| You're a Vision Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | "Most remarkable outfit" in theEurovision Song Contest |
| Country | Various participating countries |
| Presented by | Songfestival.be |
| Formerly called | Barbara Dex Award |
| First award | 2022 |
| Final award | 2024 |
| Website | Official website |
TheYou're a Vision Award was a fan-voted accolade awarded annually to the "most remarkable outfit" in theEurovision Song Contest. The award was created by the Belgianfansite Songfestival.be before theEurovision Song Contest 2022, after it announced the discontinuation of theBarbara Dex Award created by The House of Eurovision in1997. 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.
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'sEurovision Song Contest 1997 entrant,Debbie Scerri, was the first recipient.
The award was named after Belgian singerBarbara Dex, who representedBelgium 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 siteWiwibloggs, 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 theEurovision Song Contest 2019 in an attempt to remove the negative connotation of the award.
As of October 2025, Songfestival.be has made no announcement regarding the award forEurovision Song Contest 2025.
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" (aword play of "Eurovision"), adding that the new name would serve the purpose of promoting creativity, diversity and positivity in Eurovision onstage fashion.Australia'sEurovision Song Contest 2022 entrant,Sheldon Riley, was the first recipient of the new award.
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| Year | Country | Artist | Song | Place | Runner-up | Third place | Ref(s). |
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| 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] |
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| 1 | Australia |
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| 1 | Croatia |
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