The Fashion Council Germany (FCG) and the US shoe brand Ugg announced the winners of the Rising Voices Award at the start of Berlin Fashion Week.
At the Berlin Fashion Week Opening, designer duo Julia Ballardt and Nico Verhaegen from Milk of Lime were delighted with the prize money of 20,000 euros, FCG and Ugg announced on Monday. Second place went to Karen Jessen and Nicole Knüppels from the Butterflies & Feathers brand.
“We are very excited about our partnership with the Fashion Council Germany and are very impressed by the creativity, innovation and sustainable mindset of each and every one of the talented young designers who applied for the Rising Voices Award,” said Nicks Ericsson, Senior Director of Purpose, Sustainability and DEI at Uugg. “We saw an incredibly high level of inspirational, innovative design in all ten finalists and we were honored to work with the rest of the jury to select the winner.”
To take part, the participants had to submit a sustainable concept for the Ugg model “Classic Mini”. The concepts of the ten finalists will be exhibited until September 7th during the group exhibition Berliner Salons in the Kulturforum.