The ITS#TEN finalist for fashion, accessories, jewelry and photography are here!

Skunkfunk will select the Sustainable Award finalists this week

05/05/2011. The ITS headquarters in the last few days have hosted the jurors who selected the finalists of the four areas that make up the platform of this year’s much-awaited edition. Over 1,200 portfolios, coming from 270 schools and 87 nations flooded the offices of EVE, the agency responsible for the creation and organization of the event. As for the trends we have found, here is a brief sum-up: Symmetry and geometric shapes, as if looking for perfection in uncertain times. The transversal presence in all competitions of the color white, the symbol of purity and innocence, but also of surrender and, therefore, of peaceful intentions. Covered faces and heads, almost hiding to avoid seeing the world outside, a recurring theme in ITS’ ten-year activity. Just like skeletons, this time with a different twist: we have noticed numerous additional backbones to help a body standing as if our own backbone were not strong enough to survive. Among other particularities: projects inspired by nuns. From a symbolic point of view a nun can represent the need to reconsider one's own lifestyle, but they are also a symbol of commitment, of generosity and of sacrifice– and lots of nudity, presented in a very sexual, explicit, sometimes perverse way. Finally, we witnessed several experimentations on spectacles: to see things more clearly, or in a different way, using different lenses.

To discover the complete lists of the finalists for the 4 areas please follow this link: http://www.itsweb.org/jsp/en/newsdetail/selectedid_303.jsp
The complete version of the trendsreport here: http://www.itsweb.org/jsp/en/newsdetail/selectedid_304.jsp

The Keep off the Grey and win a green weekend! project takes form

The boxes/windows of the Skunkfunk Stores begin to hold the first grey things. Those who already took part in wish to be the winners of the draw to enjoy a green weekend on top of a tree.

We already have the first little and big grey things in our Skunkfunk Stores in Madrid, Barcelona, Tolosa, Gasteiz and Bilbao. People want to know more about how to participate in this project that encourages you to get rid off of everything “grey” in your life and gives the possibility to win a unique weekend in the Tree Hotel Cabanes als Arbres de Girona. You just have to take something grey, leave it in the grey box-es of our Skunkfunk Stores and fill the form!

Media talk about it...

La mono
AUX magazine

Skunkfunk presents Virassamy in Live Performance

The French artist Virassamy will paint in live both windows of the Skunkfunk Stores of Madrid and Barcelona: Madrid (Fuencarral 33), Friday 15th April - 17:00h. and Barcelona (Ferran 19), Saturday 16th April - 17:00h.

Virassamy has collaborated in the Skunkfunk SS11 collection with the Art Collage project. From Burdeos and founder of the Shlag collective, combines classic methods with more instinctive techniques. Now living in Berlin he will fly from the German city to offer both exclusive performances in Madrid and Barcelona.

"A black coffee without sugar, a glass of water, a cigarette, a box of matches, multicolored pens, paper, a moment, a desire, a memory, a phrase, an expression, one object, a meeting, one person, regret, hope, desire, rage, grudge, enjoy, a happy moment, a drawing/illustration, abstract or figurative, or an spontaneous thought, observed or imagined; the testimony of the time that I dedicate to myself in my life "

www.virassamy.org
Video in collaboration Skunkfunk and Virassamy: http://www.skunkfunk.com/funkvideos/Virassamy2011.php

Esta primavera desahazte de lo gris y consigue un fin de semana para dos personas en la copa de un árbol

SI! Lo has leído bien. Acércate a nuestras Skunkfunk Store con aquello que sea gris para ti e introdúcelo en el Grey Box. A cambio, participarás en el sorteo de un fin de semana único en el Tree Hotel “Cabanes als arbres” de Girona.

La promoción finaliza el 19 de Mayo. Esta promoción es válida sólo en las Skunkfunk stores de Barcelona (Ferran 19), Madrid (Fuencarral 33), Vitoria-Gasteiz (Fueros 12), Tolosa (Kale Nagusia 21-23) y Bilbao (Plaza Nueva 2). El sorteo se realizará ante notario en Bilbao el 24 de Mayo del 2011. Skunkfunk contactará con el ganador del sorteo que consistirá en: un fin de semana para dos personas en “Cabanes als Arbres” de Gironacon todas las dietas incluidas y dos tickets para disfrutar del circuito Himalaya en el parque “La selva de l’aventura”. Sólo se tendrá en cuentauna participación por persona y el sorteo se limitará a residentes en la península.

 

Skunkfunk joins ITS#TEN with the Sustainability Award.

Skunkfunk will take part in ITS#TEN as sponsor for the fashion competition and will assign the Sustainability Award during the final evening of the event, which will be held in Trieste, Italy, on 16 July 2011.

ITS (International Talent Support) is a creative platform, a community of young talents, network of opinion and trendsetters space for developing specials projects. This year Skunkfunk brings to the present edition it's special "Skunkfunk Sustainability Award" to the area of fashion design. Skunkfunk will ask the finalists to work on a specific sustainable project. The winner will receive a cash prize of €5,000 and will work with Skunkfunk on a capsule collection. Skunkfunk started bit by bit, creating a line of t-shirts and then expanding into broader collections. Nowadays you can find Skunkfunk in more than 44 countries with over 20 Skunkfunk Stores and more than 1.300 multi-brand shops. Our garments are eclectic, green, reversible, multifunktional and asymmetric. We look for the interaction with the Skunkfunk community reinventing how the fashion world is generally seen, keeping true to the unique style we’ve had right from the start.

Information about ITS http://www.itsweb.org