Diesel Awards Aalto University Graduate

MILAN — Diesel has reinforced its commitment to support young talents by partnering with Finnish Aalto University, established in 2010 as a merger of three major local universities operating in the technology, economics, art and design fields.
After hosting a dinner at Helsinki’s storied Hotel Kämp to celebrate the institution’s 2019 graduating class, the company bestowed a Diesel Award to one of the graduates presenting their final collections during a fashion show staged on Wednesday. The award went to Justus Kantakoski, who was one of the five contestants showing customized Diesel denim pieces in their final project. With the accolade, Kantakoski received a money prize to support the development of his first fashion collection.

Diesel Award winner Justus Kantakoski’s denim outfit. 
Guillaume Roujas

This is not the first time the Italian denim specialist joins forces with Aalto University. Earlier this year, the Window Project contest marked the debut of the partnership. As part of the competition, students were asked to design mock window concepts for Diesel’s Helsinki store, located in the city’s Mannerheimintie main street. Back then, the prize was bestowed to Jim Bergstrom and, as a result, his project was implemented at the store earlier this month and will be available for the next two

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The launch marks a major milestone for the Jacobs brand. The timing seems perfect, Jacobs having put together a string of strong runway collections, including fall’s masterful outing, along with an interlude that fascinated across generations, in the form of resort 2019’s look-for-look redux of the seminal grunge collection he designed for Perry Ellis for spring 1993. That collection got the wheels turning for THE Marc Jacobs, which, for those familiar with the history of the designer and his brand, registers as something of a redux itself. Not in line-for-line reissues (although there is an archival component), but in its positioning both within the greater market, and within the Marc Jacobs brand itself.
“I want either a beautifully made version of a very simple thing or I want something very out there. That’s it, that’s what I like,” Jacobs said during a phone chat on Tuesday afternoon, describing his consumer approach to fashion.
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“It was always in the air that I was going to do my own brand, but I’ve always had too much work. This is my new canvas,” designer Christian Juul Nielsen revealed during a private preview of his first independent advanced contemporary line, Aknvas.
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MILAN — Humanism is not exactly top of mind for most entrepreneurs, but anyone who has spent more than 10 minutes with Brunello Cucinelli knows that is exactly one of his favorite subjects.
It’s also a topic that Cucinelli revealed on Wednesday was developed for three days with a group of entrepreneurs that reads like a Silicon Valley Who’s Who: Jeff Bezos, founder, president and chief executive officer of Amazon.com; Dick Costolo, entrepreneur, former ceo of Twitter; Reid Hoffman, cofounder and executive president of LinkedIn; Ruzwana Bashir, founder and ceo of Peek.com; Drew Houston, ceo and founder of Dropbox; Lynn Jurich, cofounder and co-ceo of Sunrun, and Nirav Tolia, cofounder of Nextdoor.
Gathering in Solomeo, the central Italian medieval village Cucinelli has restored and that is home to the company’s headquarters, the group met for the “Symposium on Soul and Economics,” May 23 to 25. “Next year, Jeff Bezos invited us to his ranch,” Cucinelli told WWD.
However, Cucinelli said that “economics” did not factor in. “These have been three beautiful days, and we never discussed revenues or business. It was a private visit, a moment to talk about humanity. I never saw Jeff Bezos or the others with their phones,” said Cucinelli.

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