As we proudly declared in our last blog, our latex design Tsukumogami won the big daddy Supreme WOW Award last week (as well as the Myths & Legends Section). Ben and I couldn’t be happier. But seeing as we competed against 85 finalist entries created by 100 designers from 17 countries, across 25 awards, we thought …
The shine, the pucker, the crinkle, the cut, and even some sure reflection. Really, what could be better than the visual component latex?
Dawnamatrix took 3rd place in this year’s The WorldofWearable Art’s “Open Section” with our latex wardrobe piece Royal Emissary.
As always, there’s lots going on at WOW, beyond just us competing with another of our latex outfits. While the show is stunning, what the presenters manage as much preshow to during it, above and beyond the alternate runaway event, music, and dance, is always top notch and so interesting. Two weeks away now, The …
When the New Zealand government announced a level 4 pandemic lockdown on August 17th, the TSB Arena, where the WOW show was supposed to be held, was a hive of activity.
The WOW show, happening from 30 September to 17 October this year, will be a “most spectacular theatrical stage production, showcasing the finalist entries from around the world, with an audience of over 60,000 people expected to attend.” Finalist designers will vie for awards and prizes across three recurring sections; Aotearoa, Avant-garde, and Open, as well as a new trio of sections; Architecture, Elizabethan Era, and Monochromatic.
We just received an update about our latex wardrobe piece “Gemini: The Twins” on the WOW website. Victoria Crocker was kind enough to explore what went into the creation of our World Of WearableArt Competition award-winning entry in her recent article “Behind the Design: Gemini The Twins” (see here).
For the past three years preparing the latex wardrobe creations we submit to the World of Wearable Art competition, we are always amazed how quickly the time speeds by. One WOW competition ends, and it seems we are all-too-soon getting some things ready for the next. In keeping us all on the jump of things, we just …
Winning with your latest latex couture creation reaps multiple benefits when that win happens to come at WOW. As we have seen now for the past three years in a row, having competed in the World Of Wearable Art event and come away with awards each time, the New Zealand mainstay global fashion meet maintains a strong …
The attention and accolades we continue to enjoy with our latex outfits winning at WOW are amazing. The links below take you to the latest in World of Wearable Art news where Dawnamatrix was lucky enough to be featured in some way.
For the 3rd year-in-a-row, a Dawnamatrix latex design has won at The World of Wearable Art. The award show/startling global fashion event was held last night in New Zealand, and we are honored and humbled to receive the Overall International Design Award, International Design Award: Americas and Avant-garde Section Third. All for our Gemini: The Twins.
Proud as we were of attending, competing and winning with our latex outfits in last year’s World of Wearable Art Competition, you can bet we have entered the event for 2018. This actually marks WOW’s 3oth anniversary, so we are even happier (if that is possible) to have submitted for the show this special year.
Dawnamatrix and sculptor and fiber artist Lana Crooks collaborated to make a dress for the upcoming World of Wearable Art competition in New Zealand. WOW® is a globally respected and renowned international design competition. Yearly it draws hundreds of entries from all over the world, awarding $165,000 in prize money, and internships with huge creative companies, like the Weta Workshop, known for their work on “The Lord Of The Rings” trilogy, among others films.
As you can see from this post (which includes a picture of our latex couture creation ‘Tsukomogami’, the 2025 Supreme WOW Supreme Award winner at the top of the article) tickets are now on sale for the WOW (World of WearableArt show) returning to Wellington this year, 9/17 to 10/4. This year’s show, 2026 WOW Show: …
Any chance we get to champion the World of WearableArt show, the pack of global designers who participate in it, and how our latex designs have been so welcomed (and won) there, we love to chime in. Receiving this most recent update from The Post of Te Upoko O Te Ika about this year’s WOW, …
Another Dawnamatrix Design latex outfit has made it to finalist consideration for the World of WearableArt Competition.
That big turn-out WOW always enjoys, is a testament to how many folks truly love alternate fashions and future forward global designing, and how these designers, critics, reviewers and even casual fans surely love traveling to New Zealand across two fall months to be wowed.
Attending this one-of-a-kind textile art event at the TSB Arena in Wellington is pretty much unlike anything the Dawnamatrix team has ever had the privilege to see, let alone be a part of.
We just learned that the World of WearableArt Awards Show, something Dawnamatrix has entered and won various awards at for the past few years, is back!
“While Covid created some challenges for us, it also gave us a chance to reset and to start hatching plans about how we can continue to produce extraordinary content,” he said, adding the second part of the organization’s wish for the future: “Growing internationally is a natural thing for WOW to do.”
Assessing what we learn from the pandemic, there are sure to be wholly new designs across the art world that surface. Certainly, latex fashions, cosplay, leather wardrobes, fetish gear will survive the current hiccup in our history in their way. Once again, we thank the World of WearableArt for doing their unique and very best championing this survival.
WOW especially hopes for attendees to immerse themselves in what they see and enjoy our garments in an up-close-and-personal way, something not so easily accomplished at the huge WOW competition. To make sure of this, even in the face of Covid-19, WOW ensures that the strictest of protocols will be enacted and enforced, with plenty of room for social distancing between groups.
As you may have read in this blog, The World Of WearableArt has been very good to our latex designs. We won awards in 2019, ‘18, and ’17 at the competition and they continue to support us and all the other designers who enter by showcasing our work beyond their yearly competition. We just received …
As the final judging night nears, WOW is making us feel better and better about once again getting our latex designs into their competition…and being picked for the finals. Sure, we go on a bit about the New Zealand-based World of WearableArt Competition and show, but there really is nothing like it anywhere, and we are so proud to be part of WOW once again.
Winning awards, for the second year in a row, for our latex couture on the global WOW stage is an honor we are having a hard time getting our heads around. Sure we are cool and hip alt. wardrobe designers but winning WOW again..man we are blown away! But as we mentioned in our last blog, to be among fourteen other U.S. designers that made the finalists at this year at World of WearableArt Awards Show, invests us of an honor all its own.
Basking though we are in the glow of our big WOW win (see here and here), we realize the latex wardrobe world keeps spinning regardless of anyone’s personal news. This last day of September, we wanted to report on a few stories of celebrities wearing latex at the end of this month. Across four sold-out …
If we were in a self-serving mood, we could expound on another year of us contributing a latex outfit to the World of Wearable Art competition and what happened there (which you can read here). And there were surely other things we wrestled our couture into (see that story here). But as with part 1 …
In the last few blogs we gave forth, on what passed by us in 2019 and during the past decade, in latex design and fashion culture, in general. It’s certainly a matter of personal conjecture what will hit, what will die, what will circle round again, and what might be coming for the future in …
This article elaborates on WOW’s (The World Of Wearable Art) global importance in an academic context…and quite the global importance the competition holds. Our “Foreign Bodies” outfit, which was awarded the Overall International Design Award, International Award: Americas Winner at the WOW competition in 2018, makes an appearance in the book. Designing bespoke latex, flattered …
Showcasing designers from different disciplines, working with a wide range of materials, Fashion Art’s ethos is very much like that of WOW’s in that they look to showcase “fashion as more than just clothing but as living wearable art.”
The ‘level playing field’ here, the runway actually just the cleared space in the museum, not up higher than the audience, brings the models up close and personal in a way that other events can’t usually manage. Yes, it does make the models’ walk on a whole different order, but we found now, in the two consecutive years we have shown at the C&C, that there is an intimacy when a runway is set like this, or on a back patio, or even on the street between a close pressed in crowd.
I never know what someone will think when they step into the nuts-and-bolts of our manufacturing. It certainly isn’t as glamorous as one of my wardrobe pieces being featured in a Katy Perry video or on a model posing in the latest issue of Vogue. That ‘end result’ is something I do enjoy witnessing of course, even being congratulated over ( I won’t lie, I like the affirmation as much as anyone.) But the day-to-day work isn’t sexy by any means, although it is rewarding in a way I can’t readily articulate. But Amanda and City Arts reported on what we do in such a special way
Looking ahead into 2018 what do you ‘see’ when you consider latex in your life? Are you looking to buy a new latex kimono or might this be the year you finally wiggle your sexy self into come steampunk inspired gear? Are you planning to take in any of a number of those lifestyle events happening around the world, as much to network as to play as to simply dress up at? Are you looking to branch out in your fantasy costuming wear to include come rubber clothing or PVC into your rotation?
The World of Wearable Art exhibition at the Museum of Pop Culture had such an impact on us all here at Dawnamatrix Studios. This fusion of art and costume was what I had been searching for and now that we have made it to this point all I can say is thank you all for following me in this journey.
The World of Wearable Art Competition never disappoints, whether Dawnamatrix happens to win it or not.
