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Independent Handbag Designer Award Winners Annouced
For Immediate ReleaseInStyle and Handbag Designer 101 ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS OF THE Fourth Annual INDEPENDENT HANDBAG DESIGNER AWARDS™Coats & Clark, Singer sponsor best handmade handbagNEW YORK, NY, June 17, 2010- InStyle and Handbag Designer 101 announced the winners of the Independent Handbag Designer Awards™ (IHDA) last night at Parsons The New School for Design.
After receiving more than 900 submissions, eight winners were named in eight different categories including Catherine Meyer of FOLLIS, who received the award for Best Handbag in Overall Style and Design. With more than 212,000 votes cast on InStyle.com, Veronica Suarez of EXEX Handbags by Veronica S. was voted the Audience Fan Favorite.
Tim Gunn, chief creative officer of Liz Claiborne presented the ICONOCLAST Award to Deborah Lloyd, co-president and creative director of kate spade new york.
Other industry notables in attendance included Ariel Foxman, editor of InStyle; Steven Kolb, executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA); Simon Collins, dean of fashion, Parsons The New School for Design and Claudia Poccia, global president of mark.™
The winning handbags will be featured in the September issue of InStyle, on sale August 20, 2010. Winners include:
Best Handbag in Overall Style and Design
Catherine Meyer, USA, FOLLIS; presented by Ariel Foxman, editor of InStyleAudience Fan Favorite
Veronica Suarez, USA, EXEX Handbags by Veronica S.; presented by Ariel Foxman, editor of InStyleBest Handmade Handbag
Handmade, machine sewn, crocheted or knitted.
Briana Smith, USA, B. THALLE; sponsored by Coats & Clark and Singer Sewing Company, presented by Rachel Cohen, director of integrated marketing, Singer Sewing Company
Independent Handbag Designer Award Winners AnnoucedBest Green Handbag
Made from sustainable, recycled or organic materials.
Andrew Krumholz, USA, Escama Studio; presented by Jackie LaLime, senior director of licensing and accessories for Timberland
Most Socially Responsible HandbagMeets certain ethical and moral standards in regard to production, employment and philanthropy while impacting the local culture.
Dalia Pascal, Mexico, Dalia Pascal; presented by Kendall Farrell,
executive director of Bottomless Closet
Best Use of CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements Handbag
Use of crystallized – Swarovski Elements in a sketch.
Aimee Kestenberg, Australia, Tammi Tales; presented by Stephan Toljan, vice-president of sales and marketing, SwarovskiMost Innovative Handbag, Inspired by mark. ™
Representing the most innovative handbag inspired by the beauty of mark. ™.
Michelle Vale, USA, Michelle Vale; presented by Claudia Poccia, global president of mark ™Best Student-Made Handbag
Designed by students who started their lines while still in school.
Si Kim, South Korea, Morpholision, London College of Fashion; presented by 2007 IHDA lifetime achievement award recipient, Carlos Falchi
The 2010 IHDA Sponsors include InStyle, Parsons The New School for Design, American Express OPEN, CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements, mark. ™, kate spade new york, Saks Fifth Avenue, Carlos Falchi, Singer Sewing Company, Coats and Clark, Timberland, WWDMAGIC, world of good.com by eBay, Fashion 26: A Wyndham Hotel, Made in NYC, The Fashion Center, FashInvest, The Garment Industry Development Corporation, M&J Trimming, Rosen & Chadick Fabrics, Leather Suede Skins, Glaceau Smart Water, Crumbs Bake Shop, Voga Italia, Figenza, Collective E, EnSof Graphics and Bottomless Closet.About The Independent Handbag Designer Awards
The Independent Handbag Designer Awards was created to celebrate handbag design and creativity from the United States and around the world. Founded by Handbag Designer 101, the handbag designer resource, the IHDA is now in its fourth year and is an industry staple. Currently, it is the only international design competition to discover, recognize and create brand awareness for independent handbag designers.Visit http://www.hbd101.com/winners_2010 to see the winning bags
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The 2010 Independent Handbag Designer Awards To Be Co-Sponsored By SINGER® Sewing Company and COATS & CLARK
Singer and Coats & Clark are the sponsors of the Best Handmade Bag category for the 2010 Independent Handbag designer Awards. The following is the press release on this new program.
Handbag Designer 101, the world’s handbag designer resource, announced today that SINGER® Sewing Company and COATS & CLARK will cosponsor the “Best Handmade Handbag Category” for the 2010 Independent Handbag Designer Awards (IHDA). This unique partnership will recognize the world’s finest handmade handbags and inspire handbag designers to incorporate new techniques under the auspice of two of the best known brands in the world of sewing.
“The ‘Best Handmade Handbag’ is one of the most competitive categories to our prestigious competition that spans the globe,” said Emily Blumenthal, founder of Handbag Designer 101 and IHDA. “In 2009, we had more than 300 entries in this category with the winner, Alexis Campagna of Antibellum, designing a one-of-a-kind downloadable bag with ‘how-to’ instructions for the enthusiast to make at home. We are pleased that SINGER and COATS & CLARK see the value of our competition in terms of inspiring the modern sewist.”
The SINGER name has been synonymous with sewing, reliability and innovation for the past 159 years. For nearly two centuries, generations of needle-crafters around the world have looked to COATS & CLARK for its signature quality and inspiration. The partnership of these two well-respected and loved brands allows IHDA to continue to provide the best in sewing education to more than 2,000 handbag designers and our 300,000 on-line visitors, continuing its mission as the resource for handbag designers.
Exclusively for Handbag Designer 101, SINGER and COATS & CLARK will continue to provide “Sewing Tip of the Month,” including techniques for the beginner and advanced designer as well as accessory information to make sewing easier. The monthly SINGER/COATS & CLARK Sewing Tip will be featured on Handbag Designer 101 and the Handbag Designer 101 Weekly Round-Up which reaches the handbag designer community at large and handbag aficionados throughout the world.
“We are once again pleased to be a part of this impressive competition. The 2009 Best Handmade Handbag winner’s free downloadable design was extremely popular with more than 143,000 visitors to Alexis Campagna’s handbag project page” said Gary Jones, President, Mass Sales, SINGER Sewing Company. “We are pleased to partner with Coats & Clark for the 2010 IHDA and look forward to working closely with the 2010 Best Handmade Handbag winner.
“We see this as an opportunity to develop the COATS & CLARK brand with up and coming designers from a domestic and industrial view point,” said Dale Sutherland, commercial vice president sales and marketing, sewing products. “Sharing the spotlight with SINGER makes it that much better given the longevity of our brands and the natural connection between sewing machine and thread.”
The winner of the 2010 Best Handmade Handbag will receive a SINGER CURVY™ sewing machine which boasts the world’s first SwiftSmart™ Threading System and Drop & Sew™ Bobbin System for easy machine set up, a key factor to successful sewing. The winner will also receive from COATS & CLARK a collection of various types of thread, including its new Dual Duty XP® general purpose thread, a unique poly core, poly-wrapped thread offering precise and pleasurable stitching. In addition, the winning handbag will be featured on the SINGER and the COATS & CLARK website where the winning designer will also share a downloadable handbag pattern from his/her collection for the sewing enthusiast.
Applications for the 2010 Independent Handbag Designer Awards are now available at handbagdesigner101.com. The pinnacle of the international competition will culminate with the annual awards ceremony on June 16, 2010 at Parsons The New School for Design.
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About Handbag Designer 101
Handbag Designer 101, the handbag designer resource, was inspired by the needs for the handbag designer, aficionado and fan in all of us, as one knows we can never have too many bags. Handbag Designer 101 and Independent Handbag Designer Awards trademarks are owned by handbagdesigner101.com, a privately held company based in New York City.
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Handbag Designer 101: http://www.handbagdesigner101.com or http://www.hbd101.comAbout SINGER®:
Founded in 1851, SINGER® is one of the world’s leading sellers of consumer and artisan sewing machines. To date, Singer maintains a strong international presence, with manufacturing facilities in Brazil and China, 10 overseas marketing operations and a network of third-party distributors selling product in more than 190 countries. The company has a long history of innovation in the sewing machine industry, having produced, among other breakthroughs, the world’s first portable machine in 1921 and its first computer-controlled machine in 1978
About COATS & CLARK:
The 2010 Independent Handbag Designer Awards To Be Co-Sponsored By SINGER® Sewing Company and COATS & CLARK
Coats & Clark is the world’s largest textile/thread manufacturing company with products sold in over 150 countries for industrial and home use. Coats continues to innovate with ongoing research leading to revolutionary new products such as Dual Duty XP® “X-tra” Performance thread, the culmination of over 200 years of thread manufacturing experience.