We’re thrilled to announce the new blog patron for DfT 2012: Kathrin Bierling, fashion journalist and director of the infamous style blog modepilot.de!

Until January 2013, Kathrin will cover all DfT events and news with the bluntness fashion experts have come to appreciate at modepilot, and make sure you’ll get all the info from behind the scenes!

The trained fashion editor will report from DfT highlights as  the media morning with Marc Jacobs, the final fitting or the DfT award show and after show reception. Kathrin will also cover the winner’s journey to New York where he or she gets to visit Marc Jacobs at his studio in downtown Manhatten as well as the visit of New York Fashion Week! Moreover, there are some insight interviews with the finalists to come!

Stay tuned for the first blog posts from Kathrin, and if you don’t know it already, you can check out one of Germany’s most influential fashion blog here:

http://www.modepilot.de/

The backgrounds of our Top 5 finalists for Dft 2012 are as eclectic as their designs: Ramil Makinano and Laura Williams from the UK, Siddharta Anselm Meyer is from Berlin, Camilla Salgaard Nielsen from Copenhagen and Leandro Cano calls Spanish Seville his hometown!

From black elegance to neon color overload, daring knitwear, futuristic shapes and modern geeks – this year’s competition has got it all and we can’t wait for our fresh talents to enter the next round of Designer for Tomorrow 2012!

Watch out for more info to come in the Designer section of DfT’s website, where we are going to introduce every single contestant to you. Tomorrow is the first fitting of the collections, a perfect opportunity for loads of interviews and pictures.

Check the DfT blog for more things to come and you’ll hear of our finalists soon, promise!

Soon it’s getting warmer outside, and behind the doors of the DfT competition, it’s heating up, too: We’re currently waiting for the last votes from our jury to fly in to announce DfT 2012’s Top 5! Just so that you know, our expert jury team has been raving over all the creative design submissions and we can’t wait to reveal the five best fashion graduates to you!

Stay tuned for the announcement of the Top 5!

Quick, check your inbox: We just sent out the confirmation emails to our Top 30 candidates for the Designer for Tomorrow 2012 award!

We were overwhelmed by the amazing response to our call for entries from all over Europe this year: Next to young designers from Germany, there are a handful applicants from the UK who entered the next level, as well as talents from Slovakia, Lithuania, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Italy and the Netherlands!

Now it’s all up to Marc Jacobs and his expert team: Each member of the jury board will select his or her Top 5, the top candidates will be determined by Mid-April. With such an international pool of fashion talents, we can’t wait to announce our new finalists!