Call for applications for the 2026 City of Paris Grand Prix Awards

The City of Paris Creative Awards recognize current and emerging creative talent in the worlds of design, fashion, and crafts. Eight winners are honored: three Revelation Awards and three Commitment Awards in each discipline (design, fashion, and crafts), one Fashion Accessories Award, and one Jewelry Accessories Award.

In the field of crafts: 

• The Revelation Award recognizes aprofessional whose project is promising, creative, and has potential for development. The award acts as a talent scout.
• The Engagement Awardrecognizes a professional for their approach to creation, research, innovation, and hybridization, and for their ability to advance expertise and its applications. It is also aimed at professionals and companies committed to passing on expertise or disseminating knowledge. The Award recognizes a career.

In the discipline of Fashion: 

• The Revelation Award recognizes aprofessional whose project is promising, creative, and has potential for development. The award acts as a talent scout.
• The Engagement Award recognizesa professional for their entrepreneurial approach, their ability to develop and create a brand or company that is mindful of its impact, and their response to strategic challenges facing the French fashion and fashion accessories industry (local manufacturing, sourcing of raw materials, commitment to knowledge transfer, job creation, relocation, CSR commitment, technical or organizational innovation, inclusion, etc.). The Award recognizes a career path.
• In partnership with ADC – Au-Delà du Cuir, the Fashion Accessories Awardis open to emerging or established accessory projects in the leather goods, footwear, gloves, belts, and other related sectors.
• Since 2024, in collaboration with Francéclat,a professional economic development committee serving the watchmaking, jewelry, goldsmithing, and tableware sectors,the "Jewelry Accessories" Awardhas been open to emerging or established accessory projects in the jewelry, fine jewelry, and fashion jewelry.

In the discipline of Design: 

• The Revelation Award recognizes aprofessional whose project is promising, creative, and has potential for development. The award acts as a talent scout.
• The Engagement Awardrecognizes a professional for their creative approach, pursuit of innovation and hybridization, and ability to evolve forms and uses in response to current challenges. The Award covers the fields of objects, spaces, graphic design, digital design, and services. The Award recognizes a career.

Thechairmanship ofthe jurieswas entrusted to three renowned figures recognized for their commitment to the creative professions:

• Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, sculptor, for the Artistic Crafts category.
• Lisa Gachet, creator of the Make My Lemonade brand for the Fashion category. 
• Ionna Vautrin, designer, for the Design category.

The Grands Prix de la Création is a national competition open to professionals in the fields of design (product, space, service, culinary, graphic, etc.), fashion (ready-to-wear, fashion accessories, jewelry, etc.) and crafts (cabinetmaker, mosaic artist, ceramist, glassmaker, textile designer, etc.) from all over France.

Aprize of €18,000is awarded to the winners. Each prize is endowed with €8,000 by the City of Paris and supplemented by private partners through the Fonds pour les Ateliers de Paris: theFédération Française du Prêt à Porter Féminin,ADC, Francéclat, theGaleries Lafayette Group,ESMOD,Roger Pradier, Brossier Saderne, andVictoire.

In addition to the prize money, winners will benefit from visibility provided by media and partner organizations: Première Classe, Paris Design Week, Maison&Objet, Alliance France Design, thePalais Galliera, the MaNa Campus, Ipocamp, Intramuros, Fashion Network, AD Magazine, La Gazette Drouot, GOODMOODS, Collectible, Gestes, MODEM, Silhouette, Eyes on Talents, FORMAE, IDEAT, Beau Magazine, Procédés Chénel, andWilde.

The call for applications is open until Wednesday, May 20 at noon.

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