ELLE is proud to be sponsoring Graduate Fashion Week’s Media and Design Award once again this year. ELLE’s Editor in Chief Lorraine Candy wishes all the students the very best of luck in the competition and looks forward to meeting some of you at the Gala Show and Awards Presentation.

www.elle.com

Jon Adam Fashion Group is delighted to continue its support for Graduate Fashion Week and in particular our sponsorship of the Fashion Portfolio Award for the sixth year running!

The company has a history which spans 100 years and two generations, and is one of the leading manufacturers of clothing to the UK and European markets. Specialising in designer womenswear, menswear and outsize ranges for the volume led market. Jon Adam is also a major supplier to River Island.

Design and flair has always been hugely important to us. We are a key supporter of new young design talent and so our involvement with GFW is a natural progression for us.

Good luck to all the graduates showing at Graduate Fashion Week in June 2010.

Email: melanielaub@jonadam.co.uk

IT support with a human face

Lifeline IT are pleased to be providing full IT support services for Graduate Fashion Week 2010. Working with small and medium sized businesses, we have a growing number of clients within the fashion industry, from Browns Fashion and Sara Berman, to Clothing Solutions International. We offer a bespoke approach to IT support services, and expertise in dealing with IT issues specific to the fashion industry.

At Lifeline IT, you will find a personal, proactive approach, the very opposite of so many others who provide the majority of their support remotely. We are anything but ‘remote’! To clients we are like their own dedicated in-house IT Department. We manage, set up and develop IT systems, leaving you to run your business and benefit from all that modern office technology offers. Our highly skilled Support Team get a buzz working with people in different areas of business, and are expert listeners.

Whatever your business or organisation is about, IT systems play a crucial role. To find out how Lifeline IT could help your business, please visit our website.

www.lifelineit.net

L’Oréal Professionnel has been the official hair sponsor for Graduate Fashion Week since 2004 and is delighted to continue its collaboration in supporting young design talent.

Hair has always been a hugely important fashion statement and stands equally alongside fashion design in creating a look. L’Oréal Professionnel is the leading manufacturer of hair colour, professional hair-care and styling products, and is committed to developing the next generation in the hairdressing industry. A global brand with a strong link to the fashion industry, L’Oréal Professionnel provides up-and-coming fashion talent with the hairdressing stars of tomorrow.

The L’Oréal Professionnel hair team helps the students present the most professional image on the Graduate Fashion Week catwalk and this ongoing partnership merges the very latest in fashion talent with the creativity of young hairdressers. We are very excited to work in partnership with such a dynamic event as Graduate Fashion Week.

www.lorealprofessionnel.co.uk

Lyle and Scott are proud to continue their association with Graduate Fashion Week and are looking forward to sponsoring the Strategic Marketing Award for the second year running.

Established over 135 years ago Lyle and Scott is a brand whose reputation for design and quality continuously grows from strength to strength. Winners of the Drapers Young Fashion Brand of the Year 2009, the brand offer three distinct ranges; Vintage, Heritage, Club and currently distribute in the UK and mainland Europe. Building on this success and growth, Lyle and Scott prevail in their field.

Lyle and Scott consider their continued support within the young fashion industry crucial in the development of design, marketing and future success and wish all this years graduates the best of luck.

Visit us at www.lyleandscott.com

As one of the leading luxury leather goods companies in the UK, Mulberry is committed to supporting the development and promotion of fresh, home-grown fashion talent.

Mulberry is appreciated worldwide for its ‘artisan’ approach to leather accessories; menswear and womenswear. The brand’s backbone is an extensive line of highly crafted bags, which combine innovative design with the finest leathers and highly wrought detailing. Styles such as the Daria have become iconic fashion classics carried by some of the world’s most individual and stylish celebrities.

Despite worldwide expansion, including new stores in the US, France and the Far East, the centre of production remains where the company was founded in the 1970’s in rural Somerset.

At this recently expanded site, the brand has pioneered an apprenticeship scheme to allow for increased production in the UK and to encourage the luxury leather goods industry to be seen as a highly desirable, skilled career.

To support young design alongside manufacture; Mulberry is proud to be sponsoring the Accessories Award at Graduate Fashion Week, which will commend work in the fields of millinery, bags, belts, jewellery and footwear.

www.mulberry.com

Creative Marketing Award –

Per AQUUM is thrilled to be sponsoring the Creative Marketing Award for the second year ….. having been part of 2009 Graduate Fashion Week it is critical to support and nurture the amazing young talent that we have in the UK.

Christina Duggan who won the Per AQUUM 2009 Creative Marketing Award has been out in the Maldives and has created a Designer KIMONO which will be used in all of our resorts as a signature piece created exclusively for Per AQUUM by Christina Duggan. A great opportunity for Christina to showcase her talent to an international audience.

Per AQUUM is a dynamic, cutting edge company that specializes in Luxury Retreats and Resorts in Maldives – Huvafen Fushi and Dubai – Desert Palm, the properties, fascinate guests , generate media buzz, captivate the public’s imagination with Iconic Design and Award winning service.

The Core Philosophy and values of Per AQUUM are – Passion, Imagination, Naturally Modern and Visionary, qualities that the winner of the 2010 Creative Marketing Award should have and be keen to develop.

The winner of the 2010 Creative Marketing Award will also have the chance to travel to the Maldives to experience Huvafen Fushi and also hopefully collaborate on a new project for Per AQUUM.

In 2011 – Per AQUUM will open it’s new resort in the Maldives - NIYAMA

www.peraquum.com

Pringle of Scotland are very happy to be sponsoring the Visionary Knitwear Award at Graduate Fashion Week this year and being at the forefront of discovering the next emerging talent from our wonderful schools across Britain.

Pringle of Scotland has a unique place in British Culture and the international world of fashion, being one of the oldest British brands and synonymous of luxury knitwear.

Today with a renewed vision to restore the luxury fashion heritage of Pringle of Scotland’s rich past, our passion is dedicated to creating beautiful clothing that continues our traditions of innovation, authenticity and glamour.

Creative Director; Claire Waight Keller said, “ I am inspired by Pringle’s rich legacy of beautiful Scottish cashmere and my aims are to embrace new approaches in knitwear and honour the brands heritage by creating luxurious collections.”

Clare Waight Keller who will judge the Visoinary Knitwear Award at Graduate Fashion Week, has been knitting since she the age of 5 and has an MA in knitwear from the Royal College of Art. Her collections show in Milan during Fashion Week

Renault UK are offering the best seats in the house at Graduate Fashion Week in stylish, luxurious, silver Grand Espaces. Accredited journalists and VIPS will be whisked around the capital between catwalk shows, ensuring a welcome moment of rest and relaxation. Renault is delighted to be the official car of the event and wishes all graduates a successful week.

www.renault.co.uk

TY NANT Natural Mineral Water famed for stylish cobalt blue and curvaceous PET bottles is delighted to be selected for the second year as the exclusive bottled water for this years Graduate Fashion Week.

No stranger to design awards Ty Nant will be in its element as designs are unveiled by the fashion stars of tomorrow.

TY NANT helps support breast cancer charities through the Pink Ribbon Foundation.

Please visit www.tynant.com for more details.

W.T. Sea/Air is delighted to be co-sponsoring the Photographic Studio with River Island at this year’s Graduate Fashion Week.

Our Supply Chain partnership stems over four decades, where together we have been at the forefront of delivering innovative led solutions based on bespoke systems architecture.

Utilising our global reach and a real collaborative attitude to delivering excellence, W.T. SeaAir ensures all River Island logistics requirements are met, thus ensuring their stores receive the right product at the right time.

W.T. SeaAir design, implement and deliver intelligent supply chain solutions, and are positioned as one of the largest privately owned businesses of its type in the UK, with a client portfolio comprised of many high street fashion retailers.

www.wtseaair.com

River Island is delighted to be sponsoring Graduate Fashion Week for its fifth consecutive year.

We are committed to bringing new and original fashion to the high street, design is at the heart of everything we do, and we like to do it differently. Our 100 strong design team is constantly producing new lines that are rolled out to over 280 UK and International stores on a weekly basis. This makes River Island a fast paced and exciting place to work; and that is why our partnership with Graduate Fashion Week is so successful. With some of the UK’s newest and most talented students showcasing portfolio collections it is the perfect scouting ground for River Island and allows us to provide students with great opportunities to learn and develop. Over the last four years we have employed over 25 graduates as a direct result of their involvement with Graduate Fashion Week.

"We are delighted to be title sponsors of Graduate Fashion Week for our fifth year running. The event has become the primary platform for fresh new British talent to showcase their collections to the fashion industry.

“With an estimated 3000 fashion students graduating every year it’s tougher than ever for individuals to break their way into the industry. Design has always been an integral part of River Island which is why it is so important to support the organizations and universities involved in growing and developing innovative students. Our sponsorship allows us to give students a spring board to start their careers, whilst allowing us the opportunity to source talent for all areas of our own business.”

Richard Bradbury, Managing Director, River Island The culmination of the four days of Graduate Fashion Week is the prestigious Gala Show where the most outstanding collection is awarded the River Island Gold Award. The lucky winner will receive an impressive £20,000 prize and this is the only Award of its kind within UK fashion education.

www.riverisland.com

We’re a marketing agency specialising in website development and print design. We have expertise specific to the fashion industry and a growing number of clients within the sector, including James Jeans UK and Scout International.

Have you noticed that GFW has a brand new website?
Well, we’ve been working with Trustee Event Director, June Barker and her team over the past several months to deliver it in time for this year’s show. Our plans for the site extend for three years – so we’ll be adding exciting extra features as time goes on.

GFW is known worldwide for promoting creativity and design. We’ve tried to reflect this by featuring students’ work prominently. At the same time there’s a lot of important information that’s now well organised and easy to access. This year we’ve also put in place the framework for what will become a fully fledged online ticketing system for the event.

More about Viridian
The websites we create range from small information/brochure sites to more complex e-Commerce trading ones. People we work with understand their business and are clear about what they want to achieve, but are not necessarily technically savvy.

Projects are often multi-disciplinary combining web development and print design. We work closely with clients and usually manage the whole process on their behalf from conception to delivery.

We’re a small team, a mixture of creative specialists, project managers and technicians. We love what we do and work well together. We take pride in ‘doing things properly’ – good attention to detail is paramount.

“When the storm comes, some build walls, the others build windmills.”
Old Chinese proverb

We are proud to support GFW especially during these turbulent times. For more information about Viridan visit our website at www.viridian-online.com, email us at info@viridian-online.com or call David Cranley on +44 (0)20 8208 4566.

BHM Knitwear Ltd is delighted to be sponsoring the Visionary Knitwear Award at this year’s Graduate Fashion Week.

We employ a talented team of knitwear designers at our Leicestershire headquarters and have an in house sampling facility enabling us to react quickly to all the latest trends. We supply quick turnaround knitwear to all the major high street retailers such as River Island from our off shore factories.

Having employed many design graduates over our 40 year history we are keen to support and encourage fresh and creative design talent.

To all the graduates exhibiting at GFW, we at BHM Knitwear, wish you the very best of luck!

www.bhmknitwear.co.uk

Drapers

www.drapersonline.com

OWN LABEL is thrilled to be associated with Graduate Fashion Week. As sponsors of the all important Event Floor Plan, we hope to get you to where you want to be!

OWN LABEL is a new venture formed by graduates from the University of the Arts London and London Business School. With an abundance of talent graduating every year from Fashion Schools around the country and such limited opportunities to showcase this talent, we felt there was room for a new channel to help launch the careers of talented designers.

The basic premise of OWN LABEL is simple. You submit designs online, we put your creations to the public vote and manufacture a limited run of the top ranked designs for retail on our web-site with your name on the label. What better way to promote yourself than to demonstrate the commercial success of your designs? OWN LABEL gives the designers of tomorrow an opportunity today to show off their best designs!

Through our association with Graduate Fashion Week, OWN LABEL aims to harness the considerable talent of the country’s fashion colleges and spread the word of the New Fashion Democracy!

www.own-label.com

Hammerson are a FTSE 100 Real Estate Business, with a portfolio of over £5billion in the UK and France, primarily in retail. Credited with introducing the first covered shopping centre to Europe with the launch of Brent Cross in 1976, Hammerson is renowned with shaping the nation’s retail habits with its premiere portfolio of shopping centres. From WestQuay in Southampton to Silverburn in Glasgow, the company is responsible for many of the UK’s leading retail destinations.

In particular, Hammerson developed and part owns the unique Spitalfields market, which is synonymous with young fashion designers and regularly features the work of Graduate Fashion Week graduates. Hammerson also part owns and is responsible for Birmingham’s iconic Bullring centre, which boasts a footfall of 40 million consumer visits per year!

Hammerson will be associated with Graduate Fashion Week for the first time in 2010, by sponsoring the Fashion Innovation Award. Graduate Fashion Week is one of the most eagerly anticipated dates on the fashion calendar, and Hammerson are delighted to be involved in this prestigious event. We wish all the entrants the very best of luck, and look forward to seeing some of their outstanding creations during the event.

www.hammerson.com

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