Premiere Vision Paris announces winners of its first "digital" NextGen Awards.

For more than 10 years, the September edition of Première Vision Paris has traditionally hosted the PV Awards, a yearly event to honor creative and innovative new developments submitted by the exhibitors of the trade fair.  While this year 's physical fair could not take place due to Covid-19 restrictions,  the PV Awards will return in 2021.

However the organisers have been able to host the first edition of the Première Vision NextGen Awards which succeeds the British TexSelect competition (formerly known as Texprint) and was taken over by Première Vision in 2019.  The NextGen Awards aim to reward the textile creativity of students not only from British schools and colleges, but also from design institutes all over the world.  

Disciplines accepted for the Competition are: Prints – Knit – Weaving – Embellishment /Mix Media for either Fashion and/or Interiors.

This first, entirely digital, September 2020 edition was produced in collaboration with the Arts Thread platform which, as organizers of the competition, has announced the winners of the 4 following prizes:

• The Grand Jury Prize: Annika KIIDRON – .Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

• The Imagination Prize: Jifang ZHANG – Nottingham Trent University, UK

• The Interiors Prize: Netta GETTA – Shenkar, Israël

• The Materials Innovation Prize : Elisa DEFOSSEZ – Aalto University, Finland

For full details of the NextGen Awards 2020 and winners, click HERE.