Post the tremendous success of the Facebook contest for aspiring designers held last year in July, Air France in partnership with world famous Indian fashion designer Manish Arora, once again launches the contest for the young and talented fashion designers to showcase their talent starting January 06, 2013. According to Yeshwant Pawar, General Manager, South Asia, Air France-KLM, We are extremely happy and delighted with the response we had received from our online contest with Mr. Arora for the aspiring designers. We are very glad to revive this contest once again for all the potential designers giving them a chance to witness and take home learning from the fashion industrys biggest event. We also believe inspiring concepts like this will help us to build a deeper connect with the customers and also strengthen our social media engagement with them. The highlight this year is that apart from the final winner being selected on votes, Manish would also select another winner at his discretion who would be eligible for a 2 month internship with him in India

To participate in this month long contest the contestants will have to upload pictures of their fashion creations along with a short write up on http://www.facebook.com/airfrance. The contestants can invite their friends to vote for their collection. Each week, the top five collections with maximum votes will qualify to be the weekly winners and out of them one lucky weekly winner will be selected by Manish Arora and awarded with an autographed merchandise by Manish Arora along with an Air France merchandise. The grand winner will be chosen by Manish Arora basis the votes on February 06, 2014 from the top ten selected designs who will take home a free economy class ticket on Air France and witness the Manish Arora show at the coveted Paris Fashion Week scheduled to be held on February 18 - 24, 2014. In addition to this, the most creative contestant as judged purely by Manish Arora will stand a chance to win an economy ticket to Paris accompanied with a free pass for the fashion week show and an exclusive opportunity to intern with Manish Arora for a period of 2 months. So hurry up, let your creative mind do the magic and bring out a beautiful and innovative collection and win a free ticket to Paris from Air France.

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Air France launches Facebook contest with Manish Arora