New Jamaican fashion designers, here’s your chance to shine!
Mar 12th, 2008 | By Irie Diva | Category: Jamaican Designers, Sales and Contests
If you’ve ever watched Project Runway and wished there was something like that in Jamaica for you to get your shine on, well here’s your chance. The fresh and innovative team at Cashmall Media Productions, producers of the young Yardie Guide series, have chosen to target the booming Jamaican fashion industry by giving away fantabulous prizes to new designers bursting with talent but in need of that little boost. They’ve chosen the name "Fashion Terror" for the series and here’s some tidbits taken from a recent release:
"Fashion Terror: A Passion for Fashion" is a reality TV Program that will feature amateur Fashion Designers selected from a group of applicants. Each week a designer will have three days to receive task, design and complete task and at the end of that week a designer will be eliminated from the group. Fashion Terror’s primary aim is to promote fashion designing as a serious profession and a career with great potential. We also hope to encourage and reward new designers as well as giving these aspiring designers a leg up in the highly competitive and progressive fashion industry.
So who can enter?
Applicants should be students or young adults between the ages of 18 -30 years that have a strong interest in Fashion Design but limited or no experience in a professional capacity. They must be born Jamaican or have migrated internationally no more than five (5) years ago. The application process includes completing entry forms, writing a short essay and a compilation of work with at least six (6) pieces. Interested individuals can request additional details and applications at fashionterror@gmail.com or visit our facebook group “Fashion Terror: A Passion for Fashion ”…….Deadline for applications is May 15, 2008.
Is it worth your while?
The Grand Prize Winner will receive a scholarship to a major Fashion School for a Summer Fashion Designing Program or an internship at one of the major fashion houses across the world. They will also have the opportunity to show their pieces at Jamaica’s Caribbean Fashion Week. (June 2009) A full feature in one of the most popular regionally and internationally distributed Caribbean magazines, “Ocean Style”, along with other prizes and surprises.
This program is still in development but I have chosen to put it out there as early as now to pique the interest of the young Jamaican designers, and maybe pull the ear of a sponsor or two. Designers, you’ll need the extra time to create those fabulous couture pieces if you wanna win that internship! It’s a really good idea, here’s to hoping it will materialize into fabulous, grandiose fruition. Get your creative juices flowing, start that sketching and that research. The producers are hoping for a June ‘08 production start and are in talks with sponsors and stations to get the big go ahead so… get ready, get set…GO!
P.S.
Feedback and suggestions to make this show REALLY worth your while are welcome below, as I said, its all still in development.
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yardie guide series??? You never even got one off the ground…be truthful to your audience!!!
prizes are weak!
For some1 like me I’m very interested in sush a show here however prizes are “meh”. I mean an internship, showing at CFW are all great but cash or even a (small) car doesn’t hurt either. I will also add, as with many “first time” shows the prizes are never great the first time around. So a part of me will watch and see what prizes year 2 offers (anyone remember flex card winning Cavan)
I think a show like this is great!!!….We need to push the fashion industry and give the new aspiring designers a chance to shine…..there’s so much creative talent here!….being an aspiring fashion designer…..i’m excited to see it all come to life!…..The prizes are also very attractive especially knowing how competitive, expensive and difficult it is to make an impact….it costs US$2000 just to showcase a collection at CFW….an international summer intership is at least US$4000….and getting a full feature in a well distributed magazine could open so many opportunities…..WHERE DO I SIGN UP?
Sounds great…Tell dem fi mek sure to post the show online(create their own website) so us yardies in the states can watch!
This is great i’m very excited about this. I just went on the website for Yardie Guides and it seems good. It good to see people caring about us designers. Hats off to you Cashmall Media.
I like I LIKE!!!!!! sOMETHING for us
this is great…and to who waan house and land…dis is about ‘exposure’ if you have talent, faawud, if not, tan back!
please make sure these items are available on line, for those of us who can not attend….as we might be interested in buying some of the pieces….
God Bless and Good luck!
SistaJ
I think the prizes are great and very fitting. It will give an aspiring designer the chance to expand and improve upon their talents. I mean what were we expecting…a job as head designer for Cavalli?
Your links are more important than your site…you dont keep people interested in what you are giving away for the sake of what they are entering…I dont need your links to shop. Your info is DIM!
C’mon, sounds like a cheap scam to get hits…get sponsors to give away what you dont have.
Your site has bait and no bite!!!
Looks like a dead end…just like Yardie Guide
STOP WAISTING PEOPLES TIME OVER WHAT YOU DONT KNOW…its more like you are terrifying people with your bad fashion ideas
Hi xxx,
Thanks for being a loyal FOS visitor, you keep coming back for more and its very appreciated!
Irie Diva
I think that’s a splendid idea to give our designers a foot through the door. But on the other hand..Our designers would have to step up their game…Seeing as the end result would be to compete with international stature. I’ll be watching out for this competition….Hopefully if I get my fashion programme of the ground, I could have some of these designers on my show….”Fashion is my Passion”
Love and Respect
-Cherice
Hi Guys, Great news if you are interested in applying you can do so online at http://www.fashionterror.com deadline in June 15th 2008
what a scandalous way to get those poor Jamaicans into a dream they wish not to be dragged through…why dont you get them into a school program instead…whoever runnin this show must be a thief and a liar. The Pants dont fit…why are you letting people wear them. J
this sounds great i dont mind the prizes im not after that i just wanna get started in the world of fashion. i think this is a great thing and im gonna apply.
Lets meet in Jamaica August 6th
prizes sort of weak.. but considering its ‘limited to no exper…” i guess it okay to start up someone??
um, 2008? where did this go.. its been a year officially. i need to see this!
good question, let me get on that