Fairholme Fashion Week 2025
Fairholme Fashion Week is an annual event held as a prelude to the Fairholme Spring Fair.
The aim of the Fairholme Fashion Week is to celebrate and promote fashion in the Toowoomba Region and provide students and interested adults with a variety of opportunities through which they can learn about and experience the fashion industry from a variety of perspectives.
- Fairholme Fashion Awards
- Fairholme Fashion Parade
- Pop-Up Market
2025 Fairholme Fashion Week Theme
A Celebration of You, Nostalgia and Imagination
Design with joy, with romance, with the thrill of dressing up. Let your imagination run wild and your identity shine through. This year’s theme is a celebration—of fashion, of emotion, and of personal expression.
Think future vintage. Breathe new life into forgotten fabrics: preloved curtains, embroidered tablecloths, lace remnants, fringing, and old upholstery etc. Show your commitment to conscious design and craftsmanship.
Elevate your piece with hand-finished touches—embroidery, embellishment, patchwork, or anything that reflects the care and soul you put into your work.
Create something meaningful. Something magical. Something you’d want to wear forever.
2025 Fairholme Fashion Awards
Award Categories – Producing/Sewing an ‘Outfit’
Fashion designers from the Southwest and Southeast Queensland regions are invited to submit original fashion ensemble/s for judging in the 2025 Fairholme Fashion Awards.
Category One
Open Category (18 years & older)
Open Entry fee $30 per entry
Category Two
Senior School Category (Yrs 10-12)
Entry fee $10 per entry
Category Three
Middle School Category (Yrs 7-9)
Entry fee $10 per entry
The above Categories invite you to try your hand at Producing/ Sewing an “Outfits” inspired by the theme context celebrating You, Nostalgia and Imagination within the season of Spring/Summer 2025.
Submission Requirements
Your Produced/Sewn Outfit must reflect the theme context:
- The outfit must be hand made from start to finish by the entrant.
- Made to fit a Fairholme model (student) between sizes 8 to 16.
- The outfit must reflect original ideas inspired by the 'theme context' and noted through an A4 mood board which includes sketches of proposed design/s.
- May use a commercial pattern that is adapted to suit the brief
- Photos (at least 3)
of the construction process as evidence.
This category will be judged on the following criteria:
| Criteria | Possible Score |
|---|---|
| Creative use of Fabrics | 10 |
| Degree of Difficulty | 10 |
| Garment Construction / Sewing Skills | 10 |
| Originality v/s Inspiration | 10 |
| Catwalk Judging | |
| Catwalk Appeal: impact of the visual effects | 10 |
| TOTAL SCORE | 50 |
It is essential that the Entry Conditions » are read prior to commencing design work.
Note: All Entries and documentation (mood board and photos) are submitted to Fairholme Administration, Wirra Wirra Street, no later than 4pm Friday 17 October 2025.
Please allow time for postage if entries are to be sent to ensure garments arrive by submission date.
Entry Fees: See above.
Cash Prizes
Open - Category One
Open Champion Designer - Prize TBC
Open Emerging Designer - Prize TBC
Senior (Years 10-12) - Category Two
Senior School Encouragement Award - Prize TBC
Middle (Years 7-9) - Category Three
Middle School Champion Designer - Prize TBC
Middle School Encouragement Award - Prize TBC
Other Prizes
TBC
Fairholme Fashion Parade
The Fairholme
Fashion Week culminates with the Fairholme Fashion Awards where the winners of the three categories will be announced.
Saturday 25 October 2025: Fairholme Fashion Parade
Doors open at 10am for 10.30am start
Venue: College Assembly Hall
Cost: $15 for adults. $10 for students.
(Tickets can be purchased at the door if not sold out earlier.)
