Jury

Beatriu Malaret

Teacher and independent consultant specializing in communication and design. Beatriu Malaret has a degree in Romance Philology (UB) and a masters degree in Social Communication (UPF). She has spent the entirety of her career focusing on creativity and design.

Following a beginning dedicated to contemporary art, she gave classes at the Sabadell college of Design (ESDI), and has worked on projects concerning the management and innovation of design for and within Fira Barcelona.
Currently, on behalf of Cipsela (a company of which she is cofounder) she manages the department of Strategy and Communication. She is highly specialized in the development of educational programmes based on high quality performance, the education of competitive emergent talent and entrepreneurship; equally for Design schools as for businesses and cooperative associations.
Amongst other projects, she is now the academic director of the fashion design masters program and co-director of the masters program for design and art curation at ELISAVA design school; she is also in charge of the Ecodesign and Sustainability in Textiles and Fashion course, in association with the Textile and Fashion of Catalonia Cluster and AITEX (Textile Industry Research Association) .

Giampietro Baudo

Giampietro Baudo was born in 1976 and is the editor in chief of MFFashion, the only daily newspaper in Europe that is entirely dedicated to the world of fashion and luxury goods, published by Class editori. He became eic of the newspaper at the beginning of 2007, while also taking on the management of MFF-Magazine For Fashion and MFL-Magazine For Living, the two magazines dedicated to the fashion system and the world of design. He began his career in Class editori, which he joined in 1997 covering posts such as editor of MFFashion and its annexes, while he has also been the managing editor of L'Uomo Vogue, Vogue Sport and Vogue Tessuti.

Since 2012, he is also curator of Eccellenza Italia, the first multimedia communication system conceived by Class Editori, in partnership with Xinhua News Agency, to offer to Chinese tourists who arrive in Italy a precise and accurate guide to excellence in fashion, luxury, in design, food & wine and hospitality (in 2014 Eccellenza Italia launched also a Russian version with the same concept). In 2014 he became also fashion and creative director of LADIES, the haut de gamme fashion magazine of Class editori, working closely with photographers like Manuela Pavesi, Juergen Teller, Alan Gelati, Danielle Levitt or Nan Goldin.

Jeannete Nkwate

Jeanette Nkwate has spent more than four years as a trend expert. Trained at London College of Fashion as a fashion journalist, her previous experience includes working on the fashion teams for consumer publications, as well as contributing to the WGSN-Homebuildlife team specialising in interiors retail.

Jeanette currently works as Associate Events Editor at WGSN, assisting in the management and coverage of the world leading trend forecaster’s 150 + a year global events, using her commercial perspective to analyse how the most important trends will impact the retail market.

Piluka de Echagaray

Expert in Personal Appearance, Personal Shopper, Personal Coach, speaker, trainer and business owner.

2000 “Company development” by ESADE
From 2000 to 2010 owner of women boutique “Piluka de Echegaray”
From 2007 owner of Woman Fashion Point shopping online
From 2010 Personal Shopper Deluxe manager
2011 Personal Coach Graduate by The International School of Coaching
From May 2014 Director of Piluka of Echegaray Institute (specialized in Personal Appearance)
Some cooperation with radio and tv, such as:
Canal 33 – Reinventarse (Reinventing yourself)  -2010
TVE-1 – Comando Actualidad  - La Milla de Oro – 2011
TV Ukraniana 1&1 – Extreme Make Over – some programs 2012
Expert in translating personal appearance’s messages and excellent speaker.

Silvia Ventosa

Born in Barcelona in 1957.

 2014-2010 Curator of Collections, Design Museum in Barcelona. Curator of the permanent exhibition of the Textile and Apparel Museum in Barcelona  “The attired body, form and fashion 1550-2014”.
2014-2012 Curator of the itinerant exhibition “Aurelia Muñoz, Endless Research. Fibers, textures and space”, Diputació de Barcelona.
2010-2014 Lecturer Master in Fashion Design, Elisava.
2011 Curator of the exhibition "What to Wear: The Maria Brillas wardrobe by Pedro Rodríguez".
2010 Curator of the exhibition "Images of Fashion" and “Outumuro Looks: twenty years photographing fashion Barcelona-Moscow-Zamora”.
2008 Curator of permanent exhibition “The attired body” of the Textile and Apparel Museum in Barcelona at the Barcelona Design Hub
2010-2003, Chief Curator of Textile and Apparel Museum in Barcelona.
2000-2003 Curator of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Barcelona
2000-2001 Lecturer in Industrial Design training program, Elisava
1998 PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, with the thesis: Model the body. The work and life of the corsetiers of Barcelona.
1995-2000 Curator of Ethnology Museum of Barcelona.
1985-1990 Curator of the Museum of Art Industry and Popular Traditions in Barcelona.
1981 BA in Philosophy, University of Barcelona.
 
Publications on fashion, clothes and folk art, anthropology, social history, museum studies and ethnographic cinema.