2024 Award Winner: SUE PRESCOTT

Award for Material Innovation | Southerly Change

2024 Award Winner: JACQUELINE TSANG

VIVA Award for Creative Excellence | Fabric has memory

2024 Award Winner: ELLA FIDLER

Award for Excellence from a Rising Talent | Scrap Yarn

2024 Award Winner: UNTOUCHED WORLD

Circular Business Innovation Award | Rubbish Socks

2024 Award Finalist: OFFCUT

Circular Business Innovation Award | Offcut Caps

2024 Award Finalist: STANDARD ISSUE

Circular Business Innovation Award | Care For Life

2024 Award Finalist: SALMA IBRAHIM-JERRYWO

Finalist for Excellence from a Rising Talent Award | Made to Last

2024 Award Finalist: NETHASHA ABEYSINGHE

Finalist for Excellence from a Rising Talent Award | Visualise This

2024 Award Finalist: GRANT DAVY

Finalist for Creative Excellence Award | Modernising Tradition

2024 Award Finalist: NATALIA BERTOLO

Finalist for Creative Excellence Award | Twist, Tuck and Roll

2024 Award Finalist: STEFANIE BORKOWSKI

Finalist for Material Innovation Award | Port in a Storm

2024 Award Finalist: ZHEYI RUAN

Finalist for Material Innovation Award | Textural Study

2023 Award Winner: KATHERINE CHOW

Award for Excellence from a Rising Talent | Transformation, renewal, connection breathes modernity and new life into obsolete parachutes.

2023 Award Winner: WILLIAM FITZGERALD

VIVA Editorial Award | The Cockroach outfit subverts furniture removal blankets with modern tailoring

2023 Award Winner: OLIVIA SCHAW

Award for Innovation Showing Commercial Potential | The Joy of the Journey is a zero waste design shining a light on the beginning of a garment life.

2023 Award Winner: KARLIE MORROW

Award for Creative Excellence | No Virgins Allowed is a conversation starter, masquerading as a free spirit.

2023 Finalist: WHITNEY HENTON

Whitney's design honours the rich history of family.

2023 Finalist: IZZY LEVIEN

Sunset Sunrise speaks about the concept of spiritual consumption as a response to economic challenges and ties in threads of reincarnation with repurposed second-hand materials.

2023 Finalist: NETHASHA ABEYSINGHE

Nethasha's design highlights the diverse cultures within New Zealand and illustrates how people bond together because of their different backgrounds.

2023 Finalist: JOSH BOGNAR

An impulsive urge to see nothing go to waste is the genesis of this outfit.

2023 Finalist: PHILIPPA HOOGSTEDEN CASEY

The Old man overcoat integrates reclaimed textiles, traditional Māori craft techniques, printing, stitching, and natural dyes.