Calling all emerging fashion designers with a commitment to authentic design and sustainable practice.
If you’re a creative with a passion for sustainable and ethical practices, Geelong’s National Wool Museum is back with We The Makers – a major biennial event challenging designers to create one original outfit that represents their personal design aesthetic, showcasing their commitment to sustainable fashion.
Centred around the Sustainable Fashion Prize, We The Makers sees the National Wool Museum championing the past, present, and future of fashion with recognition to Geelong’s ongoing role in the wool, fibre and textile industries. Defining sustainable fashion holistically, and championing ethical practice, design ingenuity, material consciousness and business innovation, the beloved local institution showcases emerging themes from the world of sustainable fibre and textiles through the next generation of fashion designers every two years.
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“This year the Sustainable Fashion Prize is focusing on attracting emerging designers, and designers that have had a delayed start to their careers due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. We the Makers is a significant competition with a prize that will help establish the career of a talented designer,” says Senior Curator Josephine Rout.
“It is the only sustainable fashion prize for emerging designers being offered in Australia and we expect the field to be very competitive.”
The competition is open to designers both in Australia and abroad with less than ten years of industry experience. Outfits are judged by a panel of industry professionals against their ability to design and redefine sustainable and ethical textiles with entries responding to the following categories: Material innovation, Circular process innovation, Design innovation or Business innovation.
All entries go into the running to win the National Wool Museum Designer of the Year Award (meaning a cash prize of $10,000) and the UNESCO City of Design People’s Choice Award (an ace $2,000 prize).
All shortlisted outfits will be exhibited at the We the Makers Designer Showcase.
Entries are open now and close April 16 2023. Head to the We the Makers website for more info.
