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NEWSLETTER
Dear all,
WorldSkills continued – Lauren Goodgers fashion competition
Last week FashionCapital was at the World Skills London 2011 – the largest ever international skills competition and careers event at Excel London.
Young people from 51 countries/regions were competing to be the best of the best in their chosen skill. More than 200,000 people from the UK visited and were inspired by the dedication of the teams taking part in the Competition.
FashionCapital was part of the ‘Have a Go’ section where young people could ‘Have a Go’ at a wide range of skills. Each student that visited our stand over the four day event had the opportunity to Have a go….at Fashion Design by designing a dress for Lauren Goodger from the hit TV show TOWIE. On the last day Lauren was there herself with fellow TOWIE star Lauren Pope judging all the entries.
Lauren will make the final decision but now she needs the help from you! The top 50 entries have been uploaded to FashionCapital and you can vote on your favourite design!
VOTE NOW!
Lauren Goodger and Lauren Pope judging the entries
Do you need a Business Plan?
New series of courses for ambitious fashion designers: Business for Creative People
The new series of workshops for ambitions fashion designers are now available to book! The highly successful workshops run by FashionCapital specialist advisor Nigel Rust will commence tomorrow focusing on a range of topics from production to sales and marketing to money! If you missed out on this first workshop entitled Getting the Most Out of Your Manufacturer we are delighted to announce it will be repeated on Thursday 1st December. To book please email jenni@fashion-enter.com
The second workshop taking place next Thursday 20th October is now available to book!
Workshop 2. Thursday 20th October 2011.
Title: Making It Happen
Topics:
- Objectives – Know where you are now and where you want to be.
- Action Plans – Pulling together all the strands of what you need to do to get to where you want to be – Product development/Sales & marketing/PR/Production/Financials/Cash Flow. This section will also give you the chance to develop your own action plan.
- Gantt Charts – an amazingly straight forward and simple tool to help you achieve your goals and keep you on target.
- Driving the business forward – Monitoring, reviewing, revising. Staying one step ahead.
- Do you need a Business Plan? – what is a business plan, when would you need one, what goes into it
Click here for further workshop information, venue, costs and how to book .
Profile – Stands are selling fast!
We can really appreciate how tough it is for new designers at the moment and that’s why this years Profile fashion event is both trade and consumer.
For all information on Profile please click here
This year Profile takes place 10th November at One Marylebone. We have hired two floors – the Soane Hall which is the ground floor and this will be a consumer space where both designers and beauty companies will be selling to the general public. Then downstairs in the Basement – an undeniably fashionable and edgy space, will see the Profile trade exhibition with 22 designers showcasing and taking to the catwalk!
You now have the chance to have your stand to sell direct to the public too!
Stands are limited so please apply immediately to Jenni@fashion-enter.com for further details!
The Fashion Studio
FC and UEL are delighted to announce the launch of The Fashion Studio today!
A new state of the art design and manufacturing facility based at the Knowledge Dock at EUL Campus, the 8000 square foot unit will enable educational workshops and seminars, sampling and toiling and production runs of up to 5000 units a week, bringing together the concepts of The Workshop, The Factory and our Educational suite all under one roof.
This week the students from The Arts University College at Bournemouth will be visiting the Fashion Studio following the seminar Fashion Enter provided on Monday, and then next week the year 11 students from Maria Fidelis FCJ secondary school will also have tour of the studio to review the facilities as well as an induction and practical lesson on cutting and using the machines and a presentation on the Design Cycle and Fashion Enter to help them with their fashion construction project.
Clothes Show Live 2011
Stands under the FashionCapital boutique umbrella at the world’s largest fashion and beauty event are selling fast. Make sure you don’t miss out!
This year we have negotiated a fantastic deal with Clothes Show and can now offer members to FashionCapital a huge 25% discount off the original price of a stand. Not only this but we have also reduced the rate of one stand by £100 on last year’s price!
This is what you can expect when you take a stand under the FashionCapital boutique:
Logo and web link on the Clothes Show Live website – which in 2010 received over 500,000 unique users in the 3 months run up to show.
Opportunity to run a competition online – with option to data share
Opportunity to discuss becoming ‘’Exhibitor of the week’’
Opportunity to supply product for ticket incentive
Opportunity to place product in VIP and Competition goody-bags
Opportunity to leave press packs in on-site press office
Opportunity to become involved in with Clothes Show Live social networking sites
Contact with the PR agency for further marketing opportunities
So to sell and showcase your designs at this huge consumer event please contact jenni@fashion-enter.comimmediately as stands are filling up fast!
Advertise on FashionCapital – Special Offer!
We are currently offering 3 for the price of 1 on selected Advertising on FashionCapital. For £250* you receive:
An original content article by FashionCapital on your brand or specific product.
A two week banner linking from the FC Home page to your article and a newswire post (Link) to your article on the week your article goes live (sent to over 80,000 people).
Please e-mail Christopher@fashion-enter.com for more details.
Offer Ends December 2011. *Excludes VAT
The Latest from British Designers @ FashionCapital Bath
Autumn seems well and truly here in Bath after the unexpected heatwave of a few weeks ago! Many of our regulars this week are snapping up knitwear from designers such as Peregrine and Jean-Pierre Braganza in preparation of the colder months! We are looking forward to new stock arriving this week from Goat, Zoe Boomer, Peregrine and Belles of London to add to our already fabulous autumn fashions here in Bath’s only British Designers shop!
Friday 7th October was a huge success. Emma, our resident fashion graduate, prepared a range of 10 outfits to feature in the British Designers @FC section of the show. Others in the line-up included: Jolaby, Urban Outfitters, Motel, Bank, Gilly Woo and many others – plus of course a selection of designers currently stocked in the boutique – Jean-Pierre Braganza, Goat, Emma Ewer, Hemyca, Masato, Tramp in Disguise and FiFi Venus.
The after show party with Rackabeat, Bar-Low, Bristol’s own talent Mr Soulsbury and DJ Skint ensured the evening continued with class and style.
More next week from the team at BD@FC Bath x
Check us out on Twitter (BDBBath) and Facebook (British Designers FashionCapital Bath)
Please note JoJo the manageress is away an annual leave from the 8th – 23rd October if you do need to contact the boutique please call 01225 489009 and speak to Serena, Emma or Fiona.
Important information for new businesses
The Government has published a full year summary for 2011 of its progress in cutting the cost of regulation to business in the UK. The ‘One in One Out: Second Statement of New Regulation’ shows that the costs of business regulations have been capped during 2011, with a gross reduction in costs of over £3 billion.
Full report
This is exactly the sort of vital information that is uploaded onto FashionCapital daily. If you are a new business start up make sure you keep up to date with all the latest information via the industry’s portal FashionCapital.co.uk
FashionCapital Menswear
FashionCapital Menswear has moved to the Kingston Office (The Showroom) and is currently looking for a Fashion, Business, Womenswear, Menswear, Journalist or Photography Student / New Start wanting an internship in Kingston ASAP.
Please email Christopher@fashion-enter.com
House of Hannigan – Made in Chelsea and The Last Supper
Our very own Christopher O’Reilly (Menswear) in recent months has been given the opportunity to have one of his dresses featured in ‘Made in Chelsea’ Start Gabriella Ellis’ Debut Music Video for the song ‘Fight’. In return Gabriella offered to model the same dress in a shoot Christopher had planned to do for his portfolio in the lovely Abney Park. Everything went Amazingly! Fashot were also there filming a behind the scenes of the music video and Gabriella refers to House of Hannigan as Immense. For the full shoot and videos please follow this link – Made in Chelsea Shoot
HOH are also Happy to announce the release of the Church Shoot. For images and videos please follow this link – The Last Supper & It’s a Riot
Contact – info@houseofhannigan.com
Attention Designers – The Showroom
As previously mentioned in recent newswires the FashionCapital membership has seen some changes. The reduced rate from £399 plus vat to £150 plus vat for the year is due to The Showroom side of the membership closing down. We still have the same relationships with buyers and retailers and will be holding designer calls for our members however The Showroom function will no longer be in operation.
Therefore can all designers with stock still at The Showroom in Kingston please make arrangements to collect their garments in the next 14 days, final day 26th October 2011. Please email jenni@fashion-enter.com to arrange times.
Boutique Pick of the Week
It’s finally autumn and time to show off some fashionable, warm and stylish knits! This chocolate shawl drape by Peregrine is made from pure merino wool and comes in S, M, L or XL.
This shawl drape feels amazing on and can be cosily dressed up or down depending on the occasion. Get your from British Designers @ FC Bath Boutique for just £69.00 and enjoy feeling warm and stylish whatever the weather!
Until next time, have a great week
All the team at Fashion Capital x
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