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12^th March 08

The international catwalk collections may well be over but here at FashionCapital HQ the fashion whirlwind continues.

Director Jenny Holloway and Creative Assistant Jenni Sutton have just returned from a positively productive trip to South Africa.

Jenny commented: “We had over 17 meetings in South Africa and each one was a resounding success at many levels. For the designers we work with we had a positive meeting with FashionTV and Eli Saig who is the joint MD. I have waited six long years to get an appointment with Eli and I can’t believe that by chance we walked into Rosebank Mall, popped into the FashionTV retail shop and was escorted to Eli straight away. My jaw dropped to the floor!”

Jenny continues: “An hour later we had confirmation that Eli was coming to see us in May! It’s early days yet and I obviously didn’t want to push it but my intention here is to get Eli to agree to some kind of selection process for designers to get exposure on the FashionTV channel! Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”

And there’s more…

There were other great results too, including an order from Foschini stores. They have designs from the ‘Launched to Critical Acclaim’ initiative at Fashion-Enter, plus designs from Shyamoki, Stateless and Corsellis and they are letting us know about potential orders that amount to 800 pieces each. The only problem being that the stock has to be made in Africa but we are on the case and have sourced a CMT unit to work with.

Plus Jenny has been asked to be a judge at the highly esteemed Old Mutual Vukani Fashion Awards, an event organised by Sonwabile Ndamase. As well as judging Jenny will undertake mentoring sessions for successful designers and hopes to promote some of our UK designers on the catwalk south of the hemisphere.

Profile & Nolcha New York

We mentioned a while back that our catwalk event Profile would be heading to the Big Apple under the wing of Nolcha this September. Five designers have been selected to attend the pre-show meeting in New York from the 25^th March to the 30^th.

The selected designers are:

Catharina Eden

Rajib Nandi

Gonul Cannur

Mambole Lambu

Plus, the additional showcase of FanniAnn and Stateless, who were highly commended on their collections but are unfortunately located outside of the catchment area.

This trip has been made possible by Barking & Dagenham Regeneration via Derek Levy, so many thanks here.

Coming Soon…

Fabulous Italian Fashion comes to Olympia London, 14th - 16th March 2008

Style Lounge in association with Nolcha:

Satisfy your passion for Italian style and fashion in the Style Lounge - catwalk shows, beauty treatments, demonstrations, shopping and inspirational talks...they're all at La Dolce Vita.

Gather your friends and indulge in true style italiano

Ticket offer!

2 'Fashion Connoisseur' tickets for the price of 1 - usually £50

BOOK TODAY simply quoting FCC1*

Ticket includes;
• fast track entry
• guaranteed seat at fashion show
• beauty treatment, goodie bag & glass of prosecco

*offer available on fashion connoisseur tickets only bought in advance

For more information visit:

http://www.ladolcevitaevent.co.uk

For tickets go to:

http://www.seetickets.com/ladolcevita/ 

Looking for a Manufacturer?

Then don’t forget to check out FashionCapital's Manufacturer’s Online Showroom, here’s what designer Catharina Eden had to say about it:

"I would like to thank the FashionCapital team for helping me promote awareness for my sampling unit in South Wimbledon, London, which I set up to help other designers like myself to make their creations reality.

As a designer I understand the finishing and attention to detail that is required and also the need to work closely with the customer to ensure everything is perfect. This is exactly the message that FashionCapital has helped me to send.

The online manufacturing showroom by MAS has given my business the positive result that I had hoped for and I am very happy with its service and its sincerity to connect industry and skills.”

The Face of Croydon Round 2

The highly successful model competition ‘The Face of Croydon’ is back for a second round. Last year the event attracted 300 young individuals into Fashion-Enter boutique for the chance to take part in a professionally styled photo shoot. This time we have teamed up with Arista Cosmetics in the search to find three new faces to represent the brand.

The new Arista Cosmetics brand is a collection of premium quality cosmetics products for all women of colour. The brand has been produced using the best and finest natural ingredients. Ingredients include - vitamin e, aloe vera natural beeswax and sunscreens.

Arista will be looking for three new faces; one Black, one Asian and one Latin to promote the new range, winners will also score agency representation plus a selection of prizes. More on ‘The Face of Croydon 2’ soon...

On FashionCapital this Week…

Premier Kids successfully launch a new Eco section after growing ‘green’ demands from buyers and consumers. Fashion Fringe announce their latest chairperson – to take over the role from Tom Ford. And Ant Standring compares shopping on the high street with the increasingly popular at home and online option.

Boutique Pick of the Week…

As seen at this season’s Premier KIDS – Eco Kids section this organic ladybird t-shirt by Arabella Miller is available at the FC Boutique sizes 6 – 24 months £12.99 www.fcboutique.co.uk

That’s all for this week.

Until next time – have a great week!

From the team at FashionCapital x