked for Vetements under the aegis of Demna Gvasalia and Louis Vuitton with Virgil Abloh, aims to redefine the silhouette, exploring the evolution of body proportions, which have changed over the last ten years. He often takes as his starting point the dancer's wardrobe, the spontaneity of movement and the choreography of garments around the body, to propose impeccably tailored pieces in beautiful materials with great attention to detail and construction. The winner of the Prix Pierre Bergé has a very different profile. Born in France of Turkish parents, Burc Akyol grew up in Dreux in a North African community. The young man learned sewing from his tailor father. A finalist for the LVMH 2023 Prize, he studied at the IFM before starting to work for designer labels. Having worked in the studios of Dior, Balenciaga and Esteban Cortazàr, in 2019 he founded his own house of women's and men's demi-couture. Behind the impeccable cuts and draping, he expresses above all his vision, emancipating himself from the oriental stereotype. The second time was the charm, as she was a finalist in last year's Andam competition. In 2019, the new accessories prizewinner, Sarah Levy, had distinguished herself in another competition. At the Hyères Festival, she won the People's Choice Award in the Fashion Accessories category, with a delightful collection of leather accessories. The Belgian designer was not originally destined for the fashion world, as she initially specialized in urban planning, working as an architect for ten years. A jewelry enthusiast in her youth, she decided to change her life in her thirties, returning to study at the prestigious La Cambre school, this time in the visual arts and accessories section. She has collaborated for Givenchy, Marine Serre and Patou, among others, and has made a name for herself in recent years for her playful, practical accessories that sometimes extend the body like prostheses. Last year, Andam awarded its Grand Prix to Lebanese-born Australian designer Christopher Esber, its Special Prize to the label of Frenchman Emeric Tchatchoua, while Edmond Luu's Pièces Uniques won the Prix Pierre Bergé and Maeden, the leather goods brand run by Dutchman Christian Heikoop, the Fashion Accessories Prize.
Fashion Network
3 days ago
- Business
- Fashion Network
Andam 2025 Grand Prix awarded to Meryll Rogge
The verdict fell on Monday evening in the Jardins du Palais Royal, where the atmosphere was feverish. The Meryll Rogge label, founded by the eponymous Belgian designer, won the grand prize at Andam 2025. The fashion competition, founded in 1989 by managing director Nathalie Dufour at the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture and Le Défi to support young designers, and chaired by Guillaume Houzé, also awarded its special prize to the young French brand Alainpaul. For his part, Frenchman of Turkish origin Burc Akyol won the Pierre Bergé prize for a young French fashion company. As for Belgian Sarah Levy, she took home the prize for fashion accessories. The fifth prize, for innovation, created in 2017, had been announced in May, crowning this eighth edition Losanje, which has invented a technology to industrialize textile upcycling. Also awarded for the first time on this occasion was a special prize, to Goldeneye Smart Vision, a solution developed by the company Apollo Plus, which relies on advanced machine learning and AI to revolutionize fabric quality control. The total prize fund for the competition is 700,000 euros, including the Andam Grand Prize (300,000 euros), the Special Grand Prize (100,000 euros), the Pierre Bergé Prize (100,000 euros), the Fashion Accessories Prize (100,000 euros) and the Innovation Prize (100,000 euros). The winners also each benefit from a year's mentoring with a patron of the arts. Sidney Toledano, advisor to LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, will accompany the Grand Prix winner this year, as patron of the 36th edition and president of the jury, while Alexandre Mattiussi is the mentor for the Pierre Bergé prize. Meryll Rogge was already one of Andam's finalists in 2024. A lifelong fashion enthusiast, after graduating from the Royal Academy of Antwerp in 2008, the designer flew to New York, where she landed an internship with Marc Jacobs, one of her favorite designers. She stayed for seven years, working on women's ready-to-wear. Back in Antwerp, she joined the teams at Dries Van Noten, another house she adores, where as head of design she steered the design of the women's collections and worked on the designer's perfume project. In 2020, she took the plunge and launched her own label: a contemporary women's wardrobe, mixing classic pieces and strict tailoring, outerwear and eveningwear, in daring and unexpected combinations. Despite Covid, her cheerful creations, at once sensual and masculine, artisanal and pop, caught the eye of buyers and today number around fifty. Also a finalist in 2025 for the Woolmark Prize, crowned Designer of the Year 2024 at the Belgian Fashion Awards, Meryll Rogge, the designer who presents her collections at Paris Women's Fashion Week, was also among the semi-finalists for the LVMH Prize in 2022. This year, Alainpaul is also a finalist for the LVMH Prize. The women's, men's and unisex brand, which has been parading at Paris Women's Fashion Week since September 2024, was launched in 2023 by former dancer-turned-designer Alain Paul (36) with his husband Luis Philippe, who was store manager and visual merchandiser at Colette. The designer, who has worked for Vetements under the aegis of Demna Gvasalia and Louis Vuitton with Virgil Abloh, aims to redefine the silhouette, exploring the evolution of body proportions, which have changed over the last ten years. He often takes as his starting point the dancer's wardrobe, the spontaneity of movement and the choreography of garments around the body, to propose impeccably tailored pieces in beautiful materials with great attention to detail and construction. The winner of the Prix Pierre Bergé has a very different profile. Born in France of Turkish parents, Burc Akyol grew up in Dreux in a North African community. The young man learned sewing from his tailor father. A finalist for the LVMH 2023 Prize, he studied at the IFM before starting to work for designer labels. Having worked in the studios of Dior, Balenciaga and Esteban Cortazàr, in 2019 he founded his own house of women's and men's demi-couture. Behind the impeccable cuts and draping, he expresses above all his vision, emancipating himself from the oriental stereotype. The second time was the charm, as she was a finalist in last year's Andam competition. In 2019, the new accessories prizewinner, Sarah Levy, had distinguished herself in another competition. At the Hyères Festival, she won the People's Choice Award in the Fashion Accessories category, with a delightful collection of leather accessories. The Belgian designer was not originally destined for the fashion world, as she initially specialized in urban planning, working as an architect for ten years. A jewelry enthusiast in her youth, she decided to change her life in her thirties, returning to study at the prestigious La Cambre school, this time in the visual arts and accessories section. She has collaborated for Givenchy, Marine Serre and Patou, among others, and has made a name for herself in recent years for her playful, practical accessories that sometimes extend the body like prostheses. Last year, Andam awarded its Grand Prix to Lebanese-born Australian designer Christopher Esber, its Special Prize to the label of Frenchman Emeric Tchatchoua, while Edmond Luu's Pièces Uniques won the Prix Pierre Bergé and Maeden, the leather goods brand run by Dutchman Christian Heikoop, the Fashion Accessories Prize.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Meryll Rogge Wins 2025 ANDAM Fashion Award
PARIS — Meryll Rogge scooped the Grand Prize of the 2025 ANDAM Fashion Award, whose jury of the year was all about the French touch. A 2008 graduate of Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts who dreamed of being an illustrator as a child, she swapped paint for textile swatches when moving to New York. After working her way up to lead designer at Marc Jacobs over seven years, she was back in Antwerp working for Dries Van Noten as head of women's design in 2014 before going solo in 2020. More from WWD Stephane Ashpool Opens Souvenir Pigalle Store Sarah Paulson Talks Working With Kim Kardashian at Ami Paris Show EXCLUSIVE: Willy Chavarria Among Finalists for 2025 ANDAM Fashion Awards The Ghent, Belgium-born designer shows her women's collections in Paris. Several of her pieces have been acquired recently by the MoMu Antwerp museum and Brussels' Fashion & Lace Museum and last year, she became the first woman to be named designer of the year at the 2024 Belgian Fashion Awards. View Gallery She beat out fellow finalists Willy Chavarria, Alain Paul, Zomer and EgonLab. In addition to the cash award of 300,000 euros, she will be mentored by 36th jury president Sidney Toledano, an adviser to LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, as well as president of the Institut Français de la Mode fashion school. Taking home the runner-up Special Prize, its 100,000-euro purse and a year's worth of mentoring by Toledano is Alain Paul, who parlayed a 10-year career working for the likes of Vetements and Louis Vuitton into his eponymous Alainpaul brand in 2023. The Pierre Bergé Prize and its 100,000-euro purse went to Burç Akyol, whose eponymous genderless label marries sexiness with austerity — and flawless tailoring. He will be mentored by Alexandre Mattiuissi, the founder and artistic director of Ami who scooped up the grand prize in 2013. The brand came on board as a sponsor of the design competition with this edition. Also in the running in this category dedicated to emerging creative labels were Jeanne Friot and Mouty by couple Bertille and Thomas Mouty. Belgian designer Sarah Lévy of Sarahlevy beat out footwear designer Philéo Landowski and jeweler Marco Panconesi to win the 2025 accessories prize, which comes with 100,000 euros and purse and mentoring by Sophie Delafontaine, creative director of Longchamp. This year, the innovation prize was awarded separately in May and went to Losanje, a fashion tech company based in the central French city of Nevers that is helping brands implement the use of circular textiles. The edition's jury included 11 guest members, including Pascal Morand, executive president of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, Sarah Andelman and fashion documentary director Loïc Prigent. Joining them were multihyphenate actress and author Lou Doillon; Lucky Love, the singer who performed at the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games; musical artist Eddy de Pretto; art gallery founder Emmanuel Perrotin, and model, actress and entrepreneur Liya Kebede. Rounding out the 2025 group sitting alongside permanent members, who are mainly executives drawn from sponsors, were creative consultant Carlos Nazario; writer and fashion critic Sophie Fontanel, and Beka Gvishiani, who's behind the Stylenotcom Instagram account. Created in 1989 by Nathalie Dufour with the support of the French Ministry of Culture and the DEFI, a body that promotes the development of the French fashion industry, and with the late Pierre Bergé as president, ANDAM has been a springboard for designers who would go on to achieve international recognition. In October, a retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs gave an overview of the ANDAM's 35-year run, featuring works by winners across fashion and accessories including Viktor & Rolf, Jeremy Scott, Marine Serre, Y/Project, Christopher Esber and Ukrainian milliner Ruslan Baginskiy. Best of WWD Bottega Veneta Through the Years Chanel's Ambassadors Over The Years Ranking Fashion's Longest-serving Creative Directors
Business of Fashion
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Business of Fashion
Belgium's Meryll Rogge Wins Andam Grand Prize 2025
Ghent-based designer Meryll Rogge has been named the 2025 grand prize winner of France's most prestigious fashion awards programme, the Andam Prize. Known for her offbeat takes on classic womenswear, Rogge, who cut her teeth at Marc Jacobs and Dries Van Noten, will receive €300,000 ($350,000) to develop her five-year-old label, alongside a year's worth of mentorship from Sidney Toledano, president of Institut Français de la Mode, senior advisor to the LVMH chairman and chief executive Bernard Arnault and former CEO of LVMH Fashion Group. French designer Alain Paul, who received the special prize, will also receive mentorship from Toledano, in addition to a €100,000 cash prize. Burc Akyol and Sarah Levy were recipients of the Pierre Bergé Prize and Accessories prize, respectively. Both will receive a cash prize of €100,000; Ami Paris' founder Alexandre Mattiussi will help Akyol structure and grow his label, while Longchamp creative director Sophie Delafontaine will work with Levy. The awards were presented at Institut Français de la Mode after Paris Men's Spring/Summer 2026 fashion week came to a close, and before Couture kicks off on July 7. Previous winners of the Andam prize include designer Martin Margiela (who won the first edition in 1989), A.P.C. founder Jean Touitou, and, more recently designers Marine Serre, Louis-Gabriel Nouchi and Australian designer Christopher Esber, who took home the grand prize in 2024. Learn more: Australia's Christopher Esber Wins Andam Grand Prize 2024 Esber, who is known for his sleek, summery eveningwear, will receive a grant of €300,000 to develop his brand as well as a year of mentoring from Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello.
Fashion Network
3 days ago
- Business
- Fashion Network
Andam 2025 Grand Prix awarded to Meryll Rogge
The verdict fell on Monday evening in the Jardins du Palais Royal, where the atmosphere was feverish. The Meryll Rogge label, founded by the eponymous Belgian designer, won the grand prize at Andam 2025. The fashion competition, founded in 1989 by managing director Nathalie Dufour at the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture and Le Défi to support young designers, and chaired by Guillaume Houzé, also awarded its special prize to the young French brand Alainpaul. For his part, Frenchman of Turkish origin Burc Akyol won the Pierre Bergé prize for a young French fashion company. As for Belgian Sarah Levy, she took home the prize for fashion accessories. The fifth prize, for innovation, created in 2017, had been announced in May, crowning this eighth edition Losanje, which has invented a technology to industrialize textile upcycling. Also awarded for the first time on this occasion was a special prize, to Goldeneye Smart Vision, a solution developed by the company Apollo Plus, which relies on advanced machine learning and AI to revolutionize fabric quality control. The total prize fund for the competition is 700,000 euros, including the Andam Grand Prize (300,000 euros), the Special Grand Prize (100,000 euros), the Pierre Bergé Prize (100,000 euros), the Fashion Accessories Prize (100,000 euros) and the Innovation Prize (100,000 euros). The winners also each benefit from a year's mentoring with a patron of the arts. Sidney Toledano, advisor to LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, will accompany the Grand Prix winner this year, as patron of the 36th edition and president of the jury, while Alexandre Mattiussi is the mentor for the Pierre Bergé prize. Meryll Rogge was already one of Andam's finalists in 2024. A lifelong fashion enthusiast, after graduating from the Royal Academy of Antwerp in 2008, the designer flew to New York, where she landed an internship with Marc Jacobs, one of her favorite designers. She stayed for seven years, working on women's ready-to-wear. Back in Antwerp, she joined the teams at Dries Van Noten, another house she adores, where as head of design she steered the design of the women's collections and worked on the designer's perfume project. In 2020, she took the plunge and launched her own label: a contemporary women's wardrobe, mixing classic pieces and strict tailoring, outerwear and eveningwear, in daring and unexpected combinations. Despite Covid, her cheerful creations, at once sensual and masculine, artisanal and pop, caught the eye of buyers and today number around fifty. Also a finalist in 2025 for the Woolmark Prize, crowned Designer of the Year 2024 at the Belgian Fashion Awards, Meryll Rogge, the designer who presents her collections at Paris Women's Fashion Week, was also among the semi-finalists for the LVMH Prize in 2022. This year, Alainpaul is also a finalist for the LVMH Prize. The women's, men's and unisex brand, which has been parading at Paris Women's Fashion Week since September 2024, was launched in 2023 by former dancer-turned-designer Alain Paul (36) with his husband Luis Philippe, who was store manager and visual merchandiser at Colette. The designer, who has worked for Vetements under the aegis of Demna Gvasalia and Louis Vuitton with Virgil Abloh, aims to redefine the silhouette, exploring the evolution of body proportions, which have changed over the last ten years. He often takes as his starting point the dancer's wardrobe, the spontaneity of movement and the choreography of garments around the body, to propose impeccably tailored pieces in beautiful materials with great attention to detail and construction. The winner of the Prix Pierre Bergé has a very different profile. Born in France of Turkish parents, Burc Akyol grew up in Dreux in a North African community. The young man learned sewing from his tailor father. A finalist for the LVMH 2023 Prize, he studied at the IFM before starting to work for designer labels. Having worked in the studios of Dior, Balenciaga and Esteban Cortazàr, in 2019 he founded his own house of women's and men's demi-couture. Behind the impeccable cuts and draping, he expresses above all his vision, emancipating himself from the oriental stereotype. The second time was the charm, as she was a finalist in last year's Andam competition. In 2019, the new accessories prizewinner, Sarah Levy, had distinguished herself in another competition. At the Hyères Festival, she won the People's Choice Award in the Fashion Accessories category, with a delightful collection of leather accessories. The Belgian designer was not originally destined for the fashion world, as she initially specialized in urban planning, working as an architect for ten years. A jewelry enthusiast in her youth, she decided to change her life in her thirties, returning to study at the prestigious La Cambre school, this time in the visual arts and accessories section. She has collaborated for Givenchy, Marine Serre and Patou, among others, and has made a name for herself in recent years for her playful, practical accessories that sometimes extend the body like prostheses. Last year, Andam awarded its Grand Prix to Lebanese-born Australian designer Christopher Esber, its Special Prize to the label of Frenchman Emeric Tchatchoua, while Edmond Luu's Pièces Uniques won the Prix Pierre Bergé and Maeden, the leather goods brand run by Dutchman Christian Heikoop, the Fashion Accessories Prize.
