Wave Ontario Wardrobe Challenge

2024 Inaugural WOW Challenge

Participants of the Inaugural WOW Challenge at the Anniversary Gala and Textile Festival, July 12 & 13, 2024, Wave Fibre Mill, Seguin, Ontario

WOW Challenge 2025 Evaluation Panel

We are pleased to introduce the evaluation panel for the 2025 WOW Challenge. The following textile and fashion experts determined the 2025 Challenge finalists (pictured clockwise from top left):

• Pamela D’Ettorre has been a buyer for major Canadian retail chains, as well as a professor of fashion, textiles, and home decor. She has owned and operated her own linen manufacturing business, and is an advocate for Canadian made fashion and textiles. Her focus is on ethical and sustainable fashion and textiles, and how clothing has changed, and continues to change our world.
• Pat Hertzberg had a successful career as a fashion designer before transitioning to fine art as a textile artist.  Her work has been in gallery exhibitions across Canada, has been included in various Canadian and American publications, and is part of corporate and private collections around the world.

• Michelle Head Kim currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Wool Council of Canada. Michelle received her MBA from the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management and her MA Economics from Western University.
• Phillip Sparks has been a tailor and designer for over two decades and worked in the wardrobe departments of the National Ballet of Canada, The Canadian Opera Company and the Stratford Festival. He is a skilled producer of custom garments and serves as a professor in the School of Fashion at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto.
• Michele Meadows studied Fashion Design with a focus on knitwear and began a career in the yarn industry. Her love of the outdoors led her to embrace a life in the Muskokas, where she is the owner of Muskoka Yarn Connection in Bracebridge.  Her knitwear patterns are widely published both in Canada and internationally.