2010 Passion for Fashion Competition For High School Seniors

2010 Passion for Fashion Competition For High School The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition 2010 provides high school students an exciting glimpse of the highly competitive fashion industry by offering students interested in Fashion Design or Fashion Marketing, Merchandising or Retail Management an opportunity to win a full-tuition scholarship to study fashion at one of The Art Institutes schools.

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 five years ago, interest in the competition has taken off, says Bruce E. Dempsey, Vice President, Academic Affairs Specialist for The Art Institutes.

"We saw a record number of applicants enter last year's competition.

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: 1) Fashion Design and 2) Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management.

The grand prize winner in each category earns a full-tuition scholarship to an Art Institutes school to study in a fashion program.