{"id":9653,"date":"2023-10-16T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T08:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2024-04-29T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:08:13","slug":"professor-niccolo-sbaraglia-serves-as-hult-prize-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/2023\/10\/16\/professor-niccolo-sbaraglia-serves-as-hult-prize-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Niccol\u00f2 Sbaraglia Serves as Hult Prize Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sbaraglia-news-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sbaraglia-news-post.jpg 598w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sbaraglia-news-post-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In late September, <a href=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/blog\/course\/crs318-fashion-in-focus-discourses-and-meaning\">Fashion in Focus<\/a> professor Niccol\u00f2 Sbaraglia flew to Paris to serve as one of nine judges for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hultprize.org\/2023-global-finals\/\">Hult Prize Global Finals 2023<\/a>. The prestigious Hult Prize awards $1M USD to a team of young entrepreneurs challenged with proposing solutions for pressing world issues, and this year&#8217;s theme was <strong>Redesigning Fashion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner was a team of Yale University students who started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/banofi-leather-named-winner-of-prestigious-2023-hult-prize\/\">Banofi Leather<\/a>, which converts banana-crop waste into sustainable, vegan, cruelty-free leather. Fashion design icon Stella McCarthy presented them with the prize, and former US president Bill Clinton announced next year&#8217;s theme via pre-recorded video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to teaching for Syracuse, Professor Sbaraglia is also the Head of Commercial Development at Polimoda Fashion School in Florence and a production manager dedicated to fashion and luxury accessories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late September, Fashion in Focus professor Niccol\u00f2 Sbaraglia flew to Paris to serve as one of nine judges for the Hult Prize Global Finals 2023. The prestigious Hult Prize awards $1M USD to a team of young entrepreneurs challenged with proposing solutions for pressing world issues, and this year&#8217;s theme was Redesigning Fashion. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10319,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions\/10319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}