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Global Creative Graduate Showcase is open to all undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate art and design disciplines for those that have graduated between September 2025 - August 2026 (Southern Hemisphere graduating after September 2025). The Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2026 is your chance to share your creative work alongside your peers from around the world and get it judged by industry leaders.

Shortlist Announced! We are delighted for the sixth year to be partnering with the International Real Leather. Stay Different. Student Design Competition 2026, a search for the best new designers around the globe and for those who want to promote slow style and a more sustainable future for fashion.

Meet the Winners! Brazilian designer Ana Luisa Braun Rodrigues and India’s Tanmay Bhavsar have taken the top Fashion and Home honours, with winning designs using fish scales, golden grass and bamboo. Only Natural exists to inspire the next generation of designers to place natural materials at the heart of their work and to challenge the systems that have normalised synthetic, disposable design.

Arts Thread is proud to be working with TEX+ again for 2026. TEX+ is a career accelerator, connecting the next generation with textile industry professionals to build skills, networks and futures.​ Our aim is to provide opportunities for textile graduates from UK universities, colleges and schools of art as they embark on their professional lives, making lasting social impact through work placements, financial awards, best practice guidance and peer-to-peer support.

At lululemon, we design for real life — and real life is rarely lived in one place. We’re inviting you to show your designs that move with someone through their whole day: from sweat, to work, to social time. Winners will be considered for our full-time open Design Assistant roles based in Vancouver (relocation provided for those eligible) and $500 lululemon gift cards.

Global Fashion Graduate South Africa 2025October 21–23, 2025 | Cape Town, South AfricaA Unique Opportunity on a Global StageFollowing the incredible success of last year’s Global Fashion Graduate event in Mexico, we are thrilled to announce this year’s edition will take place in Cape Town, South Africa .This initiative b...

For our 6th edition, Arts Thread is delighted that Monaco Foundry and Google Arts & Culture are collaborating on the Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2025.Global Creative Graduate Showcase is open to all undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate art and design disciplines for those that have graduated between September 2...

After an inspiring final event and a judging process that celebrated creativity and craftsmanship, Jamie Unlu O’Grady, from De Montfort University in the UK, was named Overall Winner 2025 for his modular footwear design SubTraction.Meet the Category winners!Islam Nashef – 2025 Apparel Category WinnerJamie Unlu O’Grady – 2025...

Update! Winners announced! Click on the banner above to meet the winners! We are delighted to be partnering for the second time with Only Natural – a global design competition that dares to redefine the future of home and fashion – challenging students to create bespoke items from natural fibres and materials with sustai...

Arts Thread is proud to be working with TEX+ again for 2025 NURTURING NEW TEXTILE TALENT• TEX+ is an initiative to promote, support and enhance textile design and training.Its mission is to connect textile graduates and practitioners with opportunities across the textile industries and beyond.• TEX+ will work with UK un...

Leading Fashion Universities Come Together for a Pioneering International Graduate Fashion Event in Mexico City CENTRO Mexico City , one of world’s leading design institutions has joined with Arts Thread to host a groundbreaking 4-Day Symposium and Fashion Show celebrating Diversity, Innovation, Sustainability and the Future...

Are you a student or a recent graduate from Hong Kong who possesses a deep passion for sustainable fashion?If so, we extend an invitation to you to unleash your boundless creativity in the realm of sustainable denim and empower you to redefine the concept of denim.The prizes will be awarded to the top two designers. Join us i...