HERE WE BELONG, ITS 2020 - HERE WE BELONG: TO THE COMMUNITY, TO CREATIVITY, TO HUMANITY ITS ANNOUNCES THIS YEAR'S 35 FINALISTS: OVER 600 PROJECTS ...
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PRESS RELEASE - MAY 2020 1/6 HERE WE BELONG, ITS 2020 HERE WE BELONG: TO THE COMMUNITY, TO CREATIVITY, TO HUMANITY ITS ANNOUNCES THIS YEAR’S 35 FINALISTS: OVER 600 PROJECTS FROM 60 COUNTRIES. THE EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 2020. Regeneration, circularity and creative responsibility: sustainability in all its forms is the key trend. This is a dark hour. Over the past few months our lives have been unimaginably turned upside down. While we try to understand how and why, one thing for sure is that we can and we will come through these troubled times, renewed and regenerated. Now more than ever, we feel we belong: this year’s chosen theme, Here We Belong, is this year’s theme. Somewhat foretelling and taking on heartfelt meaning of belonging, origin and culture, to be a part of our community and above all humanity. Now more than ever, this community is demonstrating its commitment, its resilience, its sense of belonging. And the creativity which motivates and inspires it is a fundamental key to open up the treasure chest of our future. Although we are unable to run ITS 2020 as customary, in July, and Eve have postponed it to October 23, our community is working relentlessly, supported, as usual, by the institutions, the territory and all the partners that have never ceased to back us up. Physical distancing is upsetting, but it inspires us to fill this void. In the last few weeks we have received, registered and examined over 600 portfolios from more than 60 nations. ITS Pre-selections took place via digital meetings, keeping up unshakable enthusiasm, reinforced by the awareness that guiding, giving voice to and promoting new generations of creative talents will prove to be of even greater value in the post-pandemic period. “Today everything that represents continuity and security for us, acquires new value and meaning – says Barbara Franchin, founder and director of ITS, recently cited by Forbes as one of Italy’s 100 most influential women – The collaboration and support from the territory and our partners, as well as the extraordinary resilience shown by the ITS team and by all the talents who decided to take part in this 2020 edition, brings a deeper meaning and impact to our project and to each one of us. Every portfolio received is a like a seed of resilience, the will to regenerate, the hope for a different future to be conceived and created together”. This 2020 edition Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Promoturismo FVG, Municipality of Trieste and Fondazione CRTrieste continues support, as does backing from Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Orientale, Fondazione Friuli and Fondazione CariGo. They are International Talent Support’s travel companions and have deep seated values, not only for the project’s institutional importance, but also for its roots, firmly planted in the territory: ‘here we belong.
PRESS RELEASE - MAY 2020 2/6 “As common denominators of a new way of living, yet definitely not less strongly shared, responsibility and generosity have guided the steps of our community along endless weeks of concerned quietness. The desire to express ourselves, to meet, to get to know each other again resonates, however, with increasingly greater strength in the soul of all of us, who are gazing into the horizon with trust and impatience. This is why, therefore, we are confirming the 2020 edition of ITS, an appointment that for almost two decades has been a part of the Friuli Venezia Giulia calendar of events, and that symbolizes, much more than a simple piece of good news, a milestone along the path towards a newly found everyday life.” Massimiliano Fedriga, President of Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia SUSTAINABILITY - TRENDS REPORT This year’s trends range from mix & match - creative and disruptive excessiveness that is typical of young creative/designer generation’s expression, where gender has no limits or boundaries, and fluidity seems to be the established non-rule – to pure essential clean lines in which just a few details burst out. An inner beauty that manifests itself, being rather than just appearing. An inner beauty that cannot be restrained, no longer content with just appearing it needs to shine. It is sustainability in all its forms – environmental, social and in its deeper human sense– widespread, a fil rouge visible in trends and choices made. It unravels along different paths – up-cycling, re-cycling, zero-waste, natural colours and dyeing, organic textiles – like a recurring element: research and the reuse of objects and materials that young creative talents have sourced from their surroundings or have gone looking for. Objects and materials that come with a story, that through this regeneration breaths new meaning into them. In 2016 sustainability was first embraced by ITS. It now returns with an increasingly central role and relevance: a true inescapable necessity, as the crisis we are now facing, unmistakably finds its deepest origin in the sense of omnipotence and dominance together with Man’s lack of respect for Nature. Four years on, what does Sustainability mean for young ITS creatives? How has its perception and concrete application evolved for young generations of fashion and design? We can find some answers in our 2016 report. Back then key references were brands strongly committed to social and environmental issues, but the line separating their statements and their true actions was blurred – in 2020 sustainability is seen as an individual and collective civic duty, where everyone plays a part with their everyday commitment. This is the era of sustainability 2.0, in which the actors are single individuals, and one’s measurable effort is what really counts. A deep awareness of the urgency that this means should bring respect to those who act with integrity. ITS ARCADEMY Sustainability in all its incarnations – economic, social, environmental – will also be part of the backbone of the new ITS ARCADEMY project, presented in 2019 and to launch in 2021. A dream in the making: part archive, part ark and part academia. It will be an open space to exchange knowledge and creative ideas, a fundamental evolution of the journey into 360° creativity that the platform created since day one by Barbara Franchin. Born out of the unique heritage from the ITS Creative Archive (an ever-expanding collection comprising 18,000 portfolios, over 240 outfits, over 200 accessories and jewelry pieces, 700+ photographs). ITS ARCADEMY will be a meeting point for interchange and interaction with innovators, fashion industry insiders, academics and visionary talents, but also for education, open to the general public. Trans-generational, trans-social and trans-cultural, ITS Arcademy will have circularity as a mainstay: the former finalists, jurors and all of the ITS global network will have an active role in the creation of what aims to be a new home to creativity, arts and culture. ITS Arcademy will offer a varied calendar of special
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events and educational initiatives, from those addressed to simple aficionados to those tailor made for professionals
and companies, there will be special programs dedicated to people of all ages and levels of expertise. Children and
grown-ups, local territory and the world will be interacting together.
THE JURY
The pre-selections of the ITS 2020 finalists were carried out online.The digital portfolios were submitted in the
previous weeks to the ITS team, enabling the jurors to examine in depth, also with this peculiar modality, the
contestants’ projects. This online judging panel was made up of nine prominent figures that we thank immensely:
Carlo Bach - Art Director - illycaffé
Angelo Flaccavento - Independent Fashion Critic and Curator
Barbara Franchin - ITS Founder & Director
Carlo Giordanetti - Swatch International, Product and Design Committee – CEO, Swatch Art Peace Hotel
Valentina Maggi - Director of Design Practice at Floriane de St. Pierre
Stefania Ricci - Director of Museo Salvatore Ferragamo and Fondazione Ferragamo
Luca Rizzi - Tutoring & Consulting Director Pitti Immagine
Giancarlo Simiri - Business Partner Tomorrow London Holdings Ltd
Sara Sozzani Maino - Deputy Editor in Chief Vogue Italia & Head of Vogue Talents
THE FINALISTS
Check out the names of the 35 finalists, the life and soul of ITS 2020, hailing from 16 countries, among which we are
glad to welcome a number of schools that have made it to the finals for the first time:
THE FASHION FINALISTS THE ACCESSORIES & JEWELLERY FINALISTS
Sara Michal Workeneh - Israeli Yunfei Ma - Chinese
Noa Baruch - Israeli Clara Chu - Portuguese
Andrew Bell - Irish Rei Sato & Jumi Tanabe - Japanese
Tara Al-Wali - British Johanna Parv - Estonian
Syna Chen - Chinese Rebecca Mardsen - Irish
Rosie Baird - Scottish Eva Verwicht - French
Jimin Lee - South Korean Maria Bika - Greek
Kin Yan Lam - Chinese Felipe Fiallo - Ecuadorean
Aharon Genish - Israeli Ninja D. Evangelista - Austrian
Cameron Williams - British Jittrakarn Bunterngpiboon - Thai
Olivia Rubens - Canadian Jing Han - Chinese
Bo Zhang - ChinesePRESS RELEASE - MAY 2020 4/6 THE ITS FASHION@WORK BY ILLY FINALISTS THE ITS ARTWORK BY SWATCH ART PEACE HOTEL Tara Al-Wali - British FINALISTS Rosie Baird - Scottish Natsumi Osawa - Japanese Johanna Parv - Estonian Byung Yoon Lee - South Korean Kin Yan Lam - Chinese Clara Chu - Portuguese Yuhan Xu - Chinese Rei Sato - Japanese Shiori Mizuochi & Hiroki Okamoto - Japanese Jumi Tanabe - Japanese Cameron Williams - British Aharon Genish - Israeli Anyango Mpinga - Kenyan Liuxu Luo - Chinese Keewon Shin - South Korean Rebar Aziz - German THE LOTTO SPORT FINALISTS Scarlett Gapp - British Johanna Parv - Estonian Minjae Chang - South Korean ITS 2020 PARTNERS OTB is an international fashion group, the parent company of iconic fashion brands Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni, Viktor&Rolf, Amiri , and state-of-the-art companies Staff International and Brave Kid. The mission of OTB is to build brands for a new breed of consumers - enabling development, challenging the rules and fostering creativity. The group finances several initiatives aimed at discovering new creative talents, such as ITS, supported by OTB since the very beginning. The philosophy which has prompted illycaffè to open up a privileged communication channel with the art world is grounded in a true ideal to be followed: the combination of the good and the beautiful, incorporating the ethic and the aesthetic dimensions. For a company such as illycaffè, which pursues sustainable quality, creating beauty is a key component of corporate culture and ethics which extends across numerous areas, and contributes to the dissemination of art and creativity. “Here we belong”: the spirit of Swatch belongs to the world. Since its creation, conceived as a universal, democratic object, Swatch has been thriving on diversity, multiplicity, dynamism, inclusion and positive energies that intertwine, feed on each other and multiply. In this vein, in 2011 Swatch Art Peace Hotel was launched in Shanghai: a remarkable position, in the heart of the most dynamic and vibrant of Chinese metropolis, a unique space in terms of dimensions, style and capacity, expressly conceived for artists of all generations, from all countries and all disciplines, that will make here their “home” for a few months and have the chance to carry out their work and express their talent, meet other artists, exhibit their creations and interact with the local art community. To date the Hotel has housed in Shangai 366 artists from 51 countries. Three of them were the recipients of the ITS/Swatch Art Peace Hotel award in previous editions of the contest. During ITS 2020, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel will be presenting the work of these four creatives, who won the prize in the contest’s past editions and were then hosted in Shanghai. In addition it will select the next creative who will have the unique opportunity to live such an experience from the finalists of ITS Artwork 2020, powered by Swatch Art Peace Hotel
PRESS RELEASE - MAY 2020 5/6 ITS 2020 SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS The mission of ITS is shared by a number of important sponsorships: Lotto, is the leading footwear and sportswear company, synonymous with Italian style, Innovation and Design. Founded in 1973 to produce tennis and soccer shoes, over the decades the best teams and athletes all over the world have donned Lotto’s shoes and apparel. Today, Lotto expresses its heritage also through a lifestyle collection with an eye on fashion. Alllianz Italy is a major provider of insurance and nancial services in Italy and is part of the Allianz SE Group, world leader in insurance and asset management. In Italy Allianz employees over 5,000 people to serve more than 7 million customers, through a multichannel distribution network consisting of 25,000 professionals, including insurance agents, territorial collaborators and nancial advisors, in addition to bancassurance agreements and market leader in direct insurance. Tomorrow is a multi-service business accelerator for fashion brands. The Group helps brands to develop and achieve sustainable international growth, both in terms of their business and the impact on our planet. In addition to serving as the local public transport concessionaire in Trieste since 2001, Trieste Trasporti is now a member of the Tpl Fvg consortium that, from 1 May 2020 handles the service in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The 60% of the company is held by Amt (controlled by the Municipality of Trieste), the 40% is owned by Arriva (Deutsche Bahn Group), the European leader in passenger transport. Technological innovation, quality of services, attention to the environment make Trieste Trasporti one of the most appreciated Italian companies in the transport and mobility sector. Trieste Airport – Friuli Venezia Giulia offers air services to domestic and European destinations, operated both by full-service and low-cost airlines. Thanks to its strategic location, this airport is the ideal gateway to the Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto regions as well as to Slovenia, Croatia and Austria. Trieste Airport is an integrated multi- modal hub, for air-rail-road interchange, with local, intercity and long-haul bus and train services, enhancing accessibility and connectivity. Thanks to the its partnership with Sky Valet, TRS is the exclusive reference point for the Northeast of Italy for the handling of private and extra-luxury ights. Trieste Terminal Passeggeri S.p.A. manages the cruise and general passenger traf c of the Port of Trieste in the Pier IV Passenger Terminal and the Bersaglieri Pier Terminal. The company also deals with congress organization and is licensed to manage the car parks located along the Trieste waterfront. Eurospital was established in Trieste in 1948, thanks to the commitment and vision of its founder Giorgio Kropf. Currently Eurospital produces and markets pharmaceutical products, medical-surgical aids, medical and diagnostic devices and dietary products (gluten-free foods and food supplements) within the 3 company business units - diagnostic, pharmaceutical and gluten-free- which constitute a single team of about 150 people, able to share knowledge, experiences, information and strategies. The group operates at the Trieste headquarters and in over fifty countries around the world. Our website runs on technologies and services provided by Develon, internet partner of ITS 2020. Vogue Talents, the platform dedicated to talents from all over the world with a dedicated section on Vogue.it and included twice a year as a supplement to Vogue Italia, is back as Media Partner of ITS 2020. Il Piccolo, the newspaper of Trieste which has followed and supported ITS all the way, is back as Media Partner of ITS 2020. Eyes On Talents, the curated place to nd the Talent you need, is pleased to be back at ITS 2020 as Digital Media Partner of International Talent Support.
PRESS RELEASE - MAY 2020 6/6 The Office is a valuable technical supporter The Italian fashion system, more active than ever in the support of young talents, to help them build a future in which responsible creativity can have an increasingly responsible role, has teamed up with ITS 2020. International Talent Support is run under the patronage of Ministero dei Beni Culturali, Pitti Immagine, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, Fondazione Ferragamo. ITS 2020 is created and organized by EVE with the support of Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Promoturismo FVG, the City of Trieste and Fondazione CRTrieste; OTB, illycaffè and SWATCH are the partners of ITS 2020.
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