Bernina Northland Fashion Awards 2023

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.

The 2023 Bernina Northland Fashion Awards will take place on Saturday 14th October 2023. Entries are open!

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AWARD CATEGORIES

FASHION CATEGORIES

There are 7 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.

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Open Street Wear/ 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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Student Street Wear / Day Wear

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

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Open 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 3 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.

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Wearable Art

An original garment that is art made to be worn. Free from constraints, the design of your garment is limited only by your imagination. No theme and no limits to the materials you use however we do encourage you to use the sustainable fashion precepts of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ when sourcing materials for your garment.

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Cosplay

A garment of your own creation that portrays an existing character from a book, film or video game. Create the costume of your chosen character from suitable materials, however we do encourage you to use the sustainable fashion precepts of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ when sourcing materials for your garment.

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Masquerade

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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