Celebrate the future of fashion with the Fashion Illustration Student Award. Recognising students, this award highlights new talent, game changers, tastemakers, visionaries, and playmakers in the industry. Discovering the stars of tomorrow in the field, the Fashion Illustration Student Award will spotlight students who are making their mark as innovators, leaders, and trendsetters.
Brief: The Fashion Illustration Student Award is open for students to present fashion drawings, illustrations, documentary images, fashion images, catwalks and any other fields of the fashion scene. Fashion illustration can be layered with a visual story, beautifully capturing moments of style. The drawings can be made either from live experiences or from photos/videos or online shows, investigating anything happening in the world of fashion. The work can be commissioned, published, unpublished or a personal project.
This award is for all levels of students, including fashion illustrators, artists and designers, using all modes of image making.
Last day to enter and submit your work into the awards for judging: Friday 5th May 2024 SUBMIT BY 11:59 PM EST
This award will be judged on the following:
Originality, style, mood, composition and design. The work can be commissioned, published, unpublished or a personal project.
After payment, you will receive an email with details of the requirements and instructions for entering your images. Please provide us with a valid email address when purchasing.
Winners will receive over £27,000 worth of prizes:
There are 9 award categories this year, seeking excellence in each field.
The 9 award winners, will receive over £27,000 worth of prizes.
The 9 category award winners will each receive prizes worth over £2,300:
1 year of Exclusive Fida Membership (worth 495)
A feature in The Fible (worth £1250)
Selected images in the 9th Awards Virtual Exhibition (worth £400)
Selected images in the 9th Awards Virtual Exhibition E-book (worth £240)
One artist will go ahead to be named the Overall Winner and will receive the following additional prizes, worth £5700:
Fida Gallery Virtual Solo Show (worth £3500)
Double Page Spread in the Fible & feature on The fible.com (worth £2200)
You can use any of the following mixed media techniques and materials: pencil drawing, colour pencil, pen & ink, markers, rubbing, painting (watercolour/acrylic/oil etc), canvas, paper, printmaking, screen printing, litho, etching, photo collage, spray, relief, computer/tablet/laptop, photocopier, scanner, and more.
Fida 9th Award Judges:
Anna Halarewicz - Fashion Illustrator
Astridvosx - Fashion Illustrator
Diana Kuksa - Fashion Illustrator
Elly Azizian - Fashion Illustrator
Francisco J Cortes - Fashion Illustrator
Frédéric Forest- Fashion Illustrator
Graeme Fidler - Creative Director, Bally
Jessica Durant - Fashion Illustrator
Manuel Santelices- Fashion Illustrator
Marianna Gefen - Fashion Illustrator
Sonia Shao - Fashion Illustrator
CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION IS: FRIDAY 5TH MAY 2024 -11:59 PM EST
The application and notification process for the awards are as follows:
Once you have purchased an entry into the awards, you will be emailed with instructions explaining how to format and send images.
Your images must be submitted by Friday 5th May 2024, no later than 11:59 PM EST.
Once Fida receives your images, you will be emailed within 24 hours, to confirm receipt.
In order that all artists can be notified at the same time, both the Longlist and Shortlist will be announced on the Fida website: www.fidamembersclub.com. Long List announcement: Friday 17th May 2024. Shortlist announcement: Friday 24th May 2024.
The Longlist and Shortlist will also, at a later date, be announced on Fida worldwide’s Instagram account.
The Commendations and Award Winners will be announced during a virtual event on Friday 31st May 2024. Please follow us on Instagram to receive updates (@fidaworldwide).
Winners and Commendations will also be added to the website www.fidamembersclub.com, in due course, after the live announcement.
You will NOT be emailed individually with results. If your name is not shown on the website, unfortunately, it means that you have NOT been selected on this occasion.
Due to the number of entries we receive, and the fact that we secure industry professionals to judge our awards, it is not possible to give individual feedback to each applicant.
Important notes:
Award entries are non-refundable. If work is not submitted, or submitted after the deadline, it will not be put in for consideration, or refunded.
If applying for the student award you will need to supply a valid student ID when submitting your images.
KEY DATES FOR THE AWARDS
Last day to submit work - Friday 5th May 2024 SUBMIT BY 11:59 PM EST
Fida Awards Longlist Announced - Friday 17th May 2024
Fida Awards Shortlist Announced - Friday 24th May 2024
Fida Award Winners and Commendations Announced - Friday 31st May 2024
Longlist, Shortlist, Commendations and Fida Award Winners will all be announced on www.fidaworldwide.com.
