HKDI Students Shined at the 4th Hong Kong Young Knitwear Designers Contest with 4 Winning Awards
HKDI Students Shined at the 4th Hong Kong Young Knitwear Designers Contest with 4 Winning Awards
23 Jan 2014
HKDI students and graduates from Fashion and Image Design Department (FID) shined again at the 4th Hong Kong Young Knitwear Designers Contest. Among the 120 entries, HKDI students and graduates successfully became the top 10 finalists and swept 4 out of 6 awards with their creativity and talents. The top 10 finalists were excited that the famous fashion designer, Johanna Ho, provided her professional advice during the production process of their competing pieces. HKDI graduate, Kenneth Tsang, currently studying top-up degree at Nottingham Trent University, won the 1st Runner up with his design collection titled Luxurious, inspired by the Milan Cathedral Duomo. All models had a hat on and some carried interesting props like a bird cage shaped bag, expressing a new style of English gentlemen. Various shapes and lines were used to symbolise the Cathedral, where yarn is used to reenact the nobility and luxuriousness of Milan style. He was also invited to visit the Paris Fashion Week with the sponsorship of the round-trip airfare and accommodations in Paris to appreciate the latest world class designs of the global industry elites. Another HKDI graduate, Angus Tsui, won the Cocktail Select Shop’s Best Designer Award and received sponsorship valued at HKD150,000 and technical support for developing and marketing of his first knitwear collection, enriching his experience for his future career development in the industry. HKDI graduate, Calvin Chan, and HKDI current student, May Li, won the 2nd Runner Up and the Best Use of Australian Merino Award respectively.
Hong Kong Young Knitwear Designers Contest, organised by Hong Kong Knitwear Innovation & Design Society (KIDS), is one of the important annual industry events, with the aim to showcase the talents and capabilities of Hong Kong knitwear designers, and to cultivate more new talented and creative young professionals for the local knitwear industry.
