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Drexel\u2019s Varvara (Bobby) Diakonenkova wins 2025 Supima Design Competition. – Getty Images for Supima<\/p>\n
This year marked a new era for Supima as it united its annual Supima Design Competition and Supima Design Lab into one evening on November 5 at Lavan Studios in New York City, hosted by photographer and fashion icon, Nigel Barker.<\/p>\n
The event featured presentation-style showcases from the 2025 Supima Design Competition finalists, Festival d\u2019Hy\u00e8res finalists, and leading international designers, all of whom crafted collections using Supima\u2019s American-grown Pima cotton.<\/p>\n
The night culminated with Diakonenkova\u2019s win, recognizing her eveningwear capsule collection for its craftsmanship, originality, and forward-thinking interpretation of Supima cotton.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finalists in this year\u2019s competition included Caroline Hill of Kent State University; Emma Gonzalez Pini of Parsons<\/a> School of Design; Griselda Pe\u00f1a Candelario of Pratt Institute; and Isabel Weiss of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n A panel of judges evaluated the finalists\u2019 work, including industry leaders Abby Silverman, Avril Graham, Danya Issawi, Evan Hirsch, Fern Mallis, Freya<\/a> Drohan, Jerome Lamaar, Jian DeLeon, Kevin Huynh, Lisa Lockwood, Mandy Lee<\/a>, Mickey Boardman, Natalie Lim Suarez, Nicole Chapoteau, and Tiffany Reid.<\/p>\n The Supima Design Lab also spotlighted global talent through collections by the 2025 Festival d\u2019Hy\u00e8res finalists and leading international designers.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n Copyright \u00a9 2025 FashionNetwork.com All rights reserved.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published November 8, 2025 Supima, the non-profit luxury brand dedicated to promoting American-grown Pima cotton, has named Varvara…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[712,709,104955,104956,59,57,58,29680,711,710,50,64436,713,104957,87919,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-251997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-beauty","tag-fashion","tag-festival-de-mode-et-photographie-de-hyeres","tag-freya","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-lee","tag-luxury","tag-network","tag-news","tag-parsons","tag-professionals","tag-supima","tag-tiffany-co","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}