On November 28th, 2008 four jury members gathered at Telio’s head office, the purpose of this meeting was to select the 25 student-finalists that will participate in the upcoming edition of its competition presented during the 16th edition of Montreal Fashion Week on March 5th at the Bonsecours Market. In keeping with its commitment to support young Canadian designers, Télio is pleased to invite these up-and-coming talents to create their high end women’s designs from a pre-selection of fabrics provided by the company. They offer them an opportunity to receive one of five scholarships totalling $10,000 to help launch their budding fashion career. Télio is one of North America’s leading import/export and distribution companies whose textiles are at the cutting edge of fashion.

The 2009 Jury

This year, Télio asked four of the country’s top fashion industry professionals to be a part of the jury for the 2009 National Télio Design Competition. Nathalie Atkinson from Toronto (National Post’s style columnist and contributing fashion editor and freelance writer for Elle Canada, Chatelaine, Flare and Fashion), Glen Baxter from Toronto (Host of IN FASHION, Reporter for FashionTelevisionChannel and photographer), Ruth Ho from Vancouver (buyer for the Canadian by Design department at the Bay downtown Vancouver) and Stéphane Le Duc from Montreal (editor-in-chief of Dress to Kill Magazine) were thrilled to participate. Subsequently, after receiving 116 sketches from 20 participating fashion design schools across Canada, they had to choose the 25 finalists for the 2009 edition of the National Télio Design Competition.

The 2009 Finalists

The jury members judged the students’ sketches based on several criteria, including creativity, technical quality and adherence to the theme chosen for 2009—an exploration of our Canadian values, inspired by the four universal elements, earth, air, fire and water.

Student’s name School
Laurie Jean Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy
Maryline St-Laurent Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy
Stéphanie Beauzile Domond Cégep Marie-Victorin
Christine Charlebois Cégep Marie-Victorin
Alexandre Faulkner Cégep Marie-Victorin
Devon Halfnight Leflufy Collège LaSalle Montréal
Yu-Ting Lin Collège LaSalle Montréal
Ève Simpson-Ranallo Collège LaSalle Montréal
Caroline Amanda Somos Collège LaSalle Montréal
Xinqi Yang Collège LaSalle Montréal
Ruyi Zhou Collège LaSalle Montréal
Isabelle Campeau École Supérieure de mode de Montréal
Nadine Lavoie École Supérieure de mode de Montréal
Lucie Siv École Supérieure de mode de Montréal
Adelaide Kim Ryerson University School of Fashion
Ying-Ju Bianca Liu Ryerson University School of Fashion
Antonia Schindle University of Manitoba
Sarah Sugandy Olds College
Corinne Monique Ludwig University of Alberta
Savannah Qiu The Art Institute of Vancouver
Yvonne Xie The Art Institute of Vancouver
Kidde Itto University of the Fraser Valley
Emily McIntyre University of the Fraser Valley
Katherine Koniecki Vancouver Community College
Marcia Robertson Vancouver Community College

For complementary information on the first National edition of the Télio
Design Competition 2009, please visit www.telio.com.

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Posted By: veronica | Dec 11th