Calling all future fashion designers! Looking for an opportunity to showcase your creative talents?

 

We invite you to design a garment, following the theme of ‘Imagining Tomorrow’, for the chance to attend Graduate Fashion Week 2025 and see your piece come to life in digital form.


The Graduate Fashion Foundation, supported by PVH, is excited to announce the Young Talent of Tomorrow Fashion Design Competition 2025.

We invite you to design a garment, following the theme of the brief, for the chance to attend Graduate Fashion Week 2025 and see your piece come to life in digital form.

We challenge you to design a full outfit based on the theme and tell us all about your process, inspirations and designs on your research page.

 
 

WHO CAN APPLY?

The competition is open to all students studying textiles, art, or a relevant design subject between the ages of 11 and 18.

There will be three winners across the three age categories:

Age Categories: Year 7-9 | Year 10-11 | Year 12-13/College


THE BRIEF

Theme: Imagining Tomorrow

Creativity is a great way to use your imagination to change the world around you—we want you to design an outfit that shares your vision for the future.

Consider what you might want to wear in a world filled with cool technology, colourful landscapes, and even new materials. You could create outfits inspired by your dreams, like space travel, robots, or an optimistic green Earth. Envision a harmonious future; let your imagination run wild and invent something that shows how you see tomorrow!


THE WORK

Submit a two-page competition entry. It must include one research page and one page showcasing two fully designed outfits.

ONE research page you should showcase:

  • Your vision for the future and how that inspires you

  • Reference images

  • Colour palettes, patterns, and fabric swatches

  • 100-200 words explaining your research and what you have learnt

ONE design page should include:

  • Two fully designed outfits

  • Make it as colourful and detailed as you want, with labels and notes.

  • Fabric and/or texture samples

  • 100-200 words to explain your outfit elements and details


THE PRIZES

There are three categories of prizes across the different age groups. There is a prize per category for Year 7-9, Year 10-11, and Year 12-13/College and two runners-up.

1st Prize:

  • Your winning design will be professionally made and showcased at Graduate Fashion Week 25 on the catwalk on Monday 16th June 2025

  • You will be presented with a trophy and a fashion starter pack.

  • Tickets for you, your teacher, and your family to attend GFW25 and watch the show

  • Your entry will be shown throughout the four-day event in London.

  • Opportunity for a GFW Ambassador visit to your school

Runner-Up Prizes:

  • Your design illustrations will be professionally printed and displayed within the GFW exhibition throughout the four-day event in London.

  • Tickets for you, your teacher and your family to attend GFW25 to watch a catwalk show on Monday 16th June 2025

  • Your work will be digitally showcased on the catwalk screen during the show


SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

12 p.m Friday 21st March 2025.

Submissions must include both the research and design page, labelled with the student’s name. Winners will be announced Friday 11th April 2025. Entries submitted after this time will not be considered.

Students can also self-submit if your school is not participating. Please gain permission from your parent or guardian. Full terms and conditions are available below.

 
 
    1. Maximum one entry per person per competition. Entries by third parties are not accepted.

    2. Proof of sending an entry shall not constitute proof of receipt. No responsibility is accepted for entries that are lost, misdirected, late, damaged, or illegible or for any associated costs.

    3. By entering the competition, you agree to participate in any reasonable promotional activity, including photographs and audio and/or visual recordings, if you are selected as a winner. The promoter reserves the right to use the names and addresses of winners once permission has been given by both the parents and school for anyone under the age of 18.

    4. There are no cash alternatives to the prizes, and prizes are not transferable.

    5. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the promoter reserves the right to replace entire prizes or prize components with prizes of equal or greater value.

    6. Competitions may feature in other promotional material. Winner(s) accept prize at own risk.

    7. Entries are to be submitted via the link in this form only.

    8. All entrants hereby warrant that they are the sole owner of the intellectual property rights in their entry. They are free to assign those rights to the promoter, and no third parties hold any rights, charges, or interest over all or part of their entry.

    9. The promoter is Graduate Fashion Foundation, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE.

    10. The promoter shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever, except for death or personal injury, arising out of the administration of the competition or out of the winner’s or any third party's enjoyment of the prizes.

    11. In consideration of the promoter agreeing to consider entrants, each entrant (and/or the entrant’s parent or legal guardian) hereby assigns to the promoter copyright and other intellectual property rights (including any rights in artwork, labels, designs, logos, or text, including any goodwill) and any other rights, title, or interest in the entry to the promoter for the whole term of such rights, and you will do all things necessary to give full effect to this assignment and the Patents Act 1988 in relation to their entry. All entrants hereby waive their moral rights, where such rights may arise under the copyright, designs.

    12. The promoter does not accept responsibility for the return of any entries, including those consisting of artistic or other material.

    13. Any personal data relating to entrants will be used solely in accordance with current UK data protection legislation and will not be disclosed to a third party without the individual’s prior consent.

    14. Prizes are awarded at the promoter’s discretion, and no prizes will be awarded as a result of improper actions by or on behalf of any entrant.

    15. The closing date for receipt of all entries is detailed on the competition information sheet attached to these terms and conditions.

    16. Competitions are open to students at the level, year of course, or age as specified on the competition information sheet attached to these terms and conditions, excluding employees (and immediate families) of Graduate Fashion Foundation, its affiliated companies, or anyone professionally connected to the promotion.

    17. After the closing date, the judges will select the entries, which are, in their opinion, the winners. The promoter’s decision is final in all matters, and no correspondence will be entered into.

    18. Details of prizes can be found on the competition information sheet attached to these terms and conditions.

  • The Young Talent of Tomorrow Fashion Design Competition is brought to you by the Graduate Fashion Foundation, the charity behind Graduate Fashion Week, the world’s largest showcase of BA fashion talent.