open call for designers: deadline Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Bahar Shahpar, producer and stylist for the third-annual Project Earth Day event, produced in partnership with the US Green Building Council, is looking for a few good designers!
Project Earth Day is a unique showcase of the most innovative brands in sustainable design, bringing together accomplished professionals in the fashion, interiors, and building industries.
We'd like to invite you to submit your collection for consideration for this year's event. As in previous years, the event will include both a student competition and a runway show involving approximately 10 established design brands that have been selected based on their commitment to innovation, creativity, and principles of sustainable manufacturing and design.
This year's theme is Through the Looking Glass: An Exploration of Scale and Proportion. Our wonderland is present-day New York City, viewed through a distorted lens – where big is small, small is big, and the worlds of building and fashion collide through an exploration of scale.
In these modern times, individuals, companies, and even countries often consume more than they produce, using resources and creating waste in disproportionately large shares. This has seemed to work until now, but things are clearly not as they seem. The time has come for us to shift the weight and take a step back to consider a different reality – one where size is relative and small changes can have a huge impact. True sustainability is ultimately a carefully achieved balance between commerce, humanity, and the environment.
If you're interested in participating, please submit a current lookbook, company bio, and any information about your brand's sustainable practices to me as soon as possible. We'll be accepting submissions until Wednesday, April 1st. Bahar will then review all submissions and select this year's designers, and we'll notify you shortly thereafter. Please let us know if you have any questions, but otherwise we hope to hear from you!
-Lesley Coleman
The Four Hundred
286 Spring Street, suite 202
Nwe York, NY 10013
Bahar Shahpar, producer and stylist for the third-annual Project Earth Day event, produced in partnership with the US Green Building Council, is looking for a few good designers!
Project Earth Day is a unique showcase of the most innovative brands in sustainable design, bringing together accomplished professionals in the fashion, interiors, and building industries.
We'd like to invite you to submit your collection for consideration for this year's event. As in previous years, the event will include both a student competition and a runway show involving approximately 10 established design brands that have been selected based on their commitment to innovation, creativity, and principles of sustainable manufacturing and design.
This year's theme is Through the Looking Glass: An Exploration of Scale and Proportion. Our wonderland is present-day New York City, viewed through a distorted lens – where big is small, small is big, and the worlds of building and fashion collide through an exploration of scale.
In these modern times, individuals, companies, and even countries often consume more than they produce, using resources and creating waste in disproportionately large shares. This has seemed to work until now, but things are clearly not as they seem. The time has come for us to shift the weight and take a step back to consider a different reality – one where size is relative and small changes can have a huge impact. True sustainability is ultimately a carefully achieved balance between commerce, humanity, and the environment.
If you're interested in participating, please submit a current lookbook, company bio, and any information about your brand's sustainable practices to me as soon as possible. We'll be accepting submissions until Wednesday, April 1st. Bahar will then review all submissions and select this year's designers, and we'll notify you shortly thereafter. Please let us know if you have any questions, but otherwise we hope to hear from you!
-Lesley Coleman
The Four Hundred
286 Spring Street, suite 202
Nwe York, NY 10013