New award at this year’s Graduate Fashion Week

Criteria for the SDC Colour & Textiles Award > >

·         ExpIoring the creative and inspired use of colour to achieve a distinctive fashion statement in either printed or constructed textiles

 

The SDC Colour & Textiles Award is portfolio-based and every college and university represented at Graduate Fashion Week will be eligible to enter up to three students for the opportunity of winning. Judged by Tamara Salman (design director at Liberty) and Chris Sargeant (SDC vice-president for fashion/design), the winner will be announced at the glittering Gala Show and Awards on Wednesday 6 June at 8pm.

What is the SDC?
The Society of Dyers and Colourists encourages the creative and inspired use of colour in fashion and textile design and is a committed sponsor of young designers. In addition to awarding bursaries and grants, the SDC has sponsored various Colour Awards and run for a number of years the successful Colour in Design competition. The designs of the 2006 winner – Victoria Stone (London College of Fashion) – included a number of opulent outfits that exuded a fervour for print and colour and her designs will be on show on the SDC exhibition stand during the course of GFW.

What is different about this award?
The new SDC Colour & Textiles Award at GFW is all about the creative and inspired use of colour. During the course of the judging process, the students will have the opportunity to talk to the judges about their inspirations and explain how colour impacts on their designs. From the three shortlisted students, a winner will be chosen who will not only enjoy the prestige of winning a prize during GFW, but will also be awarded a cheque for £750, with an additional £250 being awarded to the winning college. The winner will also be presented with the Veronica Bell Award, in memory of the Society’s first woman president who died in 2003.

 

What can the SDC do for you?
In addition to sponsoring this new award, there are other ways the SDC can help you connect with colour. Are you interested in keeping up to date with the latest news, information and insights into the fascinating world of colour? Would you like to take part in SDC events covering such topics as colour trend forecasting, product visualisation, colour control and communication, and converting designs into production? Then why not get in touch and see how you can convert colour creativity into colour certainty!

To find out more, visit us in the GFW exhibition on stand no.129!
Date of event: 3–6 June 2007

Do you have an eye for colour?  Then come and enter the colour matching competition which will be running throughout GFW on the SDC stand – you will have the chance to win prizes every day, plus the opportunity to enter a draw to win a day’s placement at a leading design studio.

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Any questions about the Society?
Please contact Carmel McNamara at the Society (email: patron@sdc.org.uk)