#TheConnect: ‘American Horror Story’ $5,000 Costume Design Contest

WHAT: To celebrate the launch of American Horror Story’s much anticipated fourth installment Freak Show, premiering on October 8th, FX will launch a costume design competition. The contest invites participants with an eye for the unusual to design an original costume inspired by the series. Contestants will submit their American Horror Story sketches along with a description of their design inspirations, which will be judged by the show’s head costume designer Lou Eyrich, Fashion Designer Christian Siriano, and President of Marketing and On-air Promotions for FX, Stephanie Gibbons.

The Grand Prize winner will be awarded a $5,000.00 cash prize and the garment will be created and worn by a model in a one-of-a-kind photo shoot. The winner will also meet and greet with costume designer Lou Eyrich. The selected winning garment will be displayed on the American Horror Story website and shared on social media platforms.

Additionally, a runner-up will receive a $1,500.00 cash prize, and social media acknowledgement.

You can enter to win here:  www.AHSDesignContest.com

WHEN: The contest will begin on September 15, 2014 and conclude with Freak Show’s premiere on October 8, 2014 with a winner unveiling shortly thereafter.

WHO: The American Horror Story: Freak Show Costume Competition judges are:

Lou Eyrich, FX Costume Designer

Lou Eyrich is the four-time Emmy®-nominated Costume Designer behind the hit television series GLEE and AMERICAN HORROR STORY. With nearly 20 years’ experience, she has also worked on FX’s NIP TUCK with Julian McMahon and Joely Richardson, and numerous films including Ryan Murphy’s RUNNING WITH SCISSORS.

Being a Minnesota native, Lou spent several years working with Prince at Paisley Park and on tour.  She toured with numerous bands before segueing into film and television.

In 2012, Lou was awarded a Career Achievement Award from the Costume Designers Guild. In addition, Eyrich has been nominated for a Costume Designers Guild Award eight times, winning three for GLEE and one for AMERICAN HORROR STORY.  Lou was honored with an Emmy in 2014.

Christian Siriano, Fashion Designer

Following his studies in London under Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, Christian Siriano launched his eponymous collection in 2008. The Christian Siriano collection is now shown each season at New York Fashion Week, and presented in New York and Paris to retailers. Known for whimsical and show-stopping design – from fantasy evening gowns and cocktail dresses, to tailored sportswear, to intricately detailed shoes and accessories – the collection can be found at department stores and specialty boutiques around the globe. In 2012 the first flagship Christian Siriano store opened on Elizabeth Street in New York City, and in 2013 he was inducted as a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).

 Dubbed “the new king of old-school glamour” by Elle, his designs have appeared in countless magazines and have been worn by the world’s leading ladies, from stars of film (Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Lopez, Shailene Woodley, Elizabeth Olsen, Emily Blunt, Chloe Grace Moretz, Rosario Dawson, Christina Ricci) to icons of music (Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Fergie, Nicki Minaj, Pink, Carrie Underwood) to stars of television (Lea Michele, Christina Hendricks, Heidi Klum, Allison Williams, Debra Messing, Kristin Davis) and darlings of fashion (Victoria Beckham, Alexa Chung, Dita Von Teese, Kate Upton, Olivia Palermo, Coco Rocha), to name just a few. Oprah Winfrey calls his designs “works of art” and Tim Gunn calls him “a prodigy” and “the next great American fashion designer.”

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Stephanie Gibbons, FX Networks Executive

Stephanie Gibbons is President of Marketing and On-Air Promotions for FX Networks. She is responsible for the strategy, creative, media planning, and implementation of all advertising, digital, and on-air campaigns for FX, FXM and the new network FXX. She will also oversee all digital, mobile, cross-platform, and emerging media marketing initiatives for the FX Networks.

Gibbons is a true strategic and creative innovator. Her unique aesthetic has taken the marketing and promotion of the network’s acclaimed original series to new heights. Under her inspired direction, FX has won more than 260 combined Promax, BDA, and Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards. Gibbons and her team were honored with the Promax/BDA Award for In-House Marketing Team of the Year for the past 4 four years in a row, beginning with the award’s inception. They also received the Promax/BDA Award for Design Team of the Year in 2012. In 2011 and 2012, Gibbons was on The Hollywood Reporter’s Power 100 List of Women in Entertainment, and was one of Multichannel News’ Wonder Women of 2011.

Gibbons holds a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Mass Communications from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. 

ABOUT AMERICAN HORROR STORY:

American Horror Story is a horror television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Described as an anthology series, each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a disparate set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own beginning, middle, and end.

The fourth installment, subtitled Freak Show, is a continuance from the past three seasons titled Murder House, Asylum, and Coven. 

ABOUT FREAKSHOW:

American Horror Story: Freak Show begins its tale in the quiet, sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida. The year is 1952. A troupe of curiosities has just arrived to town, coinciding with the strange emergence of a dark entity that savagely threatens the lives of townsfolk and freaks alike. This is the story of the performers and their desperate journey of survival amidst the dying world of the American carny experience.

AMERICAN HORROR STORY OFFICIAL WEBSITE:

http://www2.fxnetworks.com/shows/american-horror-story

Source: ThinkPublicRelations