Post Fashion Design Competitions & Contests Here.

[TheDesignStudent]

I'll contribute dexinger.com to the discussion as an international resource of desgin competitions, and I'll also add I am a judge for a Concepts and Sketches and Real Clothes challenge, as highlighted in Women's Wear Daily on September 5th 2006 on page 12, the series is hosted on MySpace...

You can source details through my dot com, www.thedesignstudent.com

Marcus is my collaborative partner, a menswear and swimwear company owner from Miami...! My name is Dave!

I have a couple of more thoughts to contribute to the discussion...!

[TheDesignStudent]

The Vogue / CFDA is something to aspire to as a professional designer and company owner... Seamless the Douglas Keeve fashion documentary is a wonderful introduction to the competitive series, though more for those out of design school, Jack and Lazaro walked away with the award for 2004, a couple of years out of design school...

[TheDesignStudent]

f.uk.com is also another resource for scaled down competitive challenges, prizes are sponsored by companies such as Diesel, Puma and a variety of street wear and fashion apparel companies...

[Jax]

Hey all. Oxfam's Make Trade Fair has launched a brilliant competition for young creatives. It's to come up with an idea for a Make Trade Fair campaign..and basically anything goes. A whole bunch of creative companies will work with the winner to bring the campaign alive (see the list of creative supporters on the website). The forum has also got some idea starters from creatives - ie: head interactive guy at Show Studio and head interactive guy from Tomato.
Worth checking out. www.makeabignoise.org

[Estella*]

moved to careers and education

[Jax]

Thanks for putting the competition in the right place

[Urban Stylin]

Mango also has its own fashion aawards deadline is in Feb

http://www.mangofashionawards.com/in/home.htm

[susie_bubble]

I highly recommend the Arts of Fashion competion - it's going to be bigger than the one last year....actually, I am likely to be on the jury again for next year... hehe...

Pity the deadline for Hyeres fashion compeition has already passed because that's another fantastic competition.
http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/

[susie_bubble]

Some more info on Arts of Fashion from a PDF, that the organiser sent me:
ARTS OF FASHION 2007 CALENDAR & RULES & REGULATIONS


1. THE ARTS OF FASHION COMPETITION EXISTS TO:

Promote and reward creativity and inventiveness; discover young talent and facilitate careers; establish enriching contacts and exchanges between different countries, schools and universities; and to foster new relationships between those from different industries and fields.

The first 7 laureates will receive Awards and a Certification for their creative and original work based on themes. (Judging based on coherence with the theme, skill level, and artful expressiveness).

The winners of the Arts of Fashion Competition 2006 are as follows:
- Jessica Darwin (Moore College of Art and Design) won a six-week scholarship to the creative fashion design department of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre – Brussels
- Jaeyoon Jeong (Drexel University) won a two-month internship within the Jean-Charles de Castelbajac House - Paris
- Leanne Wierzba (California College of Arts of San Francisco), won a three-month internship within the Anne-Valerie Hash House - Paris
- Chi Kwan (Parsons The New School for Design) won a one-year scholarship to the renown Schools of the Chambre Syndicale - Paris
- Sung Yun Nam (Parsons The New School for Design) won a three-month internship within the creative department of Veronique Branquinho - Antwerp
- Kyoonhee Shin (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) won a three-month internship within the design studio of Wendy & Jim - Vienna

2. THEME 2007: CONFUSION

3. CALENDAR 2007:

- December 8, 2006: Online registration begins (limited to the first 500 participants).
- April 16, 2007: Submission deadline for all application materials.
- April 20, 2007: Jury session meeting.
- April 23, 2007: Candidates selected for the International Final will be listed on the Arts of Fashion website (af-competition.com).
- October 2007: Arts of Fashion Competition - International Final (Exhibition, Seminar, Presentation, Fashion Show, Award Ceremony and Results). The date and host university will be known and announced soon.

4. GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION:

The competition is open to students studying Fashion and Design anywhere in the world during the academic year 2006-2007. The participants will not only represent themselves, but also their Schools, Colleges or Universities, as well as their Countries.

- Candidates must be current students and cannot be professionally employed in the fashion industry.
- Candidates must design their own original projects completely by themselves.
- Candidates must follow the design and specifications outlined in their application for realization of their final project.
- Registration must be submitted on an individual basis and in the chosen categories.
- Online registration, applications, and final projects received after the deadlines will not be accepted. Registration fees are non-refundable.
- Projects presented in the International Final cannot be presented in another U.S. competition for 12 months following the AF Competition – International Final.

5. RULES & REGULATIONS FOR AF-COMPETITION 2007:

1st STEP
December 8, 2006: Online registration begins (limited to the first 500 participants; $30 registration fee for one category or $50 for both categories through PayPal; www.af-competition.com)

2nd STEP
April 16, 2007: Deadline for all application materials to be received by the Arts of Fashion Foundation: 635 Tennessee Street, Suite #402, San Francisco, CA 94107 (use a sturdy cardboard envelope to avoid any damage to application materials).
- 1 page for the 3 illustrations (please do not sign or print name on front of page)
- 1 page for the flats/technical designs
- 1 page for the fabric & material swatches
- 1 page explaining concept (maximum 100 words, visual references may be included)
- 1 resume + 1 photo of applicant + 1 photocopy of 2006-2007 student ID
- 1 print or photocopy of applicant’s online PayPal registration
- 1 9”x12” self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage to return application materials
Page format 8.5”x11”
Please label the back of all pages with your name. Do not mount any pages to cardboard, foamboard, etc…

3rd STEP
April 23, 2007: The candidates invited to continue on to the International Final will be posted on the AF website (www.af-competition.com), along with instructions and specifications for completion of the final projects.

4th STEP
October 2007: The date and host university for the International Final to be announced.

-Final projects must be sent to the AF Competition host University one week prior to the event in October 2007. Late projects will not be accepted under any circumstances. It is the candidates’ responsibility to arrange for varification of shipment with their shipping company.
-The realization of the project should follow the instructions provided on the AF website.
-Fashion projects should include shoes (size 9), and any particular stockings, undergarments, or accessories that the model should wear.
-Everything should be sent in a transparent garment bag (with your name and address written on it), appropriate hangers, and one precise instruction page in a plastic sleeve (photos can be added if necessary) to help the dressers.

6. EXCLUSION CLAUSE:

Entries will be automatically disqualified from the competition for the following reasons:

- If the final project does not follow the design or specifications outlined in the candidate’s original application.
- If they are received after the deadline.
- If they may result in any copyright infringement or legal dispute for the jury, organizers, sponsors, or host university.
- If they pressure for preferential treatment by the jury members, the hosting university, the organizers, or sponsors of the competition.

Applications and Final Projects will be judged by experts and well-known professionals from fashion, design, media, and other fields. In all matters concerning the course of the competition, including the selection of award winners and settling disputes, the decisions of the judges are final. All matters will be decided by majority vote and are not subject to appeal. In case of a tie, the President of the Jury will cast the deciding vote. Candidates will be presented anonymously to the Jury by the competition organizers. Jury deliberations will not be made public.

7. PROTECTION OF WORK:

Candidates maintain artistic ownership of their designs and final projects. By the act of participating in the competition, candidates give permission to the organizers and sponsors to contact and promote them and their projects through a wide range of media: press, TV, internet, mailing, advertising, exhibitions, fashion show, etc…) for a period of twelve months following the International Final. Winning projects cannot be presented in another U.S. competition for twelve months following the International Final. If a winning project is exhibited in any media, mention of the Arts of Fashion Competition is required.

8. AMENDMENT SUSPENSION TERMINATION INSURANCE:

In the event the AF Competition 2007 is suspended or terminated for any reason, the organizers, as well as the sponsors, will not be held responsible in any way.

The Arts of Fashion Foundation and its members, volunteers, and instructors, and the host University will not in any way be responsible for any accident, damage or loss of the final projects or candidates’ belongings during the course of competition, including workshops, tranbsportation, and all events. It is the responsibility of the participants to insure their submissions.

Arts of Fashion Foundation 635 Tennessee Street Suite # 402 San Francisco CA 94107 www.arts-of-fashion.org (415) 252 0734

[Dustcakeboy]

Image from Fashion 156.com

Good luck to those who enter!

[educo]

wow!! This is great!

[Ms. Jackson]

I am fashion director of Art For Progress, a New York-based arts nonprofit organization. We are now hosting our 2nd annual arts and fashion competition. Submissions are being accepted until January 7, 2008. The on-line community will then decide the winners in fashion, film, music, and visual art over a 6-week period. A final special event in NYC features the winners in March.

Here is the link for our video about the competition, "Clash of the Artists":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Gnn1N3zCo
Our webpage link is here: http://www.artforprogress.org/clash_08.php

[Ms. Jackson]

I am fashion director of Art For Progress, a New York-based arts nonprofit organization. We are now hosting our 2nd annual arts and fashion competition. Submissions are being accepted until January 7, 2008. The on-line community will then decide the winners in fashion, film, music, and visual art over a 6-week period. A final special event in NYC features the winners in March.

Here is the link for our video about the competition, "Clash of the Artists":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Gnn1N3zCo
Our webpage link is here: http://www.artforprogress.org/clash_08.php

[SomethingElse]

Press release 24 January 2008

The Fashion Academy Award is a Europe-wide competition for young fashion designers and fashion design students.

On the initiative of the Goethe-Institute and in cooperation with EUNIC Berlin, the European partnership of national institutions for culture in Berlin, this year the competition createurope: The Fashion Academy Award will be held for the first time.

The objective of the contest is to create links between European fashion training schools in addition to promoting lasting, active dialogue between students and teachers, initially on the European and later on the international level.

One of the chief instruments for establishing this European network is the website, where all private and public fashion schools in Europe can present themselves.

Here, a potential young designer from Greece, for example, who would like to study fashion design in another country, can obtain an overview of the content, courses of study, conditions and costs of different European fashion schools.

As yet, fashion schools from 28 countries are supporting the competition.

Every entrant must send their submissions to the Goethe-Institute Berlin by 30 June 2008.

A European jury made up of fashion journalists and designers will select a maximum of 30 finalists from all of Europe by the end of July 2008.

The finalists will be notified that same month and invited to attend the final elimination ceremony in Berlin in mid-October 2008, to present their collections at a large fashion show.

More information: createurope.com

dexigner.com

[Scott]

PARIS, Mar 4, 2008 / FW/ — Open to young designers on the French and international fashion scene, the ANDAM Paris International Fashion Award for almost 20 years has honored nearly 80 fellowship winners and helped launch the careers of many big names in fashion, including Martin Margiela (1989), Viktor & Rolf (1994) and Jeremy Scott (1998).
For 2008, with a unique endowment of 150,000 euros, the ANDAM Paris International Fashion Award is the largest international fashion prize, ahead of the CFDA Awards in New York ($200,000), the Fashion Fringe Award in London (£100,000) and the Swiss Textiles Award (€100,000).
The competition is open to fashion designers of any nationality under the age of 40 years as of January 1, 2008 and who have plans for a runway show and development in France.
Entries must be submitted to ANDAM, 1 rue Berbier du Mets, 75013 Paris, France, no later than April 25th, 2008. Entry forms available at: www.andam.fr
Founded by Nathalie Dufour in 1989, ANDAM (Association Nationale pour le Développement des Arts de la Mode, National Association for the Development of the Fashion Arts) has been able to fulfill its mission of discovering new talents largely thanks to the generous financial and media backing of its partners.
For 2008, ANDAM’s partners include: Beams (Tokyo), The Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, Galeries Lafayette, Longchamp, L’Oréal Professionnel, The LVMH Group, Swarovski (London), Yves Saint Laurent (Gucci Group), and ANDAM’s historical institutional partners, the DEFI (French committee for the development and promotion of the garment industry) and the Plastic Arts Delegation (DAP) of the Ministry of Culture.
The 2008 Panel of Judges are:
Private partners:

• Beams, represented by Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe, creative director
• The Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, represented by Pierre Bergé
• Galeries Lafayette, represented by Michel Roulleau, executive vice president
• Longchamp, represented by Sophie Delafontaine, creative director
• L’Oréal Professionnel, represented by Laurent Dubois, general manager France
• The LVMH Group, represented by Jean-Jacques Picart
• Swarovski, represented by Pascale Montaner, fashion communication director
• Yves Saint Laurent (Gucci Group), represented by Valérie Hermann, president

Outside professionals:

• Paul Benyamine, director of the DEFI
• Nathalie Dufour, director of the ANDAM
• Jefferson Hack, editor in chief, Another Magazine
• Olivier Kaeppelin, plastic arts delegate, French Ministry of Culture
• Marie-Pierre Lannelongue, head style editor, Le Nouvel Observateur
• Valérie Leboucq, editor in chief of Série Limitée, the lifestyle magazine of the daily Les Echos
• Sarah Lerfel, purchasing and creative director, Colette
• Jessica Michault, online style editor, fashion department, International Herald Tribune
• Joseph Quartana, owner and buyer, Seven, New York
• Olivier Saillard, programming director, Paris Fashion and Textile Museum
• Rebecca Voight, freelance fashion journalist
• Olivier Wicker, editor in chief of Next, the monthly supplement of Libération newspaper

Association Nationale pour le Développement des Arts de la Mode
1 rue Berbier du Mets
75013 Paris
France
T: +33 1 44 08 69 07
F: +33 1 44 08 69 00
andam-dap@culture.gouv.fr

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