02-08-2022 
FC Designer Workspace: Social Value Impact Report
On 28th July Fashion-Enter Ltd (FEL) was invited to the launch of the Social Value Impact report for the affordable workspaces in Islington. The...
01-08-2022
UK Shipping Costs Named Biggest Growth Risk
Small UK brands selling online have warned that rising shipping costs, currently surging thanks to currency fluctuations, fuel surcharges and...
29-07-2022
SilkFred Blog – B of London: The Ethically Made Brand You Need to Know About
As fashion manufacturers for well-known brands such as ASOS, N Brown and Tesco F&F, along with designer labels it is fair to say we know a thing...
20-07-2022
Redefining Luxury for the Next Generation
From Lars Rensing, CEO of enterprise blockchain and Web3 solutions provider Protokol (pictured right). As younger generations embed themselves into...
19-07-2022
How to Buy Designer Clothes on a Budget
Want to buy big fashion brands on a bijou budget? Read our article for six ways to get the most bang for your buck. Designer brands are defined by...
04-07-2022
Inflation Nation: New Report Reveals UK Public Have Pulled Back on Online Shopping
A new report from Attest, a consumer research platform for the world’s biggest and fastest-growing brands, finds over a quarter (26%) of British...
28-06-2022
What Enterprise Brands Can Learn From Start – ups About Agility & Personalisation
By Kamran Iqbal, Commerce Strategist at PFS From clothing and accessories to tech and homeware, you’ve probably purchased an item from a start-up...
23-06-2022
Summer 2022 Trends Embracing the Zeitgeist
At the beginning of each season there is always the question: what moves us, what are the driving forces, the inspirations for the new collections?...
22-06-2022
www.leicestermade.co.uk
It was great to officially launch the Leicester Made Directory at the Meet & Greet event Athena last week (16th June 2022.) Leicester Made is a...
06-06-2022
Zara’s Return Policy and the Future of Retail
With inflation and supply chain issues crippling retail, the announcement that Zara has started charging customers £1.95 for returning items online...
25-04-2022
Profit Plunge for ASOS.com Amid High Hopes for the Future
There is no doubt that the pandemic hit businesses hard, with no where to dress up and go fashion in particular suffered from poor sales figures...
14-04-2022
Earth Day 2022: Amex Trendex Report Reveals Today’s Consumers Expect More
‘Earth Day’ is just around the corner (22nd April 2022), this year’s theme is to ‘Invest In Our Planet’. Consumers can support this...
01-04-2022
What to Consider When Starting and Launching an Online Fashion Brand
Bringing your ideas to life and getting your designs out there for people to buy may have been a dream that you have held for a long time. To make...
24-03-2022
Fonthill Fashion Website Coming Soon!
Following funding from the England European Regional Development Fund (EDRF) as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth...
21-03-2022
Returns Policies – The Long and the Short of it
When it comes to fashion, return windows seem to have become never-ending as a result of the pandemic and Brexit. Over the last two years experts...
18-03-2022
Overcoming Challenges as an Independent Retailer
The consumer market has evolved significantly in recent years. As a result, independent retailers have faced many challenges, from a dissipating...
17-03-2022
Poor Payment Experiences Drive Online Customers Away
As the shift to digital accelerates, online merchants that fail to offer a strong payments experience face significant risk of losing customers to...
15-03-2022
3 Ways Digital Transformation Can Add Value in 2022 & Beyond
Digital transformation was a known concept pre-pandemic, but we’ve seen it ramp up significantly in the past two years. A huge 97% of businesses...
10-03-2022
Cybersecurity Myths that Are Compromising Your Data and How to Address them
As the importance of cybersecurity has increased, so has our awareness of it. Poor cybersecurity has been identified as the most pressing threat to...
08-03-2022
Fashion – Enter Wales: Hospital & Homecare ‘Well Cool Clothing’ Launches Online
Kirsty Glynn, came up with the idea for her Well Cool Clothing brand when one of her son’s fell ill and required hospital treatment. She could see...
25-02-2022
Fashion Disputes in the Metaverse
The “Metaverse”: we have heard about it, we may know about it, but what happens when brands from the physical world start to appear without...
11-02-2022
Rising from the Ashes: How Retailers Can Come Back Even Stronger in 2022
By Kamran Iqbal, Commerce Strategist at PFS If 2020 was the year of unprecedented events, then 2021 was the year of the aftermath. Even at the...
02-02-2022
SilkFred Visit & Scout New Brands at the FCDesignerWorkspace
On Tuesday 1st February brand scouts from the women’s fashion online boutique SilkFred.com visited the FC Designer Workspace to discuss how...
20-01-2022
Meet Brand Scouts from SilkFred.com
Online independent fashion platform SilkFred.com was launched in 2011 and from small beginnings has grown to now feature over 800 independent...
