News Release
For
Immediate Release, March 14, 2003
GAINESVILLE,
GA –Not often does a fashion design college student gets 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 Flatwater Racing 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 throughout the world
including Europe and Canada.
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.
www.brenau.edu