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The winners of the Best of APLF Awards announced

Winners of Best of APLF Awards were announced at the Fashion Access VIP Cocktail on 29 September, the 2nd day of the 3-day fair. The Best of APLF Awards is an initiative that recognises design excellence & creativity among exhibitors - spearheaded by the organisers APLF Ltd and supported by industry professionals.

There were a total of nine award categories this season. It gives the organisers great pleasure to publish the results and congratulate all the winners:

  • Best Stand: Guangzhou Norman’s Leatherware Company, China

    For its ingenious ways of displaying leather gloves that has much needed storage space and a pack-up and go convenience. 
     
  • Best in Colour Marketing: Flymaze Limited, Hong Kong

    For its ingenious use of a distinctive singular colour in marketing their bag collection, creating a strong visual impact.  
     
  • Best Leather Garment Collection: Butoni Ltd., Hong Kong

    For its high-quality garment collection that shows an innovative mix of leather and fabric and excellent workmanship, creating a good fashion image.  
     
  • Best Travel or Lifestyle Product: Fel & Co International (Kias Leather), Indonesia

    For its handmade, vegetable-dyed leather retro suitcases that bring glamour back to travel.  
     
  • Best Fashion Accessory Collection: Omaque Arts & Crafts, Philippines

    For their creative use of natural, traditional materials and their intuitive feel for volume and mass that has resulted in a striking collection.  
     
  • Best Men’s Footwear Collection: Art Star Co., Hong Kong

    For their very “on trend” men’s shoe collection that offers wonderful colours, elegant shapes and a fresh take on traditional shoe styles.  
     
  • Best Ladies Footwear Collection: Heavy Machine, Taiwan

    For their fun shoe collection that brings together technology, quality and a strong sense of colour that puts across a definite summer feel.  
     
  • Best Bag Collection: Gaya Canada Enterprise Ltd., Canada

    For their wide range of bag designs that show a great sense of colour, form and style.  
     
  • Best Fashion Collection: NYHK (China) Holdings Ltd., Hong Kong

    For its strong coherent collection of shoes and bags that evokes a very precise image of casual urban style.

Best Stand

Best in Colour Marketing

Best Leather Garment Collection

Best Travel or Lifestyle Product

Best Fashion Accessory Collection

Best Men's Footwear Collection

Best Ladies Footwear Collection

Best Bag Collection

Best Fashion Collection

Joining the Best of APLF Awards Head Judge, Olivier Guillemin (founder of Paris-based design consultancy and also Creative Director of Fashion Access) and returning judge Jayne Esteve Cure (founder of Jayne Fashion Agency Paris and Fashion Advisor to Fashion Access), are: Judy Tchou, manager of the trends team at Wing On Department Stores and Valerie Wilson Trower, Trend Director Asia of Stylesight.

 

ABOUT FASHION ACCESS

FASHION ACCESS is an international leading fashion fair for bags, footwear, small leather goods, lifestyle accessories and travelware in Asia, held twice each year. The fair is aptly aligned with fashion’s key buying seasons, showcasing spring-summer exhibitor collections in September and fall-winter collections in March. In 2011, 16,332 buyers from 88 countries attended the 2 Fashion Access events combined.

ABOUT APLF Ltd

APLF Ltd. is a joint venture between UBM Asia and SIC Group. APLF organises leading trade exhibitions in Hong Kong, China and India. It launched the Hong Kong Leather Fair 26 years ago - which is still the largest and most international sector event for all of Asia, and has expanded into the related fields of fashion and lifestyle products.