The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) is launching the 2014 Subsidy Programme for Fashion Design on Sample Making at the end of the current month. Eligible applicants will have access to subsidies, up to a maximum of MOP150,000 each, for sample production, promotional materials and application for exhibition of selected entries. The maximum quota of the Subsidy Programme is eight persons (groups) and the application period extends from 24 June to 22 August 2014.
IC has launched the Subsidy Programme for Fashion Design on Sample Making in 2013, as part of the Subsidy Programme for Macao’s Cultural and Creative Industries Series. This programme seeks to encourage local fashion design and creativity, prompt fashion designers to formulate feasible and optimised business plans, encourage the industry to be involved in commercial activities or participate in local and international fashion marketing activities, enhance the popularity and market competiveness of the local industry and advance the sustainable development of the local fashion design industry.
The 2013 Subsidy Programme has attracted many applicants engaged in fashion design and entrepreneurs interested in this area, arousing an enthusiastic response. It has also played a proactive role in the local fashion design industry. For these reasons, IC will continue to hold the Subsidy Programme for Fashion Design on Sample Making this year.
Applicants can apply on an individual or group (max. two persons) basis by submitting entries and application forms with relevant supporting documents. They must hold a valid Macao S.A.R. Resident Identity Card and be 18 years old or above. The selection is divided into two stages: initial review and second review.
For the initial review, applicants must submit fashion design drawings of their unpublished, original fashion design entries together with the completed application form, including information about the business plan and relevant budgeting and expenditure items. The adjudicating panel will select a maximum of 15 entries for the second review based on six criteria: creativity and originality, market potential, quality, overall visual effects, optimisation of the business plan and the rationale of planning and budgeting.
Applicants selected for the second review will be granted an allowance to produce a fashion sample based on the flat drawings submitted for the initial review, and present it to the adjudicating panel by a model of their choice. Upon completion of the second review, the adjudicating panel will, according to the aforementioned criteria, select a maximum of eight applicants eligible for subsidy up to a maximum of MOP150,000 each, covering the costs for the entire series of the selected entries such as production, materials, promotional materials, application for exhibitions and postage.
The Programme’s information, application rules and forms can be downloaded from the Cultural Affairs Bureau website (www.icm.gov.mo/dpicc/sps) and from the Macao Cultural and Creative Industries website (www.macaucci.com). Applicants should submit all required documents to: Cultural Affairs Bureau—Department for the Promotion of Cultural and Creative Industries (Av. da Praia Grande, No. 567, Edif. BNU, 12th floor A-D, Macao) during office hours.
Interested applicants should pay attention to this year’s Subsidy Programme content and details as the requirement for application documents and entries differ from last year. For enquiries, please contact Ms. Lam or Ms. Lau through tel. (853) 2892 4040, during office hours.
