Olga Kosica wins our fashion entrepreneur award

Olga Kosica, a jewellery designer wins this year's award. She has competed with another five entrepreneurs to become the Slovenian finalist of the Young Creative Fashion Entrepreneur (YCE) Award, we are organising. All participants presented their creativity and entrepreneurial skills to an international panel of jury composed by:

Nataša Hrupič, Fashion designer and last year's, Sašo Radovič, Creative director at Projekt27, Maruša Penzeš, Director of Fashion Week Slovenia at Adria Media Ljubljana, Petra Bole, Head of Fashion Department at Academy for Design and Nigel Buxton, Co-funder and General manager at AHA Group.

In September 2012 Olga Kosica will travel to the UK for a one week industry programme to develop opportunities for commercial and collaborative work in future. The UK tour will run alongside London Fashion Week . The programme will include:

			Curated group meetings to give an overview of what’s happening in the UK fashion industry
			Peer networking with the international participants and UK young fashion entrepreneurs
			Access to senior UK industry figures (master-class and a lunch for select invitees), including potential advice/ongoing mentoring and investment
			Time for individual business meetings
			Attendance at London Fashion Week including an international networking reception where participants give a short pitch about their work to delegates

What is Young Creative Fashion Entrepreneur Award programme?

The Young Creative Fashion Entrepreneur Award finds the brightest stars in the world of international fashion, recognising the importance of entrepreneurs in driving forward the fashion industries, developing their independent sector and representing the best of what’s going on in their local scene. Since 2005, 80 young fashion entrepreneurs from more than 40 countries have taken part in the programme, building an active alumni network in the process, seeing the creation of new collaborations and business, co-designed lines/collections, increased profiles and participation at international fashion weeks in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and more. Slovenia is taking part at the award for the first time.

For more information, please contact Tina Skočaj