Second annual WGSN Global Fashion Awards announce open entry

WGSN is to hold the second annual Global Fashion Awards this year in New York City. The Global Fashion Awards were created by WGSN in 2010 to recognise and reward those pushing the boundaries of fashion and setting the style agenda on a global scale. Entries can be made online via www.globalfashionawards.com from today (4 April).

The shortlist will be announced in London at a party on 20 June at the St Martins Lane Hotel, while the winners will be announced at a ceremony taking place at Gotham Hall in New York City on 20 October. This year’s categories encompass business and creative disciplines in fashion including design, retail (off and online), buying, visual merchandising, store design, marketing and ethical practice.

The winners will be selected by an expert panel of judges comprising luminaries from the fashion and style industries including designers, buying directors, stylists, merchants and marketing executives. The 2011 panel includes:

Chee Au, Chief Creative Officer, Shanghai Tang
June Haynes, Senior Vice President of Retail, Valentino USA
Graeme Fidler and Michael Herz, Creative Directors, Bally
Orsola de Castro, Founder and Curator of the British Fashion Council’s Estethica
Dolly Jones, Editor, VOGUE.COM UK
Simon Kneen, Creative Director and Executive Vice President of Design, Banana Republic
Averyl Oates, Buying Director, Harvey Nichols - Menswear, Womenswear and Accessories
Jana Ririnui, Founder and Director, Academy of Freelance Makeup
William Tempest, Founder and Designer, William Tempest
Daisy de Villeneuve, Illustrator, Designer and Writer
Rebekah Roy, Fashion & Celebrity Stylist

WGSN Global Fashion Awards 2010 winners

The WGSN Global Fashion Awards 2010 took place last night at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. The winners were announced by America's Next Top Model judge, Nigel Barker and guests included Harold Tillman (Chairman of the British Fashion Council), Iris Apfel, Dolly Jones (Editor of Vogue.com) and Kevin Carrigan (Global Creative Director, Calvin Klein). Winners took home Waterford Crystal Global Fashion Awards trophies designed by John Rocha.

The Global Fashion Awards 2010 Winners:

Outstanding Visual Merchandising
Lane Crawford

Highly commended:
Target and Liberty of London

Outstanding Customer Experience
Farm

Highly commended:
Net-a-Porter.com

Outstanding New Store
Levi's Flagship Store - Regent Street, London, UK (Checkland Kindleysides)

Highly commended:
New Balance - Beijing & Shanghai, China

Outstanding Brand Mix
Opening Ceremony

Most Influential Design Team Brand or Retailer
Acne

Most Influential Designer - Womenswear
Alber Elbaz - Lanvin

Most Influential Designer - Menswear
Thom Browne

Most Influential Designer - Footwear and Accessories
Nicholas Kirkwood

Most Creative Student Collection
Lilly Heine - Central Saint Martins, London

Global Brand or Retailer
Harvey Nichols

Emerging Brand or Retailer
William Tempest

Outstanding Etailer
ASOS

Most Sustainable Brand or Retailer
People Tree

Best Marketing Campaign
Diesel

Most Innovative Digital Initiative
Wrangler (VF Europe)

Pantone Special Color Award for Best Use of Color by a Designer
Chris Benz

Pantone Special Color Award for Best Use of Color by a Retailer
Topshop & Uniqlo

Outstanding Contribution to Fashion
Harold Tillman CBE

Global Style Icon
Iris Apfel

WGSN launches new site

Leading style and design trend forecasting service WGSN today announced the launch of FONTIS, a multi-channel, digital platform designed to deliver insight and action to organisations at the intersection of fashion, style and commerce. FONTIS transforms the interplay and effectiveness of creative teams, buyers, visual merchandisers and breakthrough trends and the next best-sellers. Named after the Latin word for source or spring, FONTIS utilises cloud computing technology to restructure all of WGSN’s design packs, images, trend forecasts, market analyses, reports and more, with more than 600,000 pages of content. One of highlights of the new platform is the visual search function, which allows users to click on any portion of a WGSN image to bring up content instantly related to that design detail from WGSN’s information database.