Open My Med Prize 2020/2021
TAJIMA will again this year support us, Maison Mode Méditerranée through the OPEN My Med Prize competition. Judges were Mr. Ali Rakib* and a team of experts and they have choosen best creators among 22 countries. For This year,13 laureates were chosen. As a prize, they will have two years of support on development of their brands.
As like previous years, a collaboration between creator and industry will take place allowing the winner of the “TAJIMA FASHION TECH” to make a unique piece of embroidery in the Milanese workshop of the TAJIMA brand.
*Ali Rakib created the French Company FORWEAVERS, specialising in the fair-trade of rare textiles from around the world. He very quickly became an official supplier to the LVMH Group’s materials library, a consultant for UNESCO, an Anthropologist for Chanel, and Researcher for the French Ministry of Culture. However, he makes sure he has time for conferences at Science-Po in Paris, the Central St Martins School in London, the French Fashion Institute in Paris, and to teach anthropology in the arts at IESA the Arts and Culture School in Paris, and at the CASA93 Alternative Fashion School in Paris.