Submissions for Generation Next 2023 Are Open

Technology Subsequent is Teen Vogue’s annual celebration of the following wave of numerous trend designers. This yr, the expertise incubator could have an official utility course of with a board of judges who will function mentors to trend design college students and supply sources to make it in an evolving business. Half fund, half advisory board, half incubator, half demystifying the business — Technology Subsequent’s intent is to assist and elevate younger designers who’ve one thing to say by way of design.

Your Judges 

Edvin Thompson is a designer fusing nostalgia from his juvenile years in Jamaica assembly New York Metropolis’s progressive tradition. His model, Theophilio, is a up to date clothes model primarily based in Brooklyn, New York. Cultural identification has been important in implementing the model’s ideology. On the root of his designs, there’s a deal with the celebrations of life after overcoming obstacles and triumphs alongside the way in which. As an immigrant himself, Edvin Thompson is right here to champion the voices of these alike, making Theophilio a wearable biography.

Elena Velez is an American designer and entrepreneur. Her work is thought for its non-traditional synthesis of metalwork and excessive trend. Velez graduated from Parsons Faculty of Design and accomplished her research at Central Saint Martins in London. Her firm, based in 2020, was subsequently featured in Forbes for its work with Midwestern makers and mission to democratize sources and recognition for artists outdoors of conventional artistic capitals. Velez is the Council of Style Designers of America’s 2022 Rising Designer of the Yr, Elle Journal’s 2023 Ladies of Impression recognizé, a 2022 Vogue Style Fund winner, and the Style Belief US Sustainability Award recipient.

Brittany Hampton is a Inventive Director, Designer, and Wardrobe Stylist. Brittany leads styling campaigns and artistic course for lookbooks for manufacturers and superstar clientele, akin to Jordan Model and StockX. She bought her begin after changing into Diane Von Fustenberg’s World Model Ambassador from the E! Community sequence The Home Of DVF in 2015, and earlier than that was a wardrobe stylist for Nickelodeon and MTV Networks. Hampton has additionally hosted E! Networks’ Purple Carpet stay streams for the 2016 and 2017 Met Gala and The Oscars for E! Style Police. She can also be honored within the Style & Magnificence house as one in every of CCNY’s Freshman Class of 2023 and Create & Cultivates 2023 prime 100 Ladies Honoree Checklist. 

Abrima Erwiah is the co-founder of Studio 189 with actress Rosario Dawson, an artisan produced trend life-style model and social enterprise. Erwiah believes that trend could be an agent of social change and serves on the committee and is an advisor to organizations together with Gucci Changemaker, H&M World Change Award, CFDA Sustainability Committee, and The Style Sustainability Act. She holds a B.S. in Finance and Worldwide Enterprise from NYU Stern Faculty of Enterprise. And in time, turned a school professor herself at Parsons. She’s at present educating a course referred to as “AI, The Metaverse and the Way forward for Style.” As well as, Erwiah is the Inaugural Director of the Gromek Institute for Style Enterprise, in addition to Interim Director of Style Packages for Govt Schooling at Parsons Faculty of Design. Erwiah is a luxurious items / trend business govt with expertise in sustainable growth who has labored for manufacturers together with Bottega Veneta, Cesare Paciotti, and Hermes/John Lobb. She’s additionally the founding father of Style Our Future, a company that goals to leverage the ability of trend to interact underrepresented communities within the political course of which she developed with designers together with Virgil Abloh/OFF-WHITE and Tanya Taylor. 

Rajni Jacques is is a New York-based trend director, artistic director, and public speaker with years of expertise in publishing (print and digital), branded content material growth/execution, and model constructing. A graduate of Rutgers Faculty and The Graduate Faculty of Journalism at Columbia College, the place she obtained her Masters Diploma, Ms. Jacques’ has develop into an interdisciplinary artistic who has her hand in all aspects of trend. Rajni isn’t any stranger to content material curation, press relations, and journalism. She’s served as a trend editor/director at distinguished media titles akin to The Fader, InStyle, Vibe, Nylon, Glamour, attract, and Teen Vogue. She’s additionally held main positions outdoors of media, because the Public Relations Director of Christian Louboutin and Inventive Lead at retailer Madewell. She has labored with Fortune 500 corporations, start-ups, and has accomplished many stay tv appearances  to assist create and curate model identification, drive model consciousness, and assist affect progress. As of April 2021, Rajni Jacques is now the World Head of Style & Magnificence at Snapchat.

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Submissions Shut July 28