ANTHONY ALVAREZ, BLUEMARBLE

On his 30th birthday, just three years after launching his brand, Bluemarble, Anthony Alvarez took home the Pierre Bergé Prize at the 2022 ANDAM Fashion Awards. Raised in the United States, the Franco-filipino designer left his finance job at 26 and used his life savings to travel the world and launch the menswear label, now based in Paris. Bluemarble, named after the first complete photograph of Earth taken by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972, is inspired by youth culture and the designer’s global adventures, resulting in vibrant collections that are marked by notes of American sportswear and Filipino adornments with a European flair. When designing, Alvarez looks to his own memories, each garment a letter to past experience.