Hey Homegirl Fashionistas!

It’s Fashion Week in NYC and, like most people, you’re probably not invited this year…but, you could be at the next one!

The Art Institutes’ 2010 “Passion for Fashion Competition” is officially open to high school seniors who create original designs. There are two categories- fashion design and fashion marketing, merchandising, or retail management. Two grand prize winners (one in each category) will win:

• a full tuition scholarship to study fashion at an Art Institutes school
• a tour of the Seventeen magazine offices
• lunch with a style pro
• a $500 shopping spree
• tickets to attend New York City Fashion Week

And you get to blog about it all on Seventeen.com!

The deadline is Nov. 20, 2009 and complete applications must be received at the Art Institutes school where you plan to enter the competition and attend if you win. Local winners will be selected from each school in December 2009 and national winners chosen in January 2010.

Check out the website for complete details and to download the brochure, entry form and to read the official rules and regulations. You can also check out past winners and their designs.

Good luck, designer girls!