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NEWSLETTER
Dear all,
Attention Designers! Clothes Show Live – 3rd – 8th December 2010 – NEC
Are you a new and emerging ladieswear or accessories designer with a label to launch and stock to sell? If so the approaching Clothes Show Live event is your opportunity to reach out to over 180 000 consumers as well as leading national press!
Showcasing at the world’s largest fashion and beauty event under the FashionCapital boutique umbrella provides unique opportunities not only to sell your stock and make 100% of the profits but you will also be put forward to feature in the Profile catwalk show and the main fashion theatre catwalk show, both taking place each day and being seen by hundreds of thousands of hungry shoppers!
If you would like to reserve your space please email jenni@fashion-enter.com for info on stands and prices. Be quick though stands are filling up fast!
Trends!
Here at FashionCapital we support thousands of up and coming designers and the one thing all of our members express great interest in is the Trends section of the site. We endeavour to bring both current and forecasted trends through our team of top creatives and journalists. We are now expanding this even further with exclusive content from leading trend analysis site Trendstop.com as well as our own dedicated team to interpret and analyse current and future trends.
The trends section is exclusively for members only. This week see what colours, fabrics and shapes are big for A/W 10, Trendstop.com reveal key trends for S/S 11 and FC’s trend reporter Carolina Andersson covers colour, fabric and materials for S/S 11.
Members review trend reports here
Opportunity to be represented by sustainable Fashion group CLASS
We would like to inform you of a new partnership involving Fashion Enter and Italian company CLASS ‘Creativity, Lifestyle and Sustainable Synergy’. The collaboration between Fashion Enter and Class will see 3 designers put forward by Fashion Enter to be represented by Class. The designers must display a conscious effort to be eco friendly, using sustainable resources to a certain degree. In return Fashion Enter will represent 3 of their designers in the UK market.
This is a great chance for a label to promote itself and reach a wider market on an international scale. More information on CLASS can be found at http://www.c-l-a-s-s.org. If you feel your brand is suitable for the representation of CLASS please contact Lynsay@fashion-enter.com for more information and send through images and details on your brand.
British Designers@FashionCapital, Bath branch
Style Forums, Sales Queens and A Call for Super Accessory Designers
It was interesting to be part of the Milsom Place Style Forum day with personal stylist Emmeline Stevens last week. Not only did Emmeline dispel the illusion that you have to be a rich celeb to work with a personal stylist but she also opened new eyes to the great designer bargains currently at the boutique. Our graduate intern Emma Ewer also got the chance to display her final year collection and her soft pleated velvets got the ladies gushing. No doubt we will be working with Emmeline and her team again soon.
Emmeline picks out a flamboyant PPQ number at the BD@FC boutique
Emma Ewer displays her final year collection in the Style Forum room
In store we have two resident sales assistants Serena and Sarah-Jane both of which are super friendly and helpful – essential in a designer environment. New in store – we are also preparing for the oncoming party season with some blinging eye-catching bags from Vangil.
Vangil Ltd Handbags
And if you haven’t had enough of us already then you can always check us out on FaceBook and Twitter under BDB Bath (our full name was too long to add).
We are also interested in stocking some quality winter accessories – gloves, scarves, hats et al – so if you are a British accessories designer that would like to be stocked Bath please contact jojo@fashioncapital.co.uk with a few example images.
More next week.
Until then we are lusting after this knitted / jersey Jean-Pierre Braganza dress – the small was snapped up from the window display and there is one medium remaining!
Design Cycle
The Design Cycle has been constantly redeveloped over the past 6 months and is soon ready to re-launch again. The area featuring over 160 categories in an easy to follow step by step flow diagram paves the way for designers to follow when creating each collection to maximise the potential of a successful selling season. The Design Cycle is the first model of this nature encompassing everything you need to consider from dealing with models, press, manufacturers, whether to export, how to market your collection and much much more.
Specialist Advisors on FC FashionCapital would like to welcome a further 2 specialist advisors to the members section of FashionCapital. There are now over 30 specialists on this site that are committed to FashionCapital’s’ aims and objectives of helping businesses within fashion grow and thrive. Each specialist is there to offer help and advice to full paid members and initial advice is free. Depending on the query and the depth of the advice required additional fees may be charged by the consultant but at a discounted rate.
Nigel Rust, Business Mentor, Coach and Manufacturing Specialist.
Nigel has been working with small and medium sized businesses in a business support capacity since 2005, including several years with the London Manufacturing Advisory Service/EEF.
He is now an independent Business Mentor and Coach specialising in small but growing businesses with a particular interest in fashion-related companies, having worked with both designers and manufacturers over the last few years, and having been instrumental, with Fashion Enter, City Fringe, The London College of Fashion and others in supporting the fashion sector during that time.
World First, Foreign Exchange Broker
We would like to introduce our new Specialist Advisor, the foreign exchange broker World First. World First would like to share their top ten tips for taking control of a budget in the fashion industry when goods are purchased from abroad. To receive these and their whitepaper, ‘Hedging for the Fashion Industry’ please email fashion@worldfirst.com
For further information visit https://www.fashioncapital.co.uk/Members/SpecialistAdvisors.html
Fashion and Textiles Apprenticeship
Fashion Enter is working on the first Fashion and Textiles Apprenticeship alongside CHENEL (College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London) in the London region ready to commence in January 2011. The course runs for 18 months. Apprentices will spend 4 out of 5 days with an employer, getting paid to work and spend 1 day a week in education, providing the ultimate advantage of earning whilst learning. From the employer’s perspective, they will have worked with an individual for the year and a half to preen their Apprentice for a job in the organisation, benefitting both employers and Apprentices.
For more information, visit the Fashion and Textiles area on www.fashioncapital.co.uk
The Showroom
The Little Black Dress project
The little black dress project is coming to a close with delivery imminent. We are very pleased with the press that has been generated from this project with BrandAlley who have informed us that the press coverage has reached a total of 31,959,608! We have received press in noted publications such as The metro, Cosmopolitan and The Times amongst many others. We are looking into further projects with BrandAlley due to the success of this project.
We would also like to welcome to The Showroom team our newest intern Emma Box. Emma Box is a recent graduate from UCA Rochester where she completed a degree in fashion design. Due to the success of her graduate collection Emma was given the opportunity to take part in Vienna Fashion Week. She would like to further her experience in the fashion industry, which has led her to the showroom at Fashion Enter!
Are you a budding Journalist?
If so FashionCapital is looking for you to join its dedicated team of contributors! If you aspire to make a name for yourself in the industry or can see yourself as a leading fashion journalist then let us help you achieve your goals! By becoming a regular contributor to FC the industry will gradually start to recognise your name and your style and your published work will look highly impressive in your portfolio!
As a contributor you can report on a whole range of topics from business issues to the latest craze sweeping the high street, write and create current or predicted trend reports, cover events and exhibitions, conduct interviews or simply submit a weekly blog! We would of course promote you with your profile uploaded onto the site and credit each piece of work submitted. The style can be completely your choice so be creative and original to ensure you stand out!
To apply please send an example of written work with a selection of relevant images to jenni@fashion-enter.com.
Work Experience with FashionCapital
Throughout the year FashionCapital has fantastic opportunities for students and graduates to undertake work placements. With 5 locations in London the FC Head Office, The Workshop for production, The Showroom and retail boutiques FashionCapital can offer extensive work experience opportunities. Most of the team here started off doing work experience and look at us now!
With Clothes Show Live just around the corner we are now looking for enthusiastic, reliable and of course fashion hungry individuals to help out! The 6 day event takes place at the NEC in Birmingham and you would need to make your own accommodation and travel arrangements. The placement would involve merchandising stand space and then helping to man the stand throughout the event, dealing with customers and money transactions. There will also be opportunities to attend the daily fashion shows and write reports for FashionCapital. You will of course also gain free access to the show where you will have free time to roam around the largest fashion and beauty event in the world! Email jenni@fashion-enter.com
Boutique Pick of the Week
With the party season fast approaching and Halloween imminent, not all of us are too happy to dress up as scary monsters and opt for the fail safe sophisticated little black dress instead. This stunning intricate dress featuring extensive pleat detail carrying the romantic theme through to winter complimented with the abundant flower detail offers this ultimate little black dress to achieve the height of sophistication and style. Found at www.fcboutique.co.uk for just £39.99.
Until next time, have a great week
All the team at Fashion Capital x
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