Tom Van Der Borght Takes Home Grand Prix and Public Prize at Hyères Festival
by Anna Barr
Belgium designer Tom Van Der Borght was announced as the winner of both the Grand Prix of the Jury and the Public Prize at the 35th edition of the Hyères Festival of Fashion and Photography for his collection made up of digital knits incorporating dead stock merino wool, transparent acrylic, and Lurex. This is one thing of 2020 that we definitely saw coming since we sat on the jury last year at Fashionclash Festival where he took home two prizes for his collection ‘Seven Ways to Be TVDB’.
“What we really, really admired in the work of Tom van der Borght is that it was a totally new type of form, new type of shape, new type of commitment to a silhouette, and it was uncompromising,” designer Jonathan Anderson, head of the jury, said during a remote award ceremony.
“And in this moment we are in, we as a jury believe that it was about starting this new decade with newness, this idea of originality.” Anderson continued: “It was not about looking at something for its automatic commercial sense. It was about the beauty within fashion, the handmade, the technique, and the risk in it. And I think Tom has really achieved something in what he has done and I think he will go on to do very well.”
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