Great recognition for fashion graduates from the National Academy of Art – Sofia, Bulgaria

Two alumni of the National Academy of Art were awarded the Rising Star 2020 prize

 

Hristiana Mutafchieva and Stamena Konstantinova - graduates from the Fashion Department at the National Academy of Art - received the newly established Rising Star Award of Academy of Fashion for most promising young designers. The awards were bestowed at a special ceremony in Vitosha Park Hotel. Hristiana has completed her Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes in Fashion at the National Academy of Art, and Stamena graduated with a Bachelor's degree in the same specialty a few days ago this year.

 

The other award-winning fashion design students are Marieta Kotova, currently pursuing a Fashion Design degree at Solent University (Southampton), South East England, and Kristina Kolodeeva studying at New Bulgarian University.

 

In his speech at the awards ceremony, Prof. Dr. Lyubomir Stoykov, President, Academy of Fashion, said: "The new Rising Star Award is aimed at the most promising young designers and students of fashion design. To all those who with their energy, aspiration and originality respond to the message of the RS statuette – created by jeweller Angelo Krassini: Shine with your own light and overcome the strongest gravity on the path to first-class realisation! We, at the Academy of Fashion, are convinced that this award will motivate young designers to continue their professional performance in Bulgaria - in fashion as an art form and in the fashion business and industry.”

 

Each of the awarded students showed their thematic collections of six outfits each. Among the ceremony attendees was Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yana Kostadinova, Head of the Fashion Department at the National Academy of Art.