Belk Stores Southern Fashion Designer Contest

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Belk Seeks Fashion Designers with Modern. Southern. Style. for 2017 Southern Designer Showcase

Fashion designers who live in the south should enter this fashion designer contest to receive publicity and distribution for their apparel and accessories.  Designers who win will have their designs sold at a few Beck stores and on belk.com in Spring 2018. The designs will also be in Belk's fifth annual Southern Designer Showcase.  Belk's home is in Charlotte, North Carolina and they have about 300 Belk Stores throughout the United States. 

"Applicants can visit belk.com/southerndesigner to submit their applications starting today through April 30, 2017. Designers must be 18 or older and currently live in the South or have a strong connection to the region. A panel of Belk executives will select a group of finalists by May 15, 2017, and invite them to present their designs at Belk headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, on June 29, 2017,"stated a Belk press release emailed to Intelligent Luxury.

"We are looking for designers who truly understand Modern. Southern. Style. and can make it come to life in their designs," said Cynthia Washburn-Nester, Belk's vice president of trend merchandising and fashion direction. "We are proud that every year our Southern Designer Showcase gives a new group of emerging fashion designers the opportunity to design collections that our Belk customers can embrace."

The 2017 Southern Designer Showcase is on June 29, 2017; where the winners will be chosen and announced to the public. Southern fashion designers who win will receive cash, and their fashion collections will be sold at "select Belk stores and on belk.com in Spring 2018.