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Fur Free Fashion Competition

fffashion: Fur Free Fashion Competition

Independent designers are invited to enter their fur free fashions for a chance to win cash prizes, boost their fashion career, and help promote the ethical and environmental benefits of foregoing fur fashion.

This is an extraordinary opportunity for emerging fashion designers to showcase their talent and contribute to a worthy cause.

Top entries will be judged and winners selected by Sophie Uliano, green living guru and author of New York Times Bestseller Gorgeously Green; Summer Rayne Oaks, eco-model, activist, spokesperson, and resident expert for Discovery Network’s Planet Green; and Brita Belli, editor of E / The Environmental Magazine.

Sophie Uliano
Sophie Uliano 		Summer Rayne Oaks
Summer Rayne Oaks 		Brita Belli
Brita Belli

Additional support for fffashion comes from the premier online independent fashion website UsTrendy, which is helping spread the word about this compassionate contest, and Urban Decay, one of the hippest, cruelty-free cosmetics companies, which is supplying the makeup for the winners' photoshoot and gift baskets for the winning entries.


Are you a designer?

Born Free USA and E Magazine are looking for independent fashion designers to enter fffashion: Fur Free Fashion Design Competition.

You could win one of three cash prizes and a chance for your design to be featured in E Magazine — the nation's leading environmental news magazine.

Put your compassionate eco-savvy talent to the test by filling out an entry form and submitting a photo of one of your fully constructed fur free fashions. Deadline is April 1, 2009.


Prizes:

1st Prize: $750 cash and your design professionally modeled, photographed, and featured in an ad in E Magazine, and a feature profile of you and your design on the fffashion website and in related media exposure.

2nd Prize: $500 cash, recognition in E Magazine, and a special profile of you and your design on the fffashion website.

3rd Prize: $250 cash, recognition in E Magazine, and a special profile of you and your design on the fffashion website.

Finalists: The top 10 participants and their designs will be recognized on fffashion website.


Find out more:

Find out more about compassionate green fashion, the cruelty of the fur trade, and what retailers and consumers can do to help.


Born Free USA
Learn more about our work »		 Consumers for a Fur Free Society

Partners:

E-Magazine

UsTrendy

Urban Decay


How to Enter:

To enter, you must:

  • Be 18 years of age or older.
  • Complete and sign the Entry & Release form including a brief description outlining your interest in compassionate, green fashion.
  • Provide a photo of a finished, originally designed fur-free garment product. The product may be any of the following — coat or shirt (size Medium); pants, dress, or skirt (women size 8 or men size 40); or suit, including blouse, pants, or skirt (women size 8 or men size 40).
  • Read and comply with the official rules and regulations (Acrobat PDF) for fffashion: fur free fashion design competition.
  • Pay an entry fee of $25.00.

Entry Form


Deadlines:

The 2009 competition closed for entry on April 1, 2009.

If you have entered the competition this year, you will be contacted by the organizers in May. All the winning designs and pictures will be revealed here on our website in September 2009.

Thank you for supporting fffashion. For more information: info@furfreeshopping.com


Help Us Promote fffashion:

Link to us: Add animated fffashion buttons and banners to your MySpace pages, websites, and other online communities.

Post a flyer: Download a flyer to post in coffee shops, boutiques, colleges, and anywhere that may reach independent fashion designers.




Steward Comrie,
Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, UK
Third Place Winner in the Design Against Fur Animation Contest
(See more winning animations and posters)