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The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition offers students interested in Fashion Design or Fashion Marketing, Merchandising or Retail Management an opportunity to compete for a full tuition scholarship to study at one of The Art Institutes.
Open to high school seniors across North America, The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition was created to encourage and reward young fashion design and fashion marketing, merchandising and retail management talent at the high school level.
Since it began three years ago, interest in the competition has taken off.
Says Bruce E. Dempsey, Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs for The Art Institutes, "We have seen the number of students entering the competition just explode.
There are so many wonderful fashion courses in high school today, and many students see a career in this industry within their reach."
The competition consists of two categories, Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing, Merchandising and Retail Management.
The grand prize in each category includes a full tuition scholarship to The Art Institutes school location with a Fashion program at which the student entered the competition.
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The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition 2008
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Designer Melissa Borrell was chosen to be one of the select new exhibitors showcasing products that express "innovation originality, function and design" at the Accent on Design division of the New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF) to be held on August 11th-16th at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.
Borrell's designs were chosen for Accent on Design, a high end division of the NYIGF that "presents a dynamic juried collection of contemporary and innovative product lines" that are "cutting edge" and "fresh."
The jurors chose the up and coming designer to participate in the fair with companies from around the world who represent the newest trends and leading edge products available in the gift and home market.
According to the NYIGF, "only the most innovative and exciting companies - from the established to the up and coming - are accepted into this discriminating show."
Consumers come to the show to find the "hottest" merchandise on the market.
Borrell's unique design concepts highlight the "interaction between an individual and a product."
She is recognized as an innovator in jewelry and home accessory design.
Borrell's work encompasses jewelry, home accessories, textile design, lighting and wall coverings.
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Melissa Borrell to be a Featured Designer at Accent on Design
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The sixth edition of Dressing Codes Competition intends to confront itself with a real dedicated production.
Besides the traditional cosmetic products and according to the brand philosophy, Deborah Milan is investigating decorative elements close to the body, in order to widen the action of "Deborah aesthetics".
Following this approach, the 2007 session proposes to examine the different points of the body with strong design broadmindedness.
Starting from the body as driver of the project, the focus is put on those areas that have always been a site of decoration: head, neck, breast, arms, hands, hips and feet.
Starting from these points, the participants will have to work on small objects with functional or simply decorative characteristics.
Hats, hair bands, hair styling, earrings, tattoos, necklaces, bracelets, rings, tops, t-shirts, belts, flip flops and knick knack accessories for mobile phones and bags... these are some of the most obvious categorisation of products proposed, but they can be extended to new functions and objects.
The participants are asked to develop a complete and consistent S/S 2008 collection able to consider the summer mood.
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This season there is just one trend predicted to outlast the year: eco-fashion.
No, it's not an oxymoron.
Forget dreadlocks and Jesus sandals; environmentalism is becoming oh-so sexy.
Just as boho made its way from the protestors to the catwalk, now too is environmental consciousness.
It seems that in the past three years environmental issues have started to pop up in everyday life.
Eco-fashion is a buzz word at the moment, but few understand what it really means and why it might be so important.
Are the rumours true? Is green really the new black?
It started with food: organic, chemical free, cruelty free, locally grown.
Issues rarely thought of a decade earlier were suddenly important when choosing what to eat for dinner. Makeup soon followed.
Companies advertised their products as pure and moved away from animal testing.
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Danish designer Jens Laugesen was together with Richard Nicoll, Aleksandar Stanic and Fiona Sinha named as Fashion Forward's winning designers for 2007 at a glamorous event at the luxurious Haymarket Hotel in London.
The event was hosted by the British Fashion Council and sponsored by Westfield London.
A humble and yet very proud Jens Laugesen said: "It's been the making of a whirldwind moment and all the attention is incredibly rewarding".
All winning designers are given financial assistance to show their collections at next season's London Fashion Week (LFW) in September.
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