Calling all budding Fashion Journalists

If words and fashion are two of your very favourite things then The Jackie Moore Award for Fashion Journalism could well be for you. The 2004 hunt is now on for the fashion writers of tomorrow. Interested applicants must have no more than a year’s fashion journalism experience and get their creative heads around the two questions below:

1) Designers have been inspired by fashion from the Twenties, Fifties and Seventies this year. Which decade during the last century would you most like to have lived in for its fashion?

2) Is shopping for clothes a drug or a disaster?

Answers must be typed and no more than 500 words each, along with your name, age, sex, occupation, address and contact numbers.

The prize will give one lucky winner a good push up the industry ladder with the chance to report for the Guardian Style pages at next seasons London Fashion Week, all expenses paid.

Competition judges are Jess Cartner-Morley, fashion editor, the Guardian; Harriet Quick, fashion features editor, Vogue; Tamasin Doe, fashion director, InStyle; Sarah Mower, contributing editor to American Vogue; Francesca Fearon, fashion editor of Hello!

Send entries to: The Jackie Moore Award for Fashion Journalism, PO Box No 31397, London, SW11 5YR by December 17 2004.
Announcement of the winner will be made in the Guardian on Friday, January 14 2005.

Prêt-a-Porter Dog-Walk Show at Harrods

Harrods hosted its second ready-to-wear dog-walk show on Wednesday. Pooches paraded up and down the runway wearing the likes of Burberry, Fox and Hound and Aquascutum. Along with the show was the launch of the new Harrods dog-a-logue, featuring the very latest dog ranges and accessories. Doggy attire seems to be all the rage as tickets to the £25 a head show sold out well in advance.

Our Viv does it again…

Vivienne Westwood bagged yet another trophy for her cabinet on Wednesday night. The Cosmetic Executive Women Awards held at Claridge’s presented Vivienne with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her influential contribution to fashion and style. Sarah Ferguson’s obviously well chuffed as she presented the award fully clad in Westwood’s designs. 

Website of the Week…

10 years and going strong, Agent Provocateur has seen success and expansion of late. Luxurious and naughty all at the same time the lingerie brand is all about high quality designer products and creative flair. Orders are also flooding in via mail order and their award winning website. Click the link to see what all the fuss is about - http://www.agentprovocateur.com/

Elival Fashion Incubator

A new boutique has landed on the King’s Road, Chelsea. Elival Fashion Incubator is no ordinary boutique, however, with its unusual décor, personal DJ and staff/in-house models. Stock includes an eclectic range of womenswear and accessories by designers sourced all over the globe. Elival Fashion Incubator owner – Valentina Vatistas also plans to add some menswear pieces to the boutique in the near future. Her aim is to create a unique shopping experience that’s about fresh directional style. In-store designers include: Pantelis Mitsu - Francesca Miranda - Yufeng Shawn - Gozi - Ines Valentinitsch – Aristolasia, with some pieces exclusive to the boutique.

Elival Fashion Incubator, 579-581 King's Road, London SW6 2DX. Telephone: 020 7371 5900. Visit by appointment only.
www.elival.com

By JoJo Iles

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