Flik Hall’s “Mannequin Parade” to be shown at the ‘A La Mode’ International Showcase.

Flik Hall will be one of the latest designers to showcase at the prestigious ‘A La Mode’ show during London fashion week. A Saint Martins student, Flik Hall’s, bold designs will appear at the show on the 18th September this autumn.

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Having finished a degree in print design and worked with the likes of House of Holland and Giles Deacon, Flik Hall’s independent collections spark imminent interest throughout the fashion industry. Her eye-catching designs and futuristic ideals have created a stir and she has been noted as ‘one to watch’ as an up and coming designer.

Flik Hall’s debut season was in spring/summer 2010 which she called ‘Scope of Time’, using inspiration from her father’s obsession with time keeping. Hall showcased a range of bold prints and deep colours in bright blues, peaches and iridescent greens creating an interesting and provoking debut collection

Hall’s spring/summer 2011 collection named ‘Mannequin Parade’ deals with idea of female empowerment and strength in mind, she said ‘I want her to feel confident and powerful in my clothing, and keep my pieces in her wardrobe for years to come’ giving a nod to the importance of longevity in the current market. Her fascination with the human form means her designs involve structured lines and a range of textured materials.


Having created hype at Brighton Fashion Week, Flik Hall’s collection at the ‘A La Mode’ show will be highly popular. The show runs over the 17th & 18th of September at the elegant and cosmopolitan Charing Cross Hotel, and involves a vast range of designers showing their latest collections. Guests attending the event include buyers, press, journalists, PRs and other fashion professionals and enthusiasts.

Press and buyers wishing to attend the show should email Terri at Theresa@lagenevenorth.co.uk

W: www.lagenevenorthevents.co.uk/events.html

W: http://flikhall.com/

5 Mins with Emerging Designer Leeanne Garrett...

We Quickly caught up with emerging designer Leeanne Garrett who recently showcased at Brighton Fashion Week and our Movida Summer Soiree Catwalk Show...Read on

Above pic: Designer Leeanne Garrett (middle) with Models at the Movida LGN Summer Soiree

What inspired you to want to pursue a career in the fashion industry?

I studied Textiles at school and have always been very creative and enjoyed customising clothes, shoes, bags and even light bulbs anything that I could paint I would. I have always enjoyed sketching clothing and designs and have a strong idea in my own mind of what I like so that is what has inspired me to make garments that I would like to see and wear. And the achievement of seeing a design go from being just an idea to reality is a real sense of achievement and great satisfaction.

What is your main source of inspiration when designing?

Anything deep and meaningful to myself. My last collection was very deep emotionally and was taken from childhood memories to adulthood and the emotional struggles throughout my life. I like to look within myself for inspiration and make a collection that is meaningful to me. For me I use the collection to express myself such as an artist would through their work. My collections are emotional expressions of art to me.

Tell us a bit about your current collection?

My current collection FAIRYTALE EMOTIONS, is a collection based on emotional struggles and repressing emotions and creating emotional barriers of protection around the inner self. I was inspired by my love of Disney classics such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. As a child I would repeatedly watch Disney fairy-tales and I had a very vivid imagination and daydreamed that life would evolve as the fairy-tales did. As in life real life is far from a fairytale and over the years I have sought comfort and guidance from Tarot cards that also greatly inspired and influenced me when designing this collection. The collection is built up of panels and barriers with a softer side throughout the collection. The panels and high collars are repressing emotions and throughout the collection the emotional barriers are being broken down using soft hand sewn fabric manipulation reflecting the vulnerable emotional feelings under the protective barriers.

How was the response like to your collection in London after the Movida showcase?

I have had a great response since the Movida show and with several contacts that have requested to work with me on projects. Movida was an amazing venue and has greatly helped to promote my collection to press and buyers. I was really pleased with the response that I received after the Movida show.

You recently showcased at Brighton Fashion Week. Tell us a bit more about that experience?

Brighton fashion week was an amazing experience. It was my second show since my graduation show a few weeks previously so I was very nervous and did not know what to expect. The show was a great success and gave me the chance to really show off my collection and to network with models and industry contacts. I thoroughly enjoyed Brighton fashion week and I will definitely be showing there again next year.

What would you consider to be the most difficult aspect of running your own label versus i.e. design, production, sales, finance, advertising?

I think the most difficult aspect is production and finance. I have just left uni and I am new to the industry so I am still finding my feet so to speak. I have had a lot of interest in my collection but to reproduce the collection on a larger scale I need to put my collection into a factory to be reproduced. I am currently enrolled on several business courses to help me with the launching of my own label.

Which other fashion designers do you admire?

I love Viktor and Rolf I just think their collections are AMAZING, they are are just unique and inspiring and just create the most crazy collections that still manage to be wearable and beautiful as well as being just crazy. I also really love J.C Castlebajac his pop art designs really cheer me up and I think his collections are really fun and playful. John Galliano and the late Alexander McQueen also greatly inspire me. I love anything daring and different to the norm. All of these designers show clear expression and passion within their collections.

What do you hope to have achieved in the industry, 5 years from now?

To have my own successful label and to be showing my collections at LONDON, MILAN AND PARIS Fashion Week. You can only but try and I intend to work hard and try my best to succeed in this industry. It's going to be hard work but I am determined and strong willed so I will keep going until I achieve my dreams and goals.

To learn more about Leeanne Garrett visit http://www.wix.com/leeanneripley/leeanne-ripley

Catching up with Project Catwalk designer Tom Lipop on his new Label Lipop London!

What inspired you to enter the fashion world?

Ive always been into designing and sketching and love architecture, I came across CP company and Stone Island whilst working in a little boutique in Brighton when I was 15 and loved everything about it, The detailing, the functionality and overall aesthetic, It was this that convinced me I wanted to go into Fashion and design a kind of architecture for the body!!

You were featured on Sky One's Project Catwalk. Tell us a bit more about this whole experience?

This was a mad experience, from start to finish, it went so quickly. One minute I was being interviewed on the phone after being contacted from graduate fashion week, the next we were being phyche tested and then I was buddled into this £9 million house in Lancaster Gate with all my belongings in one lonely suitcase. The experience was absolutely manic but the best of my life. I met some great friends and had a very drunken old, stress orientated, time. we literally partied every night in the house courtesy of sky - (Thanks) followed by a 6am start and a hefty hangover!! Barocca got me through!! It was literally what it said on the tin, 12 mentalists, myself (hehe), a silly deadline, not many tools and making garments in a matter of hours. Madness, but I thrived on the pressure. Wish I had defended myself a little more and not been so complacent, maybe I would have made it to the final!!

What inspires your designs and what makes the 'Lipop London' brand unique?

We like to say that were modernising classics. I love a simpler looking garment not too overworked but with a really technical cut and a great aesthetic. Technical fabrics inspire me immensley with the new technologies as well as things like your everyday food blender. I love it when you have the basic function, but you can add an adapter here and remove a part there and you have a new function. Something similar to what CP company did in the 90's with the transparent coat that changed into an inflatable chair.

Which other designers do you admire?

I will always admire and appreciate the work of the late Massimo Osti. His position as one of the biggest innovators in men's clothing in the late 20th century is unrivalled. The more recent activity from Aitor Throup and the aesthetics to his work inspire me as well as the individuality and creativity of Henrik Vibskov's shows and garments.

If you could choose any celebrity to front your campaign who would it be?

At the moment I want people to look at the garments and buy them because they love them and appreciate them rather than because the saw it on a celeb. I want to be appreciated within the rag trade for design but if I had to choose it would be someone like George Lamb.

If you were not a designer, what would you be?

I would have wanted to be a footballer, Its my other love, and im not bad at it!! An unusual mix me thinks, fashion designer/footballer!

What do you do in your spare time?

I spend a lot of time just drawing and sketching and checking out latest exhibitions and art installations. There is so much on in shoreditch and hackney, theres always something to do. I still play football and love hitting the gym but also Like to just chill in front of a good film or catch up with mates over a good cuppa!

Don't miss your chance to see Tom Lipop during London Fashion Week September 2010! For more information visit http://www.lagenevenorthevents.co.uk/events.html or his website www.lipoplondon.com

All press and buyer queries to theresa@lagenevenorth.co.uk

Brighton Fashion Week VIP Gala!!

The La Geneve North (LGN) Events team headed down to Brighton to attend the Brighton Fashion Week VIP Gala on Wednesday.

Taking place at the Stylish Brighton Hilton Metropole Hotel,the event commenced with a fantastic selection of soulful live music and was attended by VIPs, Press and other fashion industry enthusiasts.

The host wore a gorgeous outfit by AILSA who will be showcasing their new collection during the week.

Below pic: Host wears AILSA

Models mingled with the crowd and a small fashion show was put together to showcase and give everyone a taster of what there was to come throughout the Fashion Week. The Make-up was done by Addicted Cosmetics who are Brighton’s official Fashion week make-up sponsors.

Gorgeous paintings by HF Contemporary Art were displayed around the room.

Below: A painting from HF Contemporary Art

The night closed with an energetic performance by a group known as Twisted Sisters. They really reminded us of Bananarama.


Some more pics from the night!

Below pic: Model wears gown from the Renaissance Brighton label

Below pic: The man behind the Renaissance label

Below pic: Our own assistant Leeanne Garret with a model wearing a piece from her exquisite collection

Find out more about Brighton fashion Week at:
http://www.brightonfashionweek.co.uk/

Project Catwalk's Tom Lipop to showcase at London Fashion Week

Lipop London to showcase their latest menswear collection at London Fashion Week's 'A La Mode' show hosted by La Geneve North Events.

Taking to the ramp at this year’s ‘A La Mode’ London Fashion week event will be ultra talented and innovative Tom Lipop, creative head of Lipop London. Brighton bred London based fashion designer Tom debuted his collection ‘Battle of The Sardines’ at Brighton Fashion Week 2009 and is set to wow this year’s fashion collective with his newest creations.

Upon completion of a challenging BA Hons degree in Fashion and Textiles (menswear), the Lipop London mastermind went onto successfully participate in Sky One’s ‘Project Catwalk.’ His participation in the show not only showed his resilience in such a demanding and tough environment but displayed his high-level of design competence and his ability and vigour to thrive in the competitive fashion industry. Partaking in ‘Project Catwalk’ equipped Lipop with the skills to fulfil design and pattern cutting roles at Griffin Laundry, House of Holland, Halfpenny London and Nathan Jenden.

It is Lipop’s infatuation with creating contemporary and forward thinking garments inspired heavily by the long historical lineage of British fashion which has been expressed through his own Avant Garde collections. One not to follow trends but to set them, Lipop has innovated a very distinct handwriting using striking illustration, technical cutting, experimenting with new fabrics, and garment construction. Parallel to his own creations, Lipop, who held a senior design position at House of Holland aspires to great designers such as Massimo Osti and Henrik Vibskov; two designers he claims who “push the boundaries of fashion craft with successful, conceptual and aesthetically progressive garments.”

The ‘A La Mode’ Catwalk will take place at the lavish Charing Cross Hotel located on The Strand on Friday 17th September 2010, the first day of one of fashions’ most anticipated event; London Fashion Week 2010.

Attracting press and fashion industry alike, Tom will be presenting his highly awaited collection at the “A La Mode” show from 7.30pm.

Press and buyers wishing to attend the show should email Terri at Theresa@lagenevenorth.co.uk

W: www.lagenevenorthevents.co.uk/events.html

Further information on Tom Lipop can be found at:

www.lipop.co.uk/www.lipoplondon.com

http://twitter.com/LipopLondon

Welcome to our new newsletter!

Welcome to our new newsletter!

Lots of exciting things have been happening and it’s still only May!!

We are currently planning our September London Fashion Week Catwalk show where we will be welcoming designers Nikolo Bertok (UK), Berit Bert New York, Tom Lipop (London, as seen on Project Catwalk), Amato Couture (Dubai), Jonathan Liang (Malaysia) and Z-Mode(UK).

The event will take place at our luxurious venue of choice, The Charing Cross Hotel in Strand, just a few minutes walk from the official Somerset House on September 17th (First day of London Fashion Week). Limited public tickets have been released which are available via http://www.lagenevenorthevents.co.uk/events.html . Please note once they are gone no further tickets will be allocated to members of the public.

You can find out more about these designers via our blog - http://www.lgn-events.blogspot.com/ or view the image gallery for last season’s shows at http://lagenevenorthevents.dphoto.com/#/

Brighton Fashion Week

Our events assistant, Leeanne Garret, will be showcasing her fantastic designs at Brighton Fashion Week after impressing the team with her innovative designs.

Find out more about Brighton Fashion Week at: http://www.brightonfashionweek.co.uk/

Our Monthly Valmont Catwalk Show in Chelsea

With a mission to continue promoting outstanding emerging fashion design talent, we will once again be hosting our Valmont Catwalk Show in Chelsea, London, this coming Thursday (20th May 2010) at the exclusive ‘Valmont’ private member’s venue. We will be showcasing four amazing designers with show stopping designs who include Adel Andic (www.adelandic.com ) and Katie Newsam (www.katienewsamfashion.blogspot.com )

The event will start at 7.30pm.

We would love for you to join us.

Entry is free for this event: To RSVP please email info@lagenevenorth.co.uk

Movida Catwalk Show

We will be hosting another spectacular Catwalk show at Celebrity nightspot Movida on 17th June 2010. This summer soiree will consist of a Catwalk show and fashion after party.

More info will be available shortly at http://www.lagenevenorthevents.co.uk/events.html

This month’s feature articles:

The Utility Trend - http://lgn-events.blogspot.com/2010/04/utility-trend.html

Last Season’s ‘A La Mode’ Catwalk video - http://lgn-events.blogspot.com/2010/04/last-seasons-la-mode-catwalk-video.html

IPR Brand Presentation - http://lgn-events.blogspot.com/2010/03/ipr-presentation.html

Be sure to stay posted on our happenings via our blog –
http://www.lgn-events.blogspot.com / and website www.lagenevenorthevents.co.uk

The La Geneve North Events Team