Qwear Halloween 2018: VOTE on Top 5!

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Written By Sonny Oram

This Halloween our submissions soared with creativity and skill! We chose our top 5, and now it’s time for you to vote for the winner!

Prizes:

1st prize winner:

  • Invitation to model in our next fashion show!! (Or nominate a friend)
  • T-shirt of your choice from Tyler Wallach Studio!
  • Qwear style profile feature

2nd prize winner:

  • Qwear style profile feature
  • Instagram feature

3rd prize winner:

  • Instagram feature

Voting ends Wednesday Nov 30 at 11:59 pm EST.

Here are our first round winners, in no particular order:

First Round Winners

Lena Waithe at the Met Gala

The Sprinkle King

 
 

By i.like.big.bundts

Capn Crunch a Bitch Costume  

 
by Karlo Jacobs

by Karlo Jacobs

 

Kuzco from The Emperor's New Groove

 
 

By angelamelie988

Fred Jones from Scooby Doo

 
 

By lilcuppatea

*Voting has ended

Honorable mentions:

Sia

 
 

By The Chic Effect

Prince

 
 

By bowtiesandbigdreams

Beast Boy from Teen Titains

The Rock

Fun Dip

 
 

Wednesday Addams

 
 

By @sarahtrivedi

Skull

 
 

By @naztoorabally

Shout Out to the Qwear Team:

Mojo as Lil Kim at the VMAs

 
 

Sarah as Mr Glass from Unbreakable

Thank you to everyone who entered and added to the beauty of queer expression!

TL;DR: Qwear selected five 1st round winners, which you can vote on to win exciting prizes. There were many honorable mentions, and we finish off the story with some costumes from the Qwear team.

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Sonny Oram

Boston-based multidisciplinary artist Sonny Oram is the founder of Qwear, a leading voice in the queer fashion movement for more than 15 years, and the author of the foreword to Queer and Trans Fashion Brands: Resistance and Revolution in the 21st Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). His work has been featured in HuffPost, BuzzFeed, Design*Sponge, and QTYPE Magazine and he's spoken on panels at MIT, South by Southwest, and Simmons Nursing School.

His earliest published work was created at age ten: a series of collages made from cut-up magazines, accompanied by original text exploring themes of gender, cultural conditioning, predatory advertising, and media objectification. In 2025, images of these collages were published in Queer and Trans Fashion Brands: Resistance and Revolution (Bloomsbury Press) and the Fashion, Style & Popular Culture journal.

Through Qwear, Sonny has launched influential campaigns, including the award-winning #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike with Yasmin Benoit, and continues to create spaces for underrepresented communities across internet and print media. He has also used search engine optimization (SEO) to increase the visibility and diversity of queer representation in online search results, helping terms such as “androgynous style,” “bisexual style,” and “asexual” reflect a broader range of identities and experiences.

https://sonnyoram.com
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