GREAT FASHION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
How do you define your fashion sense? Maybe you dream of creating the hottest trends. Or imagine creating displays for a fashionable boutique. If you have a true passion for fashion, your big ideas could earn you a full-tuition scholarship to a fashion program at one of The Art Institutes locations.

How? By showing off your stuff! Submit your designs or marketing plans to The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition. It could be your ticket to New York Fashion Week, a “meet-and-greet” at Seventeen magazine, and a full-tuition scholarship to any of the more than 35 Art Institutes locations across North America that offer fashion programs.

HOW TO ENTER
Choose from two competition categories: 1) Fashion Design or 2) Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management. Select the competition that best matches your skills, and then complete the attached Entry & Release form. We strongly recommend that entry materials be submitted in one package. Essays and information may be submitted on a CD-ROM. Mail your package with all application materials to The Art Institutes location where you plan to enter the competition and attend after the competition. For more information, visit  www.artinstitutes.edu/passion4fashion.

DEADLINES           
All entries must be received at The Art Institutes location where you plan to enter the competition and attend by November 21, 2008. Each local winner will be notified by December 19, 2008. Selection and notification of the national winners will be made by January 23, 2009.

SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
Each local Fashion Design competition and local Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management competition winner will receive a $3,000 tuition scholarship to The Art Institutes location they represent in the competition. Local first place winning entries will move on to the national competition.

The national grand prize winners in the Fashion Design competition and the Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management competition are each awarded a full-tuition scholarship to The Art Institutes location they represent in the competition. Both grand prize winners receive a VIP trip to Fashion Week in New York City in February 2009 and the opportunity for a “meet-and-greet” at Seventeen magazine.

National second place winners in both categories receive a $5,000 tuition scholarship to The Art Institutes location they represented in the competition. National third place winners are awarded a $4,000 tuition scholarship to The Art Institutes location they represented in the competition.

All tuition scholarships must be used at The Art Institutes location where you enter the competition, and are non-transferable. The school must offer programs in Fashion Design and/or Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management. Upon accepting the scholarship, you must agree to begin your fashion studies in the summer or fall quarter immediately following the competition. You may enter the competition at only one Art Institutes location.

All winners must meet all school and program general admission requirements at The Art Institutes location where you enter the competition. Recipients of tuition scholarships must apply the tuition scholarship award to The Art Institutes location indicated on the entry form. Tuition scholarship awards are contingent upon acceptance to the chosen Art Institutes location and must be used at The Art Institutes location you represent in the competition. Tuition scholarships are non-transferable. All decisions made by the judges are final and may not be disputed. The Art Institutes are not responsible for any lost, incomplete or stolen entries. In the event that the scholarship recipient’s education is terminated, either by the school or by the student, the scholarship becomes null and void. Tuition scholarships are not redeemable for cash. The tuition scholarship covers academic tuition and may not be applied against fees, housing, living expenses, or program supplies and may not be transferred between affiliate schools. Tuition scholarship recipients must begin their program of study in the summer or fall following the competition. Scholarship recipients must not interrupt their studies; interruption of studies will result in a loss of the scholarship.

Ready to show off your stuff and take the next step in your fashion future?

THE ART INSTITUTES PASSION FOR FASHION SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION
The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Scholarship Competition is your opportunity to earn a scholarship to one of The Art Institutes schools, with over 35 locations offering fashion programs.

This competition is right for you even if you love fashion but you’re not a designer. You can compete in one of the following categories:

1. Fashion Design
2. Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management

Your talents could earn you a scholarship. It’s up to you now. Time to put your best fashion forward. But do it soon. Entries are due by November 21, 2008.

CATEGORIES AND CRITERIA
You may make submissions in one of the following categories:

FASHION DESIGN
To enter, you must be a high school senior scheduled to graduate in 2009, and you must fulfill all general admission and competition guidelines.

SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
Each local Fashion Design competition winner and each local Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management Competition winner will receive a $3,000 tuition scholarship to The Art Institutes location they represent in the Competition and plan to attend following high school graduation. Local first place winners from each category will move on to the national competition.

The national grand prize winners in the Fashion Design category and in the Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management category will each receive a full tuition scholarship to study in a fashion program at The Art Institutes location they represented in the Competition. National second place winners in each category will receive a $5,000 tuition scholarship to study in a fashion program at The Art Institutes location they represented in the Competition. National third place winners in each category will receive a $4,000 tuition scholarship to study in a fashion program at The Art Institutes location they represented in the Competition.

Both grand prize winners will receive a VIP trip to Fashion Week in New York City in February 2009, participate in a “meet-and-greet” at Seventeen magazine’s New York City offices, and lunch with a Seventeen magazine Style Pro.

CONDITIONS
For additional conditions applicable to the competition and the scholarship awards, please review the complete Official Rules and Regulations at www.artinstitutes.edu/passionforfashion.

FASHION MARKETING & MERCHANDISING AND RETAIL MANAGEMENT
To enter, you must be a high school senior scheduled to graduate in 2009, and you must fulfill all general admission and competition guidelines.

YOUR ENTRY MUST INCLUDE:

• Completed Entry & Release form
• Your high school transcript showing a minimum 2.0 GPA
• A short essay (800 words or less) addressing how your fashion creation will contribute to the advancement of the fashion industry, as well as what sparked your interest in the fashion industry
• A finished and original Fashion Marketing, Fashion Merchandising, or Retail Management product or plan
• A written description of your product or plan (1,000 words or less). Entries may include: a retail store concept, marketing promotion, store layouts, fashion business concept, new concept for retail, Internet fashion concept, catalog retail concept, home fashion concept or industrial fashion/safety/consumer trend product.

The Art Institutes acknowledge that all applicants may not have the same access to materials needed to complete a finished product or plan. Therefore, unfinished products or plans may be entered. However, a completed product or plan will enhance your entry. The Art Institutes are not responsible for lost entries.

*Should you advance to the national competition, your entry will not be returned. Other entries will be returned by request only. All decisions made by judges are final and may not be disputed.