Welcome to the fourth edition of WOW’s refreshed designer newsletter, a round up of news and inspiration curated especially for you.

WOW has been busy this month, both at home and abroad. In November, a selection of winning designs were showcased at The New Zealand Ball in Shanghai and just this week we launched our Summer exhibition programme at the National WOW Museum. Our Pinterest page offers daily sources of 2017 section inspiration and our blog is growing with feature articles that celebrate the stories of our talented designers.

We hope you enjoy this issue. Thanks for reading!

Do you have any feedback about this newsletter? Or a story or link you'd like us to include in a future issue? Please email Rachel Keir-Smith on rachel@worldofwearableart.com.

Alexa Cach & Miodrag Guberinic: The art comes first

When one of Alexa Cach’s employees dropped a printout about the World of WearableArt on her desk at her busy Providence, Rhode Island jewellery design studio, it took her three months to find the time to look at it. But when she did, she knew the competition was something she had to enter. Cach called her New York City-based collaborator, artist and costume designer Miodrag Guberinic, to tell him about WOW. But he had known about it since his university days, and it was something he had always wanted to enter ...read more