No Images? Click here Welcome to the third edition of WOW’s refreshed designer newsletter, a round up of news and inspiration curated especially for you. The 2017 competition is in full flight and we hope you're all feeling inspired! In addition to our new 2017 inspiration webpage, we have added a downloadable PDF here with everything you need to know about entering the competition. Over the next few months we'll be rolling out a series of helpful blogs and videos about entering WOW, so let us know if there's anything in particular you'd like to know. We're also keen to continue to celebrate the creative and interesting things our designers are doing, so please let us know so we can promote you in future newsletters. We hope you enjoy this issue and we'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks for reading! Since he was a young boy, art has always been Ian Bernhard’s passion. “I always knew I would someday do something that revolved around art,” he says. But the 22-year-old never thought it would be fashion. At school, Bernhard prepared himself to go into architecture, but a chance encounter with WOW® changed his mind. “In my last year of school, I had the opportunity to see wearable art garments designed for WOW® by my art tutor and her mother,” he says. “Before that, I hadn’t really thought about fashion and never considered it as a career. But seeing what garments could be drove me towards wanting to do fashion. It was really inspiring.” ...read more WOW NEWS
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