Sussex Fashion Charity – @FashionSussex
UK’s current clothing & textiles manufacturing position – £21 billion net – £37 billion gross and £1.5 billion worth of clothing and accessories manufactured in the UK /2010 Figures. Essential to our economy and essential to all of us everyday. The Fashion Trust – Sussex Fashion Awards – is a charity and it’s simply disappointing to find @FashionSussex twitter feed hacked. Many homegrown fashion professionals are donating their time to help other young people across Sussex achieve higher status. You may not like fashion but there’s millions of people that do. We’d appreciate the service restored. www.twitter.com/FashionSussex
Sussex Indies Day 2012
The 2012 national Campaign featuring UK’s independent retailers has just been launched by Skillsmart Retail, the Sector Skills Council for Retail.
Independents’ Day encourages the public to buy at least buy one thing from their local, independent shop on 4th July 2012.
Never has there been a better time to celebrate than in the very busy Queens Diamond Jubilee Year – Torch Relay around Great Britain – the UK Olympic and Paralympic Games – to give custom to our local independent stores.
Over the next four months, retailers will be encouraged to download the campaign posters from http://www.retailindieday.com, celebrate the day in their stores and join forces with other retailers and town centre teams to hold special events to capture the public’s imagination.
More Information is available Twitter @Retail_IndieDay – facebook.com/independentsday or on the news section of www.retailindieday.com
The Great British Campaign in New York
New York’s Grand Central Station saw British Fashion Greats gather including Victoria Beckham, Anna Wintour and Cover girl Karen Elson helping to raise overseas awareness of British fashion talent, focusing on reasons for investment and visiting the UK. Victoria acting as an ambassador for this initiative being photographed in front of a subway train covered in a Union Jack flag.
The ‘Greats’ campaign is promoting aspects of UK culture; including technology and innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, knowledge, green, heritage, sport, shopping, music and the countryside and now being unveiled around the world for 2012 UK tourism.
The Sussex Fashion Trust ‘Made By’ Product Marketing Campaign
The Made By Campaign – Made By Britain – Made By Sussex – Made By Brighton & Hove. With an anticipated change in tourist profile across Sussex during the Olympic buildup starting with The Torch Relay landing in Britain 18 May 2012, and continuing over the summer months, businesses were being urged during Autumn 2011, and continually, to consider their domestic marketing strategies and buy British manufactured products to retail, wherever possible, for tourists visiting the UK and regionally across Sussex, to take home with them souvenirs and mementos made from the region.
Summer 2011, Julius Arthur Quinn, a post-graduate designer from Brighton University, nominated in the MP’s ‘Made By Britain’ Hove & Portslade entry, designed a portfolio of Olympic inspired designs for fashions for the UK, Sussex and Brighton & Hove on behalf of The Sussex Fashion Trust. Designs were versatile and translated into graphics which could be used for various business 2012 promotional projects highlighting the diversity of designs and of course, promoting the various regional products on offer. Read more > ‘Made By’ project
Saving Our Famous British High Streets
The heavyweight retail experts are starting to pile in with their sector’s overview of what can be done to regenerate business across UK high streets including Justin King, boss of Sainsburys, reported to be highlighting the need for schooling to be integrated into high streets, along with Harold Tillman, boss of Jaeger & Aquascutum, Chair of British Fashion Council and London Fashion Week, whose talking a relaxation of visas for Chinese visitors to the UK, highlighting the enormous growth by this sector and the value of their three times spend compared to other overseas tourists. With a bumper year of mega events – The Torch Relay across the UK, The Queens Diamond Jubilee celebrations and London 2012 – the debate appears to be starting on how sectors view development of the famous British High Street.
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BBC Dragons’ Den
BBC Dragons’ Den are back.
If you have a great idea or invention and looking for cash then make space in your diary – 23 February 2012 – 11 am to 4 pm at The Holiday Inn Seafront Brighton. Businesss Admission FREE. Read more > Brighton & Hove Business Days Event
National Apprenticeship Week
Celebrating Apprenticeships with a week packed full of activities. If your fashion business feels that it can employ an apprentice, take the opportunity to have a look at the range of training apprenticeships offered by local Sussex colleges where courses and apprenticeships differ between campuses providing a wider choice of subjects taught including business support courses and administration. Help your business grow and provide young people with a better start in employment. Read more > FashionSussex
Made By Britain Campaign
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Design and Innovation with the APPG for Manufacturing, at parliament, put together a project for all MP’s to discover creative and manufacturing talent in their constituency during 2011. Across Sussex, various businesses have been nominated and Hove & Portslade is represented by the Fashion Sussex submission.
Julius Arthur Quinn, ex graduate of Brighton University Fashion & textiles course produced a number of 2012 Olympic inspired prints celebrating International Olympics, The Paralympics and regionally, The Torch Relay which were submitted as Hove and Portslade’s entry and manufactured and produced lifestyle product ranges.
“ I’m delighted that The Fashion Trust in Sussex, can support this campaign for promoting British fashion manufacturing, particularly with the Olympics less than a year away and so many global businesses and consumers observing the UK” … stated Mike Weatherley MP and Sussex Fashion Trustee, July 2011.
Sussex Fashion Awards 2012 News
Are you a fashion related business that would like to win one of the twelve coveted Sussex Fashion Awards 2012 this year?
Only one nomination is required online, but is your business ready to be judged by professionals?
- Is your business website looking fantastic and with up-to-the-minute copy and designs?
- Does your business have full contacts available online?
- Is your business engaging with its customers by using social media fully?
- Has your business a marketing plan and schedule for 2012?
- Has your business media coverage planned and already achieved?
- Has your business customer testimonials about your services on your website?
- Has your business organised any events for your customers?
- So whats new about your business for judges to look at online?
Just some of the many aspects judges will be glancing over after 8 April 2012 when the nominations close and judging commences. Start making your business plans now to win one of the 12 coverted awards.
‘Sussex Fashion Shopping is Great’
‘The Greats’ Campaign has been especially launched to promote ‘all things British’ in time to celebrate for The Queens Diamond Jubilee and The London 2012 Games including a dedicated ‘Shopping is Great’ poster.
Great British companies and organisations including fashion supremo Mulberry are supporting the campaign and top British figures in fashion including Sir Paul Smith and Dame Vivienne Westwood.
The Fashion Trust is a keen promoter of fashion British manufacturing and has been encouraging local businesses to look at these possibilities wherever possible with never a better time to look at possibilities of British manufacturing in preference to overseas markets for bespoke and short run fashion manufacturing.
The Queens Diamond Jubilee
The Queens Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday Monday takes place 5 June 2012. Exhibitions and events are now starting to be staged across the UK including portraits of Queen Elizabeth II by royal photographer Cecil Beaton at The V&A Musuem, London. This exhibition celebrates Her Majesty in her roles as princess, monarch and mother and coincides with the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne. 8 February – 22 April 2012.
Fashion businesses across Sussex can also take this opportunity to learn how they can celebrate this event at the forthcoming Brighton & Hove Business Days presentations being held free for business visitors at The Holiday Inn 26 January 2012. Read more > Brighton & Hove Business
Information about Creative Industry contracts
The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) reveals that over the next six months around 100,000 contracts will be made available for small businesses and UK suppliers for The London Games 2012. Many of these contracts will be for creative industries.
Brighton & Hove Sussex Business Show is hosting LOCOG representatives, 27 October 2011, who will be offering presentations at The Hilton Brighton Metropole commencing 12.30pm about the many millions of pounds tendering. It’s free to visit, scores of exhibitors to meet and quality presentations offered to visitors during the day. Open at 12 and closed at 5pm. Ideal opportunity to register your FREE visitor admittance today. (Online closes at 6pm, 26 October2011).
The IPO is visiting to help growing Sussex brands
The Intellectual Property Office will be visiting the Brighton & Hove Business Show 27 October 2011 helping fashion businesses and services to protect their brands whilst growing their brands.
The Minister for Intellectual Property Baroness Wilcox recently stated …
“UK design has an excellent reputation. From fashion to aerospace and from graphic design to technology, the UK design industry is held in high regard across the world. However, we must maintain that excellence and the Government is committed to doing more to support the design industry. I urge the business community to participate in this call for evidence and help shape the future of design in the UK.”
Take this opportunity to visit – and even exhibit in the special ‘MADE BY’ exhibiting zone – an area dedicated to highlighting the products designed and made in the region of Brighton, Hove and Sussex.
Simply complete the 3 minute exhibit enquiry form at www.brightonandhovebusinessshow.co.uk/exhibit/
Free advice and support for the creative industries in Sussex
Date for your diary – 27 October 2011 – don’t miss the largest networking City Business 2 Business event with special creative industry help for fashion and support services including
- growing your brand advice
- protecting your brand advice
- displaying your brands and advice
Top organisations offering free advice and seminars through out the day.
Great opportunity for the fashion, supporting services, creative and digital media industries to meet across Sussex, meet new contacts, suppliers and network.
The Brighton, Hove Sussex Business Show – FREE to attend – registration online only
Brighton, Hove, Sussex, Business – Unique Speed Networking – Last few spaces remain!
GET IN QUICK – Last few spaces available – Take a front row seat with one truly unique speed networking session at The Brighton & Hove Business Autumn 2011
Meet new suppliers – hear about new products or services – get your business information out to new sources.
To ensure you grab the last few seats – book now – enjoy the best of some of UK’s speed networkers.
It’s essential to register to gain admittance at The Brighton & Hove Business Show to be able to book your speed networking session.
Book your visitor registration here to visit and speed networking
Fashion judging panel 2011 – The Sussex Fashion Awards
Fashion judging panel 2011
Our professional judges for the First Sussex Fashion Awards including Brighton & Hove are from a number of fashion related disciplines and high profile industries including member of parliament, university heads of fashion, retail stores director, press and media, with backgrounds in design, manufacturing, retailing/e-tailing.
Our judges include Jake Leith, Brighton University, Mike Weatherley MP representing Hove & Portslade ,
Claire Arksey European Retail Operations Director REISS stores, Eric Musgrave, former editor of Drapers.com,
Bethania Matheus of BM Models, Frances Tobin professional colourist, Claire Wallace, editor of ETC magazine, Rachel Boyle and Dawn Gracie of ABC magazines.
The first Sussex Fashion Awards public nominations closed during February 2011 and the finalists were announced during May 2011. Judging has taken place and the winners will be announced shortly.
See Click here to view more about our industry panel of judges
Brighton & Hove Sussex Business – fashion creatives and digital industry
There’s plenty on offer for fashion creatives and digital media industries at Brighton & Hove Sussex Business Show this Autumn 2011 including seminars and workshops.
We’ve teamed up with The Intellectual Property Office
The IPO offer your firm FREE information about the right protection for your intellectual property; offering IP awareness, seminars, advisors and support, IP health checks, patent information, centres and more and thus, offering you the opportunity to grow your brand. Click here for more information about the Intellectual Property Office
We’ve teamed up with Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis are one of the UK’s top visual merchandising consultancy businesses. Click here for more
information about metamorphosisgroup.co.uk
The team will be providing presentations on how to project your British manufactured / Sussex manufactured / Brighton & Hove manufactured products and services ready for 2012.
Simply click on www.brightonandhovebusinessshow.co.uk today and register for your free online admission to The Business Show.
- FREE park & ride for Business Show visitors operating for A27
and A23 at Withdean Stadium – traffic from Crawley – Horsham – Haywards Heath –
Burgess Hill – Lewes – Eastbourne – Hastings and Worthing -Littlehampton –
Chichester – Steyning – Lancing – Shoreham by Sea – Portslade – Hove.
- Second FREE park & ride operating from myhotel.com Jubilee
Street Brighton for digital and creative industries based in central
Brighton and City College, Brighton University students who wish to
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Sussex Fashion Outstanding Achievement Award 2011
The first Sussex Fashion Awards including Brighton & Hove 2011
This award is sponsored by Star Communications org. uk, South Coast Fashion Agency, providing top regional fashion emarketing services and support for autumn/winter 2011 season to the winner.
The Sussex Fashion Trust are pleased to announce the following finalists 2011 for the Award of
Sussex Fashion Outstanding Achievement Award 2011
Brighton Fashion Week
Miyala Jewellery
Dress for Excess – Brighton Museum
Cyclodelic –White Night Fashion Visibility event with Brighton & Hove
City Council and Safer Roads Partnership
Judging is nearly finalised and the Award finalists will shortly be announced
– please click here to see more
The Sussex Fashion Awards - The Sussex Fashion Trust
Brighton, Hove, Sussex, Business Show – brand advice & free information
Brighton, Hove and Sussex Business Show – FREE Visitor online registration is now open.
Date for your diary – 27 October 2011 – don’t miss the largest networking City Business 2 Business event with special creatives help – growing brands – protecting brands – displaying brands – great opportunity for the creative and digital media industries servicing the fashion industry and related suppliers and services.
FREE to attend – registration online only
Meet hundreds of businesses in one day – click here
The Visitor Registration is kindly sponsored by The Holiday Inn Hotel Brighton – seafront
AND
have the added chance to win the use of a FREE conference meeting room for your business for the day at The Holiday Inn Hotel Brighton Seafront, along with coffee and tea for up to 12 people! An offer that will be awarded to one lucky visitor attending The Business Show, on the day. *
The Holiday Inn is situated on Brightons Seafront at 137 Kings Road Brighton BN1 2JF
For all business needs simply call 01273 828253 or email salesmgr@hibrighton.com
*terms and conditions apply
The Brighton & Hove Sussex Business Show has moved to new venue at The Hilton Brighton Metropole
The Sussex Fashion Trust
Our First Year Timeline
Its primary aim as a charity, based in Brighton & Hove, to heighten visibility, engage buyers with fashion designers, increase manufacturing and export of fashions from the local Sussex region.
Unique Soft Mentoring Support – One to One – Online Support Information – Showcasing regional fashion.
The Sussex Fashion Awards 2011
New regional event, recognizing the very best of fashion and its talent, influential people in fashion today across Sussex designed by The Fashion Trust.
Sussex Fashion Eco Award 2011
Sussex Fashion Awards 2011 including Brighton & Hove
We are pleased to announce MCR Print as sponsors of The Sussex Fashion Eco Designer Award 2011 who is offering the winner a fantastic
printing package producing stationary, business cards and promotional material, all printed on sustainably sourced FSC paper, including our time and expertise with art working and design currently worth a value of £700.00
The Sussex Fashion Trust are pleased to announce the following finalists 2011 for the Award of Sussex Fashion Eco Designer Award 2011
Gossypium
Beyond Skin
Supernatural Kids Clothing
Jez Eaton
Judging is nearly finalised and the Award finalists will shortly be announced
– please click here to see more
- Sussex Fashion Awards 2011
The first Sussex Fashion Awards including Brighton & Hove 2011
Sussex Fashion Designer of the Year Award 2011
This award is sponsored by Mudpie, International trend and colour fashion forecasting house, offering the winning designer, a fantastic free six month subscription to their comprehensive online service mpdclick.com or choice of trendbooks.
www.mudpie.co.uk or www.mpdclick.com.
Finalists for The Sussex Fashion Designer of the Year Award 2011
Toni Pickles
Suzie Turner
Renaissance
Judging is nearly finalised and the Award finalists will shortly be announced
– please click here to see more
Sussex Fashion Best Place to Shop 2011
The first Sussex Fashion Awards including Brighton & Hove 2011
The Sussex Fashion Trust are pleased to announce the following finalists 2011 for the Award of
Sussex Fashion Best Place to Shop 2011
The Best of Brighton & Hove are sponsoring this award and offering a fantastic 6 months special package of their 17 Essentials Marketing Package to the winner, currently worth £850.00 + VAT
The 17 Essential Tools comes with our time and expertise, helping businesses to generate local awareness of their activities and the ability to Track Business Leads to show what is working for them.
http://www.thebestof.co.uk/brightonandhove.co.uk
Finalists 2011 for the first year Award of Sussex Fashion Best Place to Shop Award 2011 included
Walk in Wardrobe Hove
Brighton Fashion Week
White Mischief Boutique
Judging is nearly finalised and the Award finalists will shortly be announced
– please click here to see more information
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