Torishéju wins the Savoir-Faire Prize at the 2025 LVMH Prize
At the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, British, Nigerian, and Brazilian designer Torishéju Dumi was named winner of the Savoir-Faire Prize at the LVMH Prize 2025 ceremony, an honour that spotlights exceptional craft, technique, and innovation. The night’s top award went to Japan’s Soshi Otsuki (Soshiotsuki), while Steve O Smith received the Karl Lagerfeld Prize. Together, the trio formed a sharp snapshot of where fashion’s next wave is headed.
By Asteroid Media
For Torishéju, the Savoir-Faire Prize is both recognition and rocket fuel: the award includes €200,000 and a one-year LVMH mentorship, designed to translate a singular vision into a sustainable, scaling business without compromising craft. It’s the prize earmarked for designers who treat ateliers like laboratories, and Torishéju has been doing exactly that.
Why Torishéju, and Why Now
If you’ve followed Torishéju’s ascent, this moment feels inevitable. Her work fuses sculptural forms with a spiritual, deeply personal vocabulary, bridging menswear and womenswear through engineering as much as drape. The label’s breakout Paris show, “Fire on the Mountain,” announced a designer unafraid of volume, structure, and symbolism; it famously opened with Naomi Campbell and closed with Paloma Elsesser, a coup that underlined her cultural pull as much as her technical nerve. Soon after, Zendaya wore Torishéju on the Dune: Part Two press tour, another sign that the red carpet is hungry for new silhouettes with point-of-view.
The references are layered and specific. Torishéju’s silhouettes have nodded to the Nigerian lappa/wrapper tradition from her mother’s Itsekiri roots, wrapped and re-imagined into kinetic forms. Elsewhere, padded hoops and tailored torsos create an armour-like presence that reads powerful rather than precious. It’s fashion as architecture, but with memory woven in.
The Craft Behind The Headlines
Torishéju’s toolkit is the product of both rigour and range: a BA in menswear from London College of Fashion, an MA from Central Saint Martins, time at the Sarabande Foundation, and formative internships that honed her pattern-cutting and construction vocabulary. That training shows up in the garments—edge-bound seams, tensioned volumes, and a sculptor’s feel for negative space—exactly the sort of hand-and-mind synthesis the Savoir-Faire Prize exists to champion.
This year’s jury mixed titans and taste-makers (think Phoebe Philo, Pharrell Williams, Stella McCartney, Jonathan Anderson, Sarah Burton), and the winners reflected that lens: individuality over imitation, craft over gimmick. That Torishéju rose in this context says a lot about how luxury is recalibrating, toward designers who build new forms from first principles, not just new logos.
Quick Facts
Award: Savoir-Faire Prize, LVMH Prize 2025 — €200,000 + 1-year mentorship.
Other winners: Soshi Otsuki (LVMH Prize), Steve O Smith (Karl Lagerfeld Prize).
Career highlights: Paris debut Fire on the Mountain (opened by Naomi Campbell, closed by Paloma Elsesser), Zendaya red-carpet look, CSM MA, LCF BA, Sarabande alum.
Torishéju has already shown an ability to invent new proportions and make them feel inevitable. With LVMH’s support, expect tighter industrialisation of those ideas—fabric innovation, refined construction, and collections that carry the same spiritual voltage from runway to rail. The Savoir-Faire Prize doesn’t just celebrate technique; it bankrolls the time and tooling needed to push it further. That’s exactly where Torishéju thrives.