PAPER Magazine
September 6, 2022
“Meet the Eight Finalists for the 15th Annual Supima Design Competition”
BFA Menswear Candice Tianyu become one of the finalists for the Annual Supima Design Competition.
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The top talent from prestigious design universities are set to showcase their ability to make glowing evening wear capsule collections with Supima cotton fabrics at the 15th annual Supima Design Competition during New York Fashion Week on September 10, 2022. The competition has helped produce some of the top names in fashion and will
continue to add to its distinguished alumni when the best young designers gather from all over the country to compete for the $10,000 financial prize and the prestige that comes with being crowned Supima Design Collection winner.
The proceedings will be hosted by award-winning CDFA designer Christian Siriano and supermodel and entrepreneur Coco Rocha at The Gallery at Spring Studios in the heart of Tribeca. Judges this year range from Harper’s Bazaar Executive Fashion & Beauty Editor Avril Graham to the creator of New York Fashion Week Fern Mallis, along with former 2016 Supima Design Collection winner Jeffrey Taylor and PAPER's own editor at large Mickey Boardman. The finalists this year include top talent from New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Ohio and Rhode Island.
Candice Tianyu (Academy of Art University)
Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Tianyu decided to study fashion in the United States because she felt a bigger and more international place would give her ideas more life. Her Supima collection capsule draws inspiration from American artist Annabeth Rosen, and focuses on imperfect and unconventional evening wear that aims to challenge the expectation of conventional evening wear She is a former professional ping pong athlete and looks up to famous designers Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo.