Romance Was Born was awarded the Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYA) fashion prize on Wednesday November 11.
Designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales were selected from finalists
Gary Bigeni and
Arnsdorf to receive $5,000 in cash and $5,000 in flights from Qantas and a money-can't-buy mentoring opportunity from Australian fashion stalwarts Nicky and Simone
Zimmermann.
The pair said "We really want to put the flights and money towards doing a showing in London sometime next year. It's something we have always wanted to do when the timing was right!"
Last year's winner as
Geoffrey J Finch of
Antipodium and in 2007, Ben Pollitt of
Friedrich Gray took out the prize.
Romance Was Born also won the
Woolmark Award at this year's L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.