LONDON — Fashion school Central Saint Martins is launching a new, denim-focused awards program in partnership with Miss Sixty.
The inaugural Miss Sixty Future Denim Lab Awards will sit inside the Future Denim Lab, a five-year partnership between Central Saint Martins and China’s Trendy Group, parent company of Miss Sixty.
The Lab aims to bring together bachelors’ and masters’ students across fashion, textile design, material futures, biodesign, and regenerative design, as well as researchers and industry, to test new ideas in circular denim, from material innovation to new production methods and recycling.
Based in the school’s Material (M) School, the Future Denim Lab also includes a fully funded PhD and a wider research program on denim recovery, recycling and reuse, to have a real impact on the global denim industry.
Winners of the first edition of the two annual prizes — the Miss Sixty Future Denim Design Prize, for outstanding undergraduate work in denim design, material innovation and creative execution, and the Miss Sixty Future Denim Discovery Prize, for postgraduate and research-led projects pushing sustainable fashion and textile systems — will be decided on Wednesday, with a judging panel featuring stylist Katie Grand, Katie Rawles of the British Fashion Council, Central Saint Martins professor Kate Goldsworthy, and denim specialist Paolo Fuligni.
