We are currently in the midst of a fashion fest right now what with the Fashion Capital team reporting live and direct from London Fashion Week and the Fashion-Enter girls checking out the very latest trends at Premiere Vision in Paris. Expect lots of fashion fuelled reports heading your way soon.
This season’s London Fashion Week has been non-stop both on and off schedule. There’s a fantastic piece in The Telegraph today about the people that make London Fashion Week happen, TopShop’s Buying Director, Caren Downie, being one of them. We’ll be catching up with Caren and her views on this season’s event later this week – check back for that one.
PPQ at LFW
Jacob Kimmie @ On|Off
Here’s a taster from the week courtesy of the Jacob Kimmie On|Off show our presenter Eva has a brief chat with the designer – click this link to view the whole show.
Eva also has a few words with established designer Ben de Lisi check back for regular video and image updates.
Presenter Eva with Ben de Lisi
FashionCapital KnowledgeBank
A big welcome to the 200 plus new companies that have registered onto the UK’s leading fashion portal from Moda. In collaboration with Advanced FashionCapital is creating a new KnowledgeBank to be launched October 07 in time for Profile 8. This is an exciting development and the first of its kind in the UK. More to follow soon.
Fashion-Enter on the British Satellite News
One video really worth checking out is the Enter-Boutique Barking Fashion Show (held on the 7th September) filmed by the British Satellite News www.bsn.org.uk. Along with snippets from the show you can find interviews with our Director – Jenny Holloway, Designer – Catharina Eden and the Minister for Culture, Margaret Hodge.
This is what Margaret had to say about developing small creative businesses:
“We want to grow small businesses and the concept of social enterprise where you have a different set of values and you put back your profits into growing the business to provide other jobs for other people, is a new model of running things which I find particularly attractive. I’m really interested in talking to British designers. We are tops in design. And what we’ve got to do is make sure that that translates into jobs right down that value chain so as well as designing we make the clothes that you see here and some are made here and some are made elsewhere but we want to keep Britain – London is really the centre of a lot of creative talent and we want to keep that here.”
FashionExpo WorkShops
While we are on the topic of developing businesses FashionExpo will be hosting a series of free workshops during the event 5th & 6th November. Speakers so far include:
David Jones – Managing Director, London Apparel
London College of Fashion
Elaine Bellew
Eco Design Network
Zowie Broach
Own It
Fashionworks
Neha Ahmed – Boudicca
A full list will be available later this month.
FashionExpo & Profile 8 – 5th & 6th November 2007 at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London N1.
Profile Designers On Show
The Fashion-Enter team have been busy with the Profile selection process – here is a complete list of designers showing at this season’s event:
Profile Stand Allocations Womenswear
Annelie Israelsson M40
Catharina Eden G18
Co. Ink M33
Corsellis M35
Corset Arts M18
Death for a Doll G11
Ekhos M25
Fanni Ann G38
HeMyca Ltd G42
Jessi Moda M22
Joe Blake G27
Kiereka M48
Melanka & Me M46
Olwen Bourke G22
Quoot Kulture M50
Rufus M42
Samata’s Muse Ltd M38
Shyamoki M31
Sugarhill G32
Urban Buzz M44
Whereareyounow? M24
Isis Cashmere M14
Stateless Ltd G40
Who ElseOrlebar Brown G16
Urban Species G34
Nico Kubisch G30
Profile catwalk shows will run at the following times:
Monday 5th November 2007
16.30 – 17.10
Tuesday 6th November 2007
12.00 – 12.40
16.00 – 16.40
FashionCapital Editorial
Along with our Fashion Week reports we’ve had a huge response to Laura Louise Frampton’s homepage article. ‘The Customer is Always Right Sadly Not Anymore!’ Looks like bad customer service is all too common out there. If you have an opinion please add your views to the end of the article.
That’s all for now it’s back to the shows for the FC crew, until next time have a great week,
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