ABURY Sends the Winner of its 4th International Designer Contest to Chile!

Following the huge success of the last years, ABURY launches the forth edition of the ABURY Design Experience – a unique open call to all fashion accessories designers to win a travel and production grant and develop a capsule collection with local craftswomen and -men in Chile.

“It’s in your hands!”- This contest does truly awaken the faded handicrafts spirit among the new designers, and powerfully urges them to revive world’s dying artisanal heritage by blending their modern design visionary. The ABURY Design Experience is part of ABURY’s groundbreaking effort in creating a more positive sustainable fashion model.

The one-of-its-kind contest is supported again by a prestigious jury of international professionals of the luxury fashion, lifestyle and sustainability world. German supermodel and designer Eva Padberg joins the jury again for the third time: “Working with traditional ways of craftsmanship and thinking on a more sustainable level, is exactly what fashion should be moving towards to.“

After Ecuador, Morocco and Ethiopia, this year's edition will bring the winner to Chile. In cooperation with and the support of the „Fundacion artisanias de Chile“, the winner will first spend a week in Berlin with the ABURY team to then move on to Chile and spend four to six weeks with the artisans of Wengan, an artisan community in the North of Chile. Here he or she will be working with the traditional Alpaka wool.

Designers and artisans from different cultural backgrounds come together with the curiosity to explore each other's world. The combination of creative ideas creates emotional bonds and the products created are testimonies of a successful intercultural understanding!

This contest proves that "Design has the power to change the world“!

For more information on the contest and more photo material please contact us directly.

Press Contact: 
Andrea Bury
+49 30 21 80 28 08
andrea@abury.net

ABURY Collection GmbH 
Budapester Strasse 38-50 
Bikini Berlin 
10787 Berlin

How does it work? 
Applications are now open from 20 March 2018 until the 11th of May on http:// adex.abury.net/ 
Participants should be 23 years old and above. The partner country for 2018 is Chile and a designer will be spending up to six weeks in Chile, creating an accessory capsule collection with local artisans.

Up to 9 designers will be selected for the semi-finals. Through public voting, 3 finalists will be defined. The winner will then be chosen by the prestigious international jury panel which includes international Supermodel and designer Eva Padberg, model and social entrepreneur Sara Nuru and her sister Sali, Bibi Russell, Fashion for Development and UNESCO Ambassador; Diana Opoti, CEO 100 Days of African Fashion, Diana Verde Nieto, CEO Positive Luxury; Waridi Schrobsdorff, Founder of fa254 and Karen Heumann, Founding Member of Fashion Council Germany, ART/C, designer and last years’ winner Ruth Hepburn.

Partners of ABURY include Dr. Hauschka, AEG, Impakter, Positive Luxury, Artsthread, etc.

Check out this official link for full details: http://adex.abury.net/ #itsinyourhands