International Talent Support

International Talent Support (ITS) is a platform created to give support and visibility to young talents in the field of fashion design, design of accessories and jewelry.

After fifteen editions, the contest and the event will not take place in 2017.

Competitors were selected from more than 80 countries around the world. After this selection process, they were invited to Trieste to present their works and were evaluated by a special jury that awarded the prizes in the competition. In 2017 ITS will focus on the Creative Archive, its Network and new projects.

The platform was founded and is directed by Barbara Franchin.

Here are some of the past ITS jurors: the performance artist Marina Abramovic, photographers Nick Knight, Ari Marcopoulos and Sarah Moon, the Editor in Chief of Vogue Italy Franca Sozzani, the founder of Business of Fashion Imran Amed, the former head curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum in New York Harold Koda the singer-songwriter Mika and designers such as Raf Simons, Viktor & Rolf, Consuelo Castiglioni, Manish Arora as well as journalists like Hilary Alexander, Angelo Flaccavento and Cathy Horyn.

The ITS Creative Archive is the archive in which a collection of items produced by the competitors is stored and exhibited. The collection includes 16,000 portfolio, 220 dresses, 80 jewelry pieces and 120 accessories, and more than 700 digital photo projects.

2016 marked the fifteenth birthday of ITS, an anniversary edition that welcomed in the jury Demna Gvasalia (Founder and Artistic Director of Vetements and Artistic Director of Balenciaga), designer Iris Van Herpen and AltaRoma President Silvia Venturini Fendi, while the theme of the event was “Utopia.

The jury for this edition featured, among others, Massimo Giorgetti (Founder and Creative Director of MSGM), Carlo Capasa (President of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion) and Oriole Cullen (Acting Senior Curator of Contemporary Fashion, Victoria & Albert Museum). Aitor Throup, a finalist in 2006, received a lifetime achievement award. The concept for this edition was "THE FUTURE".

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