Wednesday, March 19, 2003
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Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
Fayetteville girls win design competition for world gamesNot often does a fashion design college student get to see her creation shown on worldwide television, but a Brenau University Women's College senior from Fayetteville will have that opportunity come September. Abra Bazydlo won first and third place in the fashion design department's competition to have her dress design chosen for the awards ceremony of the International Canoe Federation World Championships, also know as Lanier Canoe 2003. Second place in the competition went to Megan Bowra, also of Fayetteville. A cash award was given to the first-, second- and third-place designs. Bazydlo's dress will be worn by local representatives assisting award presentations to winning competitors. The ceremonies will be televised on ESPN. The games are scheduled for mid-September at the Hall County Lanier Canoe and Kayak Olympic where winners will qualify for the Olympics. Judges for the dress design competition included Jim Hammond, director of Gainesville Theatre Alliance, Michelle Marcombe, Atlanta designer, Sloan Jones, director of PR and Marketing at Gainesville College, Andrea Birch, Ph.D., dean of Brenau's School of Art and Humanities and Elizabeth Waters of Elizabeth's Clothing Company. Janet Morley, director of fashion design at Brenau, is happy that the committee asked her students to compete in this way. "The competition gave our students experience outside the classroom," she said. Criteria for the competition was that gowns should be formal and either tea length or floor length, the design should be flattering to the majority of figure types, elegant and somewhat classic, graphically impressive on television and with a color palette of red, white and blue. For further information contact Janet Morley, 770.534.6252.
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