NEWSLETTER
Dear all,
The Workshop 1st anniversary!
Fashion Enter’s factory, The Workshop, sees its 1st anniversary tomorrow evening and to celebrate we will be holding an evening of fabulousness with cocktails, cupcakes and sparklers to mark all the hard work and fantastic achievements of the last year!
This is a great networking opportunity to meet the whole Fashion Enter team and fellow members at the manufacturing and education hub of the organisation. Please RSVP via Leith@fashion-enter.com or jemima@fashion-enter.com if you would like to attend.
Clothes Show Live 2009 – last opportunity for stands!
There are still limited stands available for the Clothes Show Live this year in Birmingham and this year promises to be huge! Each year FashionCapital attracts thousands of consumers to the eclectic mix of new and emerging designers taking up a fantastic position at the world's largest fashion and beauty event! Due to popular demand we have gone from 16 stands to 20 stands and now we are delighted to announce we now have 24 stands exclusively available to our designers!
We have the Profile catwalk show taking place every day where you could have your garments seen by hundreds of thousands of shoppers and we have Kiss FM’s breakfast DJ Charlie Hedges taking up one of the stands to promote not only the Clothes Show live but exclusively designers all under the FashionCapital umbrella on the National radio station!
So if you are a designer and would like to have the opportunity to sell and showcase your garments to over 185, 000 consumers please contact jenni@fashion-enter.com
Fantastic opportunity for new designers based in Haringey!
Are you a designer or manufacturer based in Haringey? This could be your opportunity to sell your designs to over 185 000 consumers and showcase at the world’s largest fashion and beauty event ever!
Rev up, a two year funded programme to help businesses succeed in the NDC community, has devised a totally innovative project to genuinely help fashion businesses achieve sales as well as that all important press and PR for their label.
We are therefore in a position to offer six people, three designers and three manufacturers, based in the NDC area, a free stand at the Clothes Show Live in Birmingham, at the NEC from 4th – 9th December 09!
Spaces are filling up fast so please contact Leith@fashion-enter.com today to ensure you do not miss out.
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Haringey Council are Supporting Home Grown Designers for Clothes Show Live 09
Yet another exciting opportunity for residents in the London borough of Haringey has arisen for designer businesses to secure stands at the monumental Clothes Show Live 09, this December at the NEC in Birmingham. Again stands are filling up fast but with a total of 8 businesses benefiting from this unique opportunity there is still availability!
Please contact leith@fashion-enter.com for more information
'Made for Leather' Compet by Fashion Enter & Pittards – World Class Leather
The Made for Leather Competition is really hotting up! We have received lots of applications and are very excited about the prospect of seeing the lucky designers work made up in leather which will be supplied by world renowned leather manufacturer Pitttards. Many votes have already been received for the favourite designs which is great! So far the winning design is below:
If you would like to enter the competition please click here to find out more info.
Specialist Advisors
Two leading industry experts have now taken prime position in our specialist advisor section for members only to gain the best advice the industry can provide.
Nigel Rust has over 26 years experience in the manufacturing and in roles spanning production engineering, production management, product management, sales and marketing and general management. He moved into business support with Business Link for London, where he was Sector Development Specialist for Engineering, offering sales and marketing and product innovation support to SME manufacturers. He joined EEF as a manufacturing Specialist on the London MAS team in 2006 and has subsequently taken on his current Business Development role.
Ray Buckler is a specialist in e-commerce implementation with a focus on multichannel retailing and search engine optimization under Sitemakers Ltd. Again with the breadth and scope of experience Ray has specifically in the e-commerce industry seeing through the increasing trend of consumer buying online is the perfect point of contact for assistance with your e-commerce site. If you haven’t yet embarked upon the world of e-commerce… you must! And Ray Buckler should be your first point of call.
If you would like to become a member to make the most of this invaluable service as well as many other benefits that comes with being a member of FashionCapital please click here.
Tom Cammmarata
Yet another new section for FashionCapital.co.uk will launch soon courtesy of the talented pattern cutter; Tom Cammarata. With over 25 years experience in the world of production, his extensive knowledge across and scope of techniques for both patterns and grading, this specialist opportunity offers to provide the best service the industry has to offer today.
Stitch in Time
The Stitch in Time programme at The Workshop is continuing to fly! There have been some outstanding participants and overall the course is a great success. We would like to say a huge welcome to the most recent participants Akua Agyeiwaah, Sabrina Shiell and Syreeta and hope they achieve their goals through the initiative.
Style Live Show
Recently the Style Live show took place at Centrale Shopping Centre in Croydon, where one of the Enter boutiques is based.
The show was absolutely fantastic. A flock of people came from all around to see the Stylish upbeat fashion show. All the garments were really in trend for this season, there was a great amount of sequenced pieces that will defiantly be going well for the party Christmas season.
Fashion Enter took the show by surprise, showcasing some fabulous garments that really showed the unique and stylish pieces that we have. The designers in the show were Corset art, Belles of London, Ruby Rocks, John Zac, Nomie, Nina bon Bina, Jolaby and Meem.
There was also model search competition where the judges for the show were from top modelling agency STORM. Fashion Enter provided the garments for the contestants who strutted their stuff in front of the judges each hoping to be selected as the top model!
Job of the Week
Fashion Design Instructors wanted in Asia
Applicant of the Week
Sales Agent
Boutique Pick of the Week
This week, we have a tailored knitted jacket great to style up jeans or a puff skirt. Its’ sharp statement shoulders gives an edgy appeal to tailoring and its low v-neck, short torso silhouette is perfect to elongate the legs!
This Jacket is £150.00 and is available at asos.com and Fashion Enter Boutiques.
Until next time, have a great week
All the team at Fashion Capital x
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