Open Call · September 2026
Privacy
Runway
Anti-surveillance fashion for the runway.
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Rolling · Hard deadline Aug 5
Anti-surveillance fashion for the runway.
Privacy Runway fuses civic education with fashion to help young people recognize, debate, and resist harmful surveillance practices. We co-create anti-surveillance looks using adversarial patterns, reflective textiles, and silhouette modulation, built to slip past automated recognition.
In September 2026 the project runs its first-ever Privacy Fashion Show in New York. Workshops, a pop-up exhibit, explainers, and post-show conversations connect fashion to democratic participation and civic engagement.
Fashion designers or fashion design students ready to explore the intersection of garment design and privacy. Create 1–5 looks that demonstrate anti-surveillance fashion in practice.
Creative technologists who push the limits of wearable tech. Collaborate with designers to bring a technical component to life·from wearables to virtual components or signals that actively disturb surveillance systems.
Cybersecurity researchers and hackers passionate about privacy and surveillance. Bring deep technical knowledge to ensure garments meaningfully engage with real surveillance technologies.
Create between 1–5 looks that show anti-surveillance fashion in practice. Explore adversarial patterns, reflective textiles, silhouette modulation, and other techniques that challenge automated recognition systems.
Collaborate with designers to bring a technical component to life. This could be anything from wearables to virtual components or signals that actively disturb surveillance systems.
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. Hard deadline: Aug 5. Selected participants notified and onboarded into the co-design process.
The first-ever Privacy Fashion Show in New York City. A pre-show pop-up and evening runway with press coverage.
Open educational kit published under Creative Commons: patterns, workshop slides, facilitator guide, and activity templates for replication.
One application for the New York Privacy Fashion Show.
Apply Now Rolling · Hard deadline Aug 5 Read the Code of Conduct · Questions? fashion@youthforprivacy.org
Fashion designer and cybersecurity researcher. Over ten years of fashion experience with shows at New York and Seoul Fashion Week. Collaborations with established brands. Forbes 30 Under 30 (2025).
US-based youth-led privacy advocacy and education organization. Educated over 15,000 young people on data privacy and cybersecurity. Part of the ITU AI Skills Coalition. Collaborated with the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs.
The New York Privacy Fashion Show is supported by the Responsible Tech Youth Power Fund.