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CFE launches new Manufacturers trade show

The Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE), the incubator for fashion and fashion technology, is launching a new trade show for manufacturers to take place in London next month. Taking place on July 11 at York Hall in Bethnal Green, the one-day event is targeting small brands and retailers and will showcase more than 20 exhibitors with the aim of...

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Centre for Fashion Enterprise launches production workshop

The Centre for Fashion Enterprise, London fashion business incubator, is calling on London-based fashion businesses to take part in its new fashion production workshop. The new course is looking for businesses that have been trading for at least 12 months and are looking to professionalise their production processes to take part in this...

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CFE names Fashion Pioneer Programme winners

Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE), a fashion business incubator, has chosen six-London based designers to join its New Fashion Pioneer programme, starting this month for six months. The London-based designers selected are: LVMH Grand Prix scholarship winner Richard Malone; womenswear designer Min Wu; Lei Sihan of jewellery brand LionStudio;...

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CFE names first fash-tech recipients

London's fashion business incubator Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE) has selected nine businesses to support in its first fashion technology incubation scheme, the CFE FrontRow Fash-Tech Programme, supported by the University of the Arts London. The programme will run across three months and has been designed to support the emerging fashion...

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LCF launching fashion business Masters

London College of Fashion is launching a postgraduate course aimed at helping designer set up fashion businesses, as part of its newly founded Fashion Business School. The MA Fashion Enterprise Creation course will provide a new route for fashion entrepreneurs to set up independent innovative fashion businesses, and help them develop and launch...

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Nicomede Talavera wins CFE support

Emerging London-based menswear designer Nicomede Talavera is the latest recipient of the Centre for Fashion Enterprise’s new Fashion Venture sponsorship scheme. The designer, a Central Saint Martins graduate follows in the footsteps of Mary Katrantzou, Erdem, Peter Pilotto, Holly Fulton and Thomas Tait as the latest winner of sponsorship and...

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CFE names New Fashion Pioneer designers

The Centre for Fashion Enterprise, the London-based business incubator, has named the six designers joining its New FashionPioneer programme, which aims to nurture emerging London-based designers labels. Joining the programme in June is: Alan Taylor, Ashley Williams, Edeline Lee, Nicomede Talavera, Helen Lawrence and Itokawa Film. The designers...

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CFE appoints head of new Fashion Innovation Agency

London’s business incubator that supports and nurtures emerging fashion design talent, the Centre for Fashion Enterprise, has named Matthew Drinkwater as head of its new Fashion Innovation Agency. Headed up by Drinkwater, who has a background in luxury retail, the agency will seek to develop designer businesses through innovation and commercial...

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Fashion Incubators flourishing worldwide

With London’s fashion industry flourishing and an ever growing roster of young designers emerging and travelling up the show schedule, attention (not least from the designers themselves) has turned to the support system which Britain’s fashion industry is getting so right for homegrown talent. But the business behind fashion is now an area of...

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Fast Fashion Bootcamp by Centre for Fashion Enterprise

The Centre for Fashion Enterprise at London College of Fashion will launch its second Fashion Fast Track Bootcamp this weekend. As part of a new initiative to empower and support young entrepreneurs trying to break into the fashion industry, the Fashion Fast Track Bootcamp is based on the idea formed in the States, where businesses will be given...

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London Show Rooms New York

International initiative London Show Rooms by the British Fashion Council in partnership with the Centre for Fashion Enterprise will present their collections on 21-22 March at the Penthouse Lofts in New York. Designers selected to participate are either part of the London Show Rooms Paris initiative, or receive the support of the Centre for...