The national jury consisting of Nana de Bary Landesmann / Nanadebary Cosmetic, Gerda Buxbaum / Modeschule Hetzendorf, Sylvie Liska / Modehaus Liska and Friends of the Secession Vienna, Anna Straberger / Palmers group, Margit Wiener / Der Standard, Udo Titz / freelance photographer and Andreas Bergbaur / Unit F büro für mode held its session on April 12th, 2002 and chose 9 designers for promotion out of a total of 33 applications:

'Girl and Man Shop Pell Mell' in Graz in cooperation with Alexandra Pötz, Bettina Reichl and Karin Wintscher-Zinganel
EUR 1.000,-

portfolio edition - 'easy'
EUR 1.400,-

press agency in Paris
EUR 7.750,-

'constructed normality # CLUB MED' presentation of the collection
S/S 03 in Paris
EUR 7.500,-

Photoshooting/catalogue collection 4' for the application at the Festival
International des Arts de la Mode Hyères
EUR 3.000,-

Photoshooting / PR material for the summercollection 2003'
EUR 3.600,-

'Girl and Man Shop Pell Mell' in Graz in cooperation with Heike Beren,
Bettina Reichl and Karin Wintscher-Zinganel
EUR 1.000,-

'Girl and Man Shop Pell Mell' in Graz in cooperation with Heike Beren,
Alexandra Pötz and Karin Wintscher-Zinganel
EUR 1.000,-

'Girl and Man Shop Pell Mell' in Graz in cooperation with Heike Beren,
Alexandra Pötz and Bettina Reichl
EUR 1.000,-

After finishing her studies at the Parsons School of Design in New York she worked as production manager for various fashion publications in the United States before returning to Austria and working at the festival Zeitfluß Salzburg in sponsoring and organisation, as well as at the Viennese festival Wien Modern in close cooperation with Claudio Abbado in organisation and coordination. 1989 she conceived the first group exhibition of Austrian designers abroad. Since then she stayed in close contact with international and national designers. Nana de Bary Landesmann promotes Nanadebary Cosmetic worldwide and in her own shop in Vienna since 1998.

Director Fashion Institute Vienna Hetzendorf

Sylvie Liska studied art history and science of literature in New York and at the IKM in Vienna and founded the society of friends of the Secession Vienna in 1986, whose president she is since 1996. She is art director and responsible for advertisement and fashion at the wellknown Pelzhaus Liska and is also heading the purchasing department for international fur design.

After finishing her studies of set design for film and stage at the Hochschule for Applied Arts in Vienna Anna Straberger worked for set and costume design for the stage amongst others in Zurich, Bochum and Freiburg. Until 1988 she also worked as production and direction assistant for Austrian film and advertising productions, since then she worked in advertising and public relations amongst others at Ogilvy and GGK. Since 2000 she is heading the PR department of the Palmers group.

Udo Titz succede with his work as photographer, after his studies of economy in Innsbruck / A, and working for example as Radio-DJ, journalist (Wiener, Tempo) and as a stylist, as well as in advertising. Nowadays he is doing photographic work for an ever growing amount advertising and CD-Covers, as well as for renowned magazines like Ahead, Dazed & Confused, French Vogue and i-D.Udo Titz lives in Berlin (most of the time).

Margit Wiener studied Italian and German in Vienna and since 1987 has been working as freelance journalist for various media (Italian news agency ANSA, ORF radio). Since 1993 Margit Wiener is writing at the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard, where she is responsible for the department Fashion and Cosmetics in its colour-supplement Rondo.