MEET THE JUDGING PAN

MEET THE JUDGING PANEL: James Dobson (@jimmyd was here ) . Fashion designer (and founder of fashion label Jimmy D), James Dobson, is a guest judge on our 2019 judging panel! James will be flying down to Nelson, New Zealand to join us at WOW HQ for First Judging Weekend. . “I’m constantly trying to navigate this balance between art and fashion, but when you’re a designer that has to keep at least one foot in the commercial world it’s tricky - if I was to create a collection that had no commercial constraints it would probably look very different - and this is the area WOW entrants get to inhabit! I talk a lot about fearless creativity, which in my world gets tempered with commercial constraints, WOW entrants have no such limitations so in some ways it’s the most purest form of fashion design. Not everyone in fashion gets to be or CAN be this fearless.” . Swipe ➡️ to see work from Jimmy D. Credits: Headshot: