The Real Leather. Stay Different. Student Design competitions 2020/21 have concluded with winners announced from the UK, Italy, Taiwan and China.
From Milan to Taipei, thank you to all the students who took part from across the globe, and a huge congratulations to our winners! The competition, created in partnership with L&HCA, set out on a mission to spark the interest of future talent to work with work with natural, sustainable, responsibly-produced leather in all its beautiful forms. It called on students to showcase innovative designs and enter into the categories of apparel, footwear, accessories or design.
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Josslyn Shi from California College of Art has been crowned Overall Winner of the Real Leather. Stay Different. International Student Design Competition at a glittering final event held at the U.S. Embassy in London.
Meet Lin Ting-Yu, this year's Accessory Gold Winner in the 2021 Taiwan Student Design Competition.
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