DIGITAL FASHION Challenge & Awards
Monte-Carlo
Over 60 digital fashion designers and creative teams from 17 countries
show the digital fashion collections on the FORUM
DREAMERS by Julia Mozbart 3D - digital fashion collection
CREDITS: Monaco Views - Montage Monaco
Soulcam © Le Centre de Presse de Monaco. MONACO Drone UAV FPV
[Team NanoPirate]. Music:
Bonobo - Linked (Official Audio)
DIGITAL FASHION CHALLENGE Monte-Carlo - is an opportunity to showcase the designer's technical abilities, skills and creativity in digital fashion. It
unites the rising stars of the digital fashion, who are guided by imagination, passion for innovations and sustainability in fashion. It aims to identify new talents, make them visible, and connect them with the fashion industry and brands.
Our Guest - the digital artist Stacie ANT
Stacie ANT
Artist & Digital creator
Stacie Ant - is a new media artist based in Berlin.
She draws on her experiences as a female artist while developing the critical views of our technologically saturated contemporary society that inform her work. Using video, installation, and performance, Ant reinvents elements of contemporary culture through fictional, maximalist narratives. Stacie Ant’s character-driven work operates as a critique and rejection of the male gaze, enhanced by a modern culture of digital immersion. She harnesses the very digital tools offered in a technologically dependent world as a means of empowering female identity and sexuality. Often humorous, Ant’s work offers a way of looking at a fast-paced digital realm through a lens of irony and satire.
LINDA WALKS - by Stacie Ant
RUNWAY - by Stacie Ant
DANCING ALIEN - by Stacie Ant
CADRASSIAN - by Stacie Ant
Creative collections
Digital fashion is the first necessity of fashion today
The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in
a new era of fashion: digital creativity is emerging as a key solution to success .
Most Fashion Weeks in the world have opened new spaces for the virtual fashion collections. Famous fashion brands started to create digital versions of their collections. Many specialized commercial platforms dedicated to virtual clothing are open on the Internet.
The demand for digital fashion design is growing every day.
That is why we launched the CHALLENGE Monte-Carlo event.
Innovative Event
Our FORUM platform and Challenge event are designed for professionals of digital fashion. The CHALLENGE Monte-Carlo event aims to promote digital fashion designers and creative teams and introduce them to the fashion industry, brands, and the media. Anyone working in digital fashion can take part in the Event. Participation - is free.
Designers - participants will be selected according to the review of their previous works by the organizing Committee.
Awards
The Prizes were created by DIGITAL FASHION FORUM Monte-Carlo with the support of our Partners.
SUPER LIKE Award - Supported by DIGIT FASHION LAB – Monaco, Partnership Opportunity.
This Prize goes to the designer who gets the most Instagram "likes" for their work.
As a Challenge’s partner, DFL offers the Winner of PUBLIC VOTE Prize on Instagram the opportunity to collaborate to create a digital outfit for the DANCING QUEEN character for the upcoming event - Cyber Night in Monte-Carlo.
This creation and the Winner's name will be featured at the event and promoted through our online resources such as websites and social channels, as well as in all our media campaigns.
CYBER FASHION STAR Award - supported by the "republiqe" Brand. Internship Opportunity.
As part of the CHALLENGE Monte-Carlo - republiqe would like to offer one lucky designer an internship working with our existing team for a period of 3-6 months. During this time, we will provide training and development on the broader elements of the business as well as the potential to showcase their work at events and via our online assets such as website and social channels.
NON-FUNGIBLE STAR Award - supported by the NFT Art Gallery.
The NFT Art Gallery aims to identify new talents and make them visible to collectors and connoisseurs of Digital Art and virtual Haute Couture. The @nftartgallery_1 awards the Rising Star of digital fashion providing marketing services to the Winner, and featuring the winner's designs in NFT Art Gallery, Digital Art Galleries and Digital Fashion Galleries launching soon.
SUPERNOVA Award - supported by the RAINE Magazine.
The RAINE Magazine is proud to present the SUPERNOVA Fashion Award for the Digital Designer that has shown exceptional talent in innovation and design. The winner of this Award will receive a feature in the Coffee Table Collectible Book (Winter 2021 - 2022) along with a week-long online homepage feature on Raine Magazine online. A podcast interview on the award nominated Unleash Your Supernova Podcast will also be offered the finalist. In addition, the winner will be invited to attend an exclusive Raine event to celebrate the release of the issue highlighting the winner’s work (2022).
VISUALIZE
Award - supported by the
COTERIE VIRTUAL
Coterie Virtual, noted for soulful avatars, vivid art direction, and imagery, will award an emerging digital fashion designer the “Visualize” Prize. In a three to five image layout, the lifelike avatars of Coterie Virtual will model the awarded designer’s apparel. With enough realism to create the illusion of a physical editorial or advertisement, Coterie Virtual vivifies the selected digital garments or accessories.
AR Award - supported by the Livshows.com
Livshows company, as a provider of a no-code web platform of the Augmented Reality (AR), is offering 3 months of free access to this AR platform to the designer who will demonstrate the most impressive technological advancements in Digital Fashion design.
DIGITAL FASHION CHALLENGE Jury Panel
In alphabet order
Ashwini DESPANDE (UK) - Head of 3D Production, digital fashion brand REPUBLIQE
As a digital fashion designer, Ashwini is working with AR, virtual reality, XR and has developed artificial intelligence related to fashion sustainability.
James GAUBERT (UK) - Founder and Creative Director, digital fashion brand REPUBLIQE
James has over 22 years luxury fashion experience spanning the UK, US, Middle East and Asia, having worked with brands such as Chanel, LV, Burberry, Bulgari, Net-a-Porter, Harrods, Tag Heuer, Tiffany’s …
Alexandra ICART (Principality of Monaco) – Founder of the DIGITAL FASHION FORUM
Alexandra was a Laureate of the International Fashion Awards in Paris and of the Business Awards in the Principality of Monaco. She works internationally as a designer of exclusive fashion within her own brand. With the outbreak of the pandemic, she also started working in digital fashion. As a public figure, Alexandra ICART is always involving in projects which support young talents in fashion and art.
Nova LORRAINE (USA) – Fashion designer, public figure, writer, and publisher
Nova founded the RAINE Magazine to curate the best talents around the globe and through their stories, inspire others to never give up on their dreams. She also founded the RAINE School of Fashion, with innovative educational programs that combine new technologies and sustainability in fashion.
Nicole NYE (USA) - Owner and character creator of Coterie Virtual
Nicole’s 3d modelling business evolved from a lifelong exploration of realist portraiture and nearly a decade of editing photos. The highest quality of her unique photorealistic 3d humans attracts the attention of well-known brands and fashion magazines where digital Avatars are now in high demand.
Richard SCHEUFLER (USA) – Founder of the NFT Art Gallery
His Gallery specializes in the rarest and most exclusive NFT Crypto and Digital artworks. Richard - is a digital artist and crypt art marketing expert. He is a proven specialist with global experience in the digital and crypto realms.
Maria SHEVCHENKO (Russia) – Owner of a technical clothing design Company
Maria - is one of the leading developers of technical fashion design in Russia. She works with major international clothing companies. Also, she is the Founder and the Headteacher of the first Online school of digital modelling and fashion design “3DCOUTURE.RU” and professor of the British Higher School of Art & Design (Moscow brunch).