02-aug2020

Fabia Brüning, GermanyFinalist, ITS 2019 – Accessories She is a dancer too. Amazing interpretation of everyday movements into dance patterns, coded in her bags through pullers and mechanisms.

Ninja D. Evangelista, AustriaFinalist, ITS 2020 – Jewellery Ninja, 2020 finalist, audio file = what it means to become an ITS finalist. Energy for the soul!!

Amai Rodriguez, SpainFinalist ITS 2008 – Fashion She had every single trend we see today: mix&match, covered faces, tartan, gloves, catsuits…

Mashid Mohadjerin, BelgiumFinalist, ITS 2008 – Photo Went to Lampedusa island immediately after ITS, shoots pics on a coastguard boat patrolling the Italian borders for refugees = wins World Press Photo!!! Works for New York Times, Newsweek, Le Monde, La Domenica di Repubblica and more.

Kelly Toode, EstoniaFinalist, ITS 2019 – illycaffè special project Can a barista apron shield like an armour from the vapor and high temperature of a coffee machine, while recalling the traditional Moka shape? Et voilà, courtesy of Kelly Toode

Asumi Maeda, JapanFinalist, ITS 2019 – Jewellery From Coconogacco, school founded in Tokyo by past finalists Yoshi Yamagata and Mikio Sakabe. Celebration of dreams, of the rite of Spring = a world of imaginary plants.

Bingqing Yi, ChinaFinalist, ITS 2019 – Accessories Investigation on gravity and balance. Starting point was the rocking chair. Brilliant as stand alone art! Check the video too.

Eli Effenberger, IsraelFinalist ITS 2005 Pure poetry!! Outfits like dolls! After ITS she disappeared, dumped her collection in the trash.Traced her many years later as “Marmite-Sue”, incredibly gifted doll illustrator and maker. Unique genius.

Harald Lunde Helgesen, NorwayFinalist, ITS 2011 – Fashion Clothes we no longer wear, piled up in our wardrobes. He turned them into the aesthetics of his outfits

Seiran Tsuno, JapanFinalist, ITS 2018 – Fashion Entirely drawn with a 3D pen!!! While working double shifts as a nurse at a psychiatric hospital!!! And the model is her grandmother!!!