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February 10 2005
Nationwide Search for the Next Breakout Fashion Designer, to Be Featured in Issue #5 of Citizen Culture Magazine
One magazine to convince them all. CITIZEN CULTURE Magazine, the "Magazine for the Young Intellectual," has been called a "New Yorker for young people." It is the creation of some of the youngest national publishing executives in the country. Circulation has grown by 30% per issue since its launch in September 2004. Issue Five-themed "The Many Ways We Spend Our Time," featuring a special feature section on independent and underground fashion-will be on newsstands nationwide in March 2005.
Just in time for Fashion Week and following the lead of Bravo Television and Heidi Klum's "Project Runway," Citizen Culture Magazine -- the new "Magazine for the Young Intellectual" -- is announcing a search for the country's best independent fashion designers, models, and fashion journalists. Submissions of design portfolios, photography, and fashion-related stories from across the country are invited. The best will be featured in a special section called "The Rise of the Independent," in the magazine's fifth issue, which goes on-sale nationally mid-March. Citizen Culture Magazine has been called the "New Yorker for young people." (Online at http://www.citizenculture.com.)
At a time when the industry is consolidating as increasingly corporate, special attention should be paid to the talented rising stars of undergroun and independent fashion design, according to Jonathon Scott Feit, the magazine's President and Editor-in-Chief.
"From the Northeast Corridor to California to the too-often-overlooked designers from Middle America, we are seeking the best of the undiscovered best, as we do with all our editorial and artistic content," says Feit.
The magazine's editors plan to include a photo essay, interviews and profiles, plus at least one feature story on what it takes to make it in today's competitive fashion market. Designers of all types of clothing and accessories, as well as notable models and fashion-industry personalities, are invited to contribute their work for editorial consideration.
Special advertising rates and placements are being extended to independent fashion houses as a value-addition to this special fashion section. Rate card and media kit are available online at http://www.citizenculture.com.
"Though fashion has always been about standing out, the current trend is increasingly representative not of opposition to the mainstream, but of alternative sources to mainstream design. Indy designers are more often proving their talent by creating ready-to-wear innovations as opposed to breaking rules," says Feit.
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