Competition rules and regulations
(i) Competition Format
1. Preliminary evaluation from worldwide design submissions. Final design selection will be done by the judges.
2. Finalist will be contacted by the organizer, and they have to prepare the final design garments.
3. Final Evaluation: Comprehensive Professional Skills Assessment on ready-made garment.
(ii）Final evaluation criteria
Final contestants will be required to reproduce one of their final designs using toile material (white cloth) to test their professional skills in garment production.
Number |
Assessment content |
Percentage of points |
1 |
Comprehensive assessment on professional skills |
40% |
2 |
Finished garment |
60% |
Instructions for the Comprehensive Professional Skills Examination:
1. Examination duration: 8 hours (including lunch break provided by the organizing committee)
2. The examination is judged by selected industry experts. Notary office personnel will randomly select and open the instruction materials during the competition and announce the details onsite.
3.Fashion mannequins, sewing equipment, fabrics and toile cloth will be provided by the organising committee. However, participants need to bring their own sewing tools.
4.Assessment content: Based on the final instructions, contestants need to, complete their garment, including style structure drawing (technical drawing) paper patterns from draping and make a complete production of the entire garment using the given materials.
(ii) Selection of the juries
The juries comprise of experts from fashion industry players, lecturers from apparel colleges and universities home and abroad with other related party.
(iii) Marking and scoring
1. To guarantee the fairness and uphold the integrity of the competition, the whole process of the competition will be supervised and recorded by the Notary Office, together with the Discipline Inspection Officer of JIFT. The whole final process will also be broadcast live.
2. The scores of each competition will be calculated and verified by the notary officer during the competition, and the final scores will be sealed instantly by them.
3. The results will be revealed during the prize-giving ceremony for each category.