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The Young Designer Awards Autumn Applications now open

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Fashion Designers and Craft makers Network has now opened applications for designers to participate in the Autumn Young Designer Awards Ceremony 2011 which takes place in London. The Young Designer Awards is a non-profit event and is a unique project that continues to grow in popularity amongst young students. In addition to the YDA we have added a number of new categories that enable more established fashion designers, accessory, jewellery and milliners to participle in the young designer awards.

The Radical Designer Awards is targeted at fashion designers who are any age over 21 years. This age category must have design experience, a fashion label or a fashion house. This award gives each designer an opportunity to demonstrate their technical design skill and to express their creativity. The brief is to showcase a current Radical collection at the young designer awards. A very special showcase at Seattle Fashion Week USA will be offered by Seattle Fashion Week’s directors to one of our Radical Designer award winners.

Nichole Sams Seattle Fashion Week Director of Marketing says “Seattle Fashion Week is excited to extend one fashion showcase during an upcoming Fashion Week to the lucky winner of the Radical Designer Awards. The most important aspect of being a young designer is showing your art to the world. This helps gain fans, buyers and eventually gets designs in boutiques and retailers. Seattle is a great place for new designers to showcase their work. Seattle is a city enjoys unique works of art.”

Jewellery designers and Accessory designers including milliners can now enter to be up for the opportunity to participate in New Jersey Fashion Week. NJFW provides a platform for exceptional emerging fashion talent to present their seasonal collections on a global scale to the industry, media and consumers.

This year’s young award winners have also been offered fantastic opportunities to debut a collection in New Jersey Fashion Week and The Fashion Designers Expo Week based in Florida.

“Fashion Designer Expo Florida” is an exciting Fashion Week designed to show the world new fashion superstars, showcasing the best emerging talent from all over the world, FDE Florida offers the excitement and exposure that emerging fashion talent need, from extravagant runway shows to lavish parties.

Joanna Marcella the founder of the FDC Young Designer Awards says “Our unique selling point is that our event recognises young multicultural design talent and catapults young fashion designers right on to the international fashion stage.”

This year in our young designers category they are being asked to pay homage to the brilliant fashion designer Alexander McQueen by researching his work and take inspiration from deigns that are considered works of art. The young designer awards aims to provide a platform for creative geniuses who are edgy and original and are not afraid to take risks. The event seeks to find future trailblazers who think outside of the box.

Joanna continues “The FDC Young Designer Awards has been growing from strength to strength and our reputation has reached all corners of the globe, any young designer who would to be part of the great project can now apply to come on board.

Designers who have drive, ambition are talented and very committed, who want to take part in the awards can contact Joanna Marcella email: youngdesignerawards@hotmail.com Mobile: 07940 647 102 / Tel: 0208 986 8411. Website: http://www.youngdesignerawards.weebly.com

 

Source Expo 2011

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SOURCE EXPO 2011 will take place this year at the stunning Sadlers Wells triple height mezzanine space, a modern venue flooded with natural light, minutes from Angel tube station, London.

SOURCE EXPO is the only annual fashion industry tradeshow dedicated to ethical sourcing. Now in its third season, this year the EXPO will bring together more international manufacturers, suppliers and cooperatives working to high ethical standards than ever before. The event includes a programme of seminars, introducing new products and exemplary supply and production systems, a DESIGNER PAVILION showcasing some of the most inspirational design led fashion from around the world and a trends area.

Full details will be available online shortly at Ethical Fashion Forum’s Source Expo’s website. There are also a number of exhibitor and sponsor slots currently available. Contact the Ethical Fashion Forum to get involved.

The 2011 Young Designer Show

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The Fashion Designers and Craft makers (also known as the FDC) Young Designer Show takes place on Saturday 26th March at the Nobel Suite of the Novotel London Hotel St Pancras at 100 -110 Euston Road London NW1 2AJ the event starts at 4pm – 9pm. The gala evening will be hosted by Annaliese Dayes (from Britain’s Next Top Model) and Chyna Desveaux. Selected young designers from all over the UK who have excelled creatively and have the potential to be the next big stars of the international fashion stage will be competing for the coveted Young Designer Award ages 9-25 year and the Radical Collections Award any age over 21 years. A very special showcase at Seattle Fashion Week USA is being offered to one of our 2011 winners.

This year the young designer show participants have also been offered the fantastic opportunity to debut a collection in The Fashion Designers Expo Week based in Florida.

Fashion Designer Expo Florida is an exciting Fashion Week designed to show the world new fashion superstars, showcasing the best emerging talent from all over the world, FDE Florida offers the excitement and exposure that the emerging fashion talent need from extravagant runway shows to lavish parties.

Joanna Marcella the founder of the show and awards says “Our unique selling point is that our events recognises young multicultural design talent and catapults young fashion designers right on to the international fashion stage.”

At the young designer show on the 26 of March a special announcement will be made about fantastic opportunity for a group of designers to take in part in a all denim fashion show in Monte Carlo Monaco. Some on the designer names participating are: Leeanne Ripley-Garrett, Hannah Bloxham, Gbemisola Okunlola, Teresita Auguste, Gabriele Bernotaite, Keni Magma Puplampu, Kanyinsola Onalaja, Temila Jones, Jessy Sakala and Antoinette Oshodi.

Joanna continues “The FDC Young Designer Show and Awards has been growing from strength to strength and our reputation has reached all corners of the globe, any young designer who would to be part of the great project can still apply to come on board providing they have a collection ready to show and they meet all of the other criteria.”

Joanna and her team are looking for designers who have the potential to be future icons like John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood or Alexander McQueen. For entry details, to models sponsor or attend the show contact Joanna Marcella on email: joanna_marcella@hotmail.com or call: +44 (0) 7940 647 102 / +44 (0) 20 8986 8411.

August Informal Drinks

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It wouldn’t be a proper Summer if we don’t take the chance for a few after work drinks! As it’s our first meetup, this will just be an informal tweetup so we can get to know one another. Just bring yourself, a whole bunch of smiles and tweet about it!

The hashtag: #lftdrinks

If we all tweet using that hashtag, we can find each other online and start connecting. Personally, I’m already looking for fashion bloggers to connect with, new suppliers for certain fashion accessories and collaborators so it’ll be great to see you there!

Please RSVP via meetup

New Fashion Website – LadyM Presents launches

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Tunbridge Wells based writer Lady M launches the fashion and features website www.ladympresents.co.uk.

A website featuring up and coming designers, photographers, beauty salons and boutiques in London and in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Fashion is the main focus for the website with such companies such as Derhy, fashion house in Paris and Sam Cross, London based handbag designer.  But Vanity Fair Beauty Salon of Tunbridge Wells is one example of the site branching into other areas of key importance within the fashion arena and all are highlighted in this modern, captivating website.

LadyM said that she is “looking for fresh, focused designers, charming boutiques, spas and salons to feature in future articles on the site”.

Coverage of fashion shows and exhibitions is also shown on the site.  Features already include London Fashion Weekend A/W 09, Tunbridge Wells Fashion Week S/S 10 and London Fashion Weekend S/S 10. Invites to press launches welcome – get your event featured on the site.

All enquiries and requests for interviews are to be made to ladym@ladympresents.co.uk or
Lady M on 07793972725

Fancy a London Fashion Photograph-a-thon?

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Random Acts Photography are doing their second London Fashion Photo Slam from the 7th to the 9th May inclusive.

  • Would you like to be photographed?
  • Do you have fashion, accessory, shoe or jewellery collections you want photographed?
  • Are you a photographer that would like to get involved?

Rachel Saunders from Random Acts would love to hear from you. She’s looking to arrange 9 to 12 shoots for the weekend so there should be room if anyone is interested. You can get here contact details here.