What The Fabric Costume Awards 2025: Results are In!

[labgoat]

May 2025

Ladies, Gentlemen and @balabam welcome!

@labgoat and @elektra blue are happy to present the most prestigious award of the year! and yes, you are right, it's not by chance we're going live today, take this MET Gala! learn from the pros! In a perfect world, I’d give everyone WTF costumes and FS would become deservedly more popular than MET Gala. Even the MET Gala is jealous of us (we're having way more fun and creativity for sure). That's when you know it's a WTF costume AWARD costume

Do you think it would be fun to showcase these gloriously terri...fic looks in a thread? So do we!

• A WTF costume doesn't mean unlovable or terribly ugly. It means weird, over the top, extra, kitsch and camp, OK fine sometimes also ugly: biggrin:, but always memorable, something so over the top that makes you turn your head and scream WTF!!!!
• WTF is usually meant in a good kind of way. It means something that makes you turn your head, that is so extra that becomes beautiful and is intentional.
• To be entered in the WTF costume award isn't a slander, it's a compliment

Rules

• A WTF costume doesn't have age restrictions - juniors are allowed.
• Memorable is one thing. Having nightmares about them, something else.
• Naaah. there's not wtf effect if they don't make you stare at your screen wandering what are you looking at.
• For example: That giant golden flower is extra, but not extra enough to qualify for the WTF costume award or the 80s.
• Occasionally special awards will be given to recognize excellence in an area outside the criteria. This year hair counts as part of the costume.
• Teams are judged separately (we don't have enough pairs, let's face it, do they even bother with a proper costume? and more than often only one of the members of the team has the right...talent)

P. S.: F stands for Fabric of course! what were you thinking?

On Judging
A juried competition is a competition in which participants' work is judged by a person or panel of persons convened specifically to judge the participants' efforts. The jury may be referred to as a competition jury or awards jury, and usually presents awards based on specific criteria for the competition.

• Each one of us is a Netizen and we all know the importance of something that is visually appealing, for it has the potential to attract attention
• Copying an idea is easy but coming up with something original and fresh is a challenge. While judging an entry, special attention should be made towards the point of view of the entry. A creative and original idea grab attention in ways you would never have thought of!
• If a judge likes an entry, they must ask themselves this question — did the contestant have clarity in his or her thoughts
• Recall ability is a must when it comes to the judgment process.

 

[labgoat]

Post 2
Past Winners 2024

Ladies, gentlemen and everything in between, @Ichatdelune @labgoat @norwegianfairytale and @WednesdayMarch and I@elektra blue are honored to welcome you to the award ceremony for the most prestigious fashion event of the millennium

Creativity Award Anthony Paradis FS Yours Marie-Jade Lauriault & Romain LeGac FS Corpse Bride

Jury Award Alexei Kiliakov FD Sikuriadas Tango Ella Hawkes FS Avatar

Camp Award Semen Danillants SP The Mask Vladimir Litvintsev FS Circle of Life

Reveal Award Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps FS Vampire

Hall of Shame Johnny Weir Lifetime Achievement

Best Hair Anastasia Polibina RD Tina Turner

Honorable Mention 2024 – Best Kilt – Mark Hanretty

Link to 2023-2024 WTF Contest Thread

 

[labgoat]

Post 3 Nominees

The following nominees are being gathered from the competition threads.

• Category 1 WTF General Category – juried, a jury will be summoned at this time
• Category 2 WTF most Camp costume – fan judged
• Category 3 WTF Reveal award – fan judged
• Category 4 WTF Creativity Award – juried, a jury will be summoned at this time
  Fashion Forward, memorable, good, extra, beautiful and intentional
• Category 5 WTF Hall of Shame (Career Award) - users submit nominees/fan judged - Remember this is a lifetime award...for a body of WTF work
• Category 6 WTF Honorable Mention – Best Hair – fan judged
• Category 7 WTF Honorable Mention - Kiss and Cry fan judged

Watch this space this June for further information on final nominees and judges...

 

[Lamente Ariane]

Where do we submit Hall of Shame nominees? I’d like to nominate Stephane Lambiel (that zebra print Four Seasons look! The Red Cat!) and Aljona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (Send in the Clowns…)

 

[ladyjane]

I am already looking forward to this. When I come back from holiday, I am going to try to find candidates/nominees. Yay!

 

[Diana Delafield]

Where do we submit Hall of Shame nominees? I’d like to nominate Stephane Lambiel (that zebra print Four Seasons look! The Red Cat!) and Aljona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (Send in the Clowns…)

My daughter would vote for Laurence Fournier-Beaudry and the very bare midriff costumes. Her husband was interested to hear that LFB was returning to competition. They'd had a bet on for some time that either those skimpy tops were glued in place to her body, or that eventually she'd fling her arms up and the top would slide up to a height that would not be shown on the replays.

 

[elektra blue]

we're back! in case you were missing us

Where do we submit Hall of Shame nominees? I’d like to nominate Stephane Lambiel (that zebra print Four Seasons look! The Red Cat!) and Aljona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (Send in the Clowns…)

here but nominations aren't open yet, we'll let you know where you can unleash your shadiness

 

[TallyT]

we're back! in case you were missing us




here but nominations aren't open yet, we'll let you know where you can unleash your shadiness

I collect costume pictures and I have several prime candidates for the Hall of Shame...

I know I will not be supported but I have to nominate Paul Poirier's "I am gonna show some skin if it kills me" red...

 

[Diana Delafield]

I collect costume pictures and I have several prime candidates for the Hall of Shame...

I know I will not be supported but I have to nominate Paul Poirier's "I am gonna show some skin if it kills me" red...

If you mean the backless freeskate jacket, I'll second your nomination. Just looked as if they ran out of fabric and thought, "Oh well, put the missing section around at the back and no one will notice."

 

[TallyT]

"...and no one will notice."

And we did, oh good good we did

 

[4everchan]

Paul, I have your back !

I love that costume. Piper and Paul also had the best series of costumes for the RD. This deserves a special award too.

 

[labgoat]

Where do we submit Hall of Shame nominees? I’d like to nominate Stephane Lambiel (that zebra print Four Seasons look! The Red Cat!) and Aljona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (Send in the Clowns…)

Right here works!

 

[labgoat]

Shout out to our previous judges @Ichatdelune @norwegianfairytale @balabam @WednesdayMarch - please check in with us if you want to still be a part of the judging party

 

[Ichatdelune]

Shout out to our previous judges @Ichatdelune @norwegianfairytale @balabam @WednesdayMarch - please check in with us if you want to still be a part of the judging party

@balabam can't be a judge, he has a liver to destroy

 

[Mathman]

Here is my nomination for fiercest hair and eyebrows, Beda Leon Sieber from the GS interview posted today.

Swiss ice dancers Zehnder and Sieber embrace senior stage

Gina Zehnder and Beda Leon Sieber After two years of competing in both the junior and senior ranks, Swiss ice dancers Gina Zehnder and Beda Leon Sieber

www.goldenskate.com

 

[Lamente Ariane]

If you mean the backless freeskate jacket, I'll second your nomination. Just looked as if they ran out of fabric and thought, "Oh well, put the missing section around at the back and no one will notice."

I thought the opposite, that the plan was “if everyone’s looking at Paul’s back maybe they won’t be looking at Piper’s dress” (honestly I could’ve liked Paul’s suit if it felt at all, well, suited to the program. Piper’s dress otoh… well it didn’t go with Paul’s..)

 

[elektra blue]

@balabam can't be a judge, he has a liver to destroy

but you can, my better half

 

[Ichatdelune]

but you can, my better half

I don't know how active I can be but I'd like to if you lovely folks can tolerate my relative lateness

 

[TallyT]

Thing is, the costumes in the 2024-25 year have for the most part been okay, neither all that good or endearingly awful... But there were a couple standouts in the wrong direction (as with Paul, these are just my opinion!)

Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri - their first robot ones. Not only awful but every single photo I have seen it makes them look like their heads are pasted on.

Bradie Tennell's Riverdance, the one at Skate America: I kept trying to see what other folk thought was so beautiful but it still looked like the cheap tourist tat you get at 'Ye Cliched Celtic Souvenir Shoppe'.

 

[elektra blue]

Thing is, the costumes in the 2024-25 year have for the most part been okay, neither all that good or endearingly awful... But there were a couple standouts in the wrong direction (as with Paul, these are just my opinion!)

Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri - their first robot ones. Not only awful but every single photo I have seen it makes them look like their heads are pasted on.

Bradie Tennell's Riverdance, the one at Skate America: I kept trying to see what other folk thought was so beautiful but it still looked like the cheap tourist tat you get at 'Ye Cliched Celtic Souvenir Shoppe'.

you can make your nominations as soon as we open them, you'll also see that the're some surprises from my notepad. OR you could be part of the whole process and become a judge...how do you feel about that? (we need one person are you shady enough to be that person?)