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eCREATIVE more jobs at fair and competitive rates, and the quality of the work increases, advertisers start to pay attention.” EMME is also collaborating for the third year with the Fashion Design Program at Syracuse University to launch Fashion Without Limits, (#FWL #SUFWL), an initiative created for junior year students to teach young designers how to create fashion for a variety of women to include size 16, 18, 20 and 22 dress forms along with the standard size 4, 6, and 8 forms found in fashion design schools around the world. The end goal: to increase the availability of only work with size 8 and 10 dress forms,” Del Hunton, head of sales at Wolf Form Company noted on EMME’s website. “We were happy to donate the forms to help the fashion design program become a founding father of size 12+ design.” “We want to have #FWL ambassadors in design schools around the country who embrace inclusive fashion, teach proper garment grading, and open the doors to new and innovative ways to represent curvy bodies in fashion not currently available in the marketplace,” said EMME, a 1985 Syracuse University Nicole Wezowicz, (left) a junior fashion design major at Syracuse designed the winning gown for the inaugural Fashion Without Limits 12+ EMME Award™. Emme selected Wezowicz’s gown during the VPA/Newhouse Fashion and Beauty Communications Milestone fashion show in April 2015. Wezowicz will receive $500 and Emme will wear her winning design at a red carpet event. plus-size designers throughout all levels of the fashion industry, starting at the very beginning of their fashion careers. Wolf Form Company donated forms for the program representing sizes 16, 18, 20, and 22. “EMME’s passion made us aware that many college fashion design students can’t even try on their own designs because they graduate. “There are many different fits in the curvy industry and it will take time for manufacturers and buyers to understand and embrace them.” Syracuse University plans to integrate Fashion Without Limits into all four years of the department’s program. “Thanks to EMME’s passion and