New Zealand's World of WearableArt festival crowns 2026 winner
Designer Kayla Christensen won the festival's top Supreme Wow award for a garment inspired by New Zealand's native forests, the Guardian reported.
International designers gathered in Wellington, New Zealand, for the annual World of WearableArt festival, which blends art, design, fashion and theatre, the Guardian reported.
New Zealand artist Kayla Christensen won the 2026 festival's top prize, the Supreme Wow award, for a piece called Sacred Nightfall, described as an intricately stitched garment evoking a night goddess from the country's native forests.
The Guardian featured a gallery of entries, including garments resembling birds, fish and telephones.
Sources
- Avant-garments: the wild world of wearable art – in pictures — The Guardian — Culture
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