ITS Contest 2022 - The Artwork finalists projects: Edward Mendoza

Introducing the artwork project developed by Edward Mendoza selected by Carlo Giordanetti, CEO Swatch Art Peace Hotel. This year, Swatch Art Peace Hotel has selected 6 finalists from the ITS Contest 2022 applicants, and invited them to unleash their artistic soul, creating an artwork that represents who they are and how they feel, establishing a dialogue with the viewer in search of inspiration and emotions, ready to be challenged or enchanted, and ideally looking to know more about them. Their artworks are a manifesto of their beliefs, meant to convey their vision, their message, attitude and hopes. Art can defeat time, can make us travel, can become part of us. The 6 Artwork finalists: Tatjana Haupt - Germany Edward Mendoza - British James Walsh, British Mata Durikovic - Slovakian Takehiro Mabuchi - Japanese Yudai & Anna Tanaka - Japanese ITS Contest is an international award for emerging designers set up in Trieste in 2002, open for all young fashion and accessories designers who believe in their ideas despite everything. It navigates the global creative currents to discover and promote talent, offering career opportunities and preserving creativity for future generations. It logs changes and innovations tracing the evolution of contemporary fashion, building a picture of how the surrounding environment profoundly influences today’s young designers, enabling them to anticipate and predict future scenarios. A wide number of ITS finalists went on to re-shape the fashion