2024 Edition Jury

Carlo Giordanetti is member of the Product & Design Committee of Swatch Ltd. As CEO of the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, he is in charge of developing the project as a strategic element of the overall brand program. He comes to Swatch from Montblanc (2007-2012), where he served as Creative Director for all product groups. Previously, as Co-Founder and Creative Director of Brand DNA (2000-2007), he specialized in the development of branding concepts and brand (re)positioning in the luxury goods market.
Carlo also brings extensive experience at Swatch through his new role. For ten years (1987-1992 and 1995-2000) he served in a variety of positions, including Vice President, Marketing, contributing actively to numerous projects involving art, brand-building events, new product developments and the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. He was also a member of the team that founded both the Milan and New York design labs of Swatch. From 2012 to 2019 he has been Creative Director at Swatch, responsible for a unified brand message across product, communications and retail. From 1992 until 1995 Mr. Giordanetti worked at Piaggio, makers of Vespa scooters, where he established a new retail concept and directed the company’s first international communications campaign. He is fluent in several European languages and has lived and worked in Milan, Florence, New York, Paris, Hamburg, Zurich and now Bern.

Emanuele Farneti (Rome, September 27, 1974) is an Italian journalist. He took his first steps in the field of journalism in 1995 at the Sei Milano broadcaster, and later at Canale 5. He then transitioned to print media, starting at Condé Nast in 1999 at the editorial office of GQ Italia, and later at La Gazzetta dello Sport, where he joined the coordination team of the football section. In June 2004, at the age of 29, he became the editor of the weekly magazine SportWeek. At the end of the same year, he moved to the position of editor of Men's Health, which he left two years later to become the deputy editor of the weekly magazine Panorama. In the following years, alongside his role at the newsmagazine, he directed the men's monthly Icon, which he founded, the women's magazine Flair (2012), and special editions of Epoca. In 2013 he supervised the launch of the Spanish edition of Icon in Madrid, published as a supplement to the newspaper El País. In 2015, he moved to Condé Nast Italy, where he first directed AD Architectural Digest and later GQ Italia (2016). In January 2017, following the passing of the then editor Franca Sozzani, he was appointed editor of Vogue Italia, l'Uomo Vogue, and the digital platform vogue.it.
Farneti continued to collaborate with renowned photographers for the magazine and opened the door to a new generation of talents. Under his direction, Vogue Italia strengthened the tradition of using fashion as a language capable of addressing current issues, particularly related to sustainability, diversity, inclusivity, and body positivity.
In 2020, Emanuele Farneti was appointed editor of AD Italia. In July 2021, he stepped down from his positions at Vogue Italia, l'Uomo Vogue, and AD Italia to become the editor of the D - La Repubblica weekly and the thematic content hub Moda&Beauty of the Gedi group, as well as overseeing the fashion content of the daily La Repubblica.
In March 2022, he signed a radical redesign of the D - La Repubblica weekly, opening the doors of the magazine to collaborations with some of the most important names in international fashion, including Paolo Roversi, Mert&Marcus, Willy Vanderperre, and Alasdair McLellan. In 2023, Farneti created a new interior design magazine, door, a monthly supplement to La Repubblica. The launch of the first issue, signed by Farneti as editor, took place during the Milan Furniture Fair, accompanied by events and installations throughout the city. Since January 2024, he has been the deputy editor ad personam of Repubblica and directs the supplements D, door, and dLui.

Marie-Claire Daveu began her career as a technical advisor to the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin before becoming Principal Private Secretary to Serge Lepeltier, Minister of Ecology and Sustainability. In 2005, she became Sustainability Director for the Sanofi-Aventis Group. From 2007 to 2012, she served as Chief of Staff to French politician Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, working in various secretaries of state and then at the Ministries of Ecology, Sustainability, Transport and Housing.
In 2012, she joined Kering to set out the sustainability strategy and targets as well as implementing a set of best practices within the Group and its Houses.
A French national, she is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences (ENGREF). She also earned a postgraduate diploma (DESS) in public administration from Dauphine University, Paris.

Matteo Ward is CEO and co-founder of WRÅD, a design studio focused on sustainable development. WRÅD’s research and development of innovative products were awarded the Best of the Best Product Design RedDot Award and were included by Italian ADI (Associazione Disegno Industriale) in the ADI Design Index 2019.
Prior to WRÅD, Matteo worked for Abercrombie and Fitch as Sr. Manager and co-chair of the A&F Stores Diversity and Inclusion Council.
Matteo is also VP of Fashion Revolution Italia, academic lecturer and public speaker. He recently co-authored and hosted JUNK, a docu-series on the impact of fast-fashion around the world, co-produced by Sky Italia and Will Media.

Odunayo Ojo is an established fashion journalist who has written for publications such as System Magazine, GQ, The Business of Fashion, Vogue Runway and more. He has been mentioned as a "fashion critic for a new generation" by Vogue Business. He brings this expertise to YouTube, where he analyses fashion runway shows and talks about fashion history.

Sergio Zambon has a cosmopolite and strong multicultural attitude. Born in Egypt from an Italian father and a Croatian mother, he spent a long time in North Africa, South America and in the United States. He has studied architecture at Sapienza University in Rome, later attending the European Institute of Design. He has always shown a strong passion towards the cinema industry, modern art and pop culture. In the auteur cinema environment, Zambon is gaining increasing attention thanks to the ”Italian Creativity Factory”: his clothes could be seen in a number of movies including “Melissa P.” and “Io sono l’amore” by Italian director Luca Guadagnino; he also created looks for the first Ginevra Elkann’s movie “Magari".
Sergio has started as a fashion designer at Fendi Woman Ready to Wear for Fendissime, with which he has continued to collaborate even after he joined the LVMH group, designing the Fendi Men’s Collection for more than 3 years. His multi-year experience in the high quality prêt-a-porter industry for both men and women is accompanied by a continuous independent research work: in 1997 and1998 he created his own independent brand Zambon, followed by the creation of the brand Soft Core, to which he has dedicated 4 years of work. He continued work on his eponymous brand, this time as Sergio Zambon, where he appeared in the official calendar of Milano Fashion Week with a Spring/Summer 2011 collection in September 2010.
For Fashion Week 2012/13 he designed the two-season capsule collection “Il mio Cappotto” for Max&Co. of Max Mara Group. From 2012 he focused his work on the relaunch of historical Roman maison Galitzine; during those years he designed a capsule collection of “Pajamas Palazzo” exclusively, an item that was launched in the 1960s by princess Irene Galitzine, sold in the best retails around the world.
For seasons 2013/2015 Sergio Zambon has been Head of Menswear for the Swedish brand Acne Studios. He has worked over the years for a variety of houses and brands, putting his skills of designer and communicator, his point of view and sense of harmony and balance at the service of the client. From Fashion Week 2018/2019, since the inception of the project MONCLER GENIUS, he has been working as Creative Director for Menswear collection at 2 Moncler 1952 and has been nominated after two seasons during Fashion Week 2019/2020. Starting in 2022 Sergio Zambon, is currently working on Moncler Menswear and Womenswear main collections.

Shaway Yeh is one of China’s key opinion leaders on fashion and culture. Under Yeh’s editorial direction Modern Weekly reaches China’s elite readers with the latest international news, trends, and cultural discussions. It hs become one of China’s most influential lifestyle publications. She has been using her media outreach and influence in the fashion community to advocate for issues related to sustainability and innovation. In 2018 she founded the consultancy agency yehyehyeh as a way to push forward the sustainability agenda among Chinese brands and designers, in combination with creativity and innovation in order to instigate value-based change. Her annual Shan Future Forum brings thinkers, creatives, entrepreneurs and innovators together to discuss major issues about sustainability. Yeh is advisor to the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the Green Carpet Fashion Award, the International Woolmark Prize and the Kering Generation Award.

After working for more than ten years in the fashion industry between New York, Milan, and Paris, with leading photographers, brands and magazines, he curated the various renditions of the globally successful touring exhibition "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk". The retrospective travelled to twelve cities and drew more than 2.3 million visitors, breaking records for any fashion exhibition. Opened in Montreal in 2011, the exhibition travelled to Dallas (Dallas Museum of Art), San Francisco (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), Madrid (Fundación MAPFRE), Rotterdam (Kunsthal), Stockholm (Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design), Brooklyn (Brooklyn Museum), London (Barbican Centre), Melbourne (National Gallery), Paris (Grand Palais), Munich (Kunsthalle) and Seoul (DDP), where the exhibition tour came to a close in 2016 after five years on the road. A total of four publications on Jean Paul Gaultier have been produced by Loriot over the course of this record tour, being awarded among other prizes, the Grand Prix du Livre de Mode. The groundbreaking Jean Paul Gaultier world tour was followed by his exhibition "Love is Love: Wedding Bliss for All à la Jean Paul Gaultier", presented at the MMFA in 2016, at the Centro cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires and at the Contemporary Museum of Belgrade in 2020-21. He also curated and wrote the books of the travelling exhibitions "Peter Lindbergh: A Different Vision on Fashion Photography", presented in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, and two editions of "Viktor & Rolf: Fashion Artists", first presented at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, followed by its presentation in the summer of 2018 at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. He also curated the touring exhibition and books on French creator Thierry Mugler, "Thierry Mugler Couturissime", a world premiere at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts that opened in 2019 and was presented after at Kunsthal Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Munich, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Brooklyn Museum. His exhibitions garnered more than 6 million visitors to this date. In 2022, he created the exhibition "JPG: From A to Z" for the France Pavilion at the Universal Exhibition in Dubai.
He also collaborates with musicians, among them with Mika for his 2022 "For the Rite of Spring Tour" and upcoming tour and album, and the creative direction, set and costumes of Rufus Wainwright’s 2018/2019 world tour "All These Poses". Loriot was awarded many accolades: in 2019, he received the Vanguard Award from CAFA (Canadian Arts and Fashion Award) for the important contributions he made to the arts and fashion industries. He is currently working on the touring exhibition "Viktor & Rolf Fashion Statements", which will premiere in Germany in 2024.

Tom Eerebout, a stylist and fashion consultant from Belgium, has made a significant impact in the industry. After refining his skills as an assistant in London, he developed a distinctive storytelling aesthetic. Some of Eerebout's impressive clientele include Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue, Banks, Austin Butler, Rebecca Ferguson, and Sylvie Kreusch. With a decade of experience, he has worked on international tours, music videos, red carpets, editorials, and campaigns. Notably, Eerebout served as the Fashion Director for Lady Gaga's Las Vegas residencies, "Enigma," "Jazz and Piano," and "The Chromatica Ball" alongside Sandra Amador. Most recently he has also designed a capsule collection of sunglasses for Komono and a unisex jewelry line for Elliot & Ostrich. His versatile and captivating styles demonstrate his exceptional eye for detail. Through his styling and fashion consultancy, Eerebout continues to leave a lasting impact, harnessing fashion's power to tell compelling stories.

Graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, Valentina Maggi began her professional career in the Conservation and History of Architecture Department of the Politecnico di Milano. With her passion for Design in the wider sense, Valentina Maggi joined FLORIANE DE SAINT PIERRE & ASSOCIÉS in 1999 and has headed up the Design Practice since 2000.

Valerie Steele is the director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she has organized more than two dozen exhibitions since 1997, including "The Corset: Fashioning the Body", "Gothic: Dark Glamour", "A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk", "Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color", and "Paris, Capital of Fashion".
She is also the author or editor of more than 25 books, including "Paris Fashion", "Women of Fashion", "Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power", "The Corset", "The Berg Companion to Fashion", and "Fashion Designers A-Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT". Her books have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. In addition, she is founder and editor in chief of "Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture", the first scholarly journal in fashion studies.
Steele combines serious scholarship (and a Yale PhD) with the rare ability to communicate with general audiences. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion. She has appeared on many television programs, including "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Undressed: The Story of Fashion". Described in The Washington Post as one of “fashion’s brainiest women” and by Suzy Menkes as “The Freud of Fashion,” she was listed as one of “The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry” in the Business of Fashion 500 since 2014 to this day.