MILAN — Italy’s Camera Nazionale della Moda, in collaboration with Eco-Age, launched on Friday The CNMI Green Carpet Talent Competition 2017, inviting emerging designers to create a bespoke look that celebrates Italian craftsmanship and design as well as social and environmental values. The collections must be produced in Italy and will be reviewed by a panel of judges to be announced this spring. Applications open today and close at midnight on May 7.
The designers are challenged to incorporate the Green Carpet Challenge Principles of Sustainable Excellence, Eco-Age’s sustainable guidelines, into the looks.
“The CNMI Green Carpet Talent Competition is a beautiful and unique project that is part of the first Green Carpet Fashion Awards and it joins two pillars of the strategy of CNMI: new talent and sustainability,” said Carlo Capasa, chairman of the Italian fashion body. “A project that looks to the future of fashion, represented by sustainability, seen through the eyes of emerging designers. This initiative has within it an important educational aspect, because sustainability must become one of the characteristics of the future of fashion: clothing and accessories not only beautiful and well made, but also sustainable. A real cultural revolution made by Millennials for Millennials.”
Five finalists will
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