Visit FBC member and fashion designer Yan To’s collection ‘Random and Unique’ in Paris at Zip Zone. Yan To is now stocked in Harrods after an introduction to FBC member and Fashion and Beauty director of Harrods, Marigay McKee, at an FBC meeting. Congratulation to Yan!
Zip Zone
111 Rue de Rivoli
Paris
1-4th October 2010. 10am-7pm.
Contact: yanto@byyanto.com 07545 997583
Amisha Ghadiali
FBC member Amisha Ghadiali will be our guest editor for the Laura Bailey / Dolly Jones interview.
Amisha lives and breathes ethical fashion, having worked in the industry for the past four years, both as the associate director of the Ethical Fashion Forum, working with everyone across the supply chain from farmers to retailers, and as designer of her own line of jewellery: Amisha Elegance Rebellion, which has been featured in Grazia and Vogue.
Alongside the jewellery label, Amisha writes for Ecouterre, the US site devoted to the future of sustainable fashion design. This year Amisha also founded the Think Act Vote campaign to bring fashion and politics together, asking us to think about The Future That We Choose.
We’ll look forward to reading Amisha’s review of the FBC meeting.
Laura Baily interviewed by Dolly Jones
30 September 2010
3:00pm
Swarovski CRYSTALLIZED™
membership@fashionbusinessclub.net
FBC members Martyn Roberts and John Walford present 20 of Europe’s Hottest Fashion & Accessories Designers:
Carianne Moore, Carlotta Gherzi for Sado, David Longshaw, Doychinoff, Elliott J Frieze, Eudon Choi, Gemma Slack, Georgia Hardinge, Hermione de Paula, Iris Van Herpen, Katie Rowland, Lako Bukia, LiLee, Lislie Yeung, Masha Ma, Piers Atkinson, Romeo Pires, Una Burke, Yasmin Kianfar, Yorkshire Pearl
10.00 – 19.00 Thursday 30th Sept – Tuesday 5th Oct 2010
Galerie Odile Ouizeman,
10/12 rue des Coutures
Saint-Gervais, 75003 Paris (next to Musee Picasso)
+44 (0)7730 426 777
sales@vauxhallfashionscout.com
FBC is thrilled to be welcoming on the 30th of September model, eco-warrior and entrepreneur Laura Bailey. “We’ve yet to have a model in the FBC hot seat, or anyone talking about ethical/sustainable fashion for that matter, so we thought we would kill two birds with one stone and get the amazing Laura Bailey in to cover all bases. She’s stunning, and her passion for everything that she’s involved in is absolutely infectious,” says Courtney Blackman, FBC co-founder and co-chairman while co-founder and co-chairman Alison Whelan echoes this with “Laura Bailey is a double first for FBC – our first international model and our first eco -speaker. I’m delighted to welcome Laura to FBC and look forward to listening to her views on fair trade fashion.”
Laura has written for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, GQ, The Daily Telegraph, STYLE and the The Independent- to mention but a few, and as far as her modelling career goes, her fashion and beauty campaigns include Guess Jeans, Ray-Ban, L’Oreal, Jaguar Cars, Jaeger, Marks & Spencer, Pantene and Temperley London.
After stints in New York she now lives in London with her two small children Luc, 5 and Lola Tiger, 2 and writes twice a week for FBC’s media partner VOGUE.COM and for their recently launched Vogue Green Style Blog alongside friends Livia Firth and Sheherazade Goldsmith. Laura is an active and vocal campaigner for ethical and fair trade fashion and her first fairtrade jewellery collection in collaboration with MADE, launched to acclaim earlier this month. She looks forward to travelling to Ghana with Oxfam on a fact-finding and film- making mission later this autumn.
At the FBC meeting Laura will be interviewed by FBC board member and editor of VOGUE.COM Dolly Jones. On the 30th of September Laura will be advocating why it is important to support sustainable fashion and to write about it; commenting on the altering image of ethical fashion and its ability to incorporate luxury lifestyles. Amongst these more serious and fundamentally important issues Laura Bailey will share what it is like working for VOGUE.COM and how she manages to balance fashion, writing and family life.
If are press and would like to attend the meeting please contact Penelope at press@fashionbusinessclub.net If you are not a member but would like to attend this meeting please contact Rita at membership@fashionbusinessclub.net
FBC co-founder and co-chair, Courtney Blackman sits on the board of the Ethical Fashion Forum and would love to see you all at an important event that takes place on the 6th of October: Ethical Fashion Forum Source Expo
The Ethical Fashion Forum Source Expo unites hundreds of designers, entrepreneurs, press and representatives from independent brands to major retailers with sustainable suppliers from all over the world. It is the only fashion industry trade event dedicated to ethical sourcing.
Over 50 suppliers of fair trade, ethical, organic and innovative textiles, components and manufacture will be exhibiting, in partnership with the Fairtrade Foundation, WFTO, and Organic Exchange amongst others. This year there will also be a Designer Pavilion showcasing some of the very best sustainable fashion design sourced to high ethical standards.
6 October
9am – 6pm
Central Hall Westminster
SW1
Tickets are limited, and selling quickly. There will be seminars, run by experts throughout the day, and they are rapidly booking up.
REGISTER NOW to secure your place- from £10 +VAT if you pay online in advance, or £25 on the door.
See the seminar programme here. All seminars are free to attend for registered visitors and you will be sent a link to book as soon as you have registered.
Full details about the Expo, including exhibitor directory, can be found here.
FBC member and Director of HEMYCA, Helen Clinch has been busy gearing up for HEMYCA’s ‘Of Dark / Of Light’ S/S 11 showcase on the luxurious private members club ‘The Yacht’ on Temple Pier.
HEMYCA’s S/S 11 collection, with its beautiful mix of dark and light patterns, fabrics and colours, represents a symbolic journey in which we walk from the darkness into the light. The presentation, an interactive installation, will immerse the guests into a maze in which they will come across the collection at different juxtapositions. Lights, music and visuals will encapsulate the collections beautiful mix of dark and light.
The night continues with the official HEMYCA after-party at LUXX. The VIP guest list will include celebrities, socialites, fashion and diary press who will rock the night away and leave with gorgeous goody bags.
The big day is on the 21st of September and will begin at 4:30pm. For more information visit www.hemyca.com.
Writing this blog at the weekend, my holiday in the Greek Islands just a week ago seems like a distant memory – I will be reaching for my tinted moisturiser in no time as I feel my tan fading away with every passing hour at my computer…But it’s great to return to lots of work with many of my AIM listed clients either announcing interim or year end results and opportunities for new work popping up by the day.
There was a general welcome feeling from news that the Chancellor has decided to scrap the Pre-Budget Report in October. Instead, George Osborne will focus on an autumn spending review, when he will lay bare the details of the deep public spending cuts planned to reduce Britain’s £155bn deficit and will set departmental budgets until the end of Parliament. This should provide better clarity to tax payers and their advisors who had to deal with two sets of policy changes in a year. According to the FT, the autumn statement has been pencilled in for late November or early December.
On a disappointing note, there has been much reported on the terrible news that nearly 6m people have paid the wrong amount of tax through the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system, due to inaccurate coding. Around 4.3m of these have paid too much and are due a refund, but 1.4m have underpaid and will have to hand over an average of £1,428 each. HMRC has now said that it will waive “small” amounts of tax, but for others, it will be collected over a period of several years.
Then the saying “to give with one hand and take with the other” springs to mind – until the tax is actually paid, interest will be charged at a rate of 3%, six times the Bank of England base rate. But if HMRC owes the taxpayer money, it attracts a measly ½% interest. Quite outrageous given that the fault was their own!
This news has been coupled with a flurry of activity of tax scam emails with fraudsters apparently trying to obtain personal bank account information from people who might be entitled to a PAYE repayment. HMRC has made it clear that it will not be contacting people about rebates or tax owed either by email or telephone. Nor will it ask for bank details. The HMRC website provides guidance on this area: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/index.htm.
My first week back did end on a high with the award ceremony for Young Guns 2010 taking place at the wonderful Kensington Roof Gardens – happily the rain stayed away. Read my next blog for details of the day and the fabulous finalists I had the pleasure of meeting who pave the way for Britain’s business talent- including four tailors with a twist and the bright mind behind personalised retargeting which is revolutionising on-line retailing and advertisers.
Natasha Frangos, FBC member is a partner at chartered accountant at Haysmacintyre.
FBC member, Fashion Designer and Stylist, Francesca Marotta will be presenting her S/S 2011 collection at the Hoxton Factory on the 20th of September.
The multi-talented Francesca studied at the London College of Fashion and since then has been involved in a everything from fashion shows and look books to music videos. Her work is aimed at everyone from children, women and men as long as they want to stand out from the masses with truly conceptual pieces.
Don’t miss Francesca’s show on 20th of September. FBC members can RSVP to rsvp@felicities.co.uk.
To see more of Francesca’s work visit www.francescamarotta.com
Sammy & Marcelo at Sapphires Model Management
FBC members and managing partners of Sapphires Model Management, Ian Warren and Neely Reyes are holding a London Fashion Week model scouting competition. Have you ever fancied being a scout for a day?
Model scouts are some of the most important people in fashion and are always on the hunt for the next big face to grace the catwalk and magazines. For a model scout even a trip to the supermarket can turn into a successful days work and many of the biggest names in the modeling industry have been spotted simply shopping or wandering down the street!
To be a good model scout you need to be chatty and confident with a good sense for fashion and an eye for timeless beauty. As you can imagine, you will be approaching gorgeous boys and girls with what might sound like a strange request so it’s important that you are friendly and well presented!
To enter the Sapphires Model Management Scouting Competition, in 250 words, tell Sapphires Model Management what makes you the perfect budding model scout. The most creative answers will be posted on the Sapphires website and the winner will get to spend a day during London Fashion Week learning what it takes with the Sapphires team.
Entries should be sent in to: contact@sapphiresmodel.com
Good Luck!
From dresses to jumpsuits to handbags, FBC board member Daisy de Villeneuve’s custom designed prints grace almost everything in Zac Posen’s diffusion line, Z Spoke, which was shown on the catwalk for the first time during New York Fashion Week.
“For Spring, Z Spoke has a decidedly young, cartoon-y and slightly madcap sensibility, partly via illustrator Daisy de Villeneuve’s kooky-chic prints of smiling fruit, and a Celia Birtwell-esque motif of multi-culti faces,” says Meenal Mistry on Style.com,
Read the full review here: Daisy de Villeneuve for Z Spoke
Images from Style.com by Yannis Vlamos / GoRunway.com
Official Z Spoke invitation in original Daisy de Villeneuve print with Daisy de Villeneuve signature
