Luxury fashion group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy has named Hed Mayner the first winner of the Karl Lagerfeld Prize for emerging fashion designers, which has been renamed after the late designer.
Every year, the prestigious LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers awards a Grand Prize, alongside a secondary special prize and recognition of three graduates.
The secondary prize was renamed earlier this year to be the Karl Lagerfeld Prize, in memory of the designer who died in February this year aged 85.
Alongside Mayner, South African-designer Thebe Magugu took home the Grand Prize for 2019.
Winner of Karl Lagerfeld Prize Hed Mayner with members of the jury
Delphine Arnault, director and executive vice president of Louis Vuitton, started the prize schemes to "recognise the emergence of fresh talent is essential to the vitality and diversity of the fashion ecosystem".
Since the launch of the prize in 2014, Lagerfeld was a returning member of the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) jury panel whilst working as artistic director of houses Chanel and Fendi.
Mayner's winning clothing "blends simplicity and luxury"
Winners of both the grand and Karl Lagerfeld prizes were chosen from eight finalists, where each applicant is required to be under the age of 40 have sold two previous collections in either women's or men's wear.
The judges' pick for the Karl Lagerfeld Prize went to Hed Mayner who "seduced the jury" with layered shirts worn underneath boxy, ...