Designers contest & update on progress

The designers contest is closed for entries from today and we have 65 designers participating from over 11 countries. The next 2 weeks everybody will have the opportunity to gain as much votes as possible.

Many contestants asked for the ranking of the designers & we here we will have the same approach as with the model contest. We will publish the top 10 (for now) Due to the holiday season we will not give another update & the next announcement will be the one of the winner; at the beginning of the new year.

Please find here the current TOP 20 designers, be sure that still anybody still have a chance to win.Good luck.

Concerning the website development we almost conclude on the online shop as well; so now we are pretty much ready to design & build everything. Hopefully we will be able to give you the first previews on the site design before the end of 2009.
Currently we are discussing the time of launch of the next site release & keep you updated on that as well. For now we still think it is feasible at the beginning of 2010, probably February.
Have a great holiday season!

Ambassadors of JUSTPROUD

Over the last weeks we got feedback on our call for Ambassadors. Currently we have many members who want to contribute and as promised we will introduce (few of) them to you. Over the next weeks we will introduce additional Ambassadors to you (otherwise this will be a very long post).
If you want to join as Ambassador as well, please click here for more information.

Majdeline Abbou - The Hague - The Netherlands

I always had a passion for Fashion. I started working as a model and have worked for a lot of designers such as Otazu, Addy van den Krommenacker, Braez and a lot more. I also work as a Fashion reporter and freelance vocalist.

Joining the JUSTPROUD team makes me very PROUD!

Zuzanna Czyzowska – London – United Kingdom

Hi, my name is Zuzanna am 21 yr old from Cambridge, was born in Poland but grow up in UK. Currently am trained to be an airline pilot but I always loved fashion.. Always wanted to be a model and now I have a chance! I am easy going person who is just addicted to Haribo:)

Alissa Antman – Los Angeles CA – United States

my name is Alissa and I'm from Los Angeles. Born and Raised. My hope are to be able to change a culture for the good and inspire people whereever I go. I believe in volunteering, giving back to the community and helping others for the selfless reason of making the world a better place. I hope to be able to inspire and impact everyone that I meet. Personally I have volunteered at feeding the homeless, pet adoptions, and therapeutic horseback riding. Let's change a culture and encourage the younger generation to serve the community.

Falan Taylor – Philadelphia PA- United States

Former Chef and Current Model for Wilhelmina of PA plus size division

Former Host of the Jewelry Channel live in Austin Tx

Author of Housewife Cuisine cookbook

Trained Chef from Le Cordon Bleu

Lived in Sicily Italy for 3 years and Stuttgart and Ramstein Germany for 1 year.

Lives in Philadelphia PA

Vanessa Jace Sanz, our 1st Face; designers contest, ambassadors & new site release &

Vanessa Jace Sanz, our 1st Face
Last week was all about the result of our 1st model contest. Vanessa accepted the 1st prize very enthusiastic and said: ““It truly makes me happy to know that so many people voted for me and made this possible and for that I am grateful. If there is one thing I want to do, it's to model. I just want to be out there doing what makes me happy, what brings joy to my life. After so many years of hard work, I am looking forward to all that is ahead. I know this is going to be a great journey, one I have been long awaiting and 100% ready for."
Beginning 2010 we will have the first shoot in Holland (Europe) with Vanessa & we are very much looking forward to this. During that shoot she will be accompanied by the three 1st runners up: Sammy, Zuzanna & Deborah, whom all were very thrilled as well. This will be a great shoot!

Designers contest
Today we start our 1st designer-contest. So if you think you have the skills & ambition to design part of the JUSTPROUD collection, please submit your information & example of your designs at our site http://www.justproud.com/en/designer/. The winner will be one of the 1st designers of the JUSTPROUD women’s collection (either of the collezione or basic label). You will have worldwide coverage.

Ambassadors
We had many applicants for an Ambassadors role in our community. Next week we will introduce some of them to you. We always can have more ambassadors because finally we want to have an Ambassadors network of 150 people, representing JUSTPROUD in all the major urban areas of the world.

 

wireframe document

Next site release
We finished, with your input, the next version of the site in ‘wireframes’, prototype & specifications. Now Emakina is going to build it & we expect to be live at the beginning of 2010; obviously we will keep you updated on this. To us it will be a very cool site in which we have a lot of opportunities for designers, models & photographers to take their chance. When we have the visuals for the site-design we will post them here as well.