The winners of the iD International Emerging Designer Awards will be announced in Dunedin tonight. Here are the finalists. Who is your pick?
Emily Giles, Queensland University of Technology. Her collection Ride Away is inspired by the rebellious and masculine themes of 1953 film The Wild One.
Felicity Gleeson, University of Technology, Sydney. Her collection Trace draws on our sense of touch and the humanness of craft.
Laura Fanning, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her collection Fronting pokes fun at the feminine ideal using the aspirational elements of red carpet wear.
Caroline Stephen, AUT, Auckland. Her collection Between Materiality takes a science lab approach to knitwear.
Jessie Kiely, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her Fashion Baggage collection is made up of six wearable upholstered couch dresses.
Emma van de Merwe, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her collection [Im]mortal explores the juxtaposition of life with death.
Erica Deluchi, University of Technology, Sydney. Deluchi’s collection Holonymy pushes construction techniques by addressing conventional separates.
Grace Averis, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin. Her collection Trust Us is a study of corruption, branding and trust within a bleak and homogenous modern world.
Jessica Oldfield, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Oldfield’s collection K2TOG revolves around the idea of fusing unlikely textiles together.
Donald Chung, University of Technology, Australia. Chung’s Resist + Exist collection is conceptually based around dress practice within North Korea.
Jessica Ng, Ultimo Tafe Sydney Institute of Fashion. Ng’s Hollow Eyes unisex range plays with the concept of a dark whimsical nightmare.
Jillian Boustred, University of Technology, Sydney. Boustred fuses contemporary art and sportswear in her collection Undercurrent.
Monique Duggan, University of Technology, Sydney. Duggan’s collection Optic is inspired by the work of ’60s artist Bridget Riley and combines minimalist shapes with oversized proportions.
Jorge Adrian Alfaro, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland. Alfaro’s collection Transhuman explores the technologies of genetic engineering and bionics.
Alison Hope Murray, University of Technology, Sydney. Murray’s collection None of Your Beeswax explores the fading ideal of the Great Australian Dream using deconstructed versions of typical Australian workwear.
Kelsi Bennett, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin. Bennett’s collection Jaws of Youth uses glow in the dark thread patches and is inspired by biker gangs.
Manikandan Vasudeva, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore. Vasudeva’s collection The Gold Dust looks to Bedouins and incorporates sand-like prints and textures.
Petra Kubikova, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia. Kubikova’s collection la garconne’21 is inspired by 1920s women and features denim recycling as a symbol of youth and rebellion.
Qi Ye, IFA, Shanghai University of Engineering Science. Ye’s collection Moving Buildings is inspired by architecture and street dance.
Shea Cameron, Queensland University of Technology. Cameron experiments with hand and needle felting techniques for her collection Re-Seeing.
Thea Blocksidge, Queensland University of Technology. Blocksidge re-purposes second-hand clothing for her collection MiMi.
Steve Hall, Massey University, Wellington. Hall’s Abandon Man collection draws on Japanese culture and the costume of the samurai and ninja.
Tara Gurisik, University of Technology, Sydney. Gurisik’s spring summer print focused menswear collection Leisure Seven explores the use of technically engineered digital printing.
Yi Ming, IFA, Shanghai University of Engineering Science. Ming’s collection Fusion combines contemporary architecture elements and traditional Eastern pattern.
Therese Yen, University of Technology, Sydney. Yen’s collection The Birds & The Bees is inspired by Shunga-Japanese erotic woodblock prints from the Edo period.
Vanessa Emirian, University of Technology, Sydney. Emirian describes her collection Circulate as a wacky obsession with the limitless possibilities of the circle.
Wilson Ong, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland. Ong’s collection Ceramic questions the modern woman’s wardrobe and offers an identify of androgyny with an aesthetic informed by masculine uniform.
Yi Chin Lim, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore. Her collection Salient features paper silks dyed in marble prints that translates to the idea of fluidity and freedom.
