An international fashion competition, open to designers aged between 18 and 35 years, from all over the world.

The competition takes place every two years.

In collaboration with leading professionals from the fashion and culture sector.

BILBAO International Art&fashion

The competition has two goals:

• * 1. To promote fashion as a genuine cultural asset serving society and the individual, and to emphasize its close and vital relationship with artistic values.
• * 2. To enable young designers to make themselves known to a wider public and the media.

The international nature of the competition aims to achieve an intercultural enrichment based on the different types of relationships between fashion and art.

The designs submitted must have some connection with art, referring to for example:

• a) an historic or creative point of view;
• b) the source of inspiration;
• c) specific references, such as fabric pattern, accessories, and so forth.

The competition has two stages:

• * 1st stage: 3 months after the announcement of the competition, a Commission, set up specifically for the competition and made up of leading professionals in the sector, will choose 30 candidates from amongst contestants in both categories. These candidates will be asked to complete the manufacture of their three designs in fabric and to present their accessories as finished articles in their definitive materials.
• * 2nd stage: During the second stage, and after a period of two and a half months for the execution of the work, a Jury called for the occasion will select a winner in each category from amongst the 30 candidates chosen by the above mentioned Commission.

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