Mats Beckman

Award Category
Special Awards
Award Year
2020
Young Talent Age
28

This 3D-printed clothing collection is made from biodegradable bioplastic filament and can be recycled to the compost heap, where it decomposes naturally.

The Jury says

Why isn’t Versace exploring this on the runway? Here is a designer who is truly trying to innovate the fashion industry – repositioning a resource intensive industry in a pleasing way. Mats merges an old, traditional craft with a new technology, exploring material and looking at the craft from a new perspective. His methods blend Scandinavian aesthetics with new techniques. This is an investigation of and a conceptual idea for how we can make clothes in the future.