During the ceremony, winners of four categories received awards – Claude Tarantino (France) for the best Commercial Collection, the Spanish trio X-Presion for the best Avant-Garde collection, Czech Petra Mechurova for Best Men’s and Tom.Co (Germany) whose owner Thomas-Armin Mathes collected the award for Best Photo.
All the winners received their awards personally from President Roberto Pissimiglia, flanked by Mike Vincent (Editor of Tribu-te Magazine) and Sergi Bancells (General Secretary of AIPP).
And now the contest re-starts for these four winners, competing for the AIPP Grand Trophy 2008-2009. The appointment is for April 2009 when the outright winner will be awarded in Bologna. At the same time, the winner of new category “Best HairFashion Video” will also be announced. The deadline for sending new videos is 31st December 2008.