Distinguishing textile excellence
The PV Awards: to promote and distinguish the textile creativity
Promoting fashion textiles, their creativity and inventiveness, over the course of seasonal collections has been the foundation of Première Vision's approach since its start.
The PV Awards were created to put the spotlight on the weavers' work, and showcase the richness of textile creation by distinguishing the most exceptional fabrics created by the show's exhibitors.
After the success of the first edition, hailed by the fashion and textile professionals and widely reported on in the international press, Première Vision is launching a new edition during the September 2010 show and going even further, by adding a 5th prize to the award categories: The Special Woolmark Prize 2010.
5 prizes will be awarded
- Grand Jury Prize 2010: for the fabric that is the most exceptional, the most symbolic of the coming fashion zeitgeist, and the most pertinent.
- Handle prize 2010: for the fabric that allies the most astonishing tactile and behavioural qualities, the fabric that touches the senses and the emotions.
- Innovation prize 2010: for the fabric that is the most innovative, the most intelligent, the most technological and creative.
- Imagination prize 2010: for the most daring, the most original, the most surprising fabric in terms of material, technique, decoration or finishing.
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NEW - The Special Woolmark Prize 2010: for the fabric that best distils the splendour of wool innovation and the beauty of 100% natural fibres, with a high-majority of wool.
This prize is sponsored by AWI (Australian Wool Innovation), a body that represents some 30,000 Australian wool growers producing mainly fine Merino wool for apparel. Its vocation is to promote wool and its exceptional attributes through investments in research and development, innovation and marketing. AWI owns and licenses the Woolmark brand, one of the world's most recognisable textile symbols at consumer level.
The winners
... by the President of the jury, Ennio Capasa, the founder and creative director of Costume National.
Five prizes were given during this, the second edition of the PV Awards :
• the Grand Jury Prize 2010 : LANIFICIO LUIGI RICCERI srl (Italy)
• Handle Prize 2010 : MARIOBOSELLI YARNS & JERSEY SpA (Italy)
• Innovation Prize 2010 : SCHOELLER TEXTIL AG (Switzerland)
• Imagination Prize 2010 : K. LINE Co. Ltd (Japan)
• And new this year the Special Woolmark Prize 2010: NIKKE-THE JAPAN WOOL TEXTILE Co. (Japan)
The trophies that were given to the winners of the PV Awards were created by the artist Miguel Chevalier, one of the pioneers of digital and virtual art.
Announcement of the winners
© Première Vision SA / Laurent Julliand, Stéphane Kossmann
The winning fabrics
The prize-winning fabrics of the PV Awards 2010 - symbols of the extraordinary and innovative encounters emblematic of today's textile creativity.
The Grand Jury Prize 2010 : LANIFICIO LUIGI RICCERI srl (Italie)
Upset the senses and intuition with a pure silk. Run rings around heaviness with suppleness. Surprise with a handle that is almost synthetic, and a rustle that shouts silk. Take on the nobility of twill with disruptive raw yarns. And roll it all up in roundness with the lightness of a springy handle.
Handle Prize 2010 : MARIOBOSELLI YARNS & JERSEY SpA (Italie)
Ally density with fluidity, consistency with liquidity, with elasticity. Play on a visible metallic coldness with a weighty mobility, articulate the structures of a viscose milano in generous waves - and make reflections vibrate like lively silver.
Innovation Prize 2010 : SCHOELLER TEXTIL AG (Suisse)
Discreetly enhance elegance. Draw on high-tech innovations for jackets and trousers with an impeccably woollen aspect. Direction: a protective chicness, with virtuoso heat-regulation that is impalpable and invisible, to create unlined garments with a wool/polyester/stretch bonding.
Imagination Prize 2010 : K. LINE Co. Ltd (Japon)
Start with the perfection of an intense and absolute plain, the perfection of density, and add a flaming red heart with a poetic immensity. Like a deliciously multilayered pastry, beat in a precious core, trap it between two layers of soberness, thus uniting shade and lifeforce - freeing clothing imagination in all the prowess of detail.
Special Woolmark Prize 2010 : NIKKE-THE JAPAN WOOL TEXTILE Co. (Japon)
Stamp wool with the mark of modernity. Combine solidity with suppleness in a pure wool. Reconcile dryness and reassurance, through intimately blended, finely irregular and subtly slubbed colours. Harmonise the sturdy tautness of yarns with the voluptuousness of weaves for a skilfully absorbed gleam.
Final deliberation
The PV AWARDS 2010 jury
- Ennio Capasa, Jury President. Designer and founder of Costume National, represented by Sabrina MALINVERNO for the nominees selection.
- Tiziana d’Acquisto, Fabric Purchasing, R&D Jil Sander Italia
- Jane Bong, Senior Vice President of Corporate Material R&D of the BCBGMAXAZRIA group
- Johan Buskqvist, Head of design at Adidas
- Linda Loppa, Dean of the Polimoda fashion school in Florence
- Arianna Zuliani, Product Manager, Vivienne Westwood
- Pascaline Wilhelm, Fashion director, Première Vision
113 fabrics nominated
The nominated fabrics are highlighted with a special label on the General Forum as of the first day of the show.
The nominated companies
A-Girl's Co Ltd / Tessitura di Albizzate - Groupe TBM / Asahi Kasei Fibers Cupro / Aspesi Federico / Lanificio Fratelli Bacci S.p.A. / Alberto Bardazzi SpA / Lanificio Becagli srl / Bie Barzaghi Gruppo Barzaghi / Bischoff Textil AG / Luigi Boggio Casero / Bossa Shirting Mills / Botto Giuseppe & Figli SpA / Brugnoli Giovanni SpA / Canclini Tessile SpA / Canepa SpA / Cappio Tessuti srl / Chigasaki Woollen Spinning & Weaving Co Ltd / COBO - Chugai Kunishima Corp. / Lanificio Luigi Colombo spa / Delago / Dormeuil / Duksung Co., Ltd / Dynamo Denim Kumascilik Ltd / Europ-Marchini / F.A.N.S. Textile Factory SpA / Lanificio FAISA s.r.l. / Tessile Fiorentina Company srl / Frangi SpA / Gentili Srl / Halley Stevensons (D&F) Ltd / Hasegawa Corporation / Hausammann + Moos AG / Hield Brothers / Hyosung Co. / Infinity Srl / Inseta srl / Jackytex - Tessuti a Maglia SpA / K.Line Co. Ltd. / Kanda Keori Co. Ltd. / Kisen Logistics, Ltd. / Nippon High Pile Division / Komatsu Seiren Co Ltd / Kuroki / Lamintess Srl / Laurent Garigue Partnership / Leggiuno SpA / Broderies Lévêque et Fils / Linea Tessile Italiana SpA / Marioboselli yarns & Jersey SpA / Mariocucchetti Tessuti / Marzotto Div. NTB / Michèle Lemaire pour Tissus / Maglificio Mida Srl / MIT Manifattura Idea Tessuti SpA / Lanificio Nannucci & C. / Nikke - The Japan Wool Textile Co., Ltd / Novalan / Nuovatess srl - Linea Maga Jersey / O'Jersey srl / Olmetex SpA / Olimpias SpA Div. Tessuti Pordenone / Lanificio Rafanelli SpA / Ratti Donna / Lanificio Luigi Ricceri srl / Jakob Schlaepfer / Schoeller Textil AG / Sfate & Combier / Sgat Gruppo Barzaghi / Showa Co., Ltd. / SMI Tessuti SpA / SNT Co. Ltd. / Soktas AS / Sophie Hallette / Lanificio di Sordevolo / Sotoh / Steiff - Schulte / Stib 19 SpA / Studio Elle / Lanificio Subalpino srl / TESJ / Tessilbiella Srl / Tessilidea SpA / Texapel SpA / Toki Sen-i / Lanerie Piero Tonella srl / Toray Japan ( Toray Industries, Inc. ) / Jules Tournier et Fils / Tsuboyoshi Orimono / Carlo Uboldi srl / Vanners / Ricamificio Vittorio Vanoni srl
