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Fashion Challenge #6: Diversity Showcase

By Celebrity Trollop | July 23, 2007

fc6.jpgIt’s been a while since our last Fashion Challenge, but it’s not because Aradia Dielli had a difficult time choosing a theme — actually she knew exactly what she wanted to do. All of the blame lay with me — sorry, Aradia. Aradia wants to showcase the diversity of Second Life — show off an ethnic costume, or your favorite ethnic hair or skin. Not only will it make for a fascinating set of photos to look at, I think it will beautifully display how multifaceted Second Life really can be.

I asked Aradia to talk about why she chose this theme earlier today. She said, “I think SL is a great way to explore and meet people from around the world. It’s hard to reach out in RL to those in other countries. I think uniting all races is a good message. A message that no matter your color, religious beliefs or anything else that makes us different on the outside, we’re all the same on the inside.”

This will probably be the last fashion challenge for a while. I’m going to replace Fashion Challenges with a new photo-style contest which I will discuss more in August. Since this is a great topic and the last challenge for a while, the prize for this challenge will be a little bit different than in the past. I will take the top four photos, as judged by the readers (top vote getters will be determined by exactly how Snapzilla displays them in overall rating) and include each finalist in an upcoming issue of Second Style Magazine as the photo models for a story about diversity in Second Life.

So the prize package is: be a model in Second Style for a story about diversity in Second Life, be interviewed for the story, and get paid our standard rate for a model in the magazine, which is L$1000.

How to enter Fashion Challenge #6:

  1. Create an outfit that meets the challenge theme. This challenge’s theme is diversity: national costumes, ethnic skins and hair, special accessories or clothing.
  2. Submit your photo to snapzilla using the special Fashion Challenge email address: fc@slpics.com (Learn how to submit photos to snapzilla. It’s really easy!) Please, one entry per person.
  3. Rate your photos and other photos submitted. (See all fashion challenge submissions.)
  4. Second Style bloggers and magazine staff are not permitted to enter or win (but we can vote on submissions!)

Submissions and preliminary voting will go from now until Friday, August 10th, 2007 at 11:59pm SLT. We will vote on a finalist here from August 11th through August 15th 11:59pm SLT. The ultimate winner will get an extra L$500 prize in cash, and a few other assorted goodies (which I’m still working on…)

Topics: Contests, Fashion Challenges |

8 Responses to “Fashion Challenge #6: Diversity Showcase”

  1. hmm.. interesting challenge. This one may take some time.

    Posted by: Dorra Debs on July 24th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

  2. Yay!

    Posted by: Tenshi Vielle on July 24th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

  3. Ooh that’s one of Cherry Tokyo’s kimonos! It looks so lovely on you! XD

    Posted by: Lux Yao on July 24th, 2007 at 7:23 pm

  4. Lux that’s me in the Kimono lol

    Posted by: Aradia Dielli on July 25th, 2007 at 1:04 am

  5. Signed up for Snapzilla recently to take a stab though mine may not be very obvious. I’ll practice a bit me thinks.

    Posted by: Violet Xingjian on July 26th, 2007 at 9:56 pm

  6. Wow, the photos posted so far look great! Go fashionistas, w00t w00t! Snapzilla is no longer letting me vote on snapshots though. Do other people have that problem? How do we vote? :?

    Posted by: Georgette Whitfield on August 5th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

  7. Whats happening with this contest? At least post why we cant vote so we know whats up.

    Posted by: Dorra Debs on August 15th, 2007 at 12:39 pm

  8. Working on it Dorra. Sorry about the delay.

    Posted by: Celebrity Trollop on August 16th, 2007 at 11:44 pm