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EMERGING DESIGNER AWARDS 2025

Applications for the iD International Emerging Designer Awards 2025, in partnership with the Otago Polytechnic, have now closed.

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. 

Fashion media both nationally and internationally have highlighted the event as unique, iD can confidently say that the iD Awards is the only event of its kind in Australasia.

Timeline
Entries open - Monday 20 May 2024
Entries close – Friday 29 November 2024
Finalists announced – Friday 6 December 2024
iD Awards Judging Day, Dunedin – Wednesday 2 April 2025
iD Awards presentation at the iD Dunedin Fashion Show – Friday 4 and Saturday 5 April
Finalists to depart Dunedin – Sunday 6 April