{"id":6868,"date":"2021-02-03T12:54:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.art.ucla.edu\/jobs\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2021-02-03T12:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:56:16","slug":"6868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/?p=6868","title":{"rendered":"Open Call for Melissa NEXT 2021 Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.art.ucla.edu\/jobs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.art.ucla.edu\/jobs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image001.jpg 546w, https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image001-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian heritage brand\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/d08a9c278d36a6a59457675eb30e7e5b0238fcb9?url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.shopmelissa.com%252Fhome&amp;userId=1589872&amp;signature=d692a83416a6c54f\">Melissa<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is releasing the\u00a0first US edition\u00a0of\u00a0<strong><em>Melissa<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<strong>NEXT<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>and educational competition and incubator program\u00a0calling on aspiring student designers for contributions. Conceived to spotlight up-and-coming visionaries,\u00a0<em>NEXT<\/em>\u00a0contest invites young designers to submit their concepts, showcase their skills and win the rare opportunity to work with an established international brand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Judges\u00a0currently include\u00a0<strong>Jason Wu<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Marz Lovejoy<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>HauteLeMode\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0InternetGirl<\/strong>. The winner receives<strong>\u00a0$10,000<\/strong>\u00a0cash prize and designs will be produced and launched as part\u00a0of an official Melissa collaboration, with a percentage of sales royalties for the winner also.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more details about the contest, judges, and submission area, please visit their website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/melissanextusa.com\/\">http:\/\/melissanextusa.com\/<\/a>\u00a0Submissions are due<strong>\u00a0February\u00a028 at 11:59PM ET<\/strong>. The winner will be announced\u00a0<strong>March 18, 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Brazilian heritage brand\u00a0Melissa\u00a0is releasing the\u00a0first US edition\u00a0of\u00a0Melissa\u00a0NEXT,\u00a0and educational competition and incubator program\u00a0calling on aspiring student designers for contributions. Conceived to spotlight up-and-coming visionaries,\u00a0NEXT\u00a0contest invites &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls","category-call-for-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6872,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions\/6872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}