The jury statement:
“You’ve created the ‘Flea Market of our Dreams’. This complete and sophisticated expression of your menswear brigade demonstrates an impressive level of craftsmanship. You have an ability to construct intricate details and at the same time express your impressive breadth of skills such as: excellent fabric manipulation, sweaters that you’ve made to look vintage but in fact you knitted them yourself, dyed crochet and patchwork that organically repurposes existing recycled and leftover materials. Your DIY collection, crafted together with friends from your community, tackles essential issues in the fashion industry and demonstrates a mastery of clothes making. Your collection revisits musical subcultures in Helsinki in the 70s, 80s and 90s and treats familiar territory, but without being nostalgic. It is timeless, and effortlessly transcends from catwalk to retail.”
