Walk The Line

Supporting Young Designers since 2011

Raise Up has partnered with NZFW to create the biggest designer fashion show for youth in Aotearoa since 2011. Walk the Line provides a platform for young aspiring fashion designers, and many participants have utilised this to forge successful careers within the fashion industry.

For over a decade our young designers have been lighting up the runway at New Zealand Fashion Week, competing for the coveted title of ‘Supreme Designer of the Year’.

Walk the Line will return to the NZFW stage in 2025.

2024 Categories

High Fashion
Streetwear
Avant-garde
Cultural fashion
2024 theme category: Throwback fashion

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Past Winners

In its 13th year as part of New Zealand Fashion Week, Walk the Line has helped launch careers from New Zealand to the global stage. Find out more about where Walk the Line could take you.

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A Global Stage

Raise Up NZ has partnered with NZFW deliver Aotearoa's biggest youth fashion show. New Zealand Fashion Week is Aotearoa’s only international fashion event.

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2024 Event Theme

Walk The Line is looking to showcase the power of youth voice on a global stage.

Each year, in consultation with young people, we choose a new theme to spark our designer's creativity. Our overall theme for 2024, "Throwback Fashion" gives young people the opportunity to go back in time to find creative inspiration, be it from the time of the pharaohs, the Ming dynasty, medieval, pre-colonial Pacific, or the 70s.

We are offering a unique opportunity for our designers to make their mark on the global stage through their own creative process. Our annual themes seek to draw out a response from the audience and to empower the next generation of change-makers within the fashion community.

2024 Event Theme

Walk The Line is looking to showcase the power of youth voice on a global stage.

Walk the Line 2024 Highlight Video

Walk the Line 2024 Highlights

Walk The Line 2023

Held at the Viaduct Events Centre, 2023 relaunched Walk The Line after COVID with a bang - featuring high quality design, flawless performance, and a huge amount of excitement, it was a highlight of Raise Up's annual event calendar.