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Mango El-Bóton Fashion Awards

Wednesday last week the El Botón-MANGO Fashion Awards were presented for the third year running.

2010-10-28
Lena Lumelsky
© Lena Lumelsky
 

fashion. Aiming to foster young fashion talents and to give them access to media platforms, 10 finalists are selected every 18 months in collaboration with five renowned European fashion schools who, as part of the award, then design a new collection.


This year’s finalists also included Isabelle Steger, the emerging Austrian designer who on the occasion of the 8 festival for fashion & photography received the Fashion Award of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and was that same year nominated at the Hyčres Festival International de Mode et de Photographie. She currently lives in Milan where she works for Jil Sander.