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24.11.2025 - 12.06.2026
Warsaw
contest

Designers
Play Sustain 2026

Contest for fashion designers of the future

Submit your participation in the contest

The idea

Join the pioneers of tomorrow’s fashion.
Acquire new skills and competencies together with experts from Poland and Europe.
Create a sustainable future for fashion in the spirit of circularity and eco-design.

Categories

01
Upcykling Ready-2-Wear
Individual category

Show your creativity. Create an upcycled Ready-2-Wear collection and join the Designers community – ambassadors of circular fashion.

Category regulations
02
Eco-design Digital-2-AI
Team category

Create innovative solutions for the fashion industry through collaboration, diversity and new technologies.

Category regulations

Ready-2-Wear

Your path to victory, step by step

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01

Read the Terms and Conditions.

Content of the regulations

02

Fill out the application form and present the design of your upcycling collection to the jury.

03

Compete for one of the twelve places in the Grand Finale.

04

Take part in the Designers Play Sustain educational project - regardless of whether you make it to the final stage.

05

Produce a cohesive collection of seven silhouettes - showing that fashion can be both beautiful and sustainable, ethical and conscious.

06

Get involved with the Designers community and let's promote the fashion of the future together.

07

Present your collection at the Designers Play Sustain 2026 Grand Finale.

Digital-2-AI

Your path to victory, step by step

1 / 7
01

Read the Terms and Conditions.

Content of the regulations

02

Fill out the application form - tell us about your talents and write what fashion will look like in 2070.

03

Compete for one of the seats in the project teams.

04

Take part in the Design Thinking process. Create innovative solutions with your team using digital technologies.

05

Present a prototype in front of an expert jury.

06

Develop a business concept and convince potential investors of your idea.

07

Prove that cooperation brings the best results during the Designers Play Sustain 2026 Grand Finale.

Designers Play Sustain in numbers

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JURY: experts from Poland and abroad
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COOPERATION: partners and sponsors
0
FASHION: collections and 185 unique upcycled and digital silhouettes
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EDUCATION: hours of learning
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COMMUNITY: fashion leaders of the future
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IMPACT: monitored publications in 2025.

Financial prizes

30,000 PLN

Upcycling: Ready-2-Wear Main Prize

30,000 PLN

Ecodesign: Digital-2-AI Main Prize

10,000 PLN

Audience Award

Jury

30,000 PLN

Upcycling: Ready-2-Wear Main Prize

Agenda

Mariusz Przybylskiikona arrow show
chairman of the Designers 2026 Upcycling Ready-2-Wear jury
Odeta Jacėikona arrow show
trend analyst of the future of fashion and technology
Gosia Baczyńska
designer

Partners

24.11.2025

Designers 2026 competition announced

01.12.2025

Applications open

14.01.2026

Early Birds deadline

Extra feedback for applications sent before or on January 14

29.01.2026 g.12.00

Applications closed

At 12:00 pm sharp!

05.02.2026

Formal evaluation announced

06.02-15.02.2026

The jury votes

16.02.2026

Designers 2026 Finalists announced

18.02.2026

Onboarding of the Finalists

Online meeting with the Play Sustain team

23.02.2026

Start of the educational program

22.04.2026

Press Day in Warsaw

27.05.2026

Ready-2-Wear dress rehearsal/ Digital-2-AI teams pitch their solutions

Onsite meeting in Warsaw

12.06.2026

Designers 2026 Gala and selection of winners




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