… will be announced this year directly by Triumph International. The name of winner of the Triumph International Fashion Award 2006 will still kept secret until then. What we can give is a hint: her sketches have the greatest "romanticism factor".

The Triumph International Fashion Award with prices and international presentations in the value of more than 100,000 euros as well as editorial reports in the New York Times, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, ORF, ARTE and Sat 1 is one of the highest remunerated international fashion design prices.

438 fashion designers from Japan, China, the USA, France, Finland, South Africa, Israel, Iran, Siberia and the Philippines took part in this year's Triumph Fashion Award. With more than 1,500 drawings they have interpreted Mozart and his time Rococo in a modern way. The participants were trained at such renowned schools as:

• Central Saint Martins School of Design, London
• FIT, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
• Polimoda, Florenz
• Domus Academy, Mailand
• Shenkar Schule, Tel Aviv
• Moskauer Textilakademie
• Modedesign, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich
• Fashion and Textile Department in Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien
• Modefachschule Sigmaringen
• Felicidad Duce School, Barcelona
• Fashion Design, Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology
• Fashion Design in lahti polytechnic, muotoiluinstituutti, Finnland
• Product Design at Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo
• Fashion design at the European Institute of Design, Rom
• Grafton Academy of Dress Design, Dublin

etc.

"It is fascinating how many designers from quite different cultures have such a passionate relation to the world of Mozart. And it is interesting that this topic fascinates and inspires over all nations, cultures and religions. For us the high quality of the submitted works and primarily the individual and culturally very different entries to Mozart's world were an indicator for today’s importance to carry out competitions internationally," Dr. Karin Sawetz, publisher fashionoffice.org.

The previous winners of the Triumph International Fashion Award 2005 were Rafael Gomes from Brazil and 2004 Mary Jo Diehl from New York.

The winner of the Triumph International Fashion Award is carried out in three steps of selection: at first, the 7 Selected are evaluated among all works by an expert jury. Then the readers of the fashion magazine fahionoffice.org choose in a public online voting the 3 Finalists. This year 9,563 registered voices have voted for their favourite designer. (A special technical system has restricted the votes to one voice per computer.) In the 3rd round of the election an international jury of experts evaluates the 3 different designs of each of the 3 Finalists to determine the winner of the Triumph International Fashion Award.

Following 3 designers are the Finalists of the Triumph International Fashion Award 2006:

•        the Austrian-American Kirsten Hiller,

•        the Chilean Paz Soto Salinas, who lives in Germany and

•        the Israeli with Ukrainian origin Tatiana Pogrebnyak.

 

The international expert jury evaluated the works of these three designers on the topic "Dress up for Mozart – Rock up Rococo!" and selected the triumphant winner 2006.

 

The jury of experts of the Triumph International Fashion Award 2006:

 

Uschi Fellner Vienna - Publisher ÖSTERREICH www.oe24.at
Werner Lippert Düsseldorf - NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft - exhibitions of photography, media, fashion, communications, mobility, lifestyle ... www.nrw-forum.de
Madelief Hohé Den Haag - curator fashion department at the Gemeentemuseum www.gemeentemuseum.nl
Dr. Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner Vienna - author of „Töchter der Venus“ - director of the Museum of Carriages and Department of Court Uniforms, Schloß Schönbrunn, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna www.khm.at
Prof. Thomas Greis Halle - Professor for fashion design in BURG GIEBICHENSTEIN Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle www.burg-halle.de
Prof. Joachim Schielicke Halle - Professor for fashion design in BURG GIEBICHENSTEIN Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle www.burg-halle.de
Susanne Zaspel Halle - Finalist of the Triumph International Fashion Award 2005; "HUNTING HIGH" www.huntinghigh.de
Siglinde Zisler Munich - Director Deutsche Meisterschule für Mode (German Master School for Fashion) www.fashionschool.de
Sergej Benedetter Vienna - stylist und make-up artist more about>>>
Senay Topcuoglu - - - Publisher | Editor-in-Chief Fashion Trendsetter fashiontrendsetter.com
Samanta Fiorenza London/Venice - Finalist of the Triumph International Fashion Award 2005  more about>>>

Rafael Gomes Rio de Janeiro/Munich - Winner of the Triumph International Fashion Award 2005 www.rafaelgomes.com
Christian Cerny-Wolf Vienna - editor EXTRADIENST and fashion designer extradienst.at

Cornelia Hille-Fuchs Berlin - Master of Fine Arts, chief editor www.europefashion.de
KommR Eva Willinger Vienna - Landesinnung Wien der Bekleidungsgewerbe, Wirtschaftskammer Wien, www.modemacher.at
Patrizia Fiorenza London/Venice - Finalist of the Triumph International Fashion Award 2005