Events & Opportunities
| Posted on 05.02.2010 | Posted by LG/CL
Calling All Creatives With an Interest in Urban Fashion.
UKURBANSTREETWEAR is an online retailer of urban clothing. We are re-launching our website and overhauling our current stock to better represent the vision of the company. Our aim; to sell fresh, innovative clothing and accessories â inspired by the streets and the everyday hustles of lifeâ . Our mission; to provide quality clothing at reasonable prices to young people across the country who are frustrated with generic, run-of-the-mill, mindless fashion. Our ethos; to support emerging talent, both financially and professionally and help fledgling, avant-garde designers turn their appetite for the arts into a tangible and material finger-up to the autocrats.
We are seeking passionate fashion, product, graphics and textiles designers to work with us designing conceptual, urban clothing that has the ability to address many issues- past, present and future through the creative use of fabric, textures, shape, structure and thought provoking anecdotes. From socio-economics to CCTV cities, from heartbreak to government hypocrisy, a message should be the starting point of your design process and manifest itself not in the obvious but rather in the use of materials, in your detailing and in subtle, underlying references.
The Mission:
Design a capsule range (maximum of six pieces) of clothing, menswear or womenswear with a minimum of one finalised design. This design should be realised either in toile format or fully realised using final materials and trimmings. This piece should be reflective of the entire collection and demonstrate your tailoring skills (if you are a fashion student), and your ability to communicate a message. If you are a graphics/textiles student or even a budding illustrator, we would need to see the concept and design on relevant material.
Mission Specs:
- Register interest by Monday15th Feb 2010, register by emailing the following information; Name, Contact details, Course and university details to info@ukurbanstreetwear.com
- Design work including but not essential; range/development boards, sketchbooks/mood boards. Essential design work; final design/s, final realised design. For womenswear please use UK size twelve for clothing, for menswear use a medium.
- Costings; this should be the breakdown of the cost of materials for your design range should we choose to take you on. Bear in mind that our aim is to provide clothing within a mid-range price bracket, as well as to fund as much of the materials for your project as possible, so make savings wherever you can. Be sure to break this down per garment as we may select singular pieces.
- Deadline for design work and costings: 15th March 2010. If there are sufficient applicants from your university/city we will travel to you in the week beginning 15th March, otherwise we will be available for viewing appointments in a centralised location. Exact dates during that week as well as viewing appointments will be sent out closer to the time.
- If you already have a relevant range that you wish to show, please get in touch as soon as possible.
Selected designers will get the unique and exciting opportunity to produce either their entire range or select pieces. They will receive either full or partial funding for materials, a one-on-one working relationship with the UKUS team whereby we help develop your visual identity, promote your products and sell them on our online store. Along with this organic and intimate relationship, we also offer you 40% of the revenue from the sales made from your products. Pretty sweet,eh?
For more information please contact
Naadia Kidy- naadia.kidy@ukurbanculture.org Vijay Tony Patel- vijay.patel@ukurbanculture.org
We are seeking passionate fashion, product, graphics and textiles designers to work with us designing conceptual, urban clothing that has the ability to address many issues- past, present and future through the creative use of fabric, textures, shape, structure and thought provoking anecdotes. From socio-economics to CCTV cities, from heartbreak to government hypocrisy, a message should be the starting point of your design process and manifest itself not in the obvious but rather in the use of materials, in your detailing and in subtle, underlying references.
The Mission:
Design a capsule range (maximum of six pieces) of clothing, menswear or womenswear with a minimum of one finalised design. This design should be realised either in toile format or fully realised using final materials and trimmings. This piece should be reflective of the entire collection and demonstrate your tailoring skills (if you are a fashion student), and your ability to communicate a message. If you are a graphics/textiles student or even a budding illustrator, we would need to see the concept and design on relevant material.
Mission Specs:
- Register interest by Monday15th Feb 2010, register by emailing the following information; Name, Contact details, Course and university details to info@ukurbanstreetwear.com
- Design work including but not essential; range/development boards, sketchbooks/mood boards. Essential design work; final design/s, final realised design. For womenswear please use UK size twelve for clothing, for menswear use a medium.
- Costings; this should be the breakdown of the cost of materials for your design range should we choose to take you on. Bear in mind that our aim is to provide clothing within a mid-range price bracket, as well as to fund as much of the materials for your project as possible, so make savings wherever you can. Be sure to break this down per garment as we may select singular pieces.
- Deadline for design work and costings: 15th March 2010. If there are sufficient applicants from your university/city we will travel to you in the week beginning 15th March, otherwise we will be available for viewing appointments in a centralised location. Exact dates during that week as well as viewing appointments will be sent out closer to the time.
- If you already have a relevant range that you wish to show, please get in touch as soon as possible.
Selected designers will get the unique and exciting opportunity to produce either their entire range or select pieces. They will receive either full or partial funding for materials, a one-on-one working relationship with the UKUS team whereby we help develop your visual identity, promote your products and sell them on our online store. Along with this organic and intimate relationship, we also offer you 40% of the revenue from the sales made from your products. Pretty sweet,eh?
For more information please contact
Naadia Kidy- naadia.kidy@ukurbanculture.org Vijay Tony Patel- vijay.patel@ukurbanculture.org
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