Fairholme Fashion Week 2025
20 - 25 October 2025
Fairholme Fashion Week is our annual celebration of holme-grown creativity, innovation, and talent. Held across the week leading up to our Spring Fair.
Throughout the week, our College hosts a variety of engaging workshops and events, culminating in the Fashion Awards and Fashion Parade (25 October 2025), a highlight on our calendar drawing over 600 attendees each year. The events showcases the incredible work of school students, design students and selected guest designers, offering a vibrant platform for emerging and established talent.
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.
2025 Fairholme Fashion Week Theme
Nostalgically YOU: A Celebration of Nostalgia, Imagination and You
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.
Show your commitment to conscious design and craftsmanship while giving new life to forgotten fabrics: preloved curtains, embroidered tablecloths, lace remnants, fringing, and old upholstery - the possibilities are endless.
Elevate your piece with hand-finished touches including 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 - that is NOSTALGICALLY YOU.
2025 Fairholme Fashion Awards and Fashion Parade
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, East Toowoomba no later than 4:00pm 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.
Prizes
Open - Category One
Open Champion Designer - $1,000
Open Emerging Designer - $500
Senior (Years 10-12) - Category Two
Senior School Champion Designer - $500
Senior School Encouragement Award - $300 (Gift Card thanks to Grand Central)
Middle (Years 7-9) - Category Three
Middle School Champion Designer - $350
Middle School Encouragement Award - $200 (Gift Card thanks to Grand Central)
Fairholme Fashion Parade
Saturday 25 October 2025
The Fairholme Fashion Week culminates with the Fairholme Fashion Awards and Fashion Parade where the winners of the three categories will be announced.
Doors open at 10:00am 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.
