{"id":5865,"date":"2024-12-05T17:47:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T08:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffp.jp\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2024-12-19T10:22:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T01:22:43","slug":"fashion-frontier-program-2024-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffp.jp\/en\/news-en\/fashion-frontier-program-2024-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM 2024 Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row css_animation=”fadeIn” menu_logo_opt=”st2″ row_padding_top=”padding-top-50″ row_padding_bottom=”padding-bottom-20″][vc_column][wr_vc_titles text_align=”text-left” title_style=”headline-m”][wr_vc_title title=”FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM 2024 Winners Announced”][\/wr_vc_titles][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”fadeIn” menu_logo_opt=”st2″ row_padding_top=”padding-top-20″ row_padding_bottom=”padding-bottom-20″][vc_column]
The FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM, a program to discover and support fashion designers who can embody social responsibility and creativity in their fashion designs, has announced the winners of the 2024 FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM,
\nOn Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at KUDAN HOUSE (Kudanshita, Tokyo), the eight finalists for the FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM 2024 gave their final presentations, and the jurys held a final judging and award ceremony.<\/p>\n

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About the FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM 2024 Winners<\/h5>\n

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This year’s program began with 17 semi-finalists, selected from a large number of applicants from Asia, Europe, Africa, and the United States and abroad.
\nThe 17 semi finalists in the education program through the summer and fall presented their concepts for their works during the secondary selection, and in September at the second selection 8 finalists were selected.
\nThe finalists, who received technical advices from guest lecturers as they worked to give shape to their designs, made their final judging on December 3 (Tue).<\/p>\n

After a strict judging by the juries, the winners of this year’s competition were decided as follows.<\/p>\n

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Grand Prize
\nMisaki Suda
\n\u201cForest Clothes : In the glow\u201d<\/p>\n

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Runner-up
\nKiyoshi Tomiyama
\n\u201cKEMMUN\u201d<\/p>\n

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Runner-up
\nMitsuki Murata
\n\u201cWE WANNA \u8fb2!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\"DSC03415\"\"DSC03400\"\"DSC03394\"\"DSC03360\"[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_padding_top=”padding-top-30″ row_padding_bottom=”padding-bottom-20″][vc_column]

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About the FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM 2024 Juries<\/h5>\n

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The FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM invites a diverse group of people, regardless of genre, to serve as jurors in order to consider the future of clothing, food, shelter, and ultimately the future of humanity through thinking about the future of fashion. We encourage a multifaceted discussion on what and how we should evaluate and consider the true meaning of making clothes while maximizing the pleasure as fashion.<\/p>\n

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Mari Katayama\uff5cArtist
\nEugene Kangawa\uff5cContemporary Artist
\nHirofumi Kurino\uff5cSenior Advisor, UNITED ARROWS LTD. In charge of creative direction
\nKoichi Goka\uff5cHead of Biodiversity Div. NIES, Japan
\nSara Sozzani Maino\uff5cCreative Director Fondazione Sozzani
\nYuima Nakazato\uff5cFashion Designer
\nNanine Linning\uff5cChoreographer and Opera Director
\nHiroaki Miyata\uff5cProf. School of Medicine, Keio University
\nMitsuko Watanabe\uff5cFashion journalist<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_padding_top=”padding-top-30″ row_padding_bottom=”padding-bottom-20″][vc_column]

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Details of Winners’ Works<\/h5>\n

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Grand Prize
\nMisaki Suda \u201cForest Clothes : In the glow”<\/div>\"VOGUE

The decline of forestry has led to the loss of forest health, which is one of the factors that cause natural disasters such as landslides.
\nWhile forests provide us with healing and blessings, they can also pose a threat to us if we do not treat them properly.
\nBased on the theme of “creating an opportunity to rethink the relationship between people and forests through clothing,” the production focused on sunlight filtering through the trees, a sign of the forest’s abundance.<\/p>\n

The textiles, made from wood from managed forests, were brought into a lush, light-filled forest, where the patterns were dyed using the light filtering in through the trees.
\nThe dyeing process used a blue-printing technique, which has the unique characteristic of developing colour when exposed to light, allowing the light of KOMOREBI(the sunlight filtering through the trees) to directly coat the textile.<\/p>\n

This clothing creates the experience of being enveloped in the rich light of the forest, providing an opportunity to think about forests.<\/p>\n

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Material\uff1aTENCEL\u2122 Wooden thread [Washi no Nuno Co.
\nPhotography by YASUNARI KIKUMA
\nHair by ABE (M0)and Makeup by yUKI(M0)
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Runner-up
\nKiyoshi Tomiyama\u3000\u201cKEMMUN\u201d<\/div>\"241116_FFP0600_v2\"
I was born and raised on Amami Oshima Island, and had a congenital physical condition called entropion, which caused me to spend my childhood feeling inferior.What has supported me in this situation is the existence of the Amami Oshima yokai “”Kemmun.”” Kemmun is known as a yokai that plays tricks on humans in order to protect the island’s ecosystem. However, at the time, I had come to recognize him as an invisible presence that was by my side, reading picture books and listening to anecdotes about Kemmun.
\nEven now as i’ve grown up, his presence remains strong in my mind, and I focus on the declining culture of Amami Oshima and new uses for sugar cane, and I am creating clothing that has awkward kindness and innocence, based on my island roots and my own identity, with the aim of inheriting and sublimating culture.Because we spend a lot of time with our clothes in our daily lives, I want people to wear them together with yokai (Kemmun). That is what I think yokai (Kenmun) is.<\/p>\n

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Material\uff1aBagasse paper denim 12.5oz \/ Bagasse yarn mixed minaori
\nPhotography by YASUNARI KIKUMA
\nHair by ABE (M0)and Makeup by yUKI(M0)
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Runner-up
\nMitsuki Murata\u3000\u201cWE WANNA \u8fb2!!!\u201d<\/div>\"241116_FFP9392_v2\"
I am a peasant. My grandfather was a great peasant.
\nWhen he spoke the word “HYAKUSHO”(Japanese peasant) in his lifetime, it carried the weight of those who, though tossed by the hardships of their lives, cherished people, nurtured life, and stood resilient with quiet pride and unshakable conviction.<\/p>\n

My fashion is \u8fb2(Knoh: agriculture).
\nAgriculture has long been overlooked, despite being the foundation of our existence. Without it, we cannot live.
\nAgriculture was once our way of life\u2014our thread of connection.
\nAgriculture is more beautiful, more resilient, and more interesting than you imagine.<\/p>\n

In the mountain villages of Nagano, the “agriCULTURE” inherited across generations is more than farming.
\nIt transcends mere sustenance\u2014it is a form of design: not just “fashion design” in the sense of garment, but the design of how we live as human beings.<\/p>\n

The NORAGI of the past and today\u2019s workwear\u2014both are garments made for the act of farming, for living on the land.
\nI believe that when new garments for farming is born, it will give rise to new ways of farming, and with it, new ways of being human.
\nAs peasants once did, I create with my body. That is the best contribution I can make, as a peasant living in the present.<\/p>\n

To the peasant of a century from now.<\/p>\n

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Material\uff1aBlue Sheet Filament, Blue Sheet, B rank Woven Fabric (Cotton Bamboo Mixed Weave, Cotton)
\nPhotography by YASUNARI KIKUMA
\nHair by ABE (M0)and Makeup by yUKI(M0)
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For information on the exhibition where you can actually see the works, please click here<\/a> (Japanese only).
\nAlso, please follow FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM on Instagram for the latest information!<\/p>\n

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