In anticipation of the Hyères Fashion Festival, we narrowed down the selection of contestants to our favourites and asked them about their work, their rise to success and what we can expect to see at the prestigious French festival. Some of the interviewees: Irish photographer Andrew Nuding; winner of the Hyères festival, designer Christoph Rumpf; Irish designer, Róisín Pierce, the first-ever winner of the Chanel Métiers d’Art Prize and South African photographer Alice Mann.