The Future Ball part 3 - Back to the Future!
We would like to invite you to the third edition of an unforgettable Ball, organised by the precursors of the Ballroom in Poland - Mother Madlen Revlon and Mother Kamilla Revlon! In cooperation with Club Heaven, we will once again take you on an extraordinary journey.
The Ball is an emotionally charged performative event where those taking part compete for trophies in specific categories. Accompanied by vogue, techno and house music, together we will enter a time machine to discover what the future holds - a future where anything can happen!
Audience members are encouraged to dress up according to the futuristic atmosphere of the event so that we can celebrate this special Ball together.
The origins of ballroom culture date back to the 1960s and 1970s, a safer space created for trans, queer and BIPOC people by African-American and Latina trans women in New York. Voguing, as one of the many elements of Ballroom culture, emerged there in the 1980s.
BIPOC people have free entry and are guaranteed front row seats.
CATEGORIES:
European Runway/ All American Runway/ Beginners Runway
ORIGAMI, 3D: Paper comes to life, folds create kinetic sculptures on your body. Be inspired by the precision of origami, but take it into the future with smart textiles or shape-shifting materials. Let your creation be an architectural marvel, where geometric planes dynamically interact with movement to create the illusion of constant transformation. It's not just an outfit, it's living, breathing art.
The outfit does not have to be in white, but the shape must be origami-inspired. If you don't want the Judge panel to have any doubts, it's worth preparing a moodboard.
BQ Vogue Fem
SUPERBOHATERS/CHRONES IN REVERSED COLOURS: Redefine the icons! Choose a classic_superhero_and reverse his/her colour palette, creating a surprising alternative image. But it's not just a colour swap - think about how this change affects his/her personality, powers and even morals. Does the protagonist_ become the anti-hero_? Do his/her powers manifest themselves in a new, visual form? Your styling must scream 'SUPER CUNTY', exuding the confidence and unexpected elegance of a darker or simply altered character.
FF Performance FQ/ Drag/ Women's
UTOPIA: Welcome to the ideal, sustainable world of tomorrow, where technology serves harmony. You are a pastel techno-goddess, dressed in ethereal, intelligent fabrics that respond to touch, mood or environment. The silhouettes are soft, flowing, often transparent, exuding tranquillity and a luminous aura. The colours are soft pastels, perhaps with bioluminescent accents. Everything is light, functional and beautiful - fashion as an expression of pure, technologically advanced bliss.
Hand's Performance
PAYING NETWORK: Your hands weave a story, and their extension is an intricate, futuristic spider web. It can be a web of laser threads, metallic fibres or flexible polymers that wrap around your body or create dynamic structures in space. Take inspiration from the symmetry and precision of spider webs, but add a modern, perhaps even cybernetic touch. Is your web a trap, a work of art or perhaps a communication system?
Arms Control
FUSION OF ANIMAL PRINTS, COLOUR FUTURES: Welcome to Dr. Moreau's laboratory of the future, where the boundaries between species have blurred to create fantastic animal chimeras. Your arms and hands tell the story of this genetic fusion. Mix prints in unexpected ways: snake scales turning into peacock feathers, leopard spots against holographic butterfly wings, fur in neon unnatural colours. Create a look that is wild, bold and celebrates the beauty of these unusual hybrid creatures of the future.
Best Dressed
FUTURIST CIRCLE: The circus of the future is a show where traditional disciplines meet cybernetics, holograms and queer expression without boundaries, magical illusionists using nanotechnology, or clowns whose make-up is interactive mapping. Your outfit must be extravagant, theatrical and imbued with the spirit of avant-garde technology.
Designer's Delight
DECONSTRUCTION: Fashion of the future questions everything we know. Take inspiration from deconstruction, but take it to a new level. Visible seams can be fibre optics, asymmetry can result from modular construction of an outfit, and reduction of silhouettes can lead to minimalist but smart forms. Experiment with 'glitch art' in fashion, unfinished designs that deliberately expose the creative process, or garments that look like they are in the process of digital decomposition.
Baby Vogue
FUTURIST PUDDLES: Classic poodle elegance meets advanced technology! What would a beloved pet look like in the world of tomorrow? It could be a poodle-cyborg with metallic implants, a poodle with a fibre-optic coat that changes colour, or even a poodle-hologram. Your styling should convey that typical poodle chic and pride, but interpreted through the lens of futuristic materials, innovative forms and a touch of eccentricity. Show us the most 'high-tech' and 'couture' poodle the universe has ever seen!
Face // FF/ MF /NB /
NEW FACE -open to People of Color only
TREASURES OF THE OCEAN: Dive into the depths of the future, where the ocean hides extraordinary new treasures. Pearls can be cultured in bio-laboratories and shine with their own light, corals can form hybrids with metals from sunken cities, and diamonds can be synthesised from deep-sea pressure. As Queen or King of the Deep, your outfit and face must drip with this undersea opulence - jewellery made from techno-shells, crowns made from crystallised salts, skin shimmering like the scales of unknown creatures. Show us the majesty of the ruler of a lost, futuristic Atlantis.
Lip Sync
FUTURE LOOK: Immerse yourself in the Future Look aesthetic and create a look that is one step ahead of tomorrow - bold, non-obvious, breaking all known conventions. Your outfit should be a fashion manifesto of the future: it could be avant-garde cyber-glamour, minimalist techno-chic or an organic-technology hybrid. It is crucial that your look is an integral part of your performance, perfectly in sync with your chosen song, creating an unforgettable show that will resonate for generations. Show us your vision for tomorrow!
Sex Siren FF/ MF/ NB/ Catboy
TIES: your body becomes an architecture of desire, entwined with an intricate network of ties that are not just an accessory, but the very structure of the outfit. Cords, ribbons, elastic cords and perhaps even light beams or force fields create a second skin, emphasising tension, control and sensuality. This is not a traditional corset - it is a futuristic interpretation of the bond between fabric and body, where boundaries blur in an erotic dance of form and function.
Bizarre
Dress in the VIRTUAL REALITY: Bring fashion from the digital world to physical reality. Your outfit should look like it has been pulled straight out of a computer game, VR simulation or metaverse. Think glitchy textures, unreal forms that seem to defy the laws of physics, pixel art, clothes that emit their own light or change appearance in real time. The boundaries between the real and the digital become blurred in your creation.
New Way
GALACTIC: Your face and outfit is a map of the undiscovered galaxy. Use glitter, sequins, rhinestones, stones and iridescent pigments to create the effect of cosmic dust, nebulae, distant stars and black holes. Think luminous constellations painted on your skin, the colours of the aurora borealis on unknown planets, structures reminiscent of stellar explosions. Let your look be unearthly elegant, full of the radiance and mystery of the cosmos.
Old Way
DANGEROUS FLOWERS: The future has spawned a new, predatory flora. The flowers tempt with hypnotic colours and exotic shapes, but their beauty is deceptive - they hide poison, thorns or the ability to hunt. Present this mysterious, deadly flora. Your outfit must combine delicacy with hidden danger, innocence with dark promise. Think contrasts: soft petals and sharp thorns, vibrant colours and toxic patterns.
Realness FQ/ Cister/ Drag
VENUS: Birth of a goddess in the space age. Your Venus emerges not from sea foam but from a stellar nebula, formed from galactic dust, particles of light and quantum energy. Her beauty is unearthly, emanating the brilliance of a supernova, and her robes are woven from constellations and cosmic silks. Show us a futuristic goddess of love and beauty, whose skin shines like the surface of an exoplanet and whose hair ripples like the aurora borealis. She is a mythological figure born anew in the distant future.
Executive Realness OTA
"Men in Black: Agent/Agent MIB".
You are an agent/agent of the Men in Black (MIB) secret agency that keeps an eye on interstellar order. Obligatory: a perfectly tailored suit and dark glasses - your working tools and your trademark. Show that you are ready/ready for any intergalactic mission.
Realness Butch/ Transman/ BQ
FUTURIST UNIFORMS: Power and authority in the world of tomorrow. Take inspiration from classic men's uniforms, but bring them into the future. Overscaled blazers with sharp, architectural lines, cybernetic suits integrated with technology, LED details that pulsate to the rhythm of the city, technical fabrics with unusual properties. Preserve the essence of the classic suit form by giving it a powerful new dimension.
Body Luscious /Models/ Fitness
VENOM/OSTERS/LAVA/LATEX: Your body becomes a canvas for a dark, liquid essence - a living substance that seems to take over. Be inspired by the symbiotic Venom, the organic forms of Aliens, the hypnotic flow of lava or the second skin that latex creates. Use shiny, stretchy materials that accentuate every muscle and curve, creating the effect of molten metal, oily surface or alien tissue. Your styling should combine a futuristic aesthetic with an organic, almost predatory dynamic.
Best Nails
TRANSPARENT, ICE: Nails as carriers of frozen memories and future visions. Be inspired by the transparency of ice, its texture, the reflections of light and what it can hide within. Create nails that are like miniature crystal sculptures, with futuristic microelements, holographic filings or bubbles embedded inside. Think 'water memory' - your nails can tell a story of transformation, purity, but also the coolness and precision of the digital age. Brilliance, unusual shapes and light play are key.
Commentator vs Commentator
FUTURE LOOK: As the voice of FUTURE BALL, your styling must be as visionary as the categories you comment on. Create looks inspired by the fashion of tomorrow, as seen through the lens of your unique creative personality. Will you be an intergalactic fashion chronicler, an AI analysing trends in real time, or perhaps a futuristic style prophet? Your outfit is your calling card - let it speak of the future loud and clear!
Realness with a twist
QUILTING: Quilting, traditionally associated with comfort and warmth, is taking on a new, technological dimension in the future. Make use of quilted fabrics, but give them a modern, even architectural character. Think geometric, sharp patterns, quilting integrated with LED elements, metallic threads or even 3D printed panels that mimic quilting. Your 'twist' is to combine this classic texture with a futuristic aesthetic, creating dynamic structures and intriguing details that are both familiar and completely new.
Best Sunglasses
EYES OF THE FUTURE: Your glasses are not just an accessory - they are an interface for perceiving a new reality. Create a vision of futuristic glasses that are a portal to the unknown. They can be cybernetic goggles with augmented reality, optical sculptures that change the shape of your face, monolithic visors, or glasses with lenses that display data or filter perception. Let them be bold, innovative and a manifestation of how we will see (or want to be seen) in the future.
Labels
TIME TRAVELERS: You are a fashion time traveller who draws on the aesthetics of decades past but runs them through the filter of the future. Choose an iconic style from the 20th or early 21st century and reinterpret it using futuristic materials, technology and silhouettes. What would a 1920s flapper look like in the cyberpunk era? Or 70s disco style on a space station? Your look must be a clear homage to the past, but at the same time shout 'the future!', creating a timeless and surprising vision. The brand name (label) should be visible and integrated into this space-time mix.