Enter a garment.

Section 1 —  Gods on the Runway

You are the designer and your client is a divine being —  Deity, Ancestor, Protector or Spirit Force, ancient, contemporary, emerging or imagined — drawn from mythology, technology, dreamscape or cultural memory. 

At whose altar do you worship and in what garment would your personal god/dess command the catwalk? Every creative choice and material should reveal what this divinity signifies to you.

Section 2 — Future Punk (Recycled)

Designers are invited to deep-dive into the subgenres of punk counterculture and steampunk survival. Create a character that is capable of navigating troubled times.  What does punk look like in the face of climate collapse and renewal, digital overload and social transformation? What does the world wear when it wakes up? 

Evolve steampunk beyond steam power, to incorporate eco, solar, blockchain, AI, thermodynamics and cyberpunk. Your design must repurpose a minimum of 50 per cent recycled materials — go punk bricolage, personal myth and re-imagined machines, upcycle and level-up your design with attitude and ingenuity.

Section 3 — Portal of Belonging and Becoming (Projection Mapping)

In this unique interdisciplinary section, designers are invited to create a powerful visual symbol — a seal, mandala, totem or logo, using projection mapping and moving image. Create a 40 second visual journey to project onto a 2.5 metre circular canvas.

Your projection should explore transformation, incorporating elements and inspirations for your final symbol — textures, patterns, ideas, imagery, and motion, finishing with a resolved and still image that is designed for printing onto fabric. Entries will be judged on how powerfully the visual journey arrives at the final design. This is an invitation to work across disciplines — animation, film, graphic design, sound, and fashion.

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Section 4 — What the Night Wind Heard (Multi-sensory — UV light and fan)

Let the Southern Lights and solar winds inspire a garment that reveals itself in rare moments — a whisper of the stars; a heroic spectacle awakened by nightfall, moving air and ultraviolet flare.

Designers are invited to create a wearable artwork that finds expression in two worlds: the visible and the liminal. Tell us what the night wind heard!. Stitch with pigments and paints that glow in the invisible spectrum. Weave with fibres that flicker and illuminate under UV light. Sculpt veils, tendrils and surfaces that ripple and flow when stirred by moving air to create a garment that whispers, shimmers and breathes. Click here for tech specs.

Section 5 — At the Edge of the Deep Blue Sea (include Natural and Beachcombed Materials)

The ocean is our origin story, where life began, where water meets earth and where every tide tells a tale. Designers are invited to dive deep into marine imagination, drawing inspiration from the fragile beauty and fierce power of our oceans. From coral reefs and tangled mangroves to drifting jellyfish and windswept dunes, the sea becomes both muse and message.

Think ghost nets, bottle caps or ocean plastics, alongside plant-dyed fabrics, to tell a story of regeneration and renewal.