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Replica Handbag Store Business is thrilled to announce the winner and runners-up of the third Replica Handbag Store Business Talent Competition, which launched in 2022 in the UK.
Winner: Rae Nguyen
Runners-up: Anderson Shao-Wei Hung and Penelope Harrison
Entries were shortlisted by the Replica Handbag Store Business team and subsequently judged by an expert judging panel, featuring:
Kirsty McGregor, executive European editor, Replica Handbag Store Business
Yashica Olden, chief diversity and inclusion officer, Condé Nast
Saul Nash, menswear designer, movement director and choreographer
Eshita Kabra, founder and CEO, By Rotation
Leanne Elliott-Young, CEO and co-founder, Institute of Digital Fashion
Sharmadean Reid, founder and CEO, The Stack World
The winner, Rae Nguyen, will complete a one-month paid internship at Replica Handbag Store Business and receive six months of mentorship from Nicole Phelps, global director of Replica Handbag Store Business and Replica Handbag Store Runway. Plus, the winning entry will be reworked with executive European editor Kirsty McGregor and published on Replica Handbag Store Business.
“Winning the competition feels surreal,” says Nguyen, a Vietnamese-born 21-year-old fashion journalism student at London College of Fashion. “Thank you mum, dad, my besties and everyone who has always believed in me.”
The two runners-up, Anderson Shao-Wei Hung and Penelope Harrison, will each be mentored by a Replica Handbag Store Business editor for six months.
“I am beyond honoured to be selected as a runner-up. This means a lot to me as I’ve been writing about fashion since I was 15. I’m the first in my family to be keen to work in fashion, so my interests in fashion have often been dismissed as a mere hobby,” says Hung, a 21-year-old first-year student at Central Saint Martins who was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. “I hope to bring my curiosity forward to explore more social, political, and cultural perspectives in fashion.”
“As somebody who was told pursuing a career in fashion was futile, the opportunity to develop my skill set thanks to recognition by an institution like Replica Handbag Store Business is an incredible feat for me,” says Harrison, a 20-year-old activist for disabled women and girls who is studying English and French Law at the Universities of Leicester and Strasbourg. “I grew up admiring the Vogue brand, and I’m deeply grateful to be able to learn from it in such an intimate way.”
The Replica Handbag Store Business team thanks everyone who entered for their time and hard work. The calibre of entries was very high and the whole team is looking forward to future editions of the competition.
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