Nationwide Search for the Next Breakout Fashion Designer, to Be Featured in Issue #5 of Citizen Culture Magazine

Nationwide Search for the Next Breakout Fashion Designer, to Be Featured in Issue #5 of Citizen Culture Magazine

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.

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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 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 underground 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 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.

Editors from Citizen Culture Magazine will be on-hand at the 2005 MAGIC convention in Las Vegas, and welcome the opportunity to interview potential contributors there for late addition to the magazine or a planned online supplement.

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Source: Citizen Culture Magazine

CONTACT: Fashion editorial contact, Damien Power, Senior Editor,
Damien@citizenculture.com, or Marketing contact, Irfan Shabeer,
Vice-President/Publisher, Irfan.Shabeer@citizenculture.com, or Jonathon Scott
Feit, President/Editor-in-Chief, +1-212-567-7468, Editor@citizenculture.com,
all of Citizen Culture Magazine

Web site: http://www.citizenculture.com/

NOTE TO EDITORS: FEIT AND SHABEER AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW, (212) 567-7468, Editor@citizenculture.com. Review copies of Issues 1-4 available.

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