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Portland Fashion Week Emerging Designer Showcase Audition
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Art Institute of Portland (Room 263)
Street: 1122 NW Davis St
City/Town: Portland, OR
Email: talent@portlandfashionweek.net
Whom: APPAREL designers only, please.
Accessories designers can email any questions about PFW participation to us at talent@portlandfashionweek.net.
Fashion industry leaders converge to select the next big stars; attractive award package to help catapult the best in emerging designers. Portland Fashion Week has long been a launching-point for emerging talent into the marketplace. By making a high-production fashion week affordable to independent designers through business sponsorship, PFW lowers the barriers to entry, and reaches a broad range of press and public.
Designers selected by the jury will qualify for a $350, 7-look show at Portland Fashion Week on Thursday, October 8, less than half the cost of a normal entry-level show. Selected emerging designers can enjoy all the benefits of a PFW designer's attention from press, public, and buyers, and be featured in a high-end production, the best of the best in the Pacific Northwest.
The jury will include leading fashion industry professionals in Portland: (in alphabetical order)
Sue Bonde, Dir. of Apparel Design, Art Institute of Portland
Jo Carter, Owner/Buyer of Physical Element
Anna Cohen, Internationally renowned Eco-designer
Alice Dobson, Owner/Designer of Sofada
Marie Saturn, Owner of Saturn Style Studios
Marjorie Skinner, Managing Editor of Portland Mercury
Modi Soondarotok, Owner/Designer of IDOM
Lisa Radon, Publisher of ultrapdx.com, writer for Portland Spaces Magazine.
Button Magazine will provide a spread for the winning designer in the October/November 2009 issue! World class New York fashion photography and online media company Fashion Wire Press will provide full-res images of their runway collection to the designer, AND provide photography for a photo shoot for the designer's SS/2010 look book. Creating innovative designs that tell compelling stories, Marketing & Branding firm 24notion will provide 3 hours of business/marketing consultation, AND will design the winner's SS/2010 look book.
Option Model Management is a premiere model agency based in Portland, Oregon. OMM will provide the models to the winning designer to shoot their collection look book and marketing materials. In addition, they will provide a hair/make-up artist from OMMStyle, their make-up/hair/wardrobe division.
AT THE SHOW, THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 2009,THE PORTLAND FASHION WEEK AUDIENCE WILL BE INVITED TO VOTE FOR THEIR FAVORITE DESIGNER COLLECTION!!! THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THAT NIGHT'S PFW AFTER-PARTY!!
www.portlandfashionweek.net
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