Date Posted: Friday 14th January 2022
PVH’s Tommy Hilfiger has named the winners of its third Fashion Frontier Challenge, the dedicated global programme designed to “find and support ideas that lead to a more inclusive fashion landscape”. The winners share a prize fund of €200,000 and receive a year-long mentorship with experts from Tommy Hilfiger and from graduate business school INSEAD.
The winners are:
Lalaland - a platform that uses artificial intelligence to generate customised and inclusive synthetic models of different ethnicities. Awarded €100,000.
Uzuri K&Y - a Rwanda-based eco-friendly shoe brand using recycled car tyres from sub-Saharan Africa and employing local youth. Awarded €100,000.
South-Africa’s Clothes to Good - a social enterprise that creates micro-business opportunities and jobs for people with disabilities through textile recycling, was also awarded €15,000.
Entries for the next challenge open in March.
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