Belgian Designer Igor Dieryck Scores Triple Trend Prize Win at Hyères Pageant

HYÈRES, France — Belgian designer Igor Dieryck gained the highest prize on the thirty eighth version of the Worldwide Pageant of Trend, Images and Trend Equipment – Hyères on Sunday, wowing the jury headed by Charles de Vilmorin with chiseled designs impressed by resort workers uniforms.  

Based mostly in Paris, the 2022 graduate of Antwerp Royal Academy of Effective Arts hailing from the south of Belgium is at present working as a junior designer in menswear at Hermès.    

Titled “Yessir,” his unisex assortment was impressed by his scholar job as a receptionist in a resort, exploring the interactions between folks from all walks of life and questioning “the place of resort workers inside their institution.”  

“The uniform is absolutely this concept of including a layer onto your essence and it modifies the notion folks have however not likely ‘you,’” he stated in the course of the finalists’ showroom.   

His work was “a complete crush” for the jury, stated de Vilmorin lauding “a group [that was] hyper artistic, poetic but additionally tremendous actual and fascinating that might stretch into a number of seasons sooner or later.”

Among the many standouts have been the opening look, a groom clad in a cropped jacket and trousers with a excessive waistline that gave legs for days and a jaunty pillbox hat; trousers with a trompe-l’oeil mashing excessive saggy denims, tailor-made slacks and boxer shorts; and a denims jacket that was a millefeuille of supplies each informal and delicate.   

Because of a down jacket with a hood impressed by a feather duster, crafted in collaboration with Lemarié, Dieryck additionally scooped up the Le19M Métiers d’Arts Prize in partnership with Chanel, which comes with a 20,000-euro purse for a mission to be exhibited at subsequent 12 months’s pageant.  

The L’Atelier des Matières Prize and its 10,000-euros price of supplies went to Sweden’s Petra Fagerstrom, for her work impressed by her grandmother, who was a parachutist within the former Soviet Union.   

She impressed by creating a method to create lenticular photographs in cloth utilizing pleating, used to specific the duality between the fact of, say, a floral nightgown and one’s desires. In her grandmother’s case, it had been a psychological picture of California as a “utopian everlasting sundown” taken from a postcard, juxtaposed together with her life below a totalitarian regime.

Lower from supplies that included an upcycled parachute and deadstock leathers, the “Grand-mère Volante” assortment additionally netted Fagerstrom the Mercedes-Benz Sustainability Prize, which distinguishes the designer who finest utilized eco-conception practices of their work.  

Fagerstrom, who intends to launch her model and is within the Swedish Trend Council’s five-year incubator program, can also be eager to search out companions in textile innovation and sustainability to additional her analysis in these fields.   

The version had been significantly various in inspiration, with designers digging deep into themselves to speak about how they felt of their our bodies, processing grief or the worldwide geopolitical context. “They have been boundlessly beneficiant, impressed by joyful moments or troublesome episodes,” stated de Vilmorin.  

Given his age, the 26-year-old style jury president noticed the competitors “extra as an alternate than a judgement on their work,” saying he’d been significantly drawn by these whose work allowed him to mission how they’d evolve in “two, three, ten years.” 

The equipment grand prize went to Swiss designer Gabrielle Huguenot, for designs she described as “impetuous and vengeful” that ranged from unwearable sneakers that had spikes inside and outdoors, to spiny jewellery and luggage that regarded half-way between sensible and doubtlessly deadly. 

German designer Christiane Schwambach acquired a particular point out from the equipment jury led by Alan Crocetti.

Victor Salinier, a graduate of Geneva’s HEAD style college, rose to the problem of utilizing solely leather-based for an adjunct of their selection for this 12 months’s Hermès prize submission.

The French luxurious home’s artistic director of style equipment Clémande Burgevin Blachman lauded his use of leatherworking crafts but additionally the “nice poetry” of Salinier’s headdress that evoked a baby perched on their guardian’s shoulders.

She famous that candidates leaned in the direction of innovation and experimentation, had usually rooted their submissions in childhood reminiscences and thought of notions of magnificence and ornamentation.  

As is now custom, finalists shall be exhibiting their work in Paris on Wednesday and Thursday as a part of the annual Supima Design Lab, alongside the works of the 2023 Supima Design Competitors finalists and a collection of designers together with Julie de Libran, Victor Weinsanto and 2021 Hyères winner Ifeanyi Okwuadi.

In images, Lausanne- and Paris-based Thaddé Comar scored the the 7L Images Grand Prize along with his work documenting the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, exploring particularly the units utilized by demonstrators trying to mitigate more and more refined strategies of management. 

The American Classic prize went to self-taught Senegalese artist Souleymane Bachir Diaw, who relies in Paris, for “Sutura, the silent voice of males,” questioning masculinity by way of a wardrobe in movement. Kin Coedel, who lives and works between Paris and Shanghai, gained the general public images prize.