On May 5, the second qualifying round of the annual competition for graduates of specialized educational institutions of Belarus New Names BFW will take place. Mark Formelle, one of the leading Belarusian companies, has once again become a partner of the competition. A well-known clothing brand sees great prospects in cooperation with young talents.

After the successful presentation of the sketches, the following people continue their participation in the competition: Anatoly Poleshchuk; Rasolko Alevtina; Daria Hajduk; Agata Karobka; Maria Yezerskaya; Elena Volkova; Lyudmila Balabushko; Alina Bogdanova; Yulia Demidovich; Anastasia Leoshko; Anastasia Spiridovich.

Attracting mentors will help make the competition more productive for participating designers and more attractive for observers. Under the unobtrusive control of fashion figures, the contest participants will get an experience that is difficult to overestimate. The opportunity to put your wildest ideas into practice, get good advice, study the whole process of launching and implementing the collection at the enterprise is a valuable knowledge base that will certainly come in handy in the future.The mentors of the competition this year were: Yanina Goncharova  head ofBelarus Fashion Week; Tatiana Shcherbakova –fashion blogger, stylist; Antonin Vadim fashion blogger; Yuri Yaroshik   ;director, presenter; Polina Kravtsova – owner «Shop 7.11».

It is also of great importance for young designers that they will talk to competent people in a professional language; learn how to present their collections competently; establish communication with direct performers, designers, technologists, seamstresses.And on May 25, all of them will have the opportunity to present their collection, created on the basis of Mark Formelle, as part of the first festival of creative ideas Fashion Idea Festival. In addition, the winner will receive a royalties from the company Mark Formelle in the amount of 2000 BYN and the opportunity to present a new joint collection within the next season of the Fashion Idea Festival. All finalists are expected to receive pleasant and useful awards from the company Mark Formelle and the organizers of the competition.
 

 
All this ensures a stable interest in the competition among both graduates of specialized institutions and ordinary creative personalities who are confident in their vision of modern fashion design. Many participants of the previous seasons of New Names BFW subsequently successfully presented their collections on the catwalk of Fashion Week, but with logos of their own brands. National competitions for young talented designers are an integral part of the global fashion industry. And the organizers of New Names BFW are reasonably confident in the vitality of modern fashion and in the extraordinary talent of Belarusian designers. Those who are sure to loudly declare themselves in the near future.

Photos provided by the organizers.