Glenn Martens – who has just presented a spring-summer 2022 haute couture collection for Jean Paul Gaultier – will chair the fashion jury of the Hyères Festival. The 37th edition of this International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Fashion Accessories will be held from October 13 to 16, 2022.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Glenn Martens has been the artistic director of the pointed brand Y/Project since 2013 – where he does experimental fashion – and of the Italian giant Diesel, since 2020. The 33-year-old Flemish elongates silhouettes and mixes genres, making baroque, streetwear and gothic coexist.
The Glenn Martens jury selected ten young fashion designers: Priss Niinikoski (Finland), Jenny Hytönen (Finland), Alix Habran Jensen (Franco-Danish), Sini Saavala (Finland), Tim Suessbauer (Germany), Lora Sonney (France ), Fernando Miro and Alizée Loubet (Brazil), Valentin Lessner (Germany), Antonia Schreiter (Germany) and Juha Vehmaanper (Finland).
Their collections will be presented during two parades, open to the public and to professionals, under the artistic direction of Maida Grégory-Boina. The collections will also be visible in the showroom during the festival.
The fashion accessories jury will be chaired by Aska Yamashita, artistic director of the Montex workshop, an embroidery house belonging to Chanel’s Métiers d’Art group since 2011.
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The photo jury will be headed by Belgian Pierre Debusschere, who has signed fashion campaigns by couturier Raf Simons and clips by superstar Beyoncé.
The Festival, founded in 1986 by Jean-Pierre Blanc, promotes and supports young international fashion designers. It was extended to emerging photographers in 1997, and since 2016 a competition distinguishes designers of fashion accessories. The Hyères Festival is the oldest fashion competition for young professionals in the world.
The Hyères festival has in the past rewarded the Belgian Anthony Vaccarello, now a stylist from Saint Laurent, or the Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf, who paraded at the haute couture weeks in Paris. Distinguished in 2018, another Dutch duo, Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh, was later appointed to the artistic direction of Nina Ricci and presents the collections of her Botter brand in Paris.
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