UK-based designer Matty Bovan has scooped the 2021 International Woolmark Prize after a panel named him a double winner during a virtual event.

Mr Bovan was awarded the main prize as well as the Karl Lagerfeld Award for Innovation. 

The judges praised his “technically advanced jacquard weave designs, unique style, strong colour combinations and sustainable approach to local sourcing and production”.

Former Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld said: “He is pure fashion, he makes me dream and he reminds me of a young Vivienne Westwood or a John Galliano and we desperately need that sort of designer in the fashion world of today.”

Image: one of Matty Bovan's wool-based designs. Credit: The Woolmark Company.

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