Fashion Goes South for the Hottest September Ticket

 

  

Fashion Goes South for the Hottest September Ticket

 

The fashion pack is heading to the south of the Thames for the fashion event of September – PROFILE, the unique fashion industry platform for the UK’s new and vibrant designers.

 

Profile, organised by London Fashion Forum, is the fashion industry’s platform between Graduate Fashion Week and London Fashion Week for the UK’s new and emerging designers. 

 

85 designers will feature their Spring/ Summer 06 collections at this years’ Profile – a two-day event that will combine a trade exhibition, catwalk show and competition, which will be held on 20-21 September at Vinopolis, 1 Bank End, London, SE1.

 

Model and actress Lisa B will host the Gala event, on Wednesday 21 September at 8pm.  Over 20 of the designers displaying at Profile will take part in the Catwalk Theatre Show in front of a suitably fashionable crowd, including Tatler’s Fashion Director and style icon in her own right, Isabella Blow and music mogul Gerry DeVeaux as well as the leading retailer buyers for some the key UK high street fashion stores. Celebrity models Daisy Lowe and Jackson Scott will feature in the Gala Show.

 

Other fashion and celebrity faces that will be showing their support to the UK’s emerging designers include Veronica Webb, one the US’s first black supermodels; designer Zandra Rhodes, singer/ songwriter Pearl Lowe and Danny Goffy of Supergrass. Matthew Rhys Actor, Brian Leonard, Deputy for Culture Media & Sport, Sandra Marsdeb, Deputy for Culture Media & Sport, Barry Gardiner MP, MP for Brent North and Stifyn Parri, Presenter WCTA.

 

 

 

 

The final part of the Gala Show will be dedicated to announcing the winners of Profile competition.  For the sixth season running, House of Fraser, Debenhams and Hobbs have confirmed that they will be sponsoring a category each (womenswear, menswear and accessories respectively). 

 

New to this year, leading high street retailer, Whistles will be sponsoring the New Designer Award.  The four winners will each receive much sought after retail space in one of the category sponsors’ flagship stores.

 

Commenting on Profile, Isabella Blow said; “The UK is the breeding ground for design talent and it’s important that the fashion industry supports this great British tradition.  Profile is a fantastic opportunity for young designers to display their collections to a great number of buyers, stylists and fashion writers.  It’s great that London Fashion Forum is doing something worthwhile for our fashion industry.”

 

Gerry DeVeaux added; “There’s so much focus on our high profile designers that it’s great to see that young British talent is getting an opportunity to break into the notoriously difficult world of fashion with the support of some of the biggest names in the UK high street.”

 

LFF’s Chairman and Director, David Jones, commented; “Profile continues to go from strength-to-strength with every season.  We continue to garner support from the British fashion retail industry.

 

“There’s no other industry event within the fashion calendar that offers such a unique opportunity for all sectors of the trade.”

 

ENDS

 

For further information, please contact Karen Keany or Adam Rutherford at The PRactice on 020 7269 9886

 

 

Notes to editors follows/…

 

Notes to Editors:

1.      Profile is the fashion industry initiative organised by London Fashion Forum, a non-profit making company funded by Creative London, the creative industries arm of the London Development Agency

2.      Now in its sixth season, this event dedicated to the fashion trade industry the footfall has increased by 700%

3.      The designers included in this season’s Catwalk Theatre Show includes:

 

Womenswear	Menswear	Accessories
Frocked de La Valliere	Two B	Katherine Elizabeth Milliner
Melanka and Me	Stereotype	Samaya Impex
Romeo Pires	Isis Cashmere	Betty Ching
Rufus	Field	Anyi Mordi Shoes
Lisa Larrson	Gresham Blake	Sirice
Craven Gene		Kays
		Kiki
		Trend Station