LVMH Prize

No, I think there's always reason for optimism.

The most recent thing that I have been excited by is a designer whose name unfortunately is escaping me at the moment, but she's a female designer and she just won the LVMH prize.

Every year, LVMH has this really big award for emerging designers, and if you win, it's not only a significant amount of money, but it's also mentorship from people in the industry.

And her designs are really interesting and beautiful, and I think, again, a young female designer suddenly getting this new platform, getting some financial backing and getting some help, that to me is exciting because, as I mentioned before, it's really a lot of men at the top right now.

I was like, "How did they end up in Milan?" They told me the whole story about what's been going on with them.

You know, they were the second ever winners of the LVMH prize, which has become since a much bigger deal than it felt then.

And what was so lovely is to look at their collection, you could see a real evolution of a body of work.

It was like rather than picking up the first album, you were suddenly going back over seven or eight.

Uh, we are moving quickly, uh, into the, to the shows here, and in fact, when this airs, we will already have lived through some big ones-

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... uh, including Julie Kegel's, who is this year's LVMH prize winner.

There you go.

Welcome to the LVMH Prize Podcast.

The conversation that takes you behind the scenes and into the imagination of those building the future of fashion.

Hello, Julie, Sarah.

I remember the first one better than I remember like the fourth or the fifth.

Yeah.

That was really special because it was the first one and people didn't know what to think about an LVMH prize.

It was very, you know, innovative, but also a little bit intimidating to young emerging talent.

And already it was, it was, Delphine, I know her mission was to make it international global.