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British Fashion Council
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The British Fashion Council is a non-profit trade group for British fashion designers founded in 1983. Its main goal is to promote British fashion design in both the UK and internationally, organising the twice-yearly London Fashion Week is one of the primary activities. Based in London, it is chaired by Natalie Massenet. Previous chairs of the BFC have included Edward Rayne, Harold Tillman, a key activity of the BFC is to organise the twice yearly London Fashion Week, the main showcase for high fashion brands operating in the UK. The organisation also organises the annual British Fashion Awards, designed to celebrate leading designers and newcomers to the industry, another facet of the organisations activities is to support the next generation of designers by supervising fashion higher education and apprenticeships in the United Kingdom. The British Fashion Council was established in 1983 as a limited company
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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It was disbanded on the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 14 July 2016. Following the departments dissolution, it no longer has ministers responsible, the Permanent Secretary was Sir Martin Donnelly. Economic policy is devolved but several important policy areas are reserved to Westminster. Further and higher education policy is mostly devolved, reserved and excepted matters are outlined below. Official website bis. gov. uk/ Archived Website Precursor departments, Department for Business and Regulatory Reform Archived Website Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills Archived Website
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Berlin Fashion Week
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Berlin Fashion Week is a fashion week held twice annually in Berlin, Germany. Since its establishment in July 2007 it has gained international attention for its many creative young designers who are flourishing in the fashion capital of Berlin. Since July 2011, the event has taken part in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Mercedes-Benz is the sponsor of the fashion week. The last Berlin Fashion Week took place between January 17 and 20,2017, the next is scheduled for 5 July, since the Spring/Summer 2012 season, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week features young international talents in an exclusive show in cooperation with Elle. Fashion entrepreneurs can vie in the Start your Fashion Business competition, another important event for young designers is the Designer for Tomorrow Award, which is held every summer season. A jury, which famous designer Marc Jacobs belongs to, chooses a winner who will be able to present his own show in the winter season. Another specialty is the Berlin U-Bahn fashion show, that place in a chartered train of the U5 line. Different trade fairs are a part of the Berlin Fashion Week, such as BREAD & BUTTER, Premium Fair, Bright Tradeshow, Show&Order, PanoramaBerlin. Widely publicly available are the showfloors at Mercedes-Benz showfloor, Showfloor Berlin, Lavera Showfloor, GREENshowroom, musicians like Lady Gaga, HURTS, Alphaville and Icona Pop performed at StyleNites. Michalsky also chooses non-mainstream ways when it comes to selecting the models, the famed female model Toni Garrn is part of every show
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Italian fashion
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Italy is one of the leading countries in fashion design, alongside others such as France, United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. Cities such as Palermo, Venice, Milan, Naples, Florence and Vicenza started to produce goods, hats, cosmetics, jewelry. Milan is generally considered to be one of the big four fashion capitals, along with New York City, Paris, and London, occasionally. Italian fashion can be connected to the most generalized concept of Made in Italy. Italian luxury goods are renowned for the quality of their own textiles. The non profit making association which disciplines, co-ordinates and promotes the development of Italian Fashion is the National Chamber of Italian Fashion and it was set up in 1958 in Rome and now is settled in Milan and represents all the highest cultural values of Italian Fashion. This association has pursued a policy of organisational support aimed at the knowledge, promotion and development of fashion through events with a highly intellectual image in Italy, a few Italian designers head some important fashion brands outside Italy. Among the newest labels or younger designers, the most prominent are Aquilano. Piccione, Andrea Pompilio, Fausto Puglisi, San Andres Milano, Francesco Scognamiglio, Vivetta and Alberto Zambelli. Italy also is home to fashion magazines, such as Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair, Elle, Glamour, Grazia, Amica, Flair. Italian fashion reached its peak during the Renaissance, until the 1970s, Italian fashion was mainly designed for the rich and famous, more or less like the French Haute Couture. Yet, in the 1970s and 80s, Italian fashion started to concentrate on ready-to-wear clothes, such as coats, jackets, trousers, shirts, jeans, jumpers and miniskirts. Today, Milan and Rome are Italys fashion capitals, and are international centres for fashion design, competing with other cities such as Tokyo, Los Angeles, London, Paris. Also, other such as Venice, Florence, Naples, Vicenza, Bologna, Genoa. The countrys main shopping districts are the Via Montenapoleone fashion district and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Via dei Condotti, and Via de Tornabuoni. Italian fashion is dominated by Milan, Rome, and to an extent, Florence. Nonetheless, there are other cities which play an important role in Italian fashion. In 2009, Milan was regarded as the fashion capital, even surpassing New York, Paris, Rome. In 2011, Milan was ranked #4, behind London, New York, international fashion labels also operate shops in Milan, including an Abercrombie & Fitch flagship store which has become a main consumer attraction
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Japanese street fashion
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There are many styles of street fashion in Japan, created from a mix of both local and foreign labels. Some of these styles are extreme and avant-garde, similar to the haute couture seen on European catwalks. The rise and fall of many of these trends has been chronicled by Shoichi Aoki since 1997 in the fashion magazine Fruits, in 2003, Japanese hip-hop, which had long been present among underground Tokyos club scene, influenced the mainstream fashion industry. The popularity of the music was so influential that Tokyos youth imitated their favorite hip hop stars from the way they dress with oversized clothes to tanned skin, though the styles have changed over the years, street fashion is still prominent in Tokyo today. Young adults can often be found wearing subculture attire in large urban districts such as Harajuku, Aoyama, Ginza, Odaiba, Shinjuku. Containing many different themes within its boundaries, Lolita has become one of the larger, the more well-known styles within Lolita fashion are as follows, Gothic Lolita - is Lolita with a heavy influence from the Eastern and Victorian Goth style. Often characterized by dark colors, crosses, bats and spiders, Victorian iron gates and architectural designs are also often seen in dress prints. Skirts are usually worn knee length with petticoats beneath for volume, blouses or shirts are lace-trimmed or ruffled in the Victorian style. Knee length socks with boots, bonnets, brooches, and a parasol finish out this style of Lolita, Sweet Lolita - is the most childlike style, mostly characterized by baby animals, fairy tale themes and innocent, childlike attire. It was originally inspired by Victorian childrens clothing and Alice in Wonderland, hello Kitty, Rilakkuma and other cute pop culture characters are popular among the Sweet lolitas. Pastel colors are used, as well as other muted colors like black and dark reds, large headbows, cute purses, elegant parasols and stuffed animals are popular accessories for Sweet Lolita. Punk Lolita - An experimental style, mixing the influences of Punk with Lolita and it can sometimes look deconstructed or crazy, while keeping most of the Lolita silhouette. It is more business-like and focuses on light colors such as, blue, green, kodona, a. k. a. boystyle and ouji, is a more masculine counterpart of lolita, influenced by Victorian boys clothing. Prince pants, which are short capri-style pants that are cut off the knee, usually some sort of detail are commonly worn with masculine blouses, top hats. Gyaru, which is known as ganguro, which is actually a subcategory of gyaru, is a type of Japanese street fashion that originated in the 1970s. Gyaru focuses on style, dwelling on man-made beauty. Gyaru is also inspired by Western fashion. The ganguro style of Japanese street fashion became popular among Japanese girls in the early 1990s, ganguro falls into the larger subculture of gyaru fashion
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Trade fair
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A few fairs are hybrids of the two, one example is the Frankfurt Book Fair, which is trade only for its first three days and open to the general public on its final two days. They are held on a basis in virtually all markets. Modern trade fairs follow in the tradition of trade fairs established in late medieval Europe, in this era, produce and craft producers visited towns for trading fairs, to sell and showcase products. From the late century, industrial exhibitions in Europe and North America became more common reflecting the technological dynamism of the Industrial Revolution. In the late 19th century, the concept of annual trade shows gained traction. Trade fairs often involve a considerable marketing investment by participating companies, costs include space rental, booth design and construction of trade show displays, telecommunications and networking, travel, accommodations, and promotional literature and items to give to attendees. In addition, costs are incurred at the show for such as electrical, booth cleaning, internet services. Consequently, cities often promote trade shows as a means of economic development, an increasing number of trade fairs are happening online, and these events are called virtual tradeshows. They are increasing in popularity due to their low cost. Large trade fair grounds, List reviewed on March 12,2014, agricultural show Buyers Market of American Craft County fair Lead retrieval List of worlds fairs Rodeo State fair Worlds fair Media related to Trade fairs at Wikimedia Commons Database
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Fashion week
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A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, wherein fashion designers, brands or houses display their latest collections in runway shows to buyers and the media. These events influence trends for the current and upcoming seasons, the most prominent fashion weeks are held in the fashion capitals of the world, the Big Four receiving the majority of press coverage being New York, London, Milan, and Paris. While the fashion scene turns more multipolar in the 21st century, other centers like Berlin, Los Angeles, Madrid, Rome, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo host important fashion weeks. The concept of fashion began in Paris, when marketers would hire women to wear couture items in public places. These parades gradually began to become social events of their own, in 1903, a New York City shop called Ehrich Brothers put on what is thought to have been the country’s first fashion show to lure middle-class females into the store. By 1910, many big department stores were holding shows of their own and it is likely that American retailers saw what were called fashion parades in couture salons, and decided to use the idea. These parades were a way to promote stores, and improved their status. By the 1920s, the show had been used by retailers up. They were staged, and often held in the restaurant during lunch or teatime. These shows were more theatrical than those of today, heavily based upon a single theme. The shows were popular, enticing crowds in their thousands – crowds so large. This was a moment, as before World War II. The fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert organized an event she called Press Week to showcase American designers for fashion journalists, Press Week was a success, and, as a result, magazines like Vogue began to feature more and more American innovations. Until 1994, shows were held in different locations, such as hotels and this was the first time shows were organized into a set period of time. Although these key organizations still organize most shows, there are independents and multiple producers in all cities, although there are many notable fashion weeks around the world, only four are known as the Big Four, Paris, Milan, London and New York. There are primarily two kinds of shows, womenswear and menswear, there are also shows particular to each location. For example, there are haute couture shows in Paris, and in New York, there are resort / cruise, womenswear shows are held in February and September/October, in the following order, New York, London, Milan and Paris. Menswear fashion weeks are held in January and June/July, in the order, London, Milan, Paris
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Los Angeles Fashion Week
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Fashion Week in Los Angeles occurs biannually. Multiple show producers hold events throughout the Greater Los Angeles area each March, traditionally, the City of Los Angeles identified the third weekend of those respective months as the beginning of its Fashion Week. However, new independent event producers have been transitioning Fashion Week related activities to coincide closer in time with the LA Fashion Market Week, Los Angeles Fashion Week was an evolution of press week, which has been around since the early 1970s. Independently produced events, working alongside designers began inviting fashion journalists to see collections from Southern California, since the late 1990s, Fashion Week has been represented by a community of L. A. fashion producers, designers, journalists, and marketers interested in its success. In 2002, IMGs fashion division, which produces Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, made its first foray west, simultaneously, Davis Factor and Dean Factor produced Smashbox Fashion Week Los Angeles at Smashbox Studios in Culver City. In 2003, IMG and Smashbox united under one banner to streamline services and venues, the relationship between IMG and Smashbox Studios lasted for five years, with the October 2008 shows marking their final presentation together. In October 2005, the now-defunct LA Fashion Awards debuted to celebrate, the annual Awards were timed at the closing of Fashion Week and the opening of Market Week in October, at the service of both retail store buyers and press. A nominating committee of more than forty of LAs top fashion journalists, merchandisers, stylists, designers, the Awards were placed on hiatus in October 2008 after sponsorship support was put on hold in the wake of the financial market meltdown that September. In Spring 2007, after just six weeks of preparation, BOXeight Fashion Week had its first show at the Los Angeles Theater, in Fall 2007, it moved to Vibiana LA, the newly restored Cathedral of Saint Vibiana. In 2008, it moved again, this time eastward to BOXeights headquarters on the fringe of downtowns warehouse district, Los Angeles Fashion Week has traditionally been characterized by the diversity of independent productions operating throughout the metro area. As of October 2016, main productions actively producing multi-brand runway shows are, LA Fashion Week, Art Hearts, Style FW, LA Times, Los Angeles Fashion Week
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Jakarta Fashion Week
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Jakarta Fashion Week is held annually and aimed to provide directions to the Indonesian fashion industry as well as a vehicle to demonstrate its wealth in talents and creativity. Ultimately, the goal is to turn Jakarta as a fashion hub in the region. Many of them will present collections inspired by the rich heritage in different types of traditional fabrics while simultaneously keep their eyes on the present. On top of that, Indonesia’s crop of new talents will also be introduced in the Young Fashion Designer Award segment, otherwise known as Fashion Designer Competition. Ever since the award was reactivated in 2004, LPM has also helped the careers of new upcoming designers such as Stella Rissa, Jeffrey Tan, Eny Ming, Andreas Odang, Zacky Gaficky, and Billy Tjong. All the shows are invites-only, targeted to celebrities, socialites, buyers, local and foreign media and this exchange is part of a cultural exploration program made possible with the cooperation and support from the Embassy of India. In 2010, Jakarta Fashion Week will be held in Pacific Place Mall Jakarta on 6–12 November 2010, the Jakarta Fashion Week Official Site Kompas-tv The Jakarta Fashion Week 2008 Channel Pacific Place Jakarta Official Site
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Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid, was known as Pasarela Cibeles until 2008 or Cibeles Madrid Fashion week up until 2012, is the principal platform to promote fashion in Spain. Based in Madrid and often takes place twice a year, in September 2008 held its edition No.48, the No.49 edition, which lasted two weeks, was held in February 2009. It is organized by IFEMA, the fair in Madrid. In the edition organized for September 18,2009 they celebrate the 50th edition of the former Pasarela Cibeles. Many models see in the Spanish capital as a continuum of work during their available free days after the conclusion of New York Fashion Week and just before the start of the Milan fashion shows. Some designers that showing their collections in Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid are, Davidelfin, Juan Duyos, Adolfo Dominguez, Andres Sarda, Aristocrazy, TCN, web oficial Especial 50 aniversario de Pasarela Cibeles
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London Development Agency
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The London Development Agency was the regional development agency for the London region in England. It existed as a body of the Greater London Authority. Its purpose was to drive economic growth within London. Major achievements included the Thames Barrier, members of the Greater London Authority commissioned a 2008 report on these projects, followed by another in 2009. The agency was closed on 31 March 2012 as a result of the governments spending review. Following closure of the London Development Agency, some of its functions were assumed by the Greater London Authority itself and these include support for Visit London, Think London and Study London and the administration of Londons European Structural Funds Programmes. The GLA was required by the Localism Act 2011 to take over the assets and liabilities of the former LDA in the subsidiary corporation GLA Land, the LDA was based at Palestra,197 Blackfriars Road, Southwark, south London. The LDA Olympic Land team was based at London 2012 headquarters in Docklands
