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!

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Feedback and suggestions to make this show REALLY worth your while are welcome below, as I said, its all still in development.