Bernina Northland Fashion Awards 2023

Thanks everyone for your participation in the 2024 Bernina Northland Fashion Fusion event. A huge thanks to our funders and sponsors who made this event possible, and our congratulations to all the entrants who created amazing garments that made the host businesses look fantastic. To the host businesses, a big shout out for your support, and for trying something new and different. It certainly brought new life into our CBD! Stay tuned for what happens next.

ABOUT THE AWARDS

The Bernina Northland Fashion Awards are Northland’s prestigious and fun fashion awards showcasing the creative talent of Northland school students of all ages, polytechnic and tertiary level students as well as all amateur and semi-professional sewists and artists. There are both sewing and wearable arts categories, catering for entrants of all ages, stages and abilities.

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AWARD CATEGORIES

FASHION CATEGORIES

There are 3 fashion categories to choose from, accommodating young, beginner sewists through to more experienced sewists. The fashion categories all have an element of sewing skill and garment finishing that is critiqued as part of the judging process. Please browse the categories for further details.

Day Wear

An original fashion garment designed to be worn on the street during the day.

While your design process may begin with a purchased or repurposed pattern, the final garment is more than ‘just following a pattern’ and clearly demonstrates your creative point of view as a designer.

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Evening Wear

An original fashion garment designed to be worn at an evening event. Perhaps a gorgeous ball gown, a tailored trouser suit, or some other lavish garment suitable for an evening occasion.

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Indigenous Fashion

An original fashion garment to showcase your ethnicity and culture.

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WEARABLE ARTS CATEGORIES

There are 2 wearable arts categories to choose from, accommodating young, beginner artists through to more experienced artists. The wearable arts categories may or may not include sewing as traditionally thought of. Please browse the categories for further details.

Avante Garde

Are you ready to embark on a creative journey that knows no bounds? Welcome to the exhilarating world of Avante Garde Fashion, where garments are designed on the cutting edge of fashion.

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Masquerade

(Up to Year 8 only)

Design an amazing mask using any medium. Large and small, weird and wonderful, the masquerade is all about having fun while remaining anonymous. So that all the attention is on the mask the model is to wear all black clothing.

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