FACE Excellence Award 2024
This prize makes visible, the spectrum of Black and minoritised excellence within a framework of creativity.
The aim of the FACE Excellence Prize is to amplify Black and minoritised creativity as a broad and limitless possibility and inspire all our minoritised creatives - working within a white centric system, to find belonging in a prize that recognises their unique contribution to style, culture, fashion and society.
You can self noiminate for this prize.
Open to all who identify as non-white.
Next entry for all graduating students is May 2025. This can be done via the Graduate Fashion Week Website
Mahalia Ellis
Birmingham City University
“It’s all about embracing the richness and complexity of Black culture. Key from me was making a clear rejection of the narrow definitions often imposed on Black creativity.”
Read more about FACE Excellence Winner 2024 Mahalia Ellis here
Nothando Ngwawaira
University of Westminster
“Winning the FACE Excellence Award has given me a focus to decide how how I go forward.”
Read more about FACE Excellence Winner 2023 Nothando Ngwawaira here
Meerim Mamatova
Kingston School of Art
“We are people, who share one big house, a land where we should all feel welcomed, and a place that we should all feel at home.”
Read more about FACE Excellence Winner 2022 Meerim Mamatova here
Joy Julius
Kingston School of Art
“When I entered the room and saw people like me. I had so much confidence that these judges would see my work and understand my thinking. It was a very important moment.”
Read more about FACE Excellence Winner 2021 Joy Julius here