Stella Contemporary Fashion Award 2009
Swiss Textiles Award – «10th Anniversary»

Alexander Wang of the United States wins the Swiss Textiles Award 2009 worth 100,000 Euros

The 10th Swiss Textiles Award was presented today on the occasion of the Stella Contemporary Fashion Award 2009 event. Alexander Wang of the United States has won the Fashion Promotional Prize presented by the TVS Swiss Textile Federation worth 100,000 Euros. Watch the fashion show, transmissed by Star TV.

Alexander Wang Alexander Wang (www.alexanderwang.com) was born in San Francisco (USA) and studied at the Parson Design School in New York. Since 2007 he has been showing his latest collections at New York Fashion Week with growing popularity. He was praised from the outset as a boy wonder and soon joined the top ranks of New York designers. Despite his meteoric rise to fame, he has lost none of his carefree youthful attitudes. He has no problem for instance in combining dazzling party garments with grunge fashion. His collections include short cut tops and jogging trousers which are worn with incredibly high platform shoes or sportswear with classical suits. Wang’s creations often show a touch of impertinent irony. Not for nothing is he one of the favourite designers of partygoers like Kate Moss, Mischa Barton, Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox and Mary-Kate Olsen. Last year he won the Vogue CFDA Fund Prize and at the beginning of this year he was presented with the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers in America) Award as the «Women’s Wear Newcomer».

Last year’s winners Rodarte showed their 2010 summer collection
Last year’s Swiss Textiles Award winner, the label Rodarte (from the sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy) showed their 2010 summer collection, illustrating their creative development during the year since they won the prize.

Isabel Toledo as special guests and fan of the poetical Swiss textiles
Isabel Toledo has bee a special guest for the evening. She was also a jury member. This designer of Cuban origin has been creating garments for twenty years. One reason for her fame is that Michelle Obama wears her dresses: for instance a mustard yellow dress on the day of her husband Barack Obama’s inauguration – made using guipure embroidery by the Swiss Forster Rohner company.

Media release as of 12 November 2009 - Winner

The dazzling fashion night celebrated its 10th anniversary!

By presenting the Swiss Textiles Awards, the Swiss Textile Federation has taken active steps to further the career of young designers in the past nine years - and it has done so with an acknowledged ability to discover new talent!

So the question as to whether the prize should be awarded for the 10th time in the current economic downturn does not even arise. The position of the Swiss Textile Federation is that this is the time when the award truly comes into its own!

Further informations are available in the following documents.

	Save the Date Card
	Media release as of 16 July 2009 – Announcement Finalists
	Information about Finalists and Nominators
	Media release as of 19 October 2009 – Meet the Winners

Previous winners have already won an assured place in the fashion world and some are even playing in the top league of the fashion business: