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Fashion Girl Productions Suppports Fashion Designers and Craft Makers Award Show

Fashion Girls Production and Pulse International Group (creators of Caribbean Fashion Week) has successfully partnered again to sponsor this years 2009 recipient of the International Young Designers Award, at the Fashion Designers and Craft makers’ (FDC) Awards Show. The Gala event takes place on October 31st at London’s trendy Novotel Hotel.

Each year since 2004 Fashion Girls Production presents the International Young Designers Award, to a student who has excelled both creatively and academically. This award honors fashion students aged fourteen through to twenty; the award aims to nurture raw talent and encourage outstanding young people to follow their dreams, by offering the amazing opportunity to debut their collection at a major fashion week to an impressive audience of Fashion Industry insiders, Press, VIPs and Celebrities.

The 2009 Award Winner will showcase their collection at the exciting Caribbean Fashion Week in June 2010. Kingsley Cooper, CEO of Pulse International group said “Pulse and Caribbean Fashion Week are very pleased to continue sponsorship of this very important event, we look forward to welcoming the International Young Designer of the Year to CFW ”.

The FDC Designers award show which is the brainchild of Knitwear Designer Joanna Marcella, promises to be an event not to be missed, not only will attendees be privileged to witness the collections of the new, up and coming designers of the future, the audience will be introduce to a wonderful crop of international new faces that are walking the runway around the world including models from EMILKA MODELS, Curacao’s number 1 high fashion modeling agency. Emilka Eustachia founder of EMILKA MODELS said, “I am very happy to support such a worthy event that recognizes the talent of the young designers”.

Fashion Girls Production recognizes the importance of encouraging these very young students to follow their dreams, we also recognize how important it is to support and inspire what may well be the next new top international designers of the future.

Fashion Girls Production created International Young Designers Award in 2004. Previous winners include Kelly Jade Nicholls, Jay Wilson, Samantha Mark, Megan Cook, Heranni Ethopia, Jennivi Jordan and Lucy Jackson. US winners: Kae Couture and Larry Moultrie.

For more information about the FDC AWARD SHOW contact INFO@YOUNGDESIGNERAWARDS.COM

Any other information contact INFO@FASHIONGIRLSPRODUCTION.COM

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REASONS FOR TEEN PREGNANCY

ABUSE - Women exposed to abuse, domestic violence, and family strife in childhood are more likely to become pregnant as teenagers, and the risk of becoming pregnant as a teenager increases with the number of adverse childhood experiences.

BOYS - Studies have also found that boys raised in homes with a battered mother, or who experienced physical violence directly, were significantly more likely to impregnate a girl.

RAPE - Studies have found that between 11 and 20 percent of pregnancies in teenagers are a direct result of rape, while about 60 percent of teenage mothers had unwanted sexual experiences preceding their pregnancy. Before age 15, a majority of first-intercourse experiences among females are reported to be non-voluntary;

STATUTARY RAPE - the Guttmacher Institute found that 60 percent of girls who had sex before age 15 were coerced by males who on average were six years their senior. One in five teenage fathers admitted to forcing girls to have sex with them.

AGE GAP - According to the Family Research Council, studies in the US indicate that Teenage girls in relationships with older boys, and in particular with adult men, are more likely to become pregnant than teenage girls in relationships with boys their own age. They are also more likely to carry the baby to term rather than have an abortion.
A review of California's 1990 vital statistics found that men older than high school age fathered 77 percent of all births to high school-aged girls (ages 16-18), and 51 percent of births to girls (15 and younger). Men over 25 fathered twice as many children of teenage mothers than boys under the age of 18, and men over age 20 fathered five times as many children of teenage girls under 15

AGE GAP & RAPE - A 1992 Washington state study of 535 adolescent mothers found that 62 percent of the mothers had a history of being raped or sexual molested by men whose ages averaged 27 years. This study found that, abused adolescent mothers initiated sex earlier, had sex with much older partners, and engaged in riskier, more frequent, and promiscuous sex.
Studies by the Population Reference Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics found that about two-thirds of children born to teenage girls in the United States are fathered by adult men age 20 or older.

ABSENT FATHERS - Studies have found that girls whose fathers left the family early in their lives had the highest rates of early sexual activity and adolescent pregnancy. Girls whose fathers left them at a later age had a lower rate of early sexual activity, and the lowest rates are found in girls whose fathers were present throughout their childhood.
early absent father- girls were about five times more likely in the United States and three times more likely in New Zealand to become pregnant as adolescents than girls who fathers were present throughout their childhood

EDUCTAION - Low educational expectations have been pinpointed as a risk factor.

MOTHERS & SISTERS - A girl is also more likely to become a teenage parent if her mother or older sister gave birth in her teens.

COMMUNICATION - a majority of respondents in a 1988 Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies survey attributed the occurrence of adolescent pregnancy to a breakdown of communication between parents and child and also to inadequate parental supervision.

JUDGEMENTAL NURSES - studies have indicated that young mothers who are given high-quality maternity care have significantly healthier babies than those that do not.

TEENAGE FEAR - Research indicates that pregnant teens are less likely to receive prenatal care, often seeking it in the third trimester, if at all. The Guttmacher Institute reports that one-third of pregnant teens receive insufficient prenatal care and that their children are more likely to suffer from health issues in childhood or be hospitalized than those born to older women.

HEALTH - The worldwide incidence of premature birth and low birth weight is higher among adolescent mothers.

FOSTER CARE - Foster care youth are more likely than their peers to become pregnant as teenagers. The National Casey Alumni Study, which surveyed foster care alumni from 23 communities across the United States, found the birth rate for girls in foster care was more than double the rate of their peers outside the foster care system.
A University of Chicago study of youth transitioning out of foster care in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin found that nearly half of the females had been pregnant by age 19.
The Utah Department of Human Services found that girls who had left the foster care system between 1999 and 2004 had a birth rate nearly 3 times the rate for girls in the general population.

TAKEN FROM: WIKIPEDIA

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DJ Exposure Model Search

As many of you may know my neice is currently working on Nang! Magazine as a contributor and this issue as assistant Fashion Co-ordinator. We have a photoshoot every issue and the theme of this issue is going to be based around a christmas theme.

We recently did a model call and got a few models confirmed but for this shoot we really want a lot more looks in each shot so therefore require some more models. Height is not really an issue as it is not haute couture or catwalk modelling but we ask for model to be around 16-25 years.

So...here is where you come in. If you or anyone you know wants to model for the magazine please get in touch with us. It is not a paid position as the magazine is distributed free and we currently don't not have a budget for wages. But if you want to kick start a career, are a natural poser or just want to help out, come and have some fun with us. contact:
Selina Dyer

Assistant Fashion Co-ordinator
Nang! Magazine
24-26 Fournier Street
London E1
selinadyer@yahoo.co.uk