Sandra Backlund selected by Franca Sozzani - Protégé Project 2008

The Protégé Project, created in Italy through the vision of Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani, saw some of fashions most prominent figures identify and mentor promising and talented protégés.

In January 2008, protégés launched their Australian Merino wool collections to Europe's fashion elite at Palazzo Corsini in Florence, Italy.

Sandra Backlund was selected by Franca Sozzani.

A 2004 graduate of Stockholms Beckmans School of Design, Sandra Backlund is a tricot artist who assembles her knits by hand in three-dimensional collages, sculpture mode. Her style of working and the magic of her creations - authentic works of art - have both earned her major awards (e.g. at the Hyeres Festival International De Mode & De Photographie) and attracted the attention of the international press.

Franca Sozzani, editor in chief of Italian Vogue, chose Sandra for the Protégé Project; an ideal showcase for signaling the newest direction in knitwear through Sandras talent.

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Sandra, you rock! I love your work.