iD INTERNATIONAL EMERGING DESIGNER

AWARDS 2025

Entries for the iD International Emerging Designer Awards 2025 will open in April. 

The iD Awards was launched in 2005 and now attracts designers from all over the world, as finalists travel to Dunedin, New Zealand, with the opportunity to learn, collaborate and connect during the iD Dunedin Fashion Week. The iD Awards enables the future of sustainable fashion design to be showcased to fellow emerging designers, the jury of fashion professionals and a wider public audience.  Many of the iD Award finalists are leading the way in cutting edge technology in fabric production, sustainability, design and manufacturing techniques. 

For 2025 all finalists must attend the event in Dunedin, New Zealand from 1 – 6 April 2025. Travel to Dunedin is at your own cost.

There are no design restrictions, sections or specifications for collections, other than an emphasis on innovation, originality, creativity, quality and extension.  

Eligibility requirements:

• Entrants must either be studying fashion/ textile design or have graduated within the last seven years.

• Entrants must submit a collection size of 3-5 outfits. This can by any work you have created yourself, in class or in your own time.

• There are no age restrictions.

• The collection can be created by an individual or can be collaborative.

• Entrants can be based anywhere in the world and do not have to reside in New Zealand to enter but selected finalists must be willing to travel to Dunedin, at their own cost, for the judging and presentation of collections at the iD Dunedin Fashion Show.