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May 20, 2008 - Launched in 2007 by award-winning Dutch creative director and publisher of influential fashion zine Iconique.com - recently voted one of the top ten online fashion magazines in the world, Joost van Gorsel and founder and CEO of progressive creative think tank and agency Societás, Melissa Sterry - the ‘Iconique Societás Awards’ bring the global spotlight to the best emerging and most influential talent working in the fashion visual arts.
Having launched as the ‘Iconique Societás Excellence in Fashion Photography Awards’ in 2007, the awards have been re-branded as the ‘Iconique Societás Awards’ having added a new prize category for fashion illustration.
The awards jury has doubled in size this year and includes a truly international collective of influential creatives, including acclaimed Dutch photographer Ari Versluis, maverick fashion designer Arkadius, Brit milliner Louis Mariette - dubbed one of the 250 most influential creatives in the world by I-D Magazine, award-winning New York designer and writer Natalia Allen, owner of the UK’s much acclaimed ‘The Illustration Gallery’ - Oliver Jelf, McCann Group’s Head of Innovation Justin Champney, Vice President of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada - Rod Roodenburg, top stylist and regular contributer to Italian Vogue Michael Dye, as well as awards founders Joost van Gorsel and Melissa Sterry.
Last year’s awards gained global coverage and entries from fashion creatives in the UK, EU, US, Asia and beyond. Iconique and Societás plan to extend the award categories yet further in 2009 – to embrace the full spectrum of the fashion visual arts, including fashion filmmaking and fashion spatial design.
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