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The Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI), has announced a special Design Contest for all students of Fashion Technology courses or institutes across the country.
The contest called Festa Italiana Fashion Design Talent Contest is being held in association with Instituto Marangoni, one of the most prestigious Fashion and Design schools of Europe based in Milan, Italy and the Indo Italian Chamber of Commerce to coincide with the Festa Italiana 2005 being held here in November 2005.
Under the contest, which aims to provide young Indian Fashion Designers an opportunity to get a close look at the fashion capitals of the world, the top three winners will receive complete travel and tuition scholarship to fashion design Programmes in Italy and Europe.
The contest is open to the final year students of the 22 top fashion technology institutes or courses across the country that have been invited to send in their entries by October 26.
The top 10 entries will be invited to make a presentation along with 2-3 ensembles to the judges comprising renowned international designers Ganfranco Ferre, Beatrice Trussardi, Fabio Marangoni and Ricardo Agostini of Instituto Marangoni in Mumbai.
The 3 winners will receive their sponsorship awards at a Dinner Seminar of the fashion Industry being organised by CMAI on Nov. 22
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Dunedin-based Silkbody is bringing their innovative brand to Auckland for its first appearance at New Zealand Fashion Week, building on the company's growing reputation and industry buzz.
Silkbody Managing Director Emily Cooper says Fashion Week will be a fantastic opportunity to present the range to top international buyers and media at a time when they are expanding strongly into the export and fashion market.
The new Winter 2006 range will be launched at the event, with exciting new styles, colours and product ranges for both men and women.
The innovative use of the silk fibre and its unique properties are a central factor behind the success of the Silkbody brand, which has taken the lead in bringing silk into a modern fashion context in New Zealand and Australia.
This will be the first time Silkbody has attended a fashion industry event in New Zealand since its launch in 2002.
The range was initially produced for the outdoor market, however, Silkbody has since evolved into a range of everyday luxury essential garments, says Ms Cooper.
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Wal-Mart today formally announced its premier fashion collection for women - Metro 7, available now at select Wal-Mart stores and online store.
The new collection is designed with the highly stylish, fashion-conscious customer in mind.
The Metro 7 line features on-trend items with contemporary-tailo red outfits, and stylishly casual weekend pieces that reflect the latest colors, fabrics and styles-all at a great price.
This new collection answers the perennial question, 'What am I going to wear today?' with a strong style statement that takes every fashion-loving, time-starved woman from start to finish of her busy day in great style.
Wal-Mart has signed Dayanara Torres, actress, singer and mother, to represent the Metro 7 line in a marketing campaign that includes print advertising, signage, and promotional video footage, as well as in a series of in-store personal appearances.
Ms. Torres was the youngest woman ever selected to be Miss Universe, and has had her own television program as well as a successful singing career.
Claire Watts, Wal-Mart executive vice president of apparel and home, says, 'Dayanara perfectly embodies the modern, fashionable woman, and we're thrilled she is the 'face' for the Metro 7 launch. She's a young, beautiful mother whom our customers will find both approachable and inspirational.
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Fashion Career Expo has launched a highly-sophisticat ed online career portal in anticipation of its 5th New York City hiring event for the design and retail community on October 20.
'Fashion Career Expo website also allows employers to post jobs, to search resumes and schedule event-day interviews with candidates of interest,' explains Bradford Rand, President & CEO of Expo International, producer of Fashion Career Expo. He adds, 'It initiates the hiring process as early as 2 weeks before the actual event.'
'Further,' Rand explains, 'the job fair is like 'speed dating' for the industry's top companies and talent.
This event truly benefits both the professionals looking for a new job and the companies hiring new talent.
In one day, someone can have over 25 immediate face-to-face interviews, a feat that might have taken months otherwise.
The companies benefit by conducting literally hundreds of rapid-fire interviews, more than they can ever achieve -- all within one day at NYC's Fashion Career Expo.'
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Men's apparel brands have recently taken some of the spotlight from the women's wear lines that have traditionally dominated Tokyo Fashion Week.
Whereabouts, a fashion house owned by Hidetaka Fukuzono, 29, is one of the men making their mark by showing at the Tokyo Collection.
Fukuzono initially gained public attention when he became the first Japanese student at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium.
Although he originally intended finding work in Europe straight out of school, a street fashion magazine sent to him by a friend in Japan changed his mind.
"I found so much energy in the fashion styles of Tokyo's boys and girls in the magazine. They were very free and varied.
I felt like I found an appeal with Japan that I had not been able to see before I went to Europe.
Then I had second thoughts about the place where I should make clothing and turned to Tokyo, " Fukuzono says.
Whereabouts opened its first store, in Tokyo's trendy Shibuya, on Sept. 19, almost years after the foundation of the label.
It wouldn't have been so easy (to open a shop) in Europe," Fukuzono says.
He explains that it is relatively easy for new designers to become prominent in Tokyo because there are so many young people living here who have a high regard for "newness."
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