fashion for faith in four colors: Design Competition
Showing posts with label Design Competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design Competition. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2015

DESIGN COMPETITION // SDBI.DE FASHION 2016 - EUROPEAN FASHION AWARD

     


CHANGE

Are we on the eve of a new era? Wars, conflicts and catastrophes are not the only issues that change the way we view our world. There is no question: Digitalisation and globalisation enhance and facilitate our life, yet they also have a fundamental impact on the world. Smartphones make every networking attempt of the past look like a simple prelude. The start-up culture, shareconomy, co-creation, crowdsourcing and swapping, as well as the disruptive business models of international investors have created a completely new kind of economy. Hardly any industry remains unaffected by this change, whether it is the media, infrastructure, hotel business, work processes, shopping and last, but not least, fashion.

There was no fashion industry in the early 1980s, yet each season a new, and often radical, fashion statement appeared on the scene. Today there is a lack of variety in the stores, despite an oversaturation of designers, concepts and brands on the market. Promising young designers seem to appear and die out like shooting stars. Has commerce choked creativity?

At the same time, the on-screen “wow” effect and the distinction thus generated in social networks seems to have become more important than the effect of the fashion on the body. Thanks to the plethora of new communication channels, the power of bloggers and street style photographers large labels are losing significance. The consumer’s appreciation is waning: apparel costs as much as a cup of coffee, and some consumers wear clothes for only half the amount of time spent to make them.

Yet fondness for mass-produced apparel is considered bad taste. Even the shopping mall full of chain stores promotes: “This isn’t mainstream. This is street style.”

The European Fashion Award FASH 2016 with the subject “Change” is searching for visions of a new era. How can fashion react to all these changes? Should there be more adaptation, subversive strategies, or should we dream completely new dreams? Who will ride the wave of change and claim the future?

PRIZES

The award purse totals 80,000 Euro and is valued with the following prizes:
– Photo shoots with the renowned fashion photographer Franco P. Tettamanti. All winners may use these pictures for their websites.
– A graphically sophisticated catalogue
– Professional media work, incl. an own microsite on www.sdbi.de.
– Awards ceremony
– Participation in the network of SDBI and in the mentoring program founded in 2014
– Cash prizes of 10,000 Euro
The European Fashion Award FASH 2016 will be presented in two categories.
Students: 1st Prize: 2,500 Euro / 2nd Prize: 1,500 Euro / 3rd Prize: 1,000 Euro
Graduates: 1st Prize: 2,500 Euro / 2nd Prize: 1,500 Euro / 3rd Prize: 1,000 Euro
The jury reserves the right to present special mentions. These feature a cash prize of 500 Euro.
As an addition form of special honor the jury may decide to permanently include selected documentations and presentation charts into the Archive of the Stiftung der Deutschen Bekleidungsindustrie.
The jury reserves the right to distribute prizes in a different manner as shown in the competition information.


SCHEDULE

• Registration Deadline: August, 31, 2015
• Submission Deadline: September, 25th, 2015
All materials must be received in Munich on or before this date. Please take into account any required customs processing time for submission from non-EU countries as well as from Switzerland. Details
• Jury Meeting: Mid October 2015
• Participants will be notified in October.
• Photo Shoot: Expected November 2015 in Berlin

To learn more about the competition requirements and to submit your application, go here. 

Friday, June 12, 2015

DESIGN COMPETITION // TEXTILE FEDERATION - BOHEMIA PROJECT

     

BOHEMIA PROJECT

Textile Federation competition runs from:
09 June 2015 – 30 June 2015

THE BRIEF

Taking inspiration from all things Bohemia and its roots in art, music and culture, we’re looking for print designs to be used on our A/W Womenswear and Scarf collections.
This project is open to all and designs can be either suitable for digital or screen printing. 4-6 winners will be selected and see their designs produced and sold across some of the world’s largest fashion retailers.

WINNERS RECEIVE

£300 cash per design
To learn more and to submit your designs, go here.

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

DESIGN COMPETITION // FRONT ROW SOCIETY - MIX AND MATCH: MOSAIC MANIA

     

CREATIVE BRIEF

Submission Deadline: 15 July, 2015, 6pm CET
Voting Starts: 16 July, 2015, 6pm CET

Continuing the “Mix and Match” theme from our previous design challenge, for our latest competition we want you to focus on a different type of assembly: mosaics. If patchworks are the yin of the collage world, with their eclectic mixes of patterns and prints, then mosaics are definitely the yang: their solidly geometric appeal relying more on the careful combination of colors and shapes rather than a multitude of elaborate motifs. 

The components may be less complex, but we’re definitely not saying that mosaics can’t produce some pretty spectacular results by themselves. Think of the stunningly ornamented floors of old churches, or the exquisite tiled decorations found in Moroccan hammam or Turkish bath houses. Take a wander through the Greek and Roman villas of your imagination, and show us what you can piece together.

What can you win?

Each winner receives a one-off prize of 200€ once the collection launches on the website plus a sample of their products when it arrives in stock. But that is not all – if your design receives 500 orders on wholesale, you will receive an additional €200. This means that FRS can continue to embody the spirit of fashion democracy, rewarding our top designs again...and again...and again! We will also conduct an interview with the winner, publicizing their design across the fashion community in Berlin and worldwide.

To learn more and to submit your designs into the competition, go here. 

Monday, June 1, 2015

DESIGN COMPETITION - MODE CONNECT

     

A UNIQUE FASHION DESIGN COMPETITION 

Fashion students worldwide can enter #YourView15 fashion competition. It is easily done, requires little extra work and provides great exposure to young fashion creatives.

All you have to do is to tweet or post on Instagram, a maximum of three images you have created for a project on your course. This project must be creative and fashion related. Fashion illustration, fashion photography, apparel and textile design projects are obvious contenders. Add to the image: your name, age, city and “enters #Modeconnect #YourView15 #Contest”. This is enough for you to be selected as a finalist and feature on Modeconnect.
This year again, Bloomsbury Publishing sponsors YourView fashion competition and offer great books to the competition three winners. In addition they will receive vouchers to spend on Modeconnect short fashion courses, representing a total of £1000 in prizes.
The 1st prize is a complete set of the Bloomsbury Basics Fashion Design series (12 books) plus a Modeconnect voucher for £350. The 2nd prize is a voucher for £100 to spend on Bloomsbury’s website plus a Modeconnect voucher for £150, The 3rd prize is a Bloomsbury’s fashion design book of choice (excluding the encyclopaedia sets) plus a Modeconnect voucher for £100.
The credit for the competition image belongs to Lucilla Gray.

HOW THE COMPETITION WILL RUN:

Each of #YourView2015 three stages provides students with a unique opportunity.
1 – Modeconnect will re-post on Twitter or Instagram the images submitted. The idea is to offer fashion students worldwide the opportunity to connect with their peers, to exchange and possibly start collaborations. It is an easy way to gain exposure.
2 – The second stage will see candidate selected for the quality of the images submitted, be interviewed to be featured on Modeconnect. These will be the finalists of our competition.
3 – Finally, between July 4th and July 10th, a popular vote amongst those finalists, will determine the winners.
Deadline for submission is June 29, 2015. The earliest you enter the most likely you are to become a finalist. The competition is free of charge and open to further and higher education fashion students worldwide studying any of the following subjects: Design, Apparel, Communication, Promotion, Branding, Styling, Textiles, Accessories or Photography.
If you do not make is as a finalist, you can submit other work you think Modeconnect should feature via our Submission Form.

YourView 2015 Competition Terms and Conditions

  • Modeconnect will only repost on Twitter and Instagram suitable images which answer the competition criteria.
  • Deadline for submission is June 29, 2015.
  • Candidates will be considered finalists only when their interview has been published.
  • Modeconnect reserves the right to withdraw or amend YourView 2015 competition and its rules in the event of any unforeseen circumstances outside of its control or if at its absolute discretion, it considers it necessary.
  • Modeconnect and Bloomsbury Publishing will not be liable for any claims or complaints in respect to the Prizes or to the Entries. In particular Modeconnect and Bloomsbury Publishing will not be liable for any expenses incurred by the candidates.
  • Vouchers to be used on Modeconnect will only be valid for courses effectively run. Prizes will not be substituted for cash, whatever the circumstance.

Monday, May 25, 2015

DESIGN COMPETITION // THE ECOCHIC DESIGN AWARD 2015/2016

     

The EcoChic Design Award is a sustainable fashion design competition inspiring emerging fashion designers to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste. Designers are educated with the theory and techniques to enable them to create desirable sustainable clothing via zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction sustainable design techniques.
The 2015/16 competition cycle is open to fashion designers with less than three years’ professional experience and fashion design students living in any Asian or European country*. A total of ten finalists from across the regions will be selected to come to Hong Kong in January 2016 to showcase their minimal waste collections at HKTDC Hong Kong Fashion Week where career-changing prizes will be awarded.
To learn more and to apply go to their website: The EcoChic Design Award
Location: living in any Asian or European country at the time of the application (valid ID/passport/visa/resident permit).
Experience/age: fashion designer with less than three years’ professional fashion design experience or a fashion design student studying in any year at an educational institute in any Asian or European country at the time of the application.
Entry: Free
Deadline: August 15 2015
Prizes: 10 finalists from across the regions will be selected to come to Hong Kong in January 2016 to showcase their minimal waste collections at HKTDC Hong Kong Fashion Week where career-changing prizes will be awarded.
What is the competition design brief?
You are challenged to design a sustainable womenswear collection that will redress the way contemporary, fashion-loving women see their outer and inner reflection. You designs must inspire your muse to step out into the world confidently wearing her sustainability values stylishly on her sleeve.
You are designing for…
  • A dynamic, contemporary woman aged 25-40 with a sophisticated appreciation of style and modern Chinese aesthetics.
  • She enjoys considered and conscious luxury, where focus is given to quality, tailoring and craftsmanship.
  • She is conscientious about wastefulness in modern living and wishes to be clothed in ways that reflect her style as much as her sentiments about sustainability.
Your sustainable designs must…
  • Cut waste out of fashion by using one or more of the sustainable design techniques of zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction.
  • Take the deeper cut by using textile waste for the up-cycling and reconstruction outfits.
  • Show wider opportunities through being reproducible and scalable.
If you want to redress women in style and sustainability, you must…
  • Design to win. Create three ready-to-wear outfit sketches (not complete outfits) for the open application. If you make the cut to become one of the ten finalists, you must make these three ready-to-wear sketches into complete outfits. To test you further, you must then create two additional complete ready-to-wear outfits and one couture outfit in order to make your mark on the runway.
  • Impress the judges. Your designs will be scored in three categories based on the creative design brief (in the open application and semi-final) and four categories (in the Grand Final) each with equal weighting according to creativity and originality, sustainability, marketability and workmanship (final only).

Thursday, May 14, 2015

DESIGN COMPETITION // FRONT ROW SOCIETY - PATCHWORK

     

CREATIVE BRIEF

Submission Deadline: 15 June, 2015, 6pm CET
Voting Starts: 16 June, 2015, 6pm CET

They say the grass is always greener on the other side, which might be why as experts in perfectly produced digital prints, we tend to lust after artisanal, handcrafted pieces, where each individual flaw or variation only adds to the object’s unique charm. That’s why we’ve chosen to focus our latest challenge on one of the ultimate expressions of homespun craftsmanship: patchwork. 

No longer just a practical means of using up scraps of old fabric, we want you to celebrate the fantastic variety of patterns and prints patchworking can offer up. Imagine the cosy bohemian atmosphere created by old quilted blankets and throws, as paisleys and florals collide in a delightfully eclectic assembly; or the excitement of going through a treasure trove of vintage prints as you browse through old fabric swatches. It’s time to pick up your sewing needle and show us what you can patch together.

What can you win?

Each winner receives a one-off prize of 200€ once the collection launches on the website plus a sample of their products when it arrives in stock. But that is not all – if your design receives 500 orders on wholesale, you will receive an additional €200. This means that FRS can continue to embody the spirit of fashion democracy, rewarding our top designs again...and again...and again! We will also conduct an interview with the winner, publicizing their design across the fashion community in Berlin and worldwide.

To learn more and to submit your designs, go here. 


Monday, May 11, 2015

DESIGN COMPETITION // SAINT LOUIS FASHION FUND - EMERGING DESIGNER AWARD

     



Saint Louis Fashion Fund, a new non-profit that includes leaders in the culture, fashion, higher education, law and business fields, the organization is continuing their mission to discover and support emerging designer talent through their second annual Emerging Designer Award.

Saint Louis Fashion Fund’s Emerging Designer Award was created in 2014 to support fashion designers throughout the United States. Each year, the winning designer receives a cash prize, one look produced by the Fund to sell in boutiques and on an e-commerce site, and mentoring by nationally recognized retail, PR/Marketing and professionals leaders – those who can help them take their careers to the next level.

The competition will give six finalists the opportunity to present their collection at Saint Louis Fashion Week and compete for the $25,000 grand prize. They will also receive editorial coverage, business mentoring from the Saint Louis Fashion Fund jury panel which includes Gary Wassner, designer Lisa Perry along with many other notables such as Fern Mallis and Stan Herman.

The winner will receive:

  • $25,000 award to pursue his/her fashion design business plan
  • Financial support, guidance and exposure from the St. Louis Fashion Fund to produce one look with 100% of the proceeds going to the St. Louis Fashion Fund
  • A designer collaboration with an accessories brand negotiated by the Saint Louis Fashion Fund
  • A pop-up shop/trunk show in a private home or retailer in Saint Louis
  • A one-year long mentorship with industry professionals from the Saint Louis Fashion Fund jury panel
The deadline to apply Thursday, June 4, 2015 and to learn more and apply at the Saint Louis Fashion Fund Emerging Designer Award.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

DESIGN COMPETITION // FASHION SCOUT - SS 2016 LONDON + PARIS

     

FASHION SCOUT SS16 LONDON & PARIS SHOWCASING

Designers are be able to apply for Catwalk Shows, Presentations, Installations, London Exhibition, Paris Showroom alongside Fashion Scout’s coveted sponsored Merit Award and Ones to Watch.

With 10 years experience Fashion Scout are renowned for their professionalism and scouting abilities, managing and producing hundreds of highly acclaimed events.


Designers are selected by a panel of industry experts. The panel features leading buyers, media and business advisors, including Sara Maino, Hilary Alexander and Jessica Bumpus. Their decision is based in the creative vision of the brand and collections, quality of work and business potential / success.

To request more information about types of showcasing and an application pack, email your brand name and interest to press@fashionscoutevents.com


FASHION SCOUT MERIT AWARD 

The Fashion Scout Merit Award is internationally recognized as a prestigious launch pad for the next generation of innovative design talent.
 
The new talent initiative is worth £25,000 over three seasons and has been created to support and develop new designer business on a global level.

Since its inception in 2009, the Merit Award’s role call includes William Tempest, David Koma, Hermione de Paula, Eudon Choi, Georgia Hardinge and more recently, Leutton Postle, Phoebe English, Heohwan Simualtion, Yifang Wan and Xiao Li.


The Merit Award is a highlight event and acts as a key draw for UK and international press and buyers each season.

Applications close on Thursday 7th May, go to their website here.

To request information or to apply please contact:
press@fashionscoutevents.com