Nathalie Dufour
Founder and Managing Director, ANDAM
The founder and managing director of France’s most prestigious fashion prize has supported emerging talent — including Martin Margiela, Christophe Lemaire and Anthony Vaccarello — for over 25 years.
Nathalie Dufour is the founder and managing director of fashion's prestigious Association Nationale pour le Développement des Arts de la Mode (ANDAM), an organisation dedicated to keeping the Parisian fashion scene vital and dynamic by identifying and subsidising the most promising designers in the fashion industry today.
In 1989, Dufour founded the non-profit organisation ANDAM, under the guidance of Pierre Bergé, and support of the French Ministry of Culture and DEFI. The organisation runs an annual competition for emerging fashion designers, offering the winner the opportunity to present at Paris Fashion Week as well as mentoring and €250,000 in prize money.
Supported by the most influential players in fashion, like Chanel, Google France, Hermès, Kering, LVMH, OTB, Saint Laurent and the French Ministry of Culture and French Ministry of Industry, ANDAM has established itself as an economic force in French fashion and luxury, helping to nurture and sustain the creativity that the luxury industry needs in order to thrive.
The first recipient of the prize was Martin Margiela and over the years a number of high-profile designers, including Christophe Lemaire , Jeremy Scott and Anthony Vaccarello , have gone on to win. In March 2019, it was announced that Margiela would be on the panel of judges for the 2019 iteration of the ANDAM Prize.
Dufour also created the "premiere collection" prize of €75,000, which is awarded to a fledgling fashion house.
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