inpiring social transformation through sustainable art and fashion

designer

resources

Hello Modified Style Portland participants!

Thanks for considering signing up to participate in Modified Style Portland, 2012! We’re thrilled to have you involved, whether you want to design, model, or volunteer. Please email us by February 15, 2012 if you would like to participate!

Information in this section includes:

Registration
Name of beneficiaries we're involved with this year
Dates and Deadlines
Rules and Guidelines for Designing
Judging Criteria
Time and Place of Dress Rehearsal

****Please read carefully and soak up everything included here.****

Registration

So, you are interested in designing; and you’re wondering, "Now what?"

Registration is very easy. Just send us an email and make a donation to help defray our expenses. Do this by February 15th, 2012.

If you prefer, regular snail mail is fine too. You can mail your registration entry to:

Modified Style Portland
Registration Entry
P.O. Box 10624
Portland, OR 97296

Once you have paid your donation, you are a confirmed participant.

If you later find you can’t be involved, let us know as soon as possible.

We are requesting a $30 donation from each Amateur participant and $45 from each Professional or "24-hour design competition" participant (cash, check, or credit card). (Please call 503-208-4174 if you want to pay by credit card.) This donation goes to cover the cost of the room, equipment rental, copies, and all other incidental costs related to the event. Everyone is welcome to participate whether they can afford to donate or not. All proceeds benefit: Sisters Of The Road, The Pixie Project, and Children's Healing Arts Project (CHAP).

We are offering an additional incentive this year to those of you who want to be further involved in the fundraising effort. Maybe you have friends abroad or family across the country; if you have a support network of people who want to support you and support our awesome non-profits, here's how: For each additional $30 you raise/donate or get your friends and family to raise/donate in your name (cash, check, or credit card), you will receive an entry ticket into a raffle drawing the night of the event and a chance to win a special prize!

Fabric Party in March

There will be a fabric distribution party sometime in March. Once you have your fabric you can start designing your dress! If you don’t have your model’s name yet (Remember, it can be yourself!), please send it in no later than March 15, 2012.

Resources

Deadline

Your creation must be finished by May 1st! We have faith in you and grand plans for this year's Silent Auction, which enables us to donate proceeds to Sisters Of The Road, The Pixie Project, and Children's Healing Arts Project (CHAP). We need your designer blurbs and a digital photo of your finished creation in .jpg format by May 1st, 2012.

Designer Blurb

The designer blurb will be read as you or your model are on stage. It must have:

Your Name
Model’s Name
Experience Sewing
Inspiration for Piece
Measurements/Size of Piece

The blurb should be no more than five sentences and 200 words.

Dress Rehearsal

The dress rehearsal walk-thru will be at Staver Locomotive on Saturday, May 5th, from 5 to 7pm.

Entrants for the "24-hour Design Competition" will get their bags of fabric at 7pm after the walk-thru.

Participants who want to help are welcome to stay after 7pm and help with set up for the show!

The Fashion Show

The actual fashion show will be on May 6th, (doors at 6pm, show at 7pm), at Staver Locomotive. Jefferson Smith will be our emcee! Hot Biology will be our DJ.

Rules and Guidelines

Use as much of the fabric as you can. You may also add functional pieces (non-decorative) such as: zippers, clasps, elastic, and buttons.

Your model may wear accessories for the Fashion Show; they need to not be attached to the dress.

We have a guide to making a form off of your model using duct tape (link listed above under "resources"); so if you're using someone other than yourself as your model, and would like some pointers on getting their form so you don't have to see them all the time, just ask! :)

You may design anything that is wearable; it doesn't have to be a dress.

If you have any other questions about the rules of designing that haven't been addressed, ask us!

You may use:

functional additions
zippers
buttons
elastic
decorative additions
accoutrements -- ribbons
non-functional buttons

YOU MAY NOT USE ANY FABRIC THAT IS NOT IN THE BAG YOU ARE GIVEN.

**** Any fabric you don't use, we'd love to have back, so we can use it for the next year ****

Judging

Judging is based on:

Initial impression/appeal
Creativity
Functionality/form
Durability
Use of fabric
Overall

Definitions:

Initial impression/appeal -- When you first see the dress is it appealing? Would you want to wear it or see your best friend in it?

Creativity -- Is there use of fabrics/designs that you wouldn't have thought of?

Functionality/form -- Can this be worn in the real world?

Durability -- Is the outfit well made? Secure?

Use of fabric -- How much fabric did they utilize in their creation? (We encourage designers to use as much as they can.)

Overall -- Each judge totals the score of each individual dress. The one will the highest overall score is the winner. There will be three winners in each category of amateur and professional for a total of six.

2011's First Place winner -- Coral Lani, of Coralani Designs, has been busy creating clothing and accessories to vend at festivals, as well as some inspirational custom pieces for special occasions.

2010's First Place winner --Ms. Wood told us that she would never have had the confidence to try out for "Catapult", Portland Fashion Week's 2010 Emerging Designer Competition, if she had not won Modified Style '10. Well, she did WIN and she got us a 'lil blurb in Portland Monthly magazine!

all photos by:Michael Zaugg

all photos by Michael Zuagg

Tickets will be available at the link below!

If you can't make it to the show, you can donate
to Modified Style Portland directly through Dwolla
or Square! Just call us, at 503-208-4174,
and we will tell you how.