Koché, Christelle Kocher’s upscale ready-to-wear label with streetwear and contemporary art references, has scooped the top prize of the 2019 edition of the ANDAM fashion awards, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
The prestigious award comes with an endowment of 250,000 euros plus mentoring from Renzo Rosso, head of Italian fashion group OTB, on matters including financial, legal, marketing, communications and production.
The other contenders for the honor were Coperni, Hed Mayner and Kwaidan Editions. The award, whose recent winners include Atlein, Y/Project and Wanda Nylon, is open to designers of any nationality who are based in France or are prepared to establish a business in the country in the same year as receiving the prize.
The winner of the Creative Label Prize, worth 100,000 euros, was Nicolas Lecourt Mansion, who beat out Boramy Viguier and Dawei.
The recipient of this year’s Accessories Award, with a grant of 50,000 euros, went to Khaoré. Fabrizio Viti and Kara were the other two finalists. The Fashion Innovation Prize, endowed with 30,000 euros, went to Worn Again Technologies.
All 10 finalists for the ANDAM Fashion awards will be offered guidance on brand identity from sponsor OBO, featured at the Première Classe fashion trade show and given access to a workshop in Swarovski’s showroom.
This year’s 27-strong jury was composed of fashion executives, editors, actresses and models, including Martin Margiela, the winner of the inaugural award in 1989. The reclusive designer participated remotely in the jury selection and prize-giving ceremony.
Also among the jury members were Kering chairman and chief executive officer François-Henri Pinault; LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton fashion group chairman and ceo Sidney Toledano; Hermès executive vice president Guillaume de Seynes, and Chanel president of fashion Bruno Pavlovsky.
ANDAM, the French acronym for the National Association for the Development of the Fashion Arts, is financially supported by private and institutional partners including Chanel, LVMH, Galeries Lafayette and Swarovski.
Founded in 1989 by Nathalie Dufour with the support of the French government and with the late Pierre Bergé as president, ANDAM has been a springboard for designers who would go on to achieve international recognition, including Martin Margiela, Christophe Lemaire and Jeremy Scott.
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