{"id":527007,"date":"2026-07-05T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527007\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:22:09","slug":"yoshita-1967-wins-european-leg-of-circular-design-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527007\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshita 1967 Wins European Leg of Circular Design Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tON TO A BIGGER STAGE: Yoshita 1967, a finalist for this year\u2019s LVMH Prize for Young Designers, has won the European leg of the Circular Design<\/a> Challenge.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Paris-based brand, formally launched in 2024 by designer Anil Padia and drawing on his Indian Kenyan heritage, was recognized at a ceremony on Sunday evening at the Meurice hotel.<\/p>\n

\n\tYoshita 1967 beat out fellow European semifinalists that included French brand Coccellato by Iman Coccellato, PLN-GNS by Dmytro Hontarenko from Germany and Ukraine, France\u2019s Matthieu Ruiz, Portugal-based B\u00e9hen by Joana Duarte and Italian brand Florania by Flora Rabbiti.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow on its eight edition, the international competition attracted some 220 applications, with a shortlist of 23 finalists. Finals for the U.K. and Asia will be taking place in coming weeks.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeing held during the India-France Year of Innovation, its European final is part of collaborations with the Embassy of France in India and the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, French fashion\u2019s ruling body.<\/p>\n

\n\tEuropean winner Padia will benefit from a dedicated mentorship program on design, business and brand-building from leading industry experts.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe and other finalists will regroup for the ultimate stage of the competition during Lakm\u00e9 Fashion Week in October. They will present their concepts to the jury at the United Nations headquarters in New Delhi before a group showcase where the winner and runner-up of the 2026 edition will be revealed.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe overall winner of the Circular Design<\/a> Challenge will take home a purse prize of $25,000, as well as an opportunity to show during Lakm\u00e9 Fashion Week.<\/p>\n

\n\tFormally know as the R|Elan Circular Design Challenge, the competition is a platform in India that encourages a greener fashion industry to those coming up and thinking about a career in the creative spaces. It was developed in partnership with Reliance Industries<\/a> Limited, which is behind the R|Elan next-generation fabric, United Nations in India and Lakm\u00e9 Fashion Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ON TO A BIGGER STAGE: Yoshita 1967, a finalist for this year\u2019s LVMH Prize for Young Designers, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,30006,85,46,240841,49995,240842],"class_list":["post-527007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-circular-design","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lakme","tag-reliance-industries","tag-sustainabiliity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}