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At last the shortlist for the UK Fashion Export Awards has been unveiled and womenswear labels Ariella, Bora Aksu and Orla Kiely made it onto the women’s fashion shortlist, while Baracuta, Chrysalis, Henri-Lloyd, Henry Poole and John Smedley have made the finals for men’s fashion.Avsh Alom Gur, Blaak Homme, Chris & Tibor, Knomo and Lipsy are all finalists in the New Exporter category and Ciel, Eco-Boudoir and Eribé are finalists in the ethical fashion category. The always hotly contested lingerie and beach-wear section will be decided between Amoralia, Made by Niki and Pistol Panties.
It’s an important contest because prizes for this year’s winners include free stands at various tradeshows including Pure Accessories in London, Moda Menswear in Birmingham and Pret a Porter in Paris as well as other awards including financial support and global trade advice worth £20,000 provided by FedEx. The awards will be held at The Landmark, London and presented by HRH The Princess Royal.
Fashion parade by grahammclellan
April 15th, 2008
It may have come as a surprise to some, but a British fashion house, famous for its minimalist T-shirts, has designed the V&A’s Christmas tree this year. Boudicca - the first British fashion house ever to be invited to become a guest member of Haute Couture in Paris – is the home of design partners Zowie Broach and Brian Kirby. They chose the bittersweet Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Match Girl as their starting point and made the fairy on top of the tree into the little match girl herself, who received three visions before her final match, and her life, expired. What makes the choice particularly appropriate is that the V&A is currently exhibiting fashion history in the landmark show ‘The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957’.
December 25th, 2007
Due to an increase in web traffic that our dusty old server could not handle we have decided to upgrade to a shiny new dedicated server. With our old hosting sytem we did not have enough bandwidth, this meant that as more people visited us we had less space and this in turn could lead to slow responsiveness from the site or even a dreaded crash. The dedicated server will be far more flexible than our old hosting, as we will have full control over the server and software.
The upshot of this for you is that crashes should be eliminated. Performance will also be much quicker than it was previously and there will be far less downtime – leading to an easier and more enjoyable experience for you.
For the technologically-literate amongst you here are the details of the new server:
1x Intel Woodcrest 5310 quad core CPU
4x 160GB Raid Edition SATA HDDs
3ware 9550SXU-4LP SATA RAID controller
2GB RAM
September 18th, 2007
