The limited edition collection, that won Teatum Jones the 2015/16 International Woolmark Prize for womens wear, is now available at select David Jones stores and its website until stocks last. The launch of the collection at David Jones comes after the winning design duo of Catherine Teatum and Rob Jones visited the source of the fibre they work with.
As one of the original retail partners for the International Woolmark Prize, David Jones is the exclusive stockist of Teatum Jones collection in Australia. The collection will be available globally through International Woolmark Prize retail partners including Boutique 1 (Dubai), Boon the Shop (Seoul) Harvey Nichols (London), Isetan Mitsukoshi (Tokyo), Leclaireur (Paris), mytheresa.com (online), Saks Fifth Avenue (New York) and Verso (Antwerp).
David Jones is Australia’s leading retailer known to showcase several luxury brands and offer customers the finest options across fashion, beauty and home. Its philosophy perfectly aligns to that of the International Woolmark Prize: fostering the development of emerging international designers and being constantly on the lookout for the next big name in fashion.
Following a global search that nominated 41 emerging womens wear designers from across the world British labels, Teatum Jones was chosen as the winner at a final event staged during New York Fashion Week in February. Using fine Australian Merino wool for their winning collection, the designer duo partnered with a specialist guipure lace mill in France and convinced them to use wool for the first time in a particular way to create innovative and vibrant geometric Merino laces.
The International Woolmark Prize celebrates outstanding fashion talents from across the globe that showcase the beauty and versatility of Merino wool. First held in 1953 as an initiative of the International Wool Secretariat, the award was won by the then relatively unknown and now iconic fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent the following year.
