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Glam.com Announces 'Design A Dress' Competition for Aspiring Designers
Tue Jan 8, 2008 8:02am EST
Be Discovered Designer Competition Aims to Find and Support New Design Talents NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Glam.com, flagship site of media networkGlam Media, today launched an online contest for budding designers everywheretitled, "Be Discovered: Design A Dress." During the month of January,designers can submit original sketches of dresses they've designed for thechance to ultimately win a grand prize package of a trip to New York City toapprentice at a fashion house for the day. A panel of expert judgesincluding, renowned fashion designers Monique Lhuillier and Adam Lippes,celebrity stylist and designer Tina Knowles, Lord & Taylor DivisionalMerchandise Manager for Contemporary Sportswear Vanessa Lefebvre, Glam MediaCEO Samir Arora, and PR guru Paul Wilmot will choose one lucky winner. Thegrand prize will include an apprenticeship for a day at ADAM as well as a $500Lord & Taylor gift certificate. Glam has selected MSN.com to share this unique online fashion experiencewith access to exclusive behind-the-scenes content where viewers can remaininformed on the progress of the contest. Both MSN.com and Glam.com will hostco-branded landing pages to not only keep audience members updated on votingbut to also judge profiles, and view dress trends and in-depth interviews withdesigners. Profiles and bios of the finalists will also be available on bothsites throughout the contest. Glam.com's expert editorial team will then select four groups of eightsemifinalists to be featured in a weekly slideshow during February where Glamand MSN readers will have the opportunity to vote each week on their favoritedresses. The top two semi-finalists chosen each week will move to the finalround -- for eight total finalists. Finalists will be given three weeks tomake the dress they originally sketched and present their original creationsto a panel of notable judges who will then convene to decide on one ultimatewinner on April 7th.Tracey Harrington Anderson, Executive Editor of Glam.com said, "We arethrilled to be working with online news and information leader MSN. The BeDiscovered design competition is a wonderful example of how Glam continues toreach passionate audiences in an interactive way."Sandy Henson, Director Health and Lifestyle for Microsoft's MSN added,"The Design a Dress competition speaks to MSN's ability to embrace fashion andcreative design and to bring that to our users. We're excited to be part ofthis unique competition with Glam Media." A daily must-see for style-conscious women, Glam.com has channels devotedto fashion, style, entertainment, living, and more, with original content byGlam's expert team of editors. From the latest fashion trends to beauty tipsand tricks to chic entertaining guides, Glam.com features timely, informativeand entertaining programming to help make every woman's life easier. Highlyinteractive content such as horoscopes, quizzes, and slide shows, celebrity-driven polls, insightful personality tests and mix-and-match games allow usersto engage with the content as well as learn about themselves. Glam.com readerscan also search the 400+ popular sites in the Glam Publisher Network. For more information or to enter the "Be Discovered: Design a Dress"contest please visit:
www.glam.com/bediscovered or
lifestyle.msn.com/beautyandfashion/bediscovered. About Glam Media Glam Media's distributed media network model is in part changing the verydefinition of what a media company is in the 21st Century. With more than 43million unique monthly visitors (comScore MediaMetrix) Glam Media provides acompelling mix of fresh, original content created in-house with a carefullycurated Glam Publishing Network of more than 400 popular and influentiallifestyle websites, blogs and magazines. For premium national brandadvertisers, Glam Media offers an unprecedented array of targeted options thatare singularly attractive to both upscale and aspirational consumers. GlamMedia is backed by such premier venture capital firms as Accel Partners, DAGVentures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Walden Venture Capital and InformationCapital. Glam Media is based in New York City and Brisbane, California.SOURCE Glam.comCaroline Hacker of Glam Media, +1-650-270-2183,
[email protected]; orSamantha Kain, +1-212-206-7447,
[email protected], or Eleanor Banco,+1-212-206-7447,
[email protected], both of Paul Wilmot Communications forGlam Media