Announcing The Winners Of The ‘Feather vs. Crystals’ Design Challenge

We come up with a challenge. You submit. The FRS community votes for your artwork. We take the comments and the votes into account and choose the winning designs. You score cash. That’s pretty much the pattern around here. The prize? A money-can’t-buy opportunity to see your artwork on a scarf to be sold worldwide and on selected boutiques, such as Urban Outfitters, Nordstrom and Anthropologie. But that’s not all – the winning designers also get  one of their products when it arrives in stock, and 200€ upfront and each & every time we sell 500 pieces of their own design. This means that Front Row Society can continue to embody the spirit of fashion democracy, rewarding our top designs over and over again…and again…and again!

This month’s challenge was to crib from life, and turn nature into a wearable piece of art. From sharp crystals to tender feathers, over 150 designers from around the world rose to the challenge, and entered our “Feathers vs Crystals” design challenge. We here at FRS were completely blown away by the diversity of ideas in all the designs submitted, and we couldn’t let decide which one to select, sooooo we selected not one, not two, and not three, but FOURTEEN (14) winnings designs – F-O-U-R-T-E-E-N!!! Hailing from Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Lithuania,  Cyprus, USA, Russia and the UK, the winning designs of this month’s challenge will be  added to the AW13 scarf collection of yours truly, just in time to keep you warm and cosy in their unrivaled softness! Planning on grabbing them? On to the FOURTEEN winning designs…

ACID BIRD by Marta Balcerzak, inspired by exotic birds’ feathers used for the carnival season in Brazil.

SOFT LIGHT by Markela Bgiala, inspired by soft, dreamy crystals

PEACOCK by Tânia Ramos, inspired by magnificent and vivid peacock feathers

MAYPHE by Sofia Brajal, inspired by bird feathers and their microscopic details

LUSTRE by Emma Gillett, inspired by crystals and the shapes built up from reflecting colors and light

IN FULL FLIGHT by Lara Gorlach, inspired by hidden structures and textures within the form of feathers.

IKAT FEATHERS by Louisa Heyworth, inspired by the texture and pattern of feathers

GEOMETRIC FEATHERS I by Ivano Tella, inspired by feathers and their geometry

FEATHERS INK by Ivano Tella, inspired by a camouflage of hand drawned feathers

FEATHER TEXTURE by Ana Luisa, inspired by the texture and the details of a feather

DISAMBIGUATION by Nikita Shoshensky and Kirsten Voell, inspired by the lighting effects of crystals

CRYSTALLINE by Nikki Strange, inspired by geometric crystals & minerals using watercolors

CRYSTAL HAZE by Jessica May Bennett, inspired by crystals and their organic structures 

CIRCUS IN TOWN by MP, inspired by a circus tent’s pattern, covered in diamond-like shapes