Jul
01
2008
Threadless is sponsoring a design contest - Threadless Loves. This sounds like one to really make you flex those creativity muscles.
Community-centric tee shirt company Threadless.com is asking designers to turn the true stories of their lives into works of art in its latest “Loves” campaign. To help lead the way, Threadless has partnered up with original, personal storytelling site Fray.com, self-publishing site Blurb.com, and the film Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party, written by and starring famous character actor Tobolowsky (Groundhog Day, Deadwood, Heroes) as he tells fascinating stories from his life on-screen and off. Find out more about the contest theme, prizes, deadline and all those details here.
In addition to the Loves contest, Threadless has an ongoing open call for tee shirt design submissions. Anyone can sign up, download a tee template and submit ideas, which are then evaluated by the Threadless community for seven days. Tee shirt designs are selected by Threadless from the pool of the most popular designs as scored by the community. If a design is selected for print by Threadless, the designer currently receives a payment $2000 in cash and a $500 Threadless gift certificate.
Jun
30
2008
Just got my newsletter from the Bustline and read about another great contest. This one from Dr. Martens.
This is your chance to show the world your talent. Choose your canvas: the 8-hole or the 14-hole boot. Use pens, use paint, use whatever. Use your imagination. Dr. Martens provided some tools on their site. Or if you want, you can use your own. They will have two winners! One voted for by the people. The other chosen by a panel of industry insiders. You enter it. Dr. Martens will make them. You’ll see them in shops. Worldwide.
Mar
19
2008
GEN ART STLES 2008: International Design competition has extended its deadline until April 4th. This competition sounds exciting for any new designers, fashion design students, or any of you Etsy fashion designers out there - nudge, nudge.
From the Gen Art Website:
Gen Art invites you to compete in Styles 2008, its provocative program for emerging fashion designers. Win a chance to present your designs at a high profile New York Runway Show and compete for one of five $5,000 Awards for Design Excellence.
A Selection Committee of influential market editors, stylists, and buyers will review all submissions at a Prescreening Event in mid April. At this Prescreening, the Selection Committee will choose five finalists in each category. The committee reviews the submissions without knowing who the designer is so that each entry is judged just on the merits of the submitted designs. All finalists will be invited to participate in the Styles 2008 Fashion Show that will take place on May 19, 2008 in New York City.
Click here to register to apply online.
Mar
10
2008
You’ve probably noticed the big promotion for KMart’s Style Showoff contest. The entrants (1) upload a photo of themselves showcasing their “style”, (2) make a style statement explaining the secrets of their style success, and (3) show it off for the judges. Four style show-offs are featured as samples meant to inspire the contest entrants.
Caroline R is one of the “show offs” and her style statement goes like this:
My sense of style is very All-American: clean and classic but with a twist! I’m not afraid of bright, fun colors or prints–I especially love pink. Usually, I put an outfit together around whatever shoe I’m wearing.
I love wearing high heels, a cute skirt or some capris pants, and a fitted top. I just add the finishing touch of a colorful purse…and voila! And don’t be surprised if that purse matches my shoes. I rock my style by adding a headband or a unique piece of jewelry that to me has special meaning.
Fashion is all about making yourself feel good. I say if you feel good wearing it, then ‘You work it!’
Maybe it’s just me, but don’t you think they could have come up with something a little more creative? Any of the hundreds of folks who’ve already put themselves out there on a street fashion photo site like Tricia Royal’s wardrobe_remix, or the Flickr Fruits site, or the new Stylemob can do much better than that.
(And, by the way, All Chic has just launched its own Community. Click on the link to the upper left to join the All Chic Closet. Post photos of what’s in your closet and what’s on your wish list. Buy sell and trade with other members. Let’s get this community off the ground. Email me with any suggestions…. cath at allchic.com….)
Feb
18
2008
Another layered skirt is featured here with the wedding dress that won Grand Prize in Ithaca’s (NY) 2006 eco-fashion design contest. It was designed and made by Alice Fogel of Lyric Couture. Alice, shown above, made the dress from 22 tailored cotton shirts she bought for $1.50 a pound. (The photographer is Marty Luster.)
The grand prize winner of the 2007 contest was a team of Cornell University employees who called themselves “Coco Cornell.” They won with an evening dress covered in tiers of shredded paper. (The model is LeighAnn Sullivan and the photographer is Lindsay France.)
There is still time to enter the 2008 contest. Deadline is March 1st and entry forms can be downloaded here at Sew-Green.org. And in case the sheer creative challenge isn’t enough to get you motivated, here are the facts from the contest’s entry form.
The ubiquitous T, icon of freedom and self-expression, is not the benign item it appears to be. Conventional cotton is the most toxin-intensive fiber on earth. It requires 1/3 pound of pesticides and herbicides to produce the cotton used in a typical t-shirt, and about 3/4 pound of toxins for the average pair of conventional denim blue jeans. Dyes and finishing add more toxic chemicals. Enter the contest and show how existing Ts, jeans, and other cotton materials can be reused as new fashions, quilts, bags, whatever! Surprise us!
Thank you, Wendy Skinner, for the photos and information.
