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The LGN Events summer designer showcase is a new initiative introduced by LGN Events after having showcased and put together Catwalk productions for 5 consecutive seasons during London Fashion Week and raising the profile of over 70 designers to date

The summer showcase has been introduced and designed as a cost effective platform for young fashion designers looking for PR Exposure and to connect with editors, high end consumers and buyers. It is a great opportunity to not only market your brand

Stores deal very differently with emerging designers than established brands. When dealing with a brand with a track record, they can rely on previous sales information in order to make buying decisions such as how many tops, bottoms, dresses to buy, and they order based on this prior history.

A meeting between an established designer and a store, while based on style, is also driven by data. In extreme cases, successful fashion houses may even suggest what to buy from their collection. Emerging

Everyday, we’re hearing more about designers who are embracing sustainablepractices. Here’s another example that just goes to show you definiterise in eco-friendly fashion. Fashion Takes Action recently awarded Canadian designer Nicole Bridger with its first ever FTA Design Award, which included a pretty sweet package to help her get a foot in the door.

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Designers– looking for new materials for your next collection that are fashion forward and eco-friendly? Well, we’d like to introduce you to AirDye, a revolutionary textile process that dyes fabrics without water. We first heard about this sustainable technology during our excursion
to FIT’s “Going Green” exhibit. We wanted to find out more the AirDye process and fabrics so we took a trip AirDye offices on Fashion Avenue. To see what we captured, click play. (more…)

We had the pleasure of bringing you inside this year’s (Capsule) show in New York and to round up what we captured, we’d like to present you with this little video. The Best of (Capsule) highlights all the wonderful designers we had a chance to meet and while there were just too darn many to chat with them all, we got a nice taste of the best designers there. Click play now to see who and what we ran into at the menswear trade show.

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With continuing to capture footage for our ongoing (Capsule) video series, we ran into the smart, stylish, and if we may say so, lovely owner of Brooklyn boutique Bird, Ms. Jen Mankins. While shopping for new looks for her beloved store, Mankins paused a bit to give us her take on the Spring/Summer 2011 trends, her favorite designers, and what she looksfor when selecting menswear for her racks. Click play to hear what this buyer had to say.

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For this edition of Flea Bites, we took a trip to Limelight Marketplace to get a sneak peek of Coumon, a line of vintage-inspired knotted jewelry by Julie Robinson. The Brooklyn-based designer specializes in lightweight kimono silk necklaces and headpieces that make a big statement. To take a look at what she’s created with a variety of cool silk fabrics, click play.

Limelight Marketplace, 656 Avenue of the Americas (at 20th Street)

The FashionStake Diaries | Image via Business of Fashion

Ideas are easy. Money, however, is hard. If you’ve ever considered starting your own line or business, you already know that funding is the most significant and trickiest part of launching. Creative minds aren’t always good business minds and, consequently, many a good entrepreneurial idea slips through the cracks between inspiration and capital investment. Well, the masterminds behind Business of Fashion
know all too well the importance o

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Manolo Blahnik, Giles Deacon, Daphne Guinness, Stephen Jones, Yasmin Le Bon, Elizabeth Saltzman– fashion royalty all. But even these front-row faces have had some tough days recently. On top of
their daily duties of being fabulous, each of these industry darlings had the difficult job of narrowing down to five lucky semi-finalists from 60 UK-based designers for the The Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize, a unique honor debuting this year.

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StyleTrek.com

Designers– we’re always looking to share new ways to sell your work, especially in today’s high-speed e-commerce world. While reading one of our favorite sites, Fashion Incubator, we came across a site, StyleTrek, that not only gives emerging talent a chance to get discovered online, but also allows non-designers to submit their favorite designer. Cool huh?

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Remember when we gave you a sneak peek of We The People NYC and brought you to the store opening back in May? Today we bring you back to the emerging designer boutique to check up on this little treasure.We joined owner Vera Ng, and shoppers last night on the Lower East Side and even had the chance to chat with featured designers Rachel Cohen of coh.N and Kara Laricks of Collar, Stand + Tie. Click play to meet them yourself.

We The People, 156 Stanton Street, New York, NY, 212-533-1091

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Readers– get ready for another trip to the Brooklyn Flea at Fort Greene. Today, we introduce you to Melody Faith Baker, the founder of Melody’s Addiction, a collection of unique, colorful handmade jewelry made with various materials. After taking off a few years from making accessories, working in the city inspired the jewelry designer to pick up the craft again. Let’s just say we’re glad she did. To find out more about Melody’s Addiction, click play now.

FashionEntrepreneurReport.com

Designers, now that your collection is done, the next step is to get your designs into the hands of the people who will wear your work and become loyal customers. Sounds awesome right? Well, as you may know, it’s not just that simple, so we’re here to share a great guide that will make that step a little easier. Nolcha’s Fashion Entrepreneur Report features daily how-to videos on running a fashion business from how to source sustainable fashion to how to use social m

For this episode of “Flea Bites” we traveled to the Fort Greene Brooklyn Flea on a hot, hot, hot Saturday afternoon to share some great finds with you readers. And look what we found-– a Brooklyn-based line of hand-printed silk-screen t-shirts, tote bags, brass jewelry, and other wares called Loyalty & Blood. Husband and wife duo and DIYers David Denosowicz and Maggie Doyle are the masterminds behind the brand, which was born in the couple’s studio in Williamsburg. To see what the hubby had to s

Carolyn Massey A/W 2011 | Images via Flikr/Aki Quang2009

While big name designers continue to show collections this week in Milan, there is another set of men’s fashion designers to watch out for come fall. The British Fashion Council announced this week the top London-based emerging designers sponsored by NEWGEN MEN. The recipients not only have the chance to show their Spring 2011 collection at London Fashion Week in September, each designer also receives £5,000 – £10,000 to cover show costs al

Friends, bloggers, and combinations thereof gathered at the EVA New York boutique on Bowery as New York City-based designer May Kosaka presented her Georgia O’Keefe-inspired MOTHE Fall/Winter 2010 collection last night. If you listen closely, amid the din of chatty fashion followers sipping free Champagne, the designer shares with us the thought behind her current season, her favorite piece from the line, and offers advice to emerging designers. Readers, click play and enjoy.

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Designers; the countless hours of sketching, sewing, and restless nights, are only the beginning of the long road ahead. In order to survive in the ruthless fashion industry, your next, and perhaps
most difficult, challenge is getting your name out there. Not fun, right? But no worries. Though they may not have taught you how to tame the publicity beast in design school, we came across this
ever-so-helpful article from the Fashion Incubator offering advice on how to