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The “Festival des Jeunes Créateurs de Mode” Selects its 2019 Winners
21 May 2019
On May 3, the Young Fashion Creator's Festival took place at Tunisia's French Institute and Intima Media Group was in attendance.
The Festival des Jeunes Créateurs de Mode de Tunisie (Young Fashion Creators of Tunisia Festival), each year selects young independent stylists and professional fashion schools from the country, giving students the chance to present their work to a public of both national and international industry professionals. Organized by the Groupement Professionnel de la Confection et de l’Habillement GPCH , a member of CONECT (Confédération des Entreprises Citoyennes de Tunisie) alongside L'Agence Tunisienne de la Formation Professionnelle, with the support of the e-commerce site Jumia, the competition is presided over by noted textile industrialist Samir Ben Abdallah, and selects a shortlist of young creators and shines a light on the teaching specialties of the country's professional schools.
The winning stylists receive important promotional opportunities both in Tunisia and abroad on the world stage. The theme for this year's competition, around which participating schools and stylists were asked to develop their collections, was Africa, with the title 'L'Afrique c'est nous'.
The jury of this 4th edition of the festival brought together different fashion experts and trendsetters from both Tunisia and abroad, including the stylists Fatma Hachicha (Tunisia) and Nathalie Garçon (France); sector experts Anastasia Hagui (Russia) and Antonio Franceschini (Italy); and television personalities such as Reem El Benna (Tunisia). Presiding over the jury was Intima Media Group's own president, Marco B. Pisani.
This year's theme, 'L'Afrique c'est nous' brings out, according to the Festival's president Samir Ben Abdallah, the sector's disposition to orient itself primarily around Africa, taking into consideration the great opportunities that this market has to offer.
Winners and Prizes
First place for Young Stylist went to Rahma Saidana. As well as national recognition, the first place winner will also have the chance to put on a catwalk show in Rome as part of the Festival RMI 2019 (Research Fashion and Innovation Festival) which will take place as part of Altaroma in July 2019, and will be awarded an e-commerce site provided by Jumia. The second place winner, Rania Ben Romdhane, in turn, won not only the the recognition brought by the award, but will also participate in the catwalk shows of the next Tunis Fashion Week. Amongst the educational institutions, it was Monastir that wowed the judges to take first place, and also won the Lectra Prize, for which they were awarded with training on Lectra systems. In the jewellery category, three prizes were awarded. All of the winners came from the Centre Sectoriel de Formation en Bijouterie, Joaillerie et Horlogerie in Gammarth: first place went to Khaled Zouiou and Abdelrahmen Ismaiel; second to Firas Chniter; and third place to Belkiss Shili and Basma Hssini.
Closing the prize-giving was the prize for the best aspiring model. The winner: Najeh Jhider Ben Youssef, alias "Nutella". Originally hailing from Gabès, Nutella confirmed her plans to pursue an international modelling career.
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