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Rivalation's Fashion Design Challenge 2012 is Lady Gaga Funeral Outfit.  This fashion design contest is open to all students, designers and young professionals in the fashion industry and anyone interested in fashion and design since no specific fashion design training is required.  Are you ready to design an outrageous and fashion forward funeral appropriate outfit for fashion megastar, Lady Gaga?

Registration starts Sept 3th - 30th and final design submission deadline is Oct 15th.  Check out the details here.

Alessia Landi is originally from Florence, Italy living in Gent, Belgium is our featured illustrator.  She is a Scientist but has a deep love for fashion and art.  She spends her free time either drawing or photographing and she can't spend a day without doing so. Alessia has been impressively featured by The Man Repeller, 7 For all Mankind, the fashion magazine Glam*it, and Grazia.it to name a few. Go here to view her press information.

Visit her portfolio website alessialandi.com and visit her blog the-reddot.com.

COLOR SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL is a color resource provider.  To order their current Fall/Winter 2013 inspiration color standards and their individual ribbons, go here. In partnership with FASHION SNOOPS, an online global forecasting service and consulting company, here is their A/W 2013 runway color direction for the season...

MPDclick, UK's largest trend service preview of three themes for the upcoming women's Fall/Winter 2013-14 season. Go here to learn more about their services and to view their blog Trend Journal, go here.

   WANDERLUST  
Wilderness travel inspires a high-winter trend that combines the keen sense of adventure of iconic explorers with a renewed fascination for the great outdoors. This lifestyle trend combines modern functionality with traditional fashion styles. 

Freshly graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, Rachel Clore is a budding textile designer. Her most recent works have been inspired by her experiences while living and studying traditional tie and dye techniques in India.

Textile Report's Womenswear  AW 2013 Trends. This single publication has 145 pages of comprehensive textile and fashion trend information.  Featured are womenswear reports, street fashion, designer shows, styling and color trends as well as fabric and print ideas, trade fair reports. 

Go here to order your copy, this publication is very reasonable for all the trend information that you need at a glance. 

   ORIENTAL OPULENCE   

Check out Beta Fashion's latest DESIGN CONTEST. Trend image via ASOS, go here to shop and be inspired:

Meet talented illustrator, Alice Wilson who is a 20 yr old English student studying literature at Trinity College Dublin but her real love lies in art, specifically portrature. She has a fascination in people, characters and the story behind them. She lived in Paris for a year giving her the oppurtunity to see some of the world's most talented artists an obviously draw some wonderful people! She is happiest when drawing/painting using a variety of mediums: ink, pencil, watercolour and oil as well as mixing up textures. She has had no training but through her blog has increased publicity and therefore increased commissions!

Take a look at her portfolio/blog aliceauxpaysenchantes.blogspot.co.uk and do ask for commissions by emailing wilson.a2@hotmail.com.

Here is Uniqlo's UT (UNIQLO T-shirt) Grand Prix 2013 annual T-shirt design contest. Participants from around the world turn T-shirts into creative works of art. 

Music is the theme of the UT Grand Prix 2013 T-shirt design contest, with six very popular artists set to participate. AC/DC, David Bowie, Madonna, KISS, the Sex Pistols and members of The Who will personally select the winning entries, with each artist responsible for choosing the six Artist’s Choice Award winners.The competition is open to anyone, regardless of age, gender or nationality. Entries will be accepted from all countries around the world.

To learn more about the contest and to submit your designs, go here. The deadline to submit your designs is September 2, 2012.

Total prize = $30,000 where Artist's choice winners (6) will each win $4000 and then the People's choice winners (6) will each win $1000.