It’s all happening for 25 lucky designers this Christmas!  The LFF are working with Clothes Show live and is most definitely alive and kicking!! All ladieswear designers will have the chance to sell to over 180,000 visitors who last season spent an amazing £16m!  The LFF have been able to provide a substantial cost of just £176 a day compared to the non-quibble standard rate of £335 a day.  In addition the LFF designers will be able to have a scene in the Fashion Theatre providing exposure to over 180,000 visitors.  All the designers have to do is to provide an outfit and Lesley Garry will produce style and choreograph accordingly with catwalk models!  Many, many thanks to Nicky Hill and Sarah from the merry team at Clothes show live for supporting LFF and fashioncapital for future info please click here;

http://www.clotheshowlive.com/

Clothes Show Theatre

This is such a great opportunity especially with the current background of gloom and doom being forecasted by the Bank of England shocking fears of stagflation – haven’t heard of this since the 80’s!  Gorden Brown meanwhile in trying to keep the business community calm by throwing out the ECs plan to impose the fixed 48-hour working week and a reduction in red tape for small businesses.  Unemployment is now 828,700 which was an increase of 11,000 for the month of March (but 1.43m according to Labour force survey!)

So what are you to do?  Time to roll up our sleeves and get going!  There are always opportunities and we just have to make the most of them.  Just look at Morag McPherson from Global Guru.  She is now supplying her beautiful skills to retail boutique Questionnaire!  How fantastic Morag.  Well done!  In addition the LFF are going to offer each designer a FREE e-commerce trading website on fashioncapital.  With a hit rate of 1m a week the site is flying!!!

Morag McPherson

One of the key stumbling blocks for designers in today’s market is to find the right manufacturer base.  The LFF have been working with Skillfast-uk and we are delighted to announce that, shortly, the F.C site will be able to add an additional list of over 400 manufacturers based throughout the UK.  The is the beauty of team work.  A special mention of thanks here to Mike Bently, Peter Glover and Debbie Jackson.

That’s it for this week.

Have a great week ahead.