Since 1969, the Accademia of Costume and Fashion awards the Irene Brin Prize to a young and talented stylist. Irene Brin, a journalist and writer, loved the young and always did her utmost to stimulate their success. Therefore, this Award to a fashion designer of the new generation is a means of celebration for the Accademia and represents the affirmation of a new talent.
Born in Bordighera in 1914, Irene Brin was the initiator of a light and well-read journalism, of gossip columns and costume.
For twenty years Irene Brin represented the aristocratic world of new fashion that blossomed after the confusing and tragic war period with a few brave men who improvised as tailors and merchants. The first kind ambassador of the new Italian Fashion was brought abroad.
Many of the great designers owe her part of their good fortune. She had contributed generously with her delicate presence, her elegant and witty pen, her intuition and her own unique style. We all owe something for her acclaims that had an inestimable value.
Irene Brin disappeared in 1969 and Rosana Pistolese, founder of the Accademia of Costume and Fashion, realised that, along with her, a magical world that she had partly created and that had become her idol were gone too.
“She was an exquisite writer and a brilliant journalist and particularly devoted herself to the studies of Costume and Fashion since the early postwar years. She immediately understood that, after the inevitable end of war, a new fashion could bring back continuity to costume and create new resources for our Nation. For twenty years Irene Brin represented the aristocratic world of new fashion that blossomed after the confusing and tragic war period with a few brave men who improvised as tailors and merchants. The first kind ambassador of the new Italian Fashion was brought abroad. Together with Emilio Pucci and Gian Battista Giorgini, Irene Brin was the attentive collaborator, the interpreter, the elegant propagator of Italian fashion in the world. She worked until the last days of her life and brought with her the kind secret and the actual truth of twenty years of costume.” Rosana Pistolese
As a demonstration of the affection that bound her to the Accademia, Irene Brin wanted to donate her precious collection of Harper’s Bazaar. The first number of the collection is dated 1867.
| YEAR | AWARDED TO | AWARDED BY |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | PALOMA LORE | Carlo Capasa |
| 2018 | STEFANO RUSSO | Corinne Cavallin |
| 2017 | FRANCESCA LIVIA SARTORI | Maurizio Millenotti |
| 2016 | STEFANO CANULLI | Silvia Venturini Fendi |
| 2015 | GIANNA GISSI | Fiamma Lanzara |
| 2015 | MARCO MASTROIANNI | Giovanna Gentile Ferragamo |
| 2014 | ALDO MARIA CAMILLO | Sara Maino |
| 2013 | ROBERTA ANDREETTI | Matteo Marzotto |
| 2012 | LAURA DI COLA | Raffaello Napoleone |
| 2011 | MATTEO RUSSO | Raffaello Napoleone |
| 2009 | SYLVIO GIARDINA | Maria Luisa Frisa |
| 2008 | ALESSANDRO MICHELE | Adriana Sartogo |
| 2007 | GIUSEPPE DE GENNARO | Giusi Ferrè |
| 2006 | TOMMASO AQUILANO | Beppe Modenese |
| 2003 | GIUSEPPE FANELLI | Beppe Modenese & Enrico Gasbarra |
| 2002 | FILIPPO CILIA | Beppe Modenese |
| 2001 | DANIELA D’ORTENZI | Laura Biagiotti |
| 2000 | FRIDA GIANNINI | Mario Boselli |
| 1999 | RAFFAELE BORRIELLO | Beppe Modenese |
| 1998 | ALBINO D’AMATO | Beppe Modenese |
| 1997 | GIORGIO SUSSENBACHER | Beppe Modenese |
| 1996 | SONIA TRAVAGLIA | Bruno Piattelli |
| 1995 | VINCENZO VACCARO | Beppe Modenese |
| 1994 | VINCENZO GRASSO | Bruno Piattelli |
| 1993 | MARZIA DEVOTO | Micol Fontana |
| 1992 | ROBERTO LEPORE | Giuseppe della Schiava |
| 1991 | ALESSIA VITTI | Giuseppe della Schiava |
| 1990 | LUISA MAZZA | Alberto Castagna |
| 1990 | MAURIZIO GALANTE | Beppe Modenese |
| 1989 | LUCA ELENA | Micol Fontana |
| 1988 | ANTONIO MANCINELLI | Prof. Giovanni Caradente |
| 1987 | GIAMPIERO ARCESE | Bruno Piattelli |
| 1986 | LOREDANA DI FUSCO | Vittorio Barattieri |
| 1985 | ELISABETTA PROIETTI & CINZIA BAIOCCHI | Antonietta Drago |
| 1984 | PIERANGELO PAVAN & MARIOLINA SOAVE | Bruno Piattelli |
| 1983 | CARLO ALBERTO VITAL | Luciano Forneris |
| 1982 | MARIA A.BUTTIN GRABAU & ANNA SAMPIETRO | Gianni Bulgari |
| 1981 | PAK KEUNG LIN | Brunetta Mateldi |
| 1980 | LUCIA FORTE | Bruno Piattelli |
| 1979 | PAOLA FUGA & CRISTIANO GENTILI | Lorenza Trucchi |
| 1978 | URSULA OBERRAUCH | Ruggero Orlando |
| 1977 | MARINO CHMET | Colette Rosselli |
| 1976 | LILIANA TUDINI & EDGARDO WONGVALLE | Ettore della Giovanna |
| 1975 | CINTHIA GORDANI | Elsa Robiola |
| 1974 | ARTHUR TAMBUNAM & TAMARA ALESSI | Gilberto Bernabei |
| 1973 | ALESSANDRA BELCREDI & ANDREA BARABINO | Flora Antonioni |
| 1972 | GIOVANNA TAMBURRINI & CHRISTINE BORG | James Brady |
| 1971 | GORDANA MILETIC & ROBERTO LONGO | Rosana Pistolese |
| 1970 | PATRIZIA SLEITER | Nancy White |
| 1969 | SERGIO BINI | Rosana Pistolese |