Clothes Show London

The clock is ticking to secure your stand at this year’s Clothes Show London. You could be selling to a vast audience of over 185,000 hungry shoppers to expand your existing customer base, render a potentially huge profit and gain access to fantastic PR opportunities via FashionCapital.co.uk and Clothes Show London. As stands are filling up quickly and each year the show is becoming more popular with our talented designer members we urge anyone with an interest to enquire via jenni@fashion-enter.com to not miss out on this incredible opportunity.

International Fashion Fusion

If you haven’t yet entered the exclusive International Fashion Fusion competition in collaboration with asos.com and Jessica Ogden, you need to send your entries in quick as with only 3 weeks left to submit your entry on FashionCapital.co.uk you could win these fantastic prizes:

• A trip to Paris to work with leading designer; Jessica Ogden

• Your winning design will be made up and sold on asos.com

• 6 month work placement with asos.com

This is a fantastic opportunity for entering the wonderful world of fashion with direct leads into top designer house and e-tailer and should definitely not be missed.

You can also view the existing entries and vote for your favourite here too.

New Jobs Forum

Fashion Capital is delighted to announce the arrival of the newly developed jobs section. This new transformation allows employers looking for staff to enter more detailed information by specifying minimum requirements the appropriate candidate must possess in order to apply for the job posted. This new format also allows the candidate to view the requirements and contact details with ease featuring a new job search bar to enter key words to match your skills with relevant industry jobs.

Postings made before March 5th 2010 have been relocated to the archive jobs.

New Gallery Launched!

The Health & Beauty Gallery is separated into two sections…

1.Make Up Artists

A selection of make up artists and a gallery of their work including a bio and contact details. If you are a hair or make up artist and you want to be featured here please send a short bio and some examples of your work to jemima@fashioncapital.co.uk

2.Recommended Beauty Buys

Some of the best products on the market sorted by price! The best of the cheap fixes to the high end brands. You can rate and comment your thoughts on the products too! Have your say go here. If you have any products to suggest for featuring please email jemima@fashioncapital.co.uk.

The new gallery is going to be updated regularly and we think its a great addition to the Lifestyle section of www.Fashioncapital.co.uk.

FashionCapital and Edge Models Collaborate

In April Fashion Capital will be teaming up with Edge Models to put on a series of fabulous catwalk shows in top end clubs all over London. The first show is pencilled in for April 15th and we are looking for our edgiest, sexiest designers to show off!

We will be using top models from Edge Models and amazing hair and make up artists.

If you are interested in having your collection shown in clubs such as Embassy, Movida and other great locations then please email jenni@fashion-enter.com.

CAD/CAM Course at The Workshop

Don’t miss out on booking to take the CAD/CAM course at The Workshop on March 22nd -27th. Please contact leith@fashion-enter.com.

Free Business Support for Women in Work

Over the past few months FashionCapital has been able to support many women working in the fashion and textiles sector with great thanks to Skillfast-UK. Due to the Women in Work funded programme over 25 women have gained free business support and training at The Workshop as well as free membership with FashionCapital! We are delighted to announce that this offer has been extended and further places are now available for this fantastic opportunity!

If you are interested or would like further information please contact jenni@fashion-enter.com

Harvey Nichols Menswear Meeting

The International menswear buyer from Harvey Nichols visited the showroom this week to preview menswear collections for AW10/11. The meeting was extremely positive and feedback has been given to individual designers involved directly. Look out for Hayleigh’s Showroom update this week and we look forward to progressing with the buyer in the next meeting.

Ideal Home Show

Fashion enter are pleased to be a part of the Ideal woman Stand @ the Ideal Home Show Exhibition.

The Show will be hosted by Fiona Phillips (GMTV)

Corset Art and Fashion Enter will be bringing several Designers collections which will catch the eyes of many and attract people from all over the country

Corset Art one of our members will be on the runway and will also be making corsets out of the Financial Times Newspaper, London Metro Newspaper and will be making a wearable corset out of chocolate for the press day 22nd March so stay tuned for pictures, hopefully not melted.

Date: 20th March – 5th April

See you there!!

Apprenticeship Scheme

6 students from Northumberland Park School have embarked on an exciting work placement programme at the Workshop via CoNEL across 20 Saturday’s. The talented students will be taken through the design process, and how to run a business in fashion.

The students are voluntarily taking part in this unique course delivered by Fashion Enter to highlight the lengthy spectrum of available jobs in the fashion industry from design, production, PR and trend prediction.

Retail News

10 years on from the era of the dot com boom, when on 10th March 2000 saw an astronomical increase on the Nasdaq index of leading technology shares, has since seen more realistic figures at less than half its peak value as investors are now less clouded by the excitement of the then new world of business opportunities and are now more focused on real returns and fundamental underlying value. However, although this seems slightly doom and gloom, internet selling in fashion continues to increase with asos.com in particular flying the fashion e-tailer flag showing the vast potential opportunity of the increasing market of online shoppers.

Job of the Week

Home Machinist-Short Run

Applicant of the Week

FREELANCE SAMPLE MACHINIST AVAILABLE

Boutique Pick of the Week

Here’s your chance to snap up one of Alice Palmer’s innovative knitwear creations on asos.com at an amazing reduced rate of £84. This tailored sharp shouldered knit jacket is perfect for transcending into the summer months as we brace ourselves for another winter front this week. Looking forward, this delightful lightweight jacket adds a fabulous touch of class and elegance ready to either smarten up a more casual style for an effortlessly chic look and can also add a touch of power for women in work too. This truly versatile piece comes in cream and black and is a definite must have.

Until next time, have a great week
All the team at Fashion Capital x