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Pageantry PodCast

Pageantry Interview: IMTA

Pageantry PodCast featuring Ruby Ashraf of Precious Formals

Pageantry interviews Ruby Ashraf of Precious Formals. Founded in 1990, Precious Formals has consistently introduced fresh new trends to the formal wear industry. Precious Formals styles have made an impact on Prom, Pageant and Evening wear markets by combining traditional designs with imaginative and creative appeal.

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[updated 03/08/10]

 

Pageantry PodCast

Pageantry Interview: IMTA

Pageantry PodCast featuring IMTA

Pageantry interviews Nancy Mancuso of the International Modeling and Talent Association. IMTA is a professional organization of some of the finest and most successful modeling and talent training centers in the world. Since 1987, IMTA has become the recognized leader in putting new faces in front of the people whose business it is to identify that illusive spark that heralds the next rising star or supermodel. An impressive – and constantly growing – list of discoveries from IMTA Conventions makes it impossible to open a magazine, see a fashion show, turn on the television, or watch a motion picture without seeing a face first seen at IMTA.

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[updated 03/01/10]

 

Pageantry PodCast

Pageantry Interview: Moonlight

Pageantry PodCast featuring Moonlight

BEAUTY. LOVE. ROMANCE: Conjure these images in your mind's eye and gaze upon that which embodies what Moonlight stands for. Moonlight has been creating effervescent gowns for twenty plus years and continues to redefine style for the enternal romantics.

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[updated 02/25/10]

 

Pageantry PodCast

Pageantry Interview: NAM

Pageantry PodCast featuring Alyce Designs

Growing Confidence: Pageantry interviews Steve Mayes, the national director of NAM. National American Miss has created a revolution in the pageant industry. How did they do it? In a relatively short time, NAM has experienced tremendous growth. This program goes beyond performance, beyond awards, and beyond one winner. It is innovatively designed to build life skills and grow confidence in each and every participant.

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[updated 02/19/10]

 

Pageantry PodCast

Pageantry Interview: Alyce Designs

Pageantry PodCast featuring Alyce Designs

Today Pageantry interviews the managing director of Alyce Designs, Rene Laurent Hamm. Alyce Designs is featured in the Fashion Showcase photo-shoot in the Spring 2010 editions of Pageantry & PromTime magazines.

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[updated 02/19/10]

 

Pageantry PodCast

Pageantry Interview: MacDuggal

Pageantry PodCast featuring MacDuggal

MacDuggal gowns are designed to capture the essence and imagination of the teen spirit. They get their inspiration from their customers. MacDuggal does their best to answer every woman's needs with several lines that span over eleven different divisions.

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[updated 02/17/10]

 

Obituary

Bob Rappaport

Pageantry PodCast featuring Jovani

Robert Rappaport

October 10, 1942 - January 28, 2010

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Bob passed due to cardiac arrest in Lakeland, FLA. A devoted father, brother, soon to be grandfather and gifted designer, Bob will best be remembered for his extreme generosity and warm heart.

Bob served as Production Designer on the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pagaents for ten years.

He earned a Masters Degree in Theater Design at New York University and and went on to serve as Production Designer/Art Director on numerous television series and specials, including The Mike Douglas Show, Let's Make A Deal, Split Second, Santa Barbara and Days of Our Lives.

He is survived by his two children Eli and Anna, and brothers Richard and Ronald.

[updated 02/10/10]

 

Pageantry PodCast

Pageantry Interview: Jovani

Pageantry PodCast featuring Jovani

In this episode Pageantry CEO Carl Dunn interviews the design house of Jovani. Jovani is the showcased cover dress on the Spring 2010 edition of PromTime magazine.

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[updated 02/08/10]

 

Pageantry PodCast

Pageantry Interview: Benjamin Walk

Pageantry PodCast featuring Benjamin Walk

Depend on Us. We Depend on You: In this episode Pageantry CEO Carl Dunn interviews Brian Royce of Benjamin Walk.

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[updated 02/10/10]

 

Miss America Organization

First order of Business?
PANKCAKES!

Miss America 2010, Caressa Cameron

Caressa Cameron, Miss America 2010, will serve as spokeswoman for IHOP's fifth National Pancake Day celebration benefiting Children's Miracle Network.

In hopes of meeting there goal to raise more than $1.75 million for children's hospital programs, IHOP will give away buttermilk pancakes on Tuesday, Feb. 23 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

You read correctly: FREE PANCAKES!

IHOP asks that diners make a voluntary donation to support local children's hospitals through Children's Miracle Network, and other local charities.

[updated 02/02/10]

 

Miss America Organization

There She Is!
Caressa Cameron Captures the Crown

Miss America 2010, Caressa Cameron

22-year-old Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron, of Fredericksburg, was crowned Saturday night as the newest Miss America.

At the pageant finale, televised live from the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Caressa captured one of the oldest and most iconic and celebrated titles in American pop culture.

Caressa sang an emotional and stirring rendition of the Dreamgirls ballad "Listen" to a standing ovation in the talent portion of the competition. Her platform was AIDS education.

"Take away the TV, take away the video games, set some standards for our children!" the Virginia Commonwealth University communications major answered in the interview portion of the contest, in which she was asked what to do about the epidemic of childhood obesity.

Caressa Cameron went to Massaponax High School before VCU, and has been a dean's list student. Her career ambition is to work as an anchor for a television news station.

Caressa is the third Virgina winner following Nicole Johnson in 1999 and Kylene Barker in 1979.

[updated 01/31/10]

 

Miss America Organization

Miss America Telecast 2010

Miss America 2009, Katie Stam

Tune in to the 2010 Miss America Pageant at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas broadcasting in a live telecast on TLC, Saturday, January 30 at 8 p.m. EST.

"We are thrilled to be returning to Planet Hollywood again for our 5th consecutive year," said Art McMaster, President & CEO of the Miss America Organization. "The 2009 Pageant exceeded our expectations, and we are continuing to build on new traditions in Las Vegas."

"The 2009 Miss America Pageant on TLC was a great success, taking the ratings crown as the most-watched program on cable," said Brent Zacky, Vice President of Development for TLC. "We look forward to working with the Miss America Organization and Planet Hollywood to make the 2010 broadcast event even bigger."

Miss America has called Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino home since moving to Las Vegas from Atlantic City in 2006. Katie Stam, of Seymour, Indiana is the current Miss America.

The Miss America Organization is one of the nation’s leading achievement programs and the world’s largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women. Last year, the Miss America Organization and its state and local organizations made available more than $45 million in cash and scholarship assistance.

For more information, go to missamerica.org.

For information on Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, please visit planethollywood.com.

For information on TLC, please visit http://tlc.discovery.com.

 

[updated 01/29/10]

 

Miss Bahamas Organization

MBO Acquires Miss Universe Franchise; Search Begins for New Miss Bahamas

Michelle Malcolm
Michelle Malcolm
President
Miss Bahamas Organization

Nassau, Bahamas (MBO) January 12, 2010 – The Miss Bahamas Organization® (MBO) has acquired the Miss Universe franchise, making it the first organization in the history of Bahamian pageantry to hold both the Miss Universe and Miss World licenses concurrently. Under the theme Timeless Beauty, the pageant will select one winner who will compete in both the Miss Universe and Miss World pageants – joining the ranks of Ava Burke Thompson - the only Bahamian woman to do so to date.

“This is an exciting time for us,” says MBO President Michelle Malcolm who never gave up on the vision of having both international franchises under her directorship. “By acquiring this franchise, we will now be able to crown one Miss Bahamas, and in so doing hopefully rid the Bahamas of all the confusion about which is the real national pageant system in the country,” she says. “Ever since our launch back in 2005, we were hopeful that the day would come when we could be managing both Miss World and Miss Universe in the Bahamas. And now that day is finally here.”

The 2010 pageant is set for April 25 and eligible young women are encouraged to apply to enter quickly as there is only a two-and-a-half-week window to do so before the pageant’s contestants screening and training regimen begins.

[updated 01/15/10]

 

Friday Night Lights

As Seen on TV

Friday Night Lights season 4

Pageantry is now hitting the small screen.

Following our special cameo in the blockbuster Miss Congeniality movie, you can now see Pageantry on the silver screen within the hit show Friday Night Lights this coming Spring. You can catch our special appearance in season 4 episodes 4 and 5. If you’re not satisfied waiting until then, you can catch all the glamour on the special showings only on DirecTV this Fall. Pageantry is proud to be the leading source for the glamour lifestyle when called upon by the leaders in the entertainment industry.

Congratulations to all of our readers and supporters.

[updated 10/15/09]

 

Miss America Organization

Miss Amazing America

Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2009 Jeanette Morelan

Ericka Dunlap, Miss America 2004, is currently a contestant on the newest season of CBS's The Amazing Race. She and her husband, Brian Kleinschmidt, are competing against 11 other teams in a race around the world. The new season premiered Sunday night September 27th on CBS.

Ericka and Brian Kleinschmidt are excited to be the first married interracial team on The Amazing Race. They went into the competition with a singular game plan in mind — to win over the hearts and minds of The Amazing Race audience by proving that true love is color blind. They compare their relationship to the Yin-Yang symbol, which represents the philosophy of two total opposites coming together and balancing each other as a perfect and complete whole. They have proven to be a tough team to beat as they continue to play strong through 4 weeks of competition.

[updated 10/15/09]

 
 


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