In 1954, two fledgling women designers Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent received the fashion design awards issued by the international wool Bureau.

Lagerfeld, 21, is the winner of the coat group.

Saint Laurent, who is only 19 years old, has won the evening dress design award. Since then, the award has been regarded as an important symbol and measure to support the new top talents in the global garment industry.

At the same time, the award also gave full play to the creative characteristics of merino wool in Australia.

The Australian Wool Innovation Limited will appoint a panel of professional experts from international fashion experts to determine the annual attribution of the Merino wool logo award.

The award will be regarded as the classic continuation of the award of the international wool Bureau award. It will award the excellent design of merino wool yarn or wool blended yarn (wool content of not less than 50%) as the fabric, and establish the leading position of Australian wool industry in the global apparel industry, thereby stimulating the demand of merino wool.

Competition details

As the first global Award for the award of the Merino wool logo, Australian Wool Innovation Limited will invite professional jury of international fashion experts to select the most potential and top young designers.

At present, 10 players from all over the world compete for the final prize.

Contestants will submit draft sketches within the basic category requirements. The best draft designers will be expected to work with the most famous fabric factories, knitting factories and yarn factories in the world today. The draft will be displayed on fashion samples in July this year and the final award will be selected.

The wool logo award will provide comprehensive and strong support to the award-winning designers, including:

Assist in sourcing and developing Australian Merino wool yarn and knitted fabric.

Support for sample production.

The winning works will be exhibited in the autumn and Winter Fashion Show 2009.

Support for distribution and retail networks

? guide public relations and other marketing activities.

Details of award presentation activities

The event will be held at the Palais De Tokyo Museum of contemporary art, which is far away from Eiffel Tower.

2008 the Australian wool logo award winner will be unveiled at the grand opening ceremony on the first day of the event.

The next two days were industry / student visits, media presentations and seminars.

Time: from July 3 to 6, 2008

The cocktail party on the evening of July 3rd will announce awards to industry and media.

Venue: Palais De Tokyo Museum of contemporary art.

List of shortlisted athletes

? Louise Goldin UK

RubecksenYamanaka (Hilde Rubecksen/Tomoko Yamanaka) Norway / Japan

Shao Jia China

? Tom Scott America

? Everlasting Sprout (Keiichi Muramatsu/Noriko Seki) Japan

? chrystl Fischer Belgium

Qiu Hao China

Cooperativedesigns (Annalisa Dunn/Dorothee Hagemann) UK / Germany

? Marielle Van de Ven Holland

? Xavier Brisoux France

Primary jury

? Claude Untrau (International Wool Bureau)

? Stephen Todd (Concept and Image)

Sid Bryan (Professor Saint Martin college and Royal College of London)

? Sarah Mower (style.com reporter)

Olivier Saillard (curator of Paris Museum of decorative arts)

Valerie Steele (Professor, New York Institute of Fashion Technology)

Final jury

Sally Singer (fashion news director of fashion magazine)

? V e ronique Philipponat (editor in chief of French Elle magazine)

Olivier Saillard (curator of art decoration Museum)

Gabriele Hackworthy (fashion director of fashion in China)

Sarah Lerfel (Paris Boutique Colette store)

Vanessa Friedman (London Financial Times fashion writer)

? Sarah Mower (style.com reporter)

Valerie Steele, Dean of New York Institute of fashion technology.

Terry Jones (i-D magazine creative director)

The winner of the grand prize will get all the help of his works in raw materials, production, display and promotion.

Colette, the high-end boutique Paris, will launch an exclusive limited edition garment designed by the winner of the competition and co produce with the international wool Bureau.

The 2009 wool logo award will be accepted worldwide from August 2008.

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