Fashion Fringe


	AMEX Covent Garden Centre for Fashion Enterprise DHL IMG L'Oreal Paris London Development Agency Mayor of London NET-A-PORTER Sunday Times Style Sputnik London College of Fashion AMEX American Express is proud to continue its support for the fashion industry by partnering with Fashion Fringe. American Express is a company that has built its reputation on innovation and creativity and recognises the importance of promoting new and exciting talent within the fashion arena. Fashion Fringe provides a great platform to showcase the Best of British to the rest of the world. American Express Company is a leading global payments, network and travel company founded in 1850. www.americanexpress.com Covent Garden We are really proud to join with a major UK fashion initiative to become the new home of Fashion Fringe for the next three years. As one of London’s most recognisable and exciting public spaces, Covent Garden has a rich history in fashion, style and culture and shares many of the guiding principles of Fashion Fringe from supporting the vitality and energy of London to a commitment to nurturing the talent and creativity of future designers. Fashion Fringe is a great initiative for harnessing young talent and as one of London’s developing retail and fashion hubs Covent Garden is the perfect home for this pioneering programme. Centre for Fashion Enterprise The Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE) is a ground-breaking and innovative business support platform that is unique to London. Based at the University of the Arts London/London College of Fashion and working in partnership with the London Development Agency, the CFE is assisting to revitalise London's high fashion and luxury business sector. The CFE provides a dynamic mix of business expertise and access to capital that catalyses the creation of new, exciting, successful and sustainable London fashion businesses. The CFE is currently working with some of London's most successful new high fashion and luxury labels that include Basso and Brooke, Erdem, Marios Schwab,Manish Arora, Charlott Vasberg, Julia Clancey, Gavin Douglas and Modernist. Almost without exception, they all show or exhibit during London Fashion Week and now have successful UK and increasingly strong export sales. The CFE has been a major partner of Fashion Fringe since its launch in 2004 andis pleased to continue to support in 2007. The winner will receive a tailored business support package from the CFE of grant schemes, dedicated studio space; business mentoring, brand development, marketing and PR support; production advice, accountancy/cash-flow, debt-finance and legal advice. The CFE is excited about Fashion Fringe for 2007, and looks forward to supporting the next innovative label to launch into the London fashion arena. www.fashion-enterprise.com DHL Delivering the Runway to the World. At Fashion Week it's all about style and perfection. That's why we think it's a prime occasion for showing how DHL clears the way for designers’ collections to the catwalk. Fashion lovers care about being up-to-date and keeping up with the times. So does DHL because speed is key to our business. Whether your needs are around the corner or across the globe, we've got it covered on time. No matter if you want us to deliver leather gloves or runways. DHL is where you need your express & logistics partner to be – in 220 countries and territories worldwide, and always in touch with your business. “Fashion Fringe is a perfect platform where we can demonstrate our expertise especially for the sophisticated area of the textile business”, said Wolfgang Giehl, Senior Vice President Corporate Branding and Advertising at Deutsche Post World Net. “DHL’s regular services cover the entire logistics value chain of the fashion industry – from material purchasing and the sample business to quality control of production and direct delivery to the boutiques of international fashion companies.” www.dhl.com IMG IMG Fashion, a division of international sports, entertainment and media enterprise IMG, is the global leader in the management and production of fashion weeks and designer fashion events. Its portfolio of events includes Mercedes-Benz Fashion Weeks in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. IMG Fashion also produces, manages and/or represents Rosemount Australian Fashion Week in Sydney twice a year, Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, MasterCard Luxury Week Hong Kong, ecoStyle Kuala Lumpur, Fashion Fringe in London, Moscow Fashion Week presented by VISA and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin; in addition IMG Fashion Europe represents the international commercial rights of Milan Fashion Week. IMG Fashion’s The Daily Group publishes The Daily Front Row, the bi-monthly Fashion Mini, The Daily Front Row Extra and www.fashionweekdaily.com, all content that is also syndicated to newspapers and magazines across the globe. The division’s network also includes IMG Models, the world’s number one modeling agency with offices in New York, London, Paris and Milan and Art + Commerce, the world’s leading agency for photographers, art directors, stylists and makeup artists. www.imgworld.com L'Oréal Paris The L'Oréal Paris cosmetics, hair styling and colouring brands draw their inspiration from fashion and develop shades and products that set trends and help women recreate them. Fashion and Beauty are closely linked and it is this bond that has helped establish a link between L'Oréal Paris and Fashion Fringe, bringing together a high profile fashion event with one of the world's leading beauty brands. L'Oréal Paris is once again supporting Fashion Fringe by lending it's hair styling and colouring as well as its make up expertise to the four finalists. With a wide range of products, combining the most advanced innovations in the market, a palette of shades to suit every taste and a team of experts at hand, L'Oréal Paris is the ideal partner to compliment every contemporary fashion collection. www.lorealparis.co.uk London Development Agency London has the world's most dynamic, successful and diverse centres of creativity; the promotion and support of the creative industries are a key objective for the London Development Agency. The capital's Fashion sector contributes around £8 billion to the UK economy, with exports worth £400 million. Nearly 85% of the UK's fashion designers are based in London. Fashion influences London's wider economy, particularly textile manufacturing, tourism and retail and enhances our global reputation as a centre of style and culture. We are thrilled to be supporting Fashion Fringe. www.www.lda.gov.uk Mayor's Office/City Hall "London is a world-class cultural capital. Its energy and creativity is central to the character and identity of the city and this is a vital part of the image London projects around the world. As well as it's great cultural institutions, architecture, theatre, music and dance, the creative industries are central to London's success as a visitor destination and global business centre. The city is well known as a centre for fashion, film and design. I am proud that great fashion designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and john Galliano have been able to use London as a place of inspiration, as somewhere to experiment and to launch new ideas. Nurturing and supporting the next generation of new talent is essential if London is to retain it's leading edge. I am therefore delighted to support Fashion Fringe in their quest to find and nurture the very best talent, helping new designers to create strong businesses in London and continue to build their work on an international scale." - Ken Livingstone www.london.gov.uk NET-A-PORTER NET-A-PORTER.COM was launched in June 2000 and has since successfully established itself as the world’s premier luxury online fashion retailer. Presented in the style of a fashion magazine, NET-A-PORTER features collections from over 200 of the world’s most coveted designers including Chloé, Marc Jacobs, Burberry, Miu Miu, Stella McCartney and many more. With its acclaimed editorial format, express worldwide shipping to 170 countries (including same day delivery to London and Manhattan), luxurious packaging and free returns, NET-A-PORTER offers an unparalleled shopping experience. www.net-a-porter.com Sunday Times Style The Sunday Times Style is delighted to support Fashion Fringe in its continuing search for fresh, young design talent. As the only proper weekly fashion supplement, Style is the natural media partner for this unique campaign. Style is essential reading for anyone interested in the ever-changing world of fashion and beauty, anyone who loves looking their best, who wants to understand the latest trends and find out how to get their hands on the must-have items of the moment. Just as Fashion Fringe champions the vibrant creativity coming out of Britain and Ireland today, so Style celebrates the living, breathing, daring, exciting, world-leading fashion industry that nurtures it. Read The Sunday Times Style over the coming months to keep up to date with Fashion Fringe's quest to uncover the next generation of cutting-edge British and Irish fashion designers. www.timesonline.co.uk/style Sputnik Sputnik is delighted to work with Fashion Fringe and, together, we want to strengthen its reputation around the world as a ground-breaking British initiative which inspires, encourages and develops design talent within the fashion industry. Sputnik is one of London’s leading media and public relations agencies and has built its reputation on award-winning brand campaigns for Clients as diverse as Skoda, Speedo and Cadbury. Sputnik has recently been behind the resurgence of the RayBan Wayfarer and the Hunter welly. London College of Fashion London College of Fashion has an international reputation as a leading provider of fashion education, research and consultancy. The subject range corresponds to the process of the creation, production and promotion of fashion and the management and marketing of those activities. Many of the college's courses are unique to the UK and offer students and experience unmatched by even a handful of specialist colleges worldwide. www.fashion.arts.ac.uk