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Innovation Fusion Collaboration THE WORTH DIRECTORY 152275_TEXT_AW_AMENDS.indd 1 29/10/2015 11:12 Funded by the European Commission to develop competitive- ness in small fashion businesses, the Worth project specialises in cross border creative and manufacturer collaborations, aiming to innovate new fashion and lifestyle products in order to maximise assets derived from the resource and skill base of Europe. With an express aim of creating innovative products to prototype stage, the result is 34 unique European enterprising partnerships managed jointly by Centre for Fashion Enterprise at London Col- lege of Fashion and Institut Français de la Mode: fusions of tra- dition and invention; craft and technology; hand and machine; history and modernisation across fashion, textiles, jewellery, eye- wear, footwear, furniture, fur and leather lifestyle product catego- ries. WORTH facilitates connections between factories, designers and manufacturers across the regions to access and cross fertilise the broad range of skills and know-how that define Europe as a high-level fashion industry resource base. CREATIVES & DESIGNERS CREATIVES & DESIGNERS CREATIVES & DESIGNERS COMPANY NAME Company type Country Email Ana Rajcevic Artist UK [email protected] Andrea Crews Fashion & France [email protected] Creative Brand Anne Sofie Madsen Fashion Denmark [email protected] Designer Apologie Footwear France [email protected] Designer Bonnie Kirkwood Ltd Textile UK [email protected] Designer Boulezar Fashion Germany [email protected] Designer CJ Carstens Fashion Netherlands [email protected] Designer Dagmar Kestner Fashion Germany [email protected] Designer Elisabeth Vidal Fashion France [email protected] Designer Emma J Shipley Fashion UK [email protected] Illustrator G + N Fashion Netherlands [email protected] Designer Glithero Designers UK [email protected] Hermione de Paula Fashion UK [email protected] Designer Holly Fulton Fashion UK [email protected] Designer Jacquemus Fashion France [email protected] Designer James Long Fashion UK [email protected] Designer Jessie Lecomte Fashion France [email protected] Designer Joanne Stoker Footwear UK [email protected] Designer Jungho Geortay Fashion Belgium [email protected] Designer Lauranne Guyomard Textile France [email protected] Designer Marcha Hüskes Fashion Netherlands [email protected] Designer Marion Vidal Jewellery France [email protected] Designer Neffa Fashion Netherlands [email protected] Designer Nichole de Carle Lingerie UK [email protected] Designer Popkalab Wearable Tech Netherlands [email protected] Developer Samuel Gassmann Jewellery France [email protected] Designer Steve Mono Bag Designer Spain [email protected] Studio Ruuger Designer UK [email protected] Teatum Jones Fashion UK [email protected] Designer Toogood Designers UK [email protected] Vilsbol de Arce Designer Denmark [email protected] Waiting for the Sun Glasses France [email protected] Designer Y.O.U. Shoe Designer Italy [email protected] ORGANISATIONS & COLLECTIVES COMPANY NAME Company type Country Email Abury Social Germany [email protected] Enterprise Centre for Fashion London’s United [email protected] Enterprise fashion Kingdom incubator & R&D Centexbel Research Belgium [email protected] Centre Finneck Cooperative Germany juergen.teichmann@stiftung- finneck.de Institute Francais de Specialist France [email protected] la Mode fashion institution London College of Specialist United Fashion, UAL fashion Higher Kingdom Education Mihai Eminescu Transylvania Romania contact@ Trust Cooperative mihaieminescutrust.ro Smart Fit-In Adapted Germany [email protected] Products Network Textiellab Textile Netherlands [email protected] Research & Development Universiteit Hasselt Research Belgium [email protected] Institute CREATIVES & DESIGNERS energy and living forces that alone we cannot hope to possess. The collective is a hotbed of empirical and dynamic creativity. Though the initial inspira- ANA RAJCEVIC tion came from Maroussia, the work is created Ana Rajcevic is an award-winning artist. Based collectively. Since 2 years now, a ready-to-wear between London and Berlin, she works at the line has been launched and the brand that intersections of sculpture and fashion design, used to carry only unique pieces at its begin- specialising in synthetic polymers, metal and ning, is now gaining more and more recogni- leather. After receiving an international MA tion in France and abroad, though still inde- scholarship from University of Arts London pendant from the Fashion industry. in 2010, for the prestigious Fashion Artefact course at London College of Fashion, Ana won www.andreacrews.com the University’s Best Design Award in 2012. The same year, she also won the Accessories ANNE SOFIE MADSEN Collection of the Year at International Talent After graduating with a Master’s degree from Support, Italy for her collection of bespoke the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Anne head pieces ANIMAL: The Other Side of Evolu- Sofie Madsen gained experience working with tion. Rajcevic has been exhibited internation- John Galliano and Peclers in Paris. Following ally in Galleries and Museums and is a contrib- this, she also worked as a designer for Alexan- uting artist at SHOWstudio Gallery, London. In der McQueen, London. Madsen launched her 2013 Ana received the SEED Award (London) eponymous label in 2010 and has since re- for exceptional talents. Ana’s work has been ceived prestigious awards such as the DANSK featured in major print publications such as Design Talent Award (2013) and was chosen by The Independent, British Vogue, Dazed and Sara Maino (Fashion Editor-in-Chief, Vogue It- Confused and i¬D Magazine. aly) to exhibit at Fashion Week in Milan. In ad- dition to her design work, Madsen also teaches www.anarajcevic.com at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art. www.annesofiemadsen.com ANDREA CREWS It has been 10 years now that Andrea Crews was created. It all began when Maroussia grad- APOLOGIE uated from les Beaux Arts in Bordeaux and Artistic Director Olivia Cognet combines her started organizing workshops around clothes, luxury shoe expertise and her long experi- mainly vintage pieces, her privileged medium. ence as an accessories stylist for large fashion The idea for a collective came very naturally, houses such as Lanvin, Carven, Sonia Rykiel, Maroussia did not want to work under her own Mugler, JC de Castelbajac and Robert Cler- name, and the energy that was needed to han- gerie. Olivia designs joyful collections, twisted dle a project at the frontier of art and fashion classics, and talkative shoes, full of humor. could not come from a sole person. For Maroussia, Andrea Crews is an alter ego, Her desire is to provide women with pleasure, someone who both embraces life and stirs it make them beautiful, by addressing fashion up. A fictional figure in whom we can all rec- with a chic and French touch, a Parisian touch. ognize ourselves. It is a superego, free, coura- In 2014, the development of Apologie offered geous, and generous, ready to defy the estab- her the opportunity to partner with Sophie Viot lished order. Coster, with whom she now shares the leader- ship of the brand. Over the last 10 years, a joyful army has been recruited, a crazy troup of actors, a collective http://apologie-paris.com project combining atypical physiques, creative BONNIE KIRKWOOD order to provide his customers with a unique fi- Multi award winning, Royal College of Art MA nal product. In the past years the company has graduate, Bonnie runs her own successful focused on developing knitwear in fur. This global bespoke woven textile design and fab- resulted in three super light and stretchable ric consultancy business. Based in London, techniques that combine the best in knitwear Bonnie works internationally for the highest & fur, including a remarkable demonstration of contemporary interior and fashion design one-sided fur knit. industries. Bonnie’s bespoke service is special- ised yet diverse, due to her varied extensive www.cjcarstens.com training and experience to date. Bonnie is able to encompass the design, development and production of woven fabric, for residential and DAGMAR KESTNER commercial interior use and for commercial Dagmar Kestner is a Romanian-born fashion to luxury apparel markets. From her London designer/artist, based in Berlin. She completed based studio, Bonnie creates inspirational her Masters degree in 2013 from the London concepts and seasonal collections of trend – College of Fashion in Fashion Artefact and led hand woven fabric samples. Continuing her graduated with a BA (2009) from the Univer- passion for weaving, Bonnie is a part time lec- sity of Reutlingen (Germany). In Denmark she turer and regular visiting lecturer at several UK assisted artists like Helle Mardahl and worked universities on the Textile Design degree cours- for established fashion designers such as Hen- es, providing technical and creative support to rik Vibskov, Maja Brix (former Head of Design, current students. Henrik Vibskov Femme) and the award-winning danish label Vilsbøl de Arce during several www.bonniekirkwood.com seasons. In 2013 Dagmar Kestner won the Deutsche BOULEZAR Bank Award for Creative Enterprises (Fashion The design process at Boulezar finds its origin Category) for her artistic body of work and the in their philosophy – each