Taken from Fashionweekdaily.com.
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CFDA and Teen Vogue team up for fashion scholarship
Friday, April 13, 2007
(NEW YORK) When it comes to aspiring to be the next Ralph Lauren or Miuccia Prada, you can never be too young—or too ambitious, for that matter. Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley is banking on that premise, partnering with the Council of Fashion Designers of America to form the CFDA/Teen Vogue Scholarship, an annual program dedicated to helping foster the design education of promising students seeking Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees at one of 16 participating 4-year colleges, universities, and design schools in the United States.
“Our readers’ number-one question is, ‘How can I break into the fashion industry?’” said Astley. “I’m thrilled that Teen Vogue and the CFDA have joined forces to assist talented high school students find—and finance—the design school that is right for them.” CFDA executive director Steven Kolb added, “Not surprisingly, many of the most successful and gifted designers working today have dreamed of careers in fashion since they were young. This program really embodies the spirit of two of the CFDA’s most important and enduring goals: educating and nurturing successive generations of fashion designers.”
The participating schools are Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and Fashion Institute of Technology, in New York City; Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I.; Academy of Art University and California College of the Arts in San Francisco; Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles; Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga.; Drexel University and Philadelphia University in Philadelphia; Kent State University in Kent, Ohio; Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y.; Massachusetts College of Art in Boston; School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, and the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio.
To apply, students must be U.S. citizens in their junior year of high school applying to one of the 16 approved design schools in the first semester of their senior year. Each applicant must submit an essay and “mood board” which illustrates his/her ideas or inspiration, and provides insight into their particular design aesthetic and goals for an education in fashion design.
Scholarship recipients will be selected by a committee of industry experts, CFDA members, and Teen Vogue editors. The winners will be announced at Teen Vogue’s second-annual “Fashion U” education weekend, October 26—28 in New York City. The scholarships will then be applied to the tuitions and fees of the recipients’ chosen school for fall semester 2008.
Additional details are outlined in the CFDA/Teen Vogue Scholarship “Guidelines for Application” available at www.cfda.com. The call for submissions will be announced in the May issue of Teen Vogue, on newsstands Tuesday.
I will reserve my opinion on this one.............
CFDA and Teen Vogue team up for fashion scholarship
Friday, April 13, 2007
(NEW YORK) When it comes to aspiring to be the next Ralph Lauren or Miuccia Prada, you can never be too young—or too ambitious, for that matter. Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley is banking on that premise, partnering with the Council of Fashion Designers of America to form the CFDA/Teen Vogue Scholarship, an annual program dedicated to helping foster the design education of promising students seeking Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees at one of 16 participating 4-year colleges, universities, and design schools in the United States.
“Our readers’ number-one question is, ‘How can I break into the fashion industry?’” said Astley. “I’m thrilled that Teen Vogue and the CFDA have joined forces to assist talented high school students find—and finance—the design school that is right for them.” CFDA executive director Steven Kolb added, “Not surprisingly, many of the most successful and gifted designers working today have dreamed of careers in fashion since they were young. This program really embodies the spirit of two of the CFDA’s most important and enduring goals: educating and nurturing successive generations of fashion designers.”
The participating schools are Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and Fashion Institute of Technology, in New York City; Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I.; Academy of Art University and California College of the Arts in San Francisco; Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles; Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga.; Drexel University and Philadelphia University in Philadelphia; Kent State University in Kent, Ohio; Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y.; Massachusetts College of Art in Boston; School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, and the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio.
To apply, students must be U.S. citizens in their junior year of high school applying to one of the 16 approved design schools in the first semester of their senior year. Each applicant must submit an essay and “mood board” which illustrates his/her ideas or inspiration, and provides insight into their particular design aesthetic and goals for an education in fashion design.
Scholarship recipients will be selected by a committee of industry experts, CFDA members, and Teen Vogue editors. The winners will be announced at Teen Vogue’s second-annual “Fashion U” education weekend, October 26—28 in New York City. The scholarships will then be applied to the tuitions and fees of the recipients’ chosen school for fall semester 2008.
Additional details are outlined in the CFDA/Teen Vogue Scholarship “Guidelines for Application” available at www.cfda.com. The call for submissions will be announced in the May issue of Teen Vogue, on newsstands Tuesday.
