To promote the development of Macao’s fashion design industry and following the success of the 2013 Subsidy Programme for Fashion Design on Sample Making, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) of the Macao SAR Government launched the same programme in June 2014. Among the 23 applications received, 21 were accepted, and two were disqualified due to insufficient documents. This year, 40% of the qualified candidates are new applicants, and half of them already have their fashion brands registered.
IC gathered a professional adjudicating panel comprising Ms. Terry Sio, member of the Committee of Cultural Industries of Macao; Ms. Vitoria Kuan, Senior Manager at the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre (CPTTM); Mr. José Tang Kuan Meng, Vice President of the Industrial Association of Macau; and Mr. Raymond Au and Mr. Robert Lai, consultants of Macao Fashion Gallery, to select the entries based on criteria as creativity and originality, market potential, quality, overall visual effect, feasibility and optimisation of the business plan, as well as budget rationale.
After the initial review, the entrants below were selected to the second review (names are listed in random order): on an individual basis, Leong Man Teng, Cheong Oi Leng, Leong Iok Pui, Wai Chin Seong, Cheang Chi Tat, Lei Wai Cheng, Cheang Man Cheng, Carmen Leng, Barbara Barreto Ian, Patricia Alexandra Ferreira Soares, Ng Sao Chan and Andrea Prado Marques. On a team basis, Wan Sio Tong and Wong Ha, Lo Ka Heng and Choi Wai Leng, Ana Claudia Dias Cardoso and Nair Alexandra Dias Cardoso. IC will notify these entrants by telephone and email. Each candidate selected for the second review will be reimbursed up to a maximum of MOP10,000 as compensation for the sample making and presentation costs, upon submission of the relevant expenses’ invoices.
The second review will take place on 8 November, in a location to be announced. Entrants must produce a fashion sample based on one of the drawings submitted for the initial review, which must be presented to the adjudicating panel by a model with full make-up and hair dressing, to show the overall stylistic effect. Entrants will also be interviewed by the panel.
A maximum of eight finalists will be selected as beneficiaries of the Programme, and each will receive a subsidy up to a maximum of MOP150,000.
For details please visit www.icm.gov.mo/dpicc/sps/ or www.macaucci.com/en. For further enquiries, please call Ms. Lam or Ms. Lau through tel. (853) 2892 4040 during office hours.