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RIVER ISLAND
River Island is delighted to be sponsoring Graduate Fashion Week for its fifth consecutive year.
We are committed to bringing new and original fashion to the high street, design is at the heart of everything we do, and we like to do it differently. Our 100 strong design team is constantly producing new lines that are rolled out to over 280 UK and International stores on a weekly basis. This makes River Island a fast paced and exciting place to work; and that is why our partnership with Graduate Fashion Week is so successful. With some of the UK’s newest and most talented students showcasing portfolio collections it is the perfect scouting ground for River Island and allows us to provide students with great opportunities to learn and develop. Over the last four years we have employed over 25 graduates as a direct result of their involvement with Graduate Fashion Week.
"We are delighted to be title sponsors of Graduate Fashion Week for our fifth year running. The event has become the primary platform for fresh new British talent to showcase their collections to the fashion industry.
“With an estimated 3000 fashion students graduating every year it’s tougher than ever for individuals to break their way into the industry. Design has always been an integral part of River Island which is why it is so important to support the organizations and universities involved in growing and developing innovative students. Our sponsorship allows us to give students a spring board to start their careers, whilst allowing us the opportunity to source talent for all areas of our own business.”
Richard Bradbury, Managing Director, River Island
The culmination of the four days of Graduate Fashion Week is the prestigious Gala Show where the most outstanding collection is awarded the River Island Gold Award. The lucky winner will receive an impressive £20,000 prize and this is the only Award of its kind within UK fashion education.
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L’Oréal Professionnel has been the official hair sponsor for Graduate Fashion Week since 2004 and is delighted to continue its collaboration in supporting young design talent. Hair has always been a hugely important fashion statement and stands equally alongside fashion design in creating a look.
L’Oréal Professionnel is the leading manufacturer of hair colour, professional hair-care and styling products, and is committed to developing the next generation in the hairdressing industry. A global brand with a strong link to the fashion industry, L’Oréal Professionnel provides up-and-coming fashion talent with the hairdressing stars of tomorrow.
The L’Oréal Professionnel hair team helps the students present the most professional image on the Graduate Fashion Week catwalk and this ongoing partnership merges the very latest in fashion talent with the creativity of young hairdressers. We are very excited to work in partnership with such a dynamic event as Graduate Fashion Week.
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As one of the leading luxury leather goods
companies in the UK, Mulberry is committed to supporting the
development and promotion of fresh, home-grown fashion talent. Mulberry is appreciated worldwide for its ‘artisan’
approach to leather accessories; menswear and womenswear.
The brand’s backbone is an extensive line of highly
crafted bags, which combine innovative design with the finest
leathers and highly wrought detailing. Styles such as the
Mabel have become iconic fashion classics
carried by some of the world’s most individual and stylish
celebrities.
Despite worldwide expansion, including new stores in the
US, France and the Far East, the centre of production remains
where the company was founded in the 1970’s in rural
Somerset.
At this recently expanded site, the brand has pioneered
an apprenticeship scheme to allow for increased production
in the UK and to encourage the luxury leather goods industry
to be seen as a highly desirable, skilled career.
To support young design alongside manufacture; Mulberry
is proud to be sponsoring the Accessories Award at Graduate
Fashion Week, which will commend work in the fields of millinery,
bags, belts, jewellery and footwear.
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Pringle of Scotland are very happy to be sponsoring the Visionary Knitwear Award at Graduate Fashion Week this year and being at the forefront of discovering the next emerging talent from our wonderful schools across Britain.
Pringle of Scotland has a unique place in British Culture and the international world of fashion, being one of the oldest British brands and synonymous of luxury knitwear.
Today with a renewed vision to restore the luxury fashion heritage of Pringle of Scotland’s rich past, our passion is dedicated to creating beautiful clothing that continues our traditions of innovation, authenticity and glamour.
Creative Director; Claire Waight Keller said, “ I am inspired by Pringle’s rich legacy of beautiful Scottish cashmere and my aims are to embrace new approaches in knitwear and honour the brands heritage by creating luxurious collections.”
Clare Waight Keller who will judge the Visoinary Knitwear Award at Graduate Fashion Week, has been knitting since the age of 5 and has an MA in knitwear from the Royal College of Art. Her collections show in Milan during Fashion Week |
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RENAULT: TOP MODEL AT GRADUATE FASHION WEEK
Renault UK are offering the best seats in the house at Graduate Fashion Week in stylish, luxurious, silver Grand Espaces. Accredited journalists and VIPS will be whisked around the capital between catwalk shows, ensuring a welcome moment of rest and relaxation. Renault is delighted to be the official car of the event and wishes all graduates a successful week.
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Lifeline IT
IT support with a human face
Lifeline IT are pleased to be providing full IT support services for Graduate Fashion Week 2009. Working with small and medium sized businesses, we have a growing number of clients within the fashion industry, from Browns Fashion and Sara Berman, to Clothing Solutions International. We offer a bespoke approach to IT support services, and expertise in dealing with IT issues specific to the fashion industry.
At Lifeline IT, you will find a personal, proactive approach, the very opposite of so many others who provide the majority of their support remotely. We are anything but ‘remote’! To clients we are like their own dedicated in-house IT Department. We manage, set up and develop IT systems, leaving you to run your business and benefit from all that modern office technology offers. Our highly skilled Support Team get a buzz working with people in different areas of business, and are expert listeners.
Whatever your business or organisation is about, IT systems play a crucial role. To find out how Lifeline IT could help your business, please visit our website at www.lifelineit.net. |
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Graduate Fashion Week / Per AQUUM – Cutting Edge Design
Per AQUUM has always made a difference, we have created cutting – edge luxury retreats that fascinate guests, generate media buzz and captivate the public’s imagination. With our existing award winning properties – Huvafen Fushi In Maldives and Desert Palm in Duabi we have already achieved iconic design status – with the only underwater Spa Treatment rooms in the world and the unique – Arabia Avant Garde Desert Palm on a private Polo Estate in Dubai – we have used the following concepts to achieve the reality – Passion, Imagination, Naturally Modern Designs and Vision.
These qualities will be critical in finding the winner of the 2009 Creative Marketing Award.
Mark Carson – Managing Director of Branding / Communications, Per AQUUM comments….
“Per AQUUM has aways been innovative and creative , with it’s properties, marketing and the Dream Calendar (featuring many top designers, DJ’s – DJ Ravin (Buddha Bar fame) created the Huvafen Fushi CD) and we have been delighted to host many AList stars, Royality, and AList Fashion Designers and Models at our properties.
So when the opportunity to sponsor the Creative Marketing Award came up – the synergy was to perfect to refuse. Per AQUUM philosophy is to lead rather than follow and our ambassadors come from the world of fashion, architecture, design, photography, so we are delighted to be working with the new generation and hope to develop the winner and create a bespoke collection in whatever field”
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Hachette Filipacchi
Media & Design Award
Hachette Filipacchi are delighted to be sponsoring the Media & Design award at Graduate Fashion Week 2009. As a publishing company that is focused on the new and inspiring, being involved with a scheme which encourages and celebrates the creativity of a new generation is exactly what we are about.
Hachette Filipacchi publishes seven titles in the UK, including ELLE, the world’s biggest-selling fashion magazine. We are proud to support GFW through the pages of ELLE and to extend that support for 2009.
Hachette Filipacchi publishes ELLE, ELLE Decoration, Red, Sugar, Psychologies, Inside Soap and All About Soap as well as the websites www.elleuk.com, www.sugarscape.com and digitalspy.com |
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Ty Nant Natural Mineral Water
TY NANT Natural Mineral Water famed for stylish cobalt blue and curvaceous PET bottles has been selected as the Exclusive bottled water for this years Graduate Fashion Week.
No stranger to design awards Ty Nant will be in its element as designs are unveiled by the fashion stars of tomorrow.
TY NANT helps support breast cancer charities through the Pink Ribbon Foundation. Please visit www.tynant.com for more details. |
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Jon Adam
Jon Adam Fashion Group is delighted to continue
its support for Graduate Fashion Week and in particular our
sponsorship of the Fashion Portfolio Award for the second
year running.
The company has a history which spans 100 years and two
generations, and is one of the leading manufacturers of clothing
to the UK and European markets. Specialising in designer womenswear,
menswear and outsize ranges for the volume led market. Jon
Adam is also a major supplier to River Island.
Design and flair has always been hugely important to us.
We are a key supporter of new young design talent and so being
coming involved with GFW as a sponsor is a natural progression
for us.
Good luck to all the graduates showing at Graduate Fashion
Week in June 2009.
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Lyle & Scott
Lyle & Scott is delighted to be sponsoring the Strategic Marketing Award at Graduate Fashion Week 2009. The Lyle & Scott brand is committed to supporting young, emerging talent in this country, across all the creative industries.
Scotland’s best-kept secret, is currently being restored to its rightful place, back in fashion’s limelight, through the ‘Lyle & Scott Vintage’ label which launched in 2003. Stealing inspiration from a rich 125-year-old archive, the new look Lyle & Scott feeds the hunger of a new youthful clientele who want the romance of the past updated with the edgy aesthetic of the present.
Derrick Campbell, Lyle & Scott's Managing Director said: ‘We are very excited to be involved in this fantastic event for the first time and very much hope this will be the start of a lengthy relationship between Lyle & Scott and Graduate Fashion Week'
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W.T. Sea/Air
W.T. Sea/Air is delighted to be co-sponsoring the Photographic Studio with River Island at this year’s Graduate Fashion Week.
Our Supply Chain partnership stems over four decades, where together we have been at the forefront of delivering innovative led solutions based on bespoke systems architecture.
Utilising our global reach and a real collaborative attitude to delivering excellence, W.T. SeaAir ensures all River Island logistics requirements are met, thus ensuring their stores receive the right product at the right time.
W.T. SeaAir design, implement and deliver intelligent supply chain solutions, and are positioned as one of the largest privately owned businesses of its type in the UK, with a client portfolio comprised of many high street fashion retailers. |
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