The young fashion talents of ITS - Seeds of pure creativity

Culture, Art, Love, Creativity, Dreams, Family, Support, Knowledge, Understanding are the seeds of pure creativity. As tiny as it may seem, the power and the potential of a seed is immense. A seed is a source of life in itself. A seed represents the urge of that germination process which is inside each and every dreamer, each and every Utopian: 15 years ago we started to plant these seeds in the soil of the Free Land of Utopia, watering and supporting them day after day. They are the past, the present and the future of ITS. The 15th Anniversary edition ITS 2016 welcomes in the jury Demna Gvasalia (Founder and Artistic Director of Vetements and Artistic Director of Balenciaga), designer Iris Van Herpen and AltaRoma President Silvia Venturini Fendi, while the theme of the event is “Utopia”, a mirage that can only materialize for a short time, in a defined place. A marvelous equilibrium, unstable like a chemical phenomenon. When we started out in 2002 we knew we were not only digging our hands-on projects but we were holding in our hands seeds that we knew we had to plant in a "free land of Utopia", our ITS Creative Archive: a real space where creativity blossomed a safe place which will always be home for young talents wherever in the world they may come from or maybe. Today we are witnessing the growth of the young talents we have supported through ITS: a wide and diverse forest, made of trees blossomed out of those seeds we planted years ago and spreading out in the wo