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The Woolmark Company Texprint prize 2014 judges announced
Fashion designers, Agi & Sam, will join forces with a fashion industry veteran, Nino Cerruti, to judge this year’s Woolmark Company Texprint Award for innovation in wool textile design. Agi Mdumulla and Sam Cotton, aka Agi & Sam, were recently named as International Woolmark Prize European regional menswear finalists 2014/15. Since launching in 2010 the former interns at Alexander McQueen have had a successful collaboration with Topman last year; and are being mentored by Sir Paul Smith. The Woolmark Company Texprint Award encourages new textile designers to explore the possibilities and benefits of Merino wool. Its recipient is chosen from among the 24 new graduate textile designers from UK universities who are selected to take part in the annual Texprint mentoring programme. The judging will take place on September 17, 2014, in the Texprint village of the international textile design show Indigo, Première Vision Pluriel, in Paris. Mdumulla and Cotton will select the winner of The Woolmark Company Texprint prize alongside Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer and president of the fine woollen mill Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti.
