Competition
International Woolmark Prize
The Woolmark Company
At a glance
- Deadline
- Open. No closing date published.
- Fee
- No fee to apply
- Who may apply
- You have produced commercial apparel for 4 to 10 years, or worked as a designer within a brand for 4 to 10 years
- A brand overview with your two latest lookbooks, stockists and press coverage
- Where
- Apply online from anywhere; the final is held at an international fashion event
A global fashion design award: finalists get funding to develop their business and a capsule collection, mentorship and retail stockists, and the winner receives AU$300,000.
The facts
- What you get
- AU$300,000 for the winner; development funding for every finalist
- Where
- Apply online from anywhere; the final is held at an international fashion event
- How long
- One award cycle
Where you stand
This one is free. There is no fee to apply, and nobody should ask you for money at any point.
What they ask for
- You have produced commercial apparel for 4 to 10 years, or worked as a designer within a brand for 4 to 10 years
- A brand overview with your two latest lookbooks, stockists and press coverage
Get ready to apply
Built only from what this listing states.
A long application, by our reading.
1. What to get ready
It asks for something outside the usual documents; read it below.
In their words: “One file of no more than 10MB with a brand overview, two latest lookbooks as PDF, your reason for applying and your experience with wool”
2. Dates
- No closing date is stated.
- Openings with no closing date can close once they have enough people, so sooner is safer. Our advice
- On the date, the listing says: No closing date is stated on the page.
Download checklist (.txt) Send to WhatsApp
The download is a small text file. You can read it later without data. It also lists each condition they set, so you can tick yourself against them. WhatsApp sends the same list to you, or to somebody helping you.
No CV yet? Make a plain one from your answers. Nothing you type is kept.
Tips for applying for a competition
General advice from us, the same for every competition. It is not what this organisation says; that is above.
- Read the rules and the judging criteria first, and write to them.
- Check who owns your work after you enter. The rules usually say.
- Submit a day early. Upload pages are often slow near a deadline.
If there is an interview or a test
- If there is a final or a pitch, practise out loud and time yourself.
All our tips and messages to copy. Practise answering, with nothing kept. Received an offer? Check whether it is real, then read before you say yes.
How to apply
You apply on The Woolmark Company's own website, not here. We never send an application for anybody and we never ask you for anything to pass on. Check their page for anything not shown here.
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How we checked this
This was opened and verified at The Woolmark Company's own website on 5 October 2026: it was real, still open, and open to people from African countries. If anything here is wrong, tell us.