Israeli designer Dolev Elron won the top prize at the 39th edition of the International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories — Hyères on Sunday.
He impressed the jury headed by Courrèges artistic director Nicolas Di Felice with a collection of distorted menswear staples titled Casual Turbulence.
Based in Stockholm and trained at the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Elron is a junior designer in menswear at Acne Studios.
It’s about distorting archetypes of hyper masculinity and basic items that we all have in our closet – recognizable and familiar, he said at a showroom presentation. This familiarity brings comfort and the comfort that it brings allows a space for disruption.