Jewelry and Fashion Design News Competitions

The runway will soon be dressed with fabulous original fashions as Bacardi Limon, a leader in the flavored rum category, and The Daily, the fashion world's authority, invite aspiring designers to add a bit of vibrant color to clothes created with a nod to individual style.
The Express Your Style Competition will reward the undiscovered talent (21+) whose couture cocktail design best exemplifies the essence of Bacardi Limon, a unique blend of Bacardi Premium Rum, infused with an artful combination of lemon, lime and grapefruit essences.
The contest calls for entrants, aged 25 and over, to send sketches of fashions for men or women, in yellow tones, of course, that convey the excitement and intensity of a fabulous night out on the town.

A description of the creative concept, in 500 words or less, must accompany the design, including the types of fabrics required.
Contestants can enter as many times as they wish, but each entry must be different.
Sketches may be sent either by mail or via email as a jpeg attachment sized between 600x900 and 1200x1800 pixels.

All entries must be received by 11:59 EST on January 27, 2007.

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New Online trend service mpdclick launches a rival to the popular WGSN news portal.
mpdclick is focused on kids teen and youth fashion and is already becoming an essential tool for design led retailers and brands.

The service is offering a free 3 day trial to industry professionals.
Jo Everett, buying consultant to UK high fashion chain New Look and formerly Head of Kidswear at Tesco UK, says: "A subscription to mpdclick is like having your own market research department on call 24 hours a day.
Just click and you have access to 1000s of reports compiled using photographs, colour and trend information that's collected from all the major trade fairs, runway shows, style events and retail hot spots worldwide"
"These days, with new ranges coming in to store every 6 weeks designers, retailers and buyers do not have time to do extensive research themselves - they need essential information in an easy to understand format, which is updated on a daily basis"
Fiona Jenvey, founder and owner of Mudpie Design and mpdclick says: "Not many trend agencies take kids, teen and youth wear seriously.

Often the trends are portrayed as being dumbed down runway with little consideration.
Young fashion should be right on trend, not just an afterthought".

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H M the international retail giant and their head of design Margareta van den Bosch have teamed up with Madonna to create a line of clothing and accessories that are scheduled to arrive in all stores carrying the women's wear collection, around the world in March 2007, it was announced today.

The "M by Madonna" fashion line will reflect Madonna's timeless, unique and always glamorous style.
A long standing cultural icon whose enormous global influence on how people dress and look is without equal, Madonna worked hand in hand with Margareta van den Bosch to create a wardrobe of clothing and accessories that represent her own personal and modern spin on her very own wardrobe staples.
"Madonna has an impressive feel for fashion and trends.

She was extraordinarily style conscious, passionate and was involved in even the smallest details of every design.
There is no doubt that Madonna's influence is reflected by the 'M by Madonna' line", stated Margareta van den Bosch regarding the collaboration.
"I've made no secret of my love of fashion over the years.

Working with Margareta and H M was an exciting and new creative challenge for me.
I'm really happy with the results and look forward to wearing 'M by Madonna' along with the rest of the world", concluded Madonna.

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Fashion Trendsetter, online fashion and color forecasting website, announced the release of the Spring/Summer 2008 color trends as two editions; Vol.

02 and Vol.03.
For the summer 2008, two different stories and four sub trend cards are prepared for each color trends.

Spring/Summer 2008 color trends Vol.02 have all the strongest hues for the summer regarding the brightest whilst darkest color tones freshened by split complements.
Vol.

03 is much more like a candy store. Colors reminding of everyone's childhood while keeping up the pinks and blues screaming out; "It's a Boy!" or "It's a Girl!

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The fifth edition of Dressing Codes - the competition organised by Domus Academy and Future Concept Lab and supported by Deborah Group, intended to confront itself for the first time with a real dedicated production.
Dressing Codes Competition jury selected the first 3 winners and 6 special awards among numerous works sent from all over the world.

The projects (more or less 50) were all rich in stimuli and innovative interpretations of the brand Deborah through creative views, often special and of great impact.
The jury unanimously awarded the first prize to Maria Kinas, Australia, who has developed a particularly profound thesis on the brand, highlighting in its identity a strong masculine component, apart from the feminine one.
Maria Kinas' work stroke the attention of he jury for its cultural richness, its interdisciplinary and for the originality of the realized accessories.