The 2025 ICIAD Fashion Design Award is centered on the core themes of "Cultural Weaving · Sustainable Aesthetics · Future Trends," focusing on innovation in interpreting cultural symbols and advancing ecological responsibility in fashion design. The competition encourages designers to activate traditional craftsmanship with a global perspective, achieving deep integration of ethnic elements with contemporary aesthetics, and merging artisanal spirit with digital manufacturing. It advocates for circular design thinking to reconstruct the fashion industry chain, promoting the exploration of eco-friendly materials, smart textiles, and inclusive design, and aims to create fashion expressions that combine cultural narrative, commercial value, and social impact. This award is dedicated to recognizing pioneering works that break industry boundaries and drive cultural communication and sustainable transformation, leading the fashion industry towards greater humanistic care and a greener, low-carbon future, while injecting new creative vitality into the global fashion ecosystem.
As a key category of the 2025 ICIAD International Cultural Innovation Art & Design Awards, the Fashion Design Award invites innovative works from fashion designers, brands, textile artists, and academic teams worldwide that reshape fashion narratives through cultural DNA. Through project submissions, expert evaluation, and exhibitions, the award builds a cross-disciplinary collaboration platform connecting designers, manufacturers, technology enterprises, and cultural institutions, facilitating the commercialization and international expansion of outstanding works. Focusing on synergy among fashion, culture, technology, and sustainability, the competition aims to set a new industry benchmark—"Culture as the soul, design as the body, and sustainability as the lifeblood"—and lead a new wave of aesthetic and value transformation for the future of global fashion.
