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Luxury house LVMH wants to add to their impressive list of designers and organised a competition for promising designers. The final winner will become an official member of the prestigious conglomerate  and will also get coached a year long by LVMH. They’ll also receive €300,000 for a great kickstart with their company.

More than thousand designers participated and the jury will announce the winner on 28 May 2014. Photographer Patrick Demarchelier, net-a-porter founder Natalie Massenet, Corso Como owner Carla Sozzani (that’s right, sister of), Carine Roitfeld, Bergdorf’s Linda Fargo, and makeup artist Pat McGrath. The participants aren’t quite unknown themselves. Most of them already showed during fashion weeks, and Vika Gazinskaya is regularly photographed with good friend Miroslava Duma. Curious about the finalists? Here they are:

CG by Chris Gelinas

Gabriele Colangelo

Shayne Oliver’s Hood by Air

Simon Porte Jacquemus

Miuniku by sisters Nikita and Tina Sutradhar

Thomas Tait

Tillmann Lauterbach

Tim Coppens

Simone Rocha

Suno by Erin Beatty and Max Osterweis

Vika Gazinskaya

Julien Dossena for Atto.