News
⋆
Events
⋆
News ⋆ Events ⋆
Events
Designer Registration Open: Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards
This September, we’re bringing a fashion competition to Street Works Earth to celebrate designers, artists, and neighbors creating outfits that show how care for people, communities, and the planet can be gorgeous, inventive, and stylish.
We’re inviting fashion designers at any level — self-taught, students, emerging, or established — to submit one original wearable outfit that demonstrates sustainability. Designers must be available in person in Queens, NYC, September 20-27 to present their work (exact day to be confirmed.)
A note from Thread Lightly organizers: Fashion in an arts festival, 9/21
The way we decorate ourselves is an artistic act. But it’s also shaped by systems. Thread Lightly was a fashion focus in Street Works Earth 2025, co-designed this year with We Act for Environmental Justice and Kaleidospace. Let us know if you have ideas for how we can carry this into 2026 and beyond.