24 October 2024
Embrace authenticity and celebrate bag designs that captures the essence of human touch.
Design-A-Bag (DAB) Online Competition, the leather bag designing event for designers and design students worldwide, is pleased to announce the opening of submissions for the 2025 edition. Organized by Fashion Access since 2007, this annual competition aims to foster creativity and highlight the talent of bag designers from diverse backgrounds. The competition offers participants the opportunity to showcase their unique and innovative creations to a global audience of industry professionals.
Finalists will be sponsored to attend Fashion Access 2025 in Hong Kong, which is held alongside APLF Leather and Materials+, the most international exhibition for leather and fashion manufacturing industries. The Overall DAB Winner will win a 4-week design course at Arsutoria School in Milan.
The submission deadline is 13 January 2025 (GMT+8 23:59)
Ms Moyang Yang, DAB 2023 Winner, attended design course at Arsutoria School
2025 Competition Theme: ARTISANAL INTELLIGENCE
While artificial intelligence enhances our world, it’s the heart that truly defines our creations.
Infuse pulsating objects with resonating souls, embrace handcraft fashion designs.
There’s no denying that Artificial Intelligence has gradually begun to overshadow the human touch in our world. In response to this challenge, we proudly present the theme: Artisanal Intelligence, highlighting the essence and spirit behind every creation.
It’s time to return to our roots, celebrating authenticity and the soulful craftsmanship that each artisan brings to life. Let’s embrace the creativity and individuality that define us as human beings.
With a focus on soulful and heartfelt designs, DAB 2025 challenges designers to create the ultimate bag that captures the essence of artisanal intelligence and the unique human touch, using leather as the main material, harmoniously blends form and function, resulting in a piece that deeply resonates with the human spirit. Each design should not only fulfill a purpose but also weave a narrative, reflecting the emotional depth and craftsmanship that only a human hand can provide.
2025 Design Direction:
1. Leather, what else? Genuine leather must be used…
and can be complemented by other natural or non-leather materials.
2. Look for inspirations and fashion indicators from archives to explore iconic bag designs for the future
Break the existing rules that had navigated us in the past years. Discover new materials and structures for your bag design. Participants can get inspiration from APLF 2025/26 Fall-Winter Material Trends.
Please visit here for more competition guidelines.
Prizes include:
Mr Ivan Cedric Fabia and his winning bag – Rooted
Finalists
Crooked, Regita Lepla (Estonia)
Nova-Rover, Florence Chow (Hong Kong)
Online Favourite Design:
Cuadrado, Aysu Parlak (Türkiye)
Click here to watch the design concepts of the finalists.
Become our media partner
As a media partner, we seek your assistance with outreach and PR activities. By accepting to work with us, you will stay connected with the global fashion community and be able to reach out to over 20,000 trade buyers and 1,500 exhibitors from the fashion and leather industries.
Getting Involved
There are a couple of other ways our media partner can support this competition:
If you are interested in getting involved, we are more than happy to hear from you. Get in touch with us by writing to [email protected].
All details for media can be found on www.designaccess-fa.com.
We bring leather, material and fashion businesses together: an opportunity to meet and greet face to face. We bring them from all parts of the world so that they can find fresh partners, discover new customers or suppliers and keep ahead of industry developments.
We organise a number of trade exhibitions which focus on fashion and lifestyle: sectors that are constantly in flux, so visitors and exhibitors alike need to be constantly aware both of the changes around them and those forecast for coming seasons.
