NEW YORK, Sep 18, 2002/ FW/ --- The Spring 2003 season is very important to Girls Rule! The show celebrates it's 17th season at 7th on Sixth on September 19th at 6PM.

This season, Girls Rule! will be sponsored by seventeen magazine (who else!) and the show will again be the only Spring 2003 runway event catering to girls everywhere.

Show producers and creators of Girls Rule!, Oliver Dow and Darren Greenblatt of O&D Productions, are credited with being pioneers of the hotly pursued teen/youth market fashion show and have consistently showcased the best and brightest talents in the junior market.

Over the years, collections that have shown with Girls Rule! have included young upstarts like Planet Yumthing, Love-life, and Smashing Grandpa as well as established mega-brands including Custo Barcelona, Dollhouse, Hello Kitty, Quicksilver, Roxy and Stephen Hardy for Squeeze.

Throw out your notions of what teen fashion is all about, Girls Rule! pushes the envelope a bit further each season, showcasing the hottest looks that will turn up the heat in any classroom and are sure to make many fathers nervous about their little girls growing up.

This season's lineup will include cutting edge teen fashions by Glo Jeans, Jordache, Killah, Levi's, Planet Yumthing, Maria Dionisiou and American Eagle Outfitters.

As the teen market continues to explode, each season Girls Rule! presents to a packed room of retailers, press, teen celebrities and stylemakers. Attendees can always count on seeing the newest faces walk down the runway in the freshest fashions.

This season, style icon Garren of Garren New York will design the hairstyles along with Jeanine Lobell of Stila creating the makeup.

To add to all the hoopla seventeen has added an exciting element this year as the fashion show will include images featured in the magazine over the past 50 years. Designers have chosen photos from the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's that influenced the upcoming season's fashions.

The images will be incorporated into a slide presentation that will run before the designers display their fashions on the runway.