Worldwide Fashion, Textiles & Wearables Innovation Awards

Fashion has always involved invention. Fibers, dyes, weaving techniques, fastenings, footwear construction, synthetic fabrics, and performance materials have repeatedly changed what people can wear and what clothing can achieve.

That process continues today, with material science, digital manufacturing, electronics, data, and new design methods expanding the possibilities further.

The DaVinci Awards® recognizes breakthroughs in fashion and everyday apparel, footwear, accessories, performance clothing, technical textiles, and connected wearables. We welcome both highly visible product innovations and advances that may be almost imperceptible to the wearer but represent substantial progress in materials science, engineering, or production.

Entrants should show why their approach matters. Does it allow a textile to behave differently? Remove waste from construction? Improve performance under demanding conditions? Give consumers greater personalization or utility?

The finished product may be stylish, practical, technical, or all three. What judges will ultimately look for is evidence that ingenuity has improved what we make, how we make it, or what a wearable product can do.

The DaVinci Awards recognizes outstanding feats of human ingenuity, and product innovation. Entries are welcomed from individuals, teams, startups, or established enterprises based anywhere in the world. Areas of interest include, but are certainly not limited to:

Look beneath the surface of your product and identify where the real breakthrough occurred. It might be found in fiber composition, fabric structure, pattern construction, manufacturing, embedded technology, or the way several disciplines have been brought together. Explain the experimentation and technical decisions behind the result. Judges should understand why your solution was difficult to achieve and what distinguishes it from simply applying an established technique to a new design.

Your innovation may address discomfort, poor durability, restrictive fit, excessive waste, demanding performance requirements, inefficient production, or a function that existing products cannot provide. Support the case with relevant evidence, whether that comes from material testing, performance data, manufacturing improvements, wear trials, reduced waste, product longevity, or feedback from the people actually using it.

A new textile might have applications across multiple industries; a manufacturing technique could alter how entire product ranges are produced; a better construction method might make repair or reuse more commonplace. Address the practicalities of wider adoption, including production capacity, material sourcing, cost, durability, and end-of-life, and show where your work could lead next.

Winners may make full use of The DaVinci Awards® hallmark of excellence, linked to your level of accreditation, on all relevant materials.

All winners also receive a DaVinci Awards® trophy, and substantial press opportunities working in partnership with our editorial team. Find out more.