Young Designers
Open Call
Project basic breakdown and timeline:
Open Call from April – June 18th, 2021
Young designers open call – 15 designers will be chosen to compete from the open call
The competition will run from June to August
In August, the final five winners from each of the weekly competition will get the opportunity to shop items from the MFTA warehouse to create six looks to display at FWBK and SFW
(3 looks at each show) of which a final overall winner will be chosen
Image by: Karolina Grabowska
Week 1
All the chosen designers from the open call will meet the host John Kaiser and the team at MTFA to tour the MFTA warehouse and be introduced to the viewers, (share a bit of each designer’s background story)
Week 2 thru week 6
Every Mondays - 5 designers will meet at the warehouse to choose items to create one complete design to present to the judges on Friday (garment will be shown on a model) - judges will make comment and a winner will be choose for the final round of competition
Footage from each week will be edit and shown on YouTube/website and other social media platform as a miniseries with credit roll for all donors and sponsors
End of August - The final 5 designers will make a mini collection (6 designs) to be shown at Sustainable Fashion Week (SFW) in September and Fashion Week Brooklyn (FWBK) in October where a final winner will be announced
Taping schedule (each week, the designers will have a theme to build their creation from)
July 1st – All contest will visit the warehouse to meet with the host John
July 5th – the first group of five contestants will shop the warehouse (Group A)
July 9th – Group A will present the garment to the judges
July 12th – Group B will Shop warehouse
July 16th – Group B will present to judges
July 26th – Group C will shop the warehouse
July 30th – Group C will present to judges
August 2nd – Group D will shop the warehouse
August 6th – Group D will present to judges
August 9th – Group E will shop the warehouse
August 13th – Group E will present to the judges
August 16th – five semifinalists (winner from each group) will shop the warehouse for items to create two collects of three looks each for SFW and FWBK
Grand Winner prize
1st place $1000
2nd place - $500
3rd place - $250
Two runner-ups - $150
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