The You're a Vision Award is a fan-voted accolade awarded annually to the "most remarkable outfit" in the Eurovision Song Contest. The award was created by the Belgian fansite Songfestival.be before the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, after it announced the discontinuation of the Barbara Dex Award created by The House of Eurovision in 1997. This was due to the negative connotation of the award because of its origins of deciding "the worst dressed look" in the contest and a desire to replace it with a more positive accolade.

You're a Vision Award
Awarded for"Most remarkable outfit" in the Eurovision Song Contest
CountryVarious participating countries
Presented bySongfestival.be
Formerly calledBarbara Dex Award
First awarded2022
WebsiteOfficial website

History

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Map of You're A Vision Award recipients as of May 2023.

The origins of the You're a Vision Award come from its predecessor, the Barbara Dex Award, which was created by Edwin van Thillo and Rob Paardekam, who also created the Dutch Eurovision fansite The House of Eurovision, in 1997 until its closure in 2016. Malta's Eurovision Song Contest 1997 entrant, Debbie Scerri, was the first recipient.

The award was named after Belgian singer Barbara Dex, who represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993. She wore her own self-made, semi-transparent dress. William Lee Adams, head editor of the Eurovision Song Contest blog site Wiwibloggs, described her as "looking like a lampshade". From 1997 to 2018, the award was given to the "worst dressed outfit" as initially decided internally but was open to the public from 1999.

Shortly after the award was passed over to the website Songfestival.be, its criteria was changed to the "most striking look" before the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in an attempt to remove the negative connotation of the award.

Creation of the award

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On 13 March 2022, Songfestival.be announced that it would be ending the Barbara Dex Award. Instead, the website would organise a new, replacement award for the "most remarkable outfit". Following an online vote, Songfestival.be announced on 29 April that the new award would be named the "You're a Vision Award" (a word play of "Eurovision"), adding that the new name would serve the purpose of promoting creativity, diversity and positivity in Eurovision onstage fashion. Australia's Eurovision Song Contest 2022 entrant, Sheldon Riley, was the first recipient of the new award.

Winners

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By year

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Table key
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Second place
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Third place
Year Country Artist Song Place Runner-up Third place Ref(s).
2022   Australia Sheldon Riley "Not the Same" 15   Spain   Norway [1]
2023   Finland Käärijä "Cha Cha Cha" 2   Croatia   Belgium [2]
2024   Croatia Baby Lasagna "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" 2   Ireland   Netherlands [3]

By country

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Wins Country Years
1   Australia
  • 2022
1   Finland
  • 2023
1   Croatia
  • 2024

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Australia wins very first 'You're A Vision Award' for most remarkable Eurovision outfit". Songfestival.be. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Finland wint 'You're A Vision Award 2023' voor meest opvallende Songfestivaloutfit". Songfestival.be (in Dutch). 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Baby Lasagna of Croatia wins 'You're A Vision Award 2024'". Songfestival.be. 19 May 2024. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
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