Last week I attended a mentoring session for the three Fashion Fringe 2012 finalists at Shoreditch House.
The mentoring sessions (just one part of a rigorous process to get the three ready for their final catwalk appearance at London Fashion Week) are designed to give them industry knowledge, a grounding in the basics and invaluable insider knowledge.
The session I attended was about,
outside of a good fashion creation, it takes a lot more to promote your brand!
- Tamara Sender, Senior Fashion Analyst at Mintel who discussed the business of online fashion, shopping online in general and consumer attitudes for shopping online. She also talked about how m-commerce shopping was rocketing in 2012 – get your tablets at the ready folks.
- Julian Whitehead and Debra Hepburn, founders of Young British Designers, spoke about setting what to expect when you take a business online, their customer profile and what it takes to catch their eye when they are making those all important buying decisions.
- Finally Sarah Bush, Senior Director of Europe for Shopstyle, discussed what constitutes good online marketing, best practise for engaging with customers online, and what is appropriate content for blogs and social media like Twitter and Facebook. Very useful for me!
As well as coming away with some great tips I also met the Fashion Fringe
finalists, Vita Gottlieb, Haizhen Wang and Teija Eilola, and you can follow their
progress here as well as checking back on ShopStyle.com to see
how its partnership with Fashion Fringe is progressing.
In the meantime I
hope you will join me in wishing the three finalists, seen below with Lucie
Bartlett, Project Manager for Fashion Fringe / IMG Europe, the very best of luck in the run up to
London Fashion Week this September.
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