Wearable Art Awards

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Applications close
1 March 2024
Announced
27 September 2024
Prize money
NZD $185,000
Location
New Zealand
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For over thirty years, the World of WearableArt Awards Competition has invited designers, artists and creators from all backgrounds and walks of life around the globe to create the unimaginable, to challenge the conventional and defy creative expectations as they make works of art that will be brought to life in the most extraordinary of ways in the annual WOW Awards Show.

2023 Section Themes:

  • Aotearoa
  • Avant-Garde
  • Mars and beyond
  • avant garde
  • Bizarre Bra
  • Gold
  • Open

Prizes:

The World of WearableArt competition offers multiple prizes and awards to exceptional entries in different categories. The most prestigious prize is the Supreme WOW Award which gives the winner NZ$30,000 and the second prize is NZ $15,000. The Dame Suzie Moncrieff Award of NZ $6k, is awarded to the overall exceptional entry. Other categories include Aotearoa, Avant-garde, Open, Architecture, Mars & Beyond, Gold, and Bizarre Bra where the winners of each prize receive for the first, second, and third prizes receive NZ$6,000, NZ$3,000, and NZ$1,500 respectively.

The competition also offers awards for first-time entrants of NZ$5k, student innovation  of NZ$5k, transformation innovation award of NZ$5k, sustainability, NZ$5k New Zealand design of NZ$5k, international design of NZ$5k x 4 regions, Weta Workshop NZ$6k, WOW Designer Development Award NZ$7.5k and the People's Choice prize of NZ$2.5k 

Contact: For more information email wardrobe@worldofwearableart.com  or call +64 3 547 0864

Venue: TSB Arena, Queens Wharf, Wellington, NZ

Summary
Application dates
16 October 2023 - 1 March 2024
Exhibition dates
27 September 2024 - 6 October 2024
Finalists notified
7 March 2024
Eligibility
National and International Entries Allowed
Prize frequency
Annual
Judges
TBA
Prize genre
Fashion
Location
TSB Arena, Queens Wharf, Wellington, NZ
New Zealand
Prizes
NZD $185,000
Fees
Entry is free.
Last updated
29 March 2024
Prior Winners
No prize winners information available