Lichting

Each year, two promising students at each of seven academies are chosen to present their collections to an audience of around 700 industry professionals, including journalists, stylists and CEOs. This year, for the fourth time, Premsela invited an international panel to comment on the show. We also published a special magazine, 5 Years of Lichting.

2011 nominees
The other Lichting 2011 nominees were Pablo Londono Sarria (Gerrit Rietveld Academie), Amos Tranque Seoane (Gerrit Rietveld Academie), Amber Sophie Smidt (AMFI Amsterdam Fashion Institute), Bram van Diepen (AMFI Amsterdam Fashion Institute), Natalie de Koning (Utrecht School of the Arts), Menno Voortman (Utrecht School of the Arts), Albert Jan Metselaar (Willem de Kooning Academy), Laura de Wit (Willem de Kooning Academy), Lotte Mostert (Royal Academy of Art), Nicolaas Hein (Royal Academy of Art), Mattia Akkermans (ArtEZ Institute of the Arts), Anne-Katrin Bannier (Zuyd Academie) and Jenny Kloszynski (Zuyd Academie).

See www.lichting11.nl for more information about the show and the students’ work.

International panel
The panellists’ votes carried 50 per cent of the weight in deciding the winner of the Lichting 2011 prize.

They were:

Catherine Baba, Paris (FR): a stylist for US Vogue, Emanuel Ungaro, Givenchy, Dazed & Confused, Cartier and Balmain.

Michael van der Ham, London (UK): a Dutch fashion designer living and working in London, who was nominated in 2010 for the British Fashion Council's Emerging Talent Award in the Ready to Wear category and whose clothing is sold at Liberty, Browns Focus and LuisaViaRoma.

Shelley Fox, New York (US): the Donna Karan Professor of Fashion Design at Parsons and director of its MFA in Fashion Design & Society (in development), winner of numerous prizes for her innovative and experimental fashion designs, and leader of major research projects in the past three years as a research fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and director of the University of Westminster’s MA in Fashion Design and Enterprise.

Romain Brau and Anna Kushenroca, Antwerp (B): founders and buyers at Ra13, who studied in the prestigious fashion department at Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts before opening their shop.

Lichting
Lichting was founded in 2007 to help close the gap between the academies and the industry. Each year, seven senior fashion lecturers select two students each to participate. The 2010 winner of the award , provided by G-Star, was Marijke De Haan of the the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. The Belgian Ann Boogaerts of ArtEZ School of the Arts won in 2009. Anneloes van Osselaer of AMFI Amsterdam Fashion Institute took the prize in 2008. And Ivo Mittelmeijer of ArtEZ won the first Lichting in 2007. For more information and pictures of past nominees' collections, see the Lichting website.

Lichting 2011 was a project of Premsela, HTNK Fashion Recruitment & Consultancy and Amsterdam International Fashion Week with G-Star Raw.