Fashion Designers and Craft makers Network has now opened applications for designers to participate in the Autumn Young Designer Awards Ceremony 2011 which takes place in London. The Young Designer Awards is a non-profit event and is a unique project that continues to grow in popularity amongst young students. In addition to the YDA we have added a number of new categories that enable more established fashion designers, accessory, jewellery and milliners to participle in the young designer awards.
The Radical Designer Awards is targeted at fashion designers who are any age over 21 years. This age category must have design experience, a fashion label or a fashion house. This award gives each designer an opportunity to demonstrate their technical design skill and to express their creativity. The brief is to showcase a current Radical collection at the young designer awards. A very special showcase at Seattle Fashion Week USA will be offered by Seattle Fashion Week’s directors to one of our Radical Designer award winners.
Nichole Sams Seattle Fashion Week Director of Marketing says “Seattle Fashion Week is excited to extend one fashion showcase during an upcoming Fashion Week to the lucky winner of the Radical Designer Awards. The most important aspect of being a young designer is showing your art to the world. This helps gain fans, buyers and eventually gets designs in boutiques and retailers. Seattle is a great place for new designers to showcase their work. Seattle is a city enjoys unique works of art.”
Jewellery designers and Accessory designers including milliners can now enter to be up for the opportunity to participate in New Jersey Fashion Week. NJFW provides a platform for exceptional emerging fashion talent to present their seasonal collections on a global scale to the industry, media and consumers.
This year’s young award winners have also been offered fantastic opportunities to debut a collection in New Jersey Fashion Week and The Fashion Designers Expo Week based in Florida.
“Fashion Designer Expo Florida” is an exciting Fashion Week designed to show the world new fashion superstars, showcasing the best emerging talent from all over the world, FDE Florida offers the excitement and exposure that emerging fashion talent need, from extravagant runway shows to lavish parties.
Joanna Marcella the founder of the FDC Young Designer Awards says “Our unique selling point is that our event recognises young multicultural design talent and catapults young fashion designers right on to the international fashion stage.”
This year in our young designers category they are being asked to pay homage to the brilliant fashion designer Alexander McQueen by researching his work and take inspiration from deigns that are considered works of art. The young designer awards aims to provide a platform for creative geniuses who are edgy and original and are not afraid to take risks. The event seeks to find future trailblazers who think outside of the box.
Joanna continues “The FDC Young Designer Awards has been growing from strength to strength and our reputation has reached all corners of the globe, any young designer who would to be part of the great project can now apply to come on board.
Designers who have drive, ambition are talented and very committed, who want to take part in the awards can contact Joanna Marcella email: youngdesignerawards@hotmail.com Mobile: 07940 647 102 / Tel: 0208 986 8411. Website: http://www.youngdesignerawards.weebly.com