Are You a High School Senior who Lives and Breathes Fashion? Enter Scholarship Competition Today

Nov. 18, 2009 - PRLog -- Do you create designs that are runway worthy? Do you have the next great design that fashionistas will love? Take this opportunity to enter The Art Institutes annual Passion for Fashion Competition and you could be the next winner of a full tuition scholarship to a participating Art Institutes school.

The Art Institutes schools, including The New England Institute of Art, are now searching for creative, passionate, and driven high school seniors who have a calling towards the fashion industry. Those who have an interest should enter The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition at The New England Institute of Art.

The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition was created to encourage and reward young fashion talent.
 
One grand prize winner in Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management will earn a full tuition scholarship to study at a participating Art Institutes school.  

To be eligible to enter, a student must be a high school senior scheduled to graduate in 2010.

In the Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management category, entry requirements include a finished product or plan.

“The abilities of the high school seniors who enter The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition are amazing! We are pleased to sponsor this competition and offer scholarships that will help students develop their skills and background in fashion,” said Kathleen Evans, Chair of the Fashion & Retail Management Program at The New England Institute of Art .

Each grand prize winner, in partnership with Seventeen Magazine, also receives a trip to New York City to attend a Fashion Week show, a "meet and greet" at Seventeen Magazine's offices, lunches with a Seventeen Magazine Style Pro and receives a $500 shopping spree.

The deadline to submit entries to The New England Institute of Art is November 20, 2009.  For more information about entering The New England Institute of Art Passion for Fashion Competition contact, Jeannette Chambliss, jchambliss@aii.edu, 617 582-4543. Entries should be mailed to The New England Institute of Art, 10 Brookline Place West, Brookline, MA, 02445.Or visit www.artinstitutes.edu/boston.  

For complete rules and entry requirements for The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition, visit http://www.artinstitutes.edu/pr.aspx?ID=ai1011.

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The New England Institute of Art Institute is one of The Art Institutes a system of over 40 education institutions located throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion and culinary arts professionals.