Joe’s Blackbook Selects Two Fashion Students for $10,000 Scholarships
- Joe’s Blackbook awarded $10,000 scholarships to Mariam Devadze from Rhode Island School of Design and Eddie Borba from Otis in a recent fashion design contest.
Joe's Blackbook has selected the two students who will be awarded scholarships to pursue their fashion careers in this year's contest.
In an event last week, the executive search firm and fashion industry connector brought together a group of judges to select the winning designs from among five finalists.
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The winners, who will receive $10,000 each, were Mariam Devadze from Rhode Island School of Design and Eddie Borba from Otis.
Winning designs from Mariam Devadze.
The students were celebrated alongside the other three finalists at an event at the Golden Swan in New York City where they were able to meet and mingle with the judges: designer Christopher John Rogers; Premda Wunderle, creative director of women's collection concept and design at Ralph Lauren ; Henry Zankov of Zakov; Patrik Ervell, head of men's design at Proenza Schouler, and Michal Plata from Melitta Baumeister.
Eddie Borba's winning designs.
The other finalists were Cali Kircher of RISD, Olivia Lee of Parsons and Alexandra Kouimtzi of SCAD.
Joe's Blackbook has been awarding scholarships to deserving fashion students since 2011 and has given away $240,000 since its inception. Past scholarship winners have successfully entered the industry at brands including Ralph Lauren , Nike, Loro Piana, Jason Wu, The North Face, Coach and Carolina Herrera.
Sponsors of last week's event included Skims, Alo Yoga, Lululemon, Levi's and American Eagle.
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