Global fashiontv channel collaborates with fashion talent resource Designer Direction with innovative awards program
Tuesday 8 June 2010, 5:12PM
By rockstar PR
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Global fashion channel, fashiontv brings another innovative first - the FTV Online Designer Awards!
The fashiontv Online Designer Awards is an exciting new concept set to help emerging designers in Australia and New Zealand achieve domestic and international recognition. Aimed at launching emerging new talent, the award brings the power of online networks, Perth Fashion Festival and the backing of global fashiontv brand to create exposure.
The competition, open now, attracts an entry fee of $244 however fashiontv have chosen Designer Direction (www.designerdirection.co.nz) as a collaboration partner so 3 lucky, emerging designer talents and followers of Designer Direction can win a place in the inaugural fashiontv Online Designer Awards competition, waiving the entry fee and awarding some great prizes.
“There are so many talented designers in New Zealand who should win a place in this competition and we have three places to award, so to help us decide, we’ve built a quick turn-around competition” says Designer Direction owner Melody Wehipeihana.
“As well as a place in the fashiontv online designer awards, the winners from our competition will get a professional photo shoot at Kingsize Studios with hair styling by industry great Richard Kavanagh, models from Clyne Management and make up by a M.A.C Cosmetics artist – we’re very lucky to have great people supporting us”
To enter the Designer Direction competition, judged by Isaac Hindin-Miller, Salasai’s Kirsha Whitcher and Idiom Tauranga’s Chris and Rachelle Duffy, entrants can choose to submit their conceptual drawings for the fashiontv online designer awards or provide images of a previous collection. Entrants have until Friday June 11 for their submission to be considered, with the fashiontv Online Designer Awards closing July 4 2010
The 3 categories for the fashiontv Online Designer Awards are:
- Swim/Resort wear
- Evening/Couture
- Lifestyle Collections
For more information on the fashiontv Online Designer Awards visit www.designerawards.com.au
For details on how to enter the Designer Direction “Discovered” competition visit www.designerdirection.co.nz
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About Designer Direction
Designer Direction is a sophisticated yet unpretentious fashion website established to support and nurture New Zealand designers and to offer fashion content for both local and global fashion connoisseurs.
About fashiontv
fashiontv is the global leader in fashion content, with 24/7 content distributed via 31 satellite and 2,000 cable systems to a confirmed reach of 388 million households, in 202 countries across 6 continents and can be found in approximately 6.6 million public places and hot spots worldwide.
Throughout Australia and New Zealand, through the Foxtel and Sky networks, fashiontv has a subscriber rate of 3.1 million homes and in Australia fashiontv is the 2nd most watched channel outside of the home, running a close second to Fox sports and available to over 87,000 Foxtel subscribers via the Telstra network.