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URBAN OUTFITTERS MAKE IT DESIGN COMPETITION URBAN OUTFITTERS Urban Outfitters is an eclectic lifestyle retailer dedicated to inspiring customers

through a unique combination of product, creativity, and cultural understanding. Founded in 1970 in a small space across the street from the University of Pennsylvania, Urban Outfitters now operates over 200 stores in the United States, Canada and Europe offering experiential retail environments and an eclectic mix of curated women's, men's, accessories and home product assortments. For more information visit Urban Outfitters on the web at www.urbanoutfitters.com THE BRIEF We like to party, but we need your help getting ready! Design something amazing for our UO girl to wear to a party this winter. 5 winning designers will receive an incredible prize package and have their pieces sold at select Urban Outfitters stores! Can you make it?! The item can be any piece of womens apparel (dress, top, blouse, jacket, embellished tee etc.) and it can be made from either a knit or woven textile and must retail for between $89 and $119. See online store to view pricing structure http://us.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/category.jsp?id=WOMENS JUDGING CRITERIA 40% creativity 40% originality 20% faithfulness to brief THE PRIZE Five contest winners will receive a cash prize in the form of a check for One Thousand dollars ($1,000) and an Urban Outfitters gift card in the amount of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250). The winning designs will be produced by and sold in select Urban Outfitters stores & online at Urbanoutfitters.com with special swings tag featuring the winning designers' names. SUBMISSION DETAILS Open to entries from May 01 2013 TO DEADLINE May 29 2013 Submit your entry design and technical spec by uploading it on to the ARTS THREAD site. Register here http://www.artsthread.com/register To be entered in the competition, tick the Urban Outfitters Holiday 13 competition box on the ARTS THREAD register form. Urban Outfitters will choose the winners from the entries uploaded onto the ARTS THREAD site and prize winners will be informed by email. Late entries will NOT be judged.

The Competition is open to United States, UK and International recent design graduates and ARTS THREAD members. Applicants may not be in full-time employment. Full Terms & Conditions apply, please visit: www.artsthread.com www.urbanoutfitters.com

URBAN OUTFITTERS COMPETITION TERMS AND CONDITIONS By entering into the Urban Outfitters Make It Design Competition (the Competition) and ticking the box marked 'Urban Outfitters Holiday 13 competition' on the Website register form, entrants agree to be bound by the following Terms & Conditions: 1. The Competition opens on May 01 2013 (Opening Date) and closes at midnight EDT on May 29 2013 (Closing Date). No entries will be accepted before the Opening Date or after the Closing Date. Entries are limited to one (1) entry per person. Entries which are not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions are invalid. Entries comprising of anything which is obscene or vulgar, abusive, harmful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, invasive, profane or otherwise unlawful shall be deemed to be invalid. 2. In order to enter into the Competition, entrants must: a. design a holiday 2013 apparel item, in accordance with the Competition Brief; b. register your details to create an account on www.artsthread.com (the Website); c. tick the box marked 'Urban Outfitters Holiday 13 competition' on the Website register form. d. upload your design and technical spec onto the Website, subject always to the Terms and Conditions of the Website; and e. send an email setting out your name to uo@artsthread.com to confirm your entry (collectively, the Entry). Entrants should take into consideration the Competition Brief before submitting their Entry. The Competition Brief is available on the Website. 3. There will be five winners. The prizes shall consist of the following: a. Five prizes shall consist of a cash prize in the form of a check for One Thousand dollars ($1,000) and an Urban Outfitters gift card in the amount of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250) and the Winning designs will be produced by and sold in high volume Urban Outfitters stores & online at Urbanoutfitters.com. (collectively, the Prize).

4. The Competition is open to the following individuals: a. Any graduate holding an undergraduate or postgraduate degree from an established higher-educational institution, having graduated after 2011; and b. Any graduate not in full-time employment. The following are not eligible to enter the Competition: the employees of (i) Urban Outfitters and its franchises, subsidiaries, agents and advisors and their families; and (iii) any other company, organisation or person assisting or connected with the promotion. 5. The Competition shall be judged by panel comprised of representatives of Urban Outfitters (the Panel). The Panel shall select the Final Entries (the Finalists) who shall be notified by June 06 2013. The Entries shall be judged by the Panel on the basis of the criteria set out in the Competition Brief. 6. Your Entry must not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party. This includes the use of third party trade marks, images and/or copyright. By submitting your Entry, you warrant that the work comprising the Entry was created by you. Your Entry shall not comprise of anything which is obscene or vulgar, offensive, abusive, harmful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, invasive of anothers privacy, sexually or racially or ethically or religiously insulting, harassing, abusive, profane or otherwise unlawful. All Entries will be screened by the Website and the Website reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to remove and/or disqualify any Entry from which it believes is in breach of this clause, or any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions. 7. By submitting your Entry, you warrant that you shall procure the necessary consents, licences and other such authorisations from any third party (including without limitation any models or members of the public) that may form part of your Entry. 8. If your Entry is selected as a Final Entry, you agree to complete a technical spec in a time frame to be confirmed by Urban Outfitters. 9. If your Entry is selected as a Final Entry, you hereby grant Urban Outfitters (and its authorised partners) an exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide licence to use your Entry in all media for the purposes of: a. b. c. administering, marketing and promoting this Competition; marketing and promoting future competitions held by Urban Outfitters; and marketing and promoting Urban Outfitters, (collectively, Marketing and Promotional Purposes).

10. Entrants names may appear on Entries reproduced for Marketing and Promotional Purposes. 11. If your Entry is selected as a Final Entry, you hereby grant Urban Outfitters (and its authorised partners) an exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide licence to use your Entry for the purposes of producing and selling the Entry design in Urban Outfitters stores and online at Urbanoutfitters.com. 12. No purchase of any kind is necessary to enter into this Competition.

13. The Prize may be altered or varied at the sole discretion of Urban Outfitters and substituted with a prize which, in the sole opinion of Urban Outfitters, is a suitable alternative. 14. Urban Outfitters, and other company, organisation or person assisting or connected with the Competition shall not be liable for any claims or complaints of any nature in respect to the Prize or to the Entries, to the fullest extent that this is permissible by law. 15. Urban Outfitters will contact the winners with further details of how to claim the Prize after the close of the Competition. 16. Urban Outfitters reserves the right to withdraw or amend the Competition and these Terms and Conditions in the event of any unforeseen circumstances outside of its reasonable control or if in its absolute discretion considers it necessary. 17. Urban Outfitters reserves the right to amend the Entry design to a reasonable extent, for the purposes of meeting manufacturing costs or time scales, with the final decision at the sole discretion of Urban Outfitters. 18. The winners agree to take part in post-Competition publicity at the request of Urban Outfitters. 19 Information regarding personal data which is provided by you when you enter will be processed in a database for the purpose of managing entry into the Competition. Such information will not be used for any other purpose than as stated in these Terms and Conditions or as separately accepted by you. If you have separately agreed to receive communications from Urban Outfitters or a third party, then your personal data may be used by them for such purposes, including direct marketing. Any personal data that you provide will be held and processed in accordance with the requirements of the 1998 Data Protection Act. 20. Entrants accept that the Website is offered on an as is and as available basis. Urban Outfitters does not warrant that the Website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Website or the server that makes it available are free of software viruses or bugs or other defects. Urban Outfitters has no control over, and disclaims all responsibility for, any content which Entrants may encounter, or events which may occur as a result of any Entrants use of the Website, to the fullest extent permitted by law, and Urban Outfitters shall not be liable for any damages or other losses of any type whatsoever

incurred by Entrants as a result of their use of the Website. Urban Outfitters shall not be responsible for any Entry that cannot be uploaded on to the Website. 21. The Promoter of this Competition is Vanessa Wesnak, Contests@urbanoutfitters.com Urban Outfitters, 5000 South Broad Street, Philadelphia PA 19112-1495

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