Young Enterprise Programme (YEP) – Part II

 

Getting It Right First Time – Young Enterprise Programme (YEP)

 

 

 

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For the first day the designers had a behind the scenes review of the one of the largest GFW’s ever to take place.

 

 

The young designers involved with the project are:

 

Zoe Allan

Jesse Baker

Samira Ibrahim

Jade Longhurst

Ahoud Osman

Sarah Johnson

Andre Simpson-Clarke

Carmen Smith

Amy Trew

Sarah Brackley

Callissa Morgan

Jennifer Owusu-Sintim

Hannah Smith

Latoya Simpson-Clarke

Christine Fuller

Robyn Billings

Ross Fonteyn

 

The Getting It Right Frist Time agenda was:

 

10.30 Introduction and Welcome

11.00 Croydon College of H.E.

 

11.30 Ravensbourne College of Media and Communication

12.00 London Apparel Resource Centre

12.30 SDC – the Society of Dyers and Colourists

13.00 LUNCH

13.30 Filming – each participant to be filmed at GFW at the Fashion Enter stand

14.00 Derby Fashion Show at their stand

14.30 Northampton review of shoes and accessories

15.00 Feedback and Review

15.30 Close

 

 

We thought it was vitally important for the designers to engage with the project and we decided to take an unusual step and film each designer at GFW.

The trip to GFW was particularly important because it gave an overview of where the design and manufacturing process actually ends…now the designers have to work together to create their own unique garments that will be sold in the Enter Boutique in Croydon.

Day two and the participants are ready to go!  Yesterday, 7th June was another very busy day as you can see by the agenda below.

10.00 Introduction and Welcome

 

10.15 Introducing the Design Concept

What is design?
How does it start?
Where do you get ideas from?
What makes a good idea commercial?

10.45 The Buying Cycle

Explanation and Review of Designers, wholesalers, MT, CMT, Manufacturers and
Auxiliary Services


11.30

 

Creating – Moodboards
Themes
Fashion Trends
Colour
Texture
Silhouettes
USP

12.30 Participants to give presentation and overview of logo and label

 

13.00 Lunch

13.30 Presentation by Hayleigh Amos – what makes a good or bad seller

14.15 Review of FashionCapital
Blog
PROFILE
Trend boards
Forums

15.15 The next step
X Factor of Fashion

16.00 Feedback and review

16.15 Close

So you can see they were certainly kept busy and credit to the team they were on the ball.

The next stage….onwards and upwards.

The designers will be having a preview seminar on 4th July to see how they are progressing ready for the X factor finale on 27th July. Here each participant will be giving a presentation to a panel ready for the catwalk fashion show the following week.

Each week there will be updates on the YEP blog from a highly talented Course Leader from YEP Lorraine Brown. Lorraine explained:

 

“This is just what Young Enterprise Programme is here to do. We are working with young people aged 16 – 20 in fun and creative workshops to inspire and motivate them for the future. Jenny and I have devised this new cutting edge workshop together and it’s been a tremendous success so far, the designers are very pleased and more importantly highly motivated to succeed.”

Each designer will shortly be sending in a profile too that will be showcased on www.fashioncapital.co.uk

Until the next chapter!

 

Jenny Holloway