About Us

About Fashion-Enter Ltd

Fashion-Enter is a dedicated not for profit company that has been created to provide fashion designers with help and support at any stage of their business. This includes advice from a team of specialist advisors, fashion shows and events with Profile fashion catwalk which was established in 2001, an opportunity to supply leading retailers such as ASOS.com and Topshop plus we also have our own retail boutiques based in Croydon and Barking with a third planned in October 2008 at Kingston Upon Thames.

fashion-enter.com recently took over the UK’s leading portal fashioncapital.co.uk which is ranked on the home page of Google.co.uk for the word “fashion” world wide. With over 60,000 unique users it was a natural progression for Fashion Enter to amalgamate with this leading portal to become the UK's leading business support organisation for the UK’s designer market.

Fashion-Enter was established to continue the work of a five year initiative that was funded by LDA – The London Fashion Forum expired in March 2006. The company receives some funding from City Fringe Partnership, Croydon Business and Equals.

Fashion-Enter have recently been approached by Croydon Enterprise through the Legi Funding Program to introduce a Fashion Cluster group in Croydon.

Fashion-Enter is an exciting company that offers REAL support for today’s highly talented fashion designers. Many designers, either newly graduated from university or designers that have had a career change, or you could be a designer who has a fantastic product idea that fits a niche market but don't always understand the complexities of running a fashion business. This is where Fashion-Enter and its highly experienced team can help.

Fashion-Enter is an excellent support mechanism for today's industry. Its remit is for all sectors of the Clothing and Textile Industry.

Principle Activities for Fashion-Enter Members:

The company has a boutique called Enter, based in Croydon's trendy Centrale Shopping Centre in Surrey. Stocking exclusive designers, from new and emerging designer talent. The boutique has received critical acclaim for press including the Sunday Times.

Fashion-Enter has an online e-boutique which is available to all members.
A comprehensive Business section containing the following:

• Business Identity
• Business Planning
• Export
• Finance & Accounts
• Funding/Grants
• Import
• Judicial Requirements
• Legal
• Manufacturing/CMT
• Marketing
• Retail Advice
• Sourcing
• Tools of the Trade
• Wholesale

The site also has a comprehensive Directory with over 15,000 contacts in 350 categories across all aspects of the supply chain from CMT units to pattern graders, ribbon and lace suppliers.

We also have a Gallery that holds works of art from: Fashion Illustrators, Models, Historical & Contemporary Fashion, LFW, Photographers, Textile Designer's, Textile Fabrics.

Daily Updates of News articles related to a whole host of issues concerned with the industry.

P.R. Dispensary offering press release and distribution service as well as layout editorial services. The service can be tailor made around your needs.

Fashion-Enter also offer’s a service called Representing that supports members with an agency service, meeting buyers and representing labels.


Fashion-Enter has a clear objective of providing Specialist Support from a wide cross section of business areas for designers from Access to Finance to, Fashion Stylist from Printing to custom made Web Design. In total there are 21 specialists on the site that are there to help designers at all levels of their business. Fashion-Enter have also negotiated special insurance rates with a leading broker.

Trends are vitally important to any designer and we work to the highest standards to bring you the latest Trend Prediction Service.


Lastly the importance of On-Line Mentoring cannot be overlooked. We have the latest technology in one-to-one video Conferencing whereby you can simply talk to us about any problems you may have on-line.
This service is available upon request, as part of the membership fee, seminars and workshops are run addressing common issues faced by designers in the fashion and textile sector. One to one mentoring sessions are vitally important for all designers and Fashion-Enter provides constant support even if its just a phone call...at least you know that someone is here for you.


Fashion-Enter also embark on a learning seminar at FE and HE level entitled “Getting It Right First Time”. Projects have been successfully concluded with Croydon College which resulted in a commercial company purchasing the T-shirt designs from the students. We have also worked with Kingston College (networked with Bentalls of Kingston) and Central St. Martins as well as with TopShop. The same event has also been successfully concluded with a Secondary School (Langley Park School for Boys).


Fashion-Enter has over 1000 members. Membership for 2007 is £150+VAT per year with additional charges for specific services as required.



Fashion-Enter
Fashion House
1st Floor
28 Station Approach
Hayes
Bromley
BR2 7EH
0208 462 9620
www.fashion-enter.com  
jenny@fashion-enter.com  

"We want you to enjoy this site, learn from it and make your business succeed! Fashion is a fantastic industry but one that has many complexities and at times it's a lonely place to be in! There is no substitute for experience but we can pass on words of wisdom to ensure you are prepared and eliminate the risk of failure as much as possible. We are here to guide you through your business journey and encourage you every step of the way." Jennifer Holloway 

Contact us::

Head Office: 28 Station Approah Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7EH.

Tel: 020 8462 9620

You can also contact us via Skype too - please add our names to your Skype address book!


Jenny Holloway, Director jenny@fashion-enter.com   

Jenni Sutton, Creative Manager jenni@fashion-enter.com   

Emily Tullett, Admin Assistant emily@fashioncapital.co.uk   

Hayleigh Amos, Boutique Manager hayleigh@fashion-enter.com   

Yoel Morales, Web Wizard yoel@fashioncapital.co.uk   

Tom Lofthouse , Web Assistant tom@fashioncapital.co.uk   

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Croydon Boutique No: 020 8681 5014

Centrale Shopping Centre - Unit 2 - 21 North End Road - Croydon - CRO ITY

Barking Boutique No. 020 8507 3435

Vicarage Feild Shopping Centre - Unit 32, Ripple Road - Barking - 1G11 8DQ.