Junk Kouture: Youth Sustainable The World's First Sport for Creatives for Schools!

JUNK KOUTURE 2025 – 2026

Celebrate incredible designs and creativity from students across New York, Paris, Dubai, Milan, and London in one global celebration.

Over the past months, students from across the world have transformed recycled and everyday materials into extraordinary wearable works of art. Now, City Finalists across five cities come together for the Junk Kouture Festival of Finals 2026.

This year’s designs were judged by fashion designers Claire Garvey and Cory Infinite, who selected the teams progressing to the Junk Kouture World Final 2026🌍

✨ Congratualtions to all of our incredible finalists!

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The Junk Kouture 24/25 Competition Handbook is now available for download! 

This is the ultimate resource for your Junk Kouture journey – everything you need in one place, carefully crafted to guide you and your students from start to finish.

We’ve worked hard to bring all the essential elements into this single document—lesson plans, timelines, submission details, inspiring stories, and step-by-step guidance—all integrated throughout to make your experience seamless and easy to access all resource!

For French and Italian versions, visit our Eductor Hub found under Education 

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DUBAI     DUBLIN LONDON LOS ANGELES MILAN NEW YORK PARIS

BACK TO THE FUTURE CROWNED WORLD DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
SUSTAINABILITY IS THE NEW CREATIVITY
WIN FASHION BURSARIES!
UPCYCLIST NICOLE MC LAUGHLIN: NEW YORK JUDGE 2022
SHOWCASE YOUR CREATION TO A GLOBAL AUDIENCE!
EDUCATION RESOURCES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!
DELOITTE ANNOUNCED AS YOUTH SUSTAINABILITY PARTNER!

The Global Sport For Creatives

Junk Kouture is open to 12-19 year-olds and challenges young people to design & create high-end Kouture from upcycled Junk – showcasing their design & representing their school on stages across the world.

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DISCOVER

Junk Kouture offers schools and students a highly engaging way to use creative skills – empowering them create lasting behavioural change. We are constantly evolving our educational materials available to both educators and students on creative thinking, innovation and circularity to help them look beyond their Junk Kouture project and begin to apply the knowledge learned to all aspects of their lives. 

JUNK KOUTURE LESSON PLANS
INCLUSIVITY FOR ALL
LIVE EVENTS
STUDENT DOCUMENTARIES
PANEL DISCUSSIONS

EVENTS

DUBLIN CITY FINAL 2025

Watch now on the RTE Player a celebration of creativity and innovation, from across Ireland.

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2024 WORLD FINAL

Junk Kouture's Festival of Creativity & Circularity took place in March 2025 at the Helix, in Dublin. Celebrating 15 years of Junk Kouture.

Catch the hightlights below of the live event!
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Junk Kouture is delighted to announce that it has been appointed a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Champion by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications for 2024-2025.
 

The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan TD announced the appointment of 20 organisations from across society, including Junk Kouture, THINKHOUSE, Leave No Trace Ireland, UCD, Cork Chamber, and Too Good To Go as part of the 2024-2025 SDG Champions Programme, to serve as leaders in driving forward Ireland’s progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS A BETTER FUTURE!

Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) as our guide, we have devised an sustainability policy to constantly challenge the way we operate and to make us accountable to our students, schools, staff, partners, stakeholders, and planet.

We have committed as an organisation to focus on 6 areas of improvement

WORKING TOWARDS A BETTER PLANET

EDUCATION

Junk Kouture offers a student-centric learning experience in line with the requisite twenty-first century competencies (21CC). The process integrates formal and informal learning, to allow students to experience purposeful learning. Each Junk Kouture participant will engage their head, heart, mind & body to increase their understanding of:

CREATIVITY  SELF - DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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