So what do you think of the new multi media section on the home page...how quick was that! The merry crew at FashionCapital have been working night and day (me...exaggerate!) to really start cranking up the site. In response, the unique user sessions are soaring and we have now been inundated with requests for advertising - of course we are happy to oblige!

Remember, if you have any fashion DVDs, personal bios or other snippets of fashion tittle tattle on disk then send them into us at our head office FashionCapital,   Fashion House, First Floor, 28 Station Approach, Hayes, Bromley, Kent BR2 7EH and we will showcase them on the home page for you.

The Google Ads have been very successful and now you can have your label, company and services blazing in lights on the site. Just contact us directly through advertising@fashioncapital.co.uk for further details and the competitive advertising rates are now available for full view on our Advertising Page.  

Thanks for all the amazing illustration entries for the mobile phones competition; some of the submissions have been outstanding. Many thanks to Jenni Sutton, Maggie Doyle, Manza Isaque, Lousie Brangwin and Faye Martin to name a few.

Jenni Sutton

 Maggie Doyle

The "Getting it Right First Time" workshops with Croydon College are a huge hit. The 35 plus students, under the careful and highly talented eye of Gayle Atkins, are working in association with Fashion Enter, Equals (Justine Wright and Chris Lee from CiPS, Newham College), Croydon Business (Angelina Purcell), Croydon Enterprise (Stella Okeahialan) and the Croydon Advertiser, with the one and only,  David Callam.  The second year students are working in teams to create t-shirt ranges that will then be sold in the Enter Boutique in Centrale's prestigious shopping centre mid November.

Each collection has to have a complete marketing plan, logo, labels, hangers, press releases... everything as any aspiring new designer collection would require for success. To facilitate this process we have organised a handbook of vital information, such as contracts, confidentiality agreements, license agreements et al and also guest speakers that really do inform the students of the ups and downs of owning a business.  The workshops put the practice into theory to ensure that any business gets it right first time and is ready for a successful market launch.