EMZ AND GARY REPPED FOR THE BRAND OVER @ FASHION GALORE IN BIRMZ @ OCEANA NIGHTCLUB.

THE EVENT RUN BY FASHION BRAND, VA-G CLOTHING WAS A SUCCESS ACCORDING TO THE LADS WHO WERE THERE THE WHOLE NIGHT.

THERE WAS PERFORMANCES BY ARTISTS AND DANCERS PLUS A CATWALK FASHION SHOW WHICH F2D WAS PART OF.

SHOUTS TO FUNKI MEDYA FOR THE PICS BELOW…

POSTED BY: DANIEL F2D

Have you bought your ticket to the BIGGEST fundraiser to hit BRUM??! 

The ACTION FOR HAITI event takes place this coming Sunday 7^th March 2010 @ The Drum Arts Centre, Potters Lane, Aston. 

This two-part, all day affair kicks off at 2pm – 5pm with lively discussions and lectures with prominent black figures from all over the globe! Hosted by Bafta- Award winning, TV and radio broadcaster, Dr. Robert Beckford, the TRUTH ABOUT HAITI is exactly what it says on the flyer! Welcoming a series of speakers to the stage, including one of the Haiti earthquake survivors, this segment explores the country’s profound history in a way you’ve never experienced. 

Then on to the celebrating, the ACTION FOR HAITI CONCERT from 6pm – 10pm unites talent from across the UK! Boasting back-to-back live performances in the form of spoken word, dance and drama, you’ll be entertained by dream team, none other than Newstyle FM’s finest, funny guy G-Man and DJ Jason Wynters…   

This is an event you just can’t miss!!! 

So let me ask you for the first and final time, “WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO BE THIS SUNDAAAAY?!!” Be there or be square!! (Believe that.) 

For tickets call: 0121 333 2444 £5 donation per event (come on dig deep people.) 

Facebook search: ACTION FOR HAITI 

And remember to SPREAD the WORD, SUPPORT the CAUSE and TAKE ACTION FOR HAITI…Bless. GlitterBow.

POSTED BY: GLITTER BOW

Monday the 15th Feb, the lads took a road trip down the M6 to London to represent down at Margin.  Margin is a fashion trade show catering to industry insiders from the brands to press and buyers alike.  We went down there so we could cover the event and report back to you guys how it all went down…

From the moment we got there we were well impressed with presentation of the event, and the number of different brands all under one roof.   Being a clothing brand ourselves it was good to see such an event in action, giving us the chance to mingle and make some new connects while covering the event.

There were some sick threads on show from brands like Mr Wingate,  Villainous Visard,  MY YARD,  I AM FIVE (thanks for the Sherlock tee boys),  Ashley Marc Hovelle,  Origin68,  Kalman Lee  ,  Kiddo, plus many others…

From what we could gather from the brands on display they were all happy with what Margin had done for them in terms of buyers and press awareness. One brand told me, “we have managed to get quite a few orders from stores over the 2 days so in all it has been a successful event for us”.

The lads behind the brand, I AM FIVE, great guys!! – WWW.IAMFIVE.COM

WE LOVED THIS TEE FROM MANCHESTER BRAND ORIGIN68 – WWW.ORIGIN68.COM

WE RATED THIS TEE FROM THTC – WWW.THTC.CO.UK

SICKNESS FROM MY MAN ASHLEY MARC HOVELLE – WWW.ASHLEYMARCHOVELLE.COM

I FELL IN LOVE WITH THAT ALL WOOL VARSITY STYLE JACKET FROM ITALIAN BRAND RVNG

EQUALIZER TEE FROM NEW BRAND KIDDO – WWW.PLANETOFMYOWN.COM

THIS WAS NICE FROM KALMAN LEE – WWW.KALMANLEE.CO.UK

VERY BIG STUFF FROM VILLAINOUS VASARD  – WWW.VILLAINOUSVISARD.CO.UK

The talent was obvious amongst the brands on show and thanks to Margin they had the platform to showcase it. 

Lookout for exclusive features and interviews here on f2dcollection.com, featuring some of the brands we met and connected with. It turned out to be quite a productive day in London for the boys from Birmingham with our Retro Kid Varsity’s gettin’ a whole lot of love too.

Next time Margin comes along make sure you get down there and see what its all about, we think it was well worth the trip most deffo!!!

CHECKOUT WWW.MARGIN.TV FOR MORE INFO ON THE EVENT…

POSTED BY: DANIEL F2D  

PHOTO’S: F2D EMZ

The UK’s biggest trade event is almost here people, Margin has come round again this weekend starting on Sunday 14th feb…

LOOKOUT FOR THE F2D TEAM AT THE EVENT.  AND LOOKOUT FOR SHOTS OF THE EVENT BACK HERE NEXT WEEK.

The longest-running independent trade event in London, Margin is an intimate and credible showroom of edited design talent with the next exhibition being the 18th edition +

Nearly eight years strong, Margin is a proven and established trade exhibition linking fresh talent with key press and buyers (many of whom do not like going to traditional trade shows) +
The Original and the best platform for new talent for over seven years, Margin was established to help new labels reach a wider buying and press audience +
Retailers travel the world looking for the next big thing but are never going to find up-and-coming designers at a show whose costs prohibit fresh talent +

+++ Margin is a curated event where Buyers, Editors, and Stylists know they can find great new labels season after season and don’t have to wade through hall after hall of established brands to find directional new products to offer their readers or shoppers.
+++ Spaces are limited to appropriate brands only that have a directional edge and something new to offer + at larger events where mainstream brands take centre-stage and priority, new labels can often be an opportunity missed.

Since the exhibitions first started back in 2002, Margin can lay claim to providing the successful trade launch-pad for many brands such as Supremebeing, Lady Luck Rules OK, Dephect, Emily & Fin, EIO, Missmilne, Worn Free, Chateau Roux, Your Eyes Lie, Sugarhill, King Apparel, Terratag, Lazy Oaf, Famous Forever, Yamama, and Ruby Rocks, as well as the UK launching point of overseas brands including Upper Playground, Eastpak Apparel, Loreak Mendian, Syndrome, Nooka, Gama-Go, Mimobots, Double Goose, Stereo Sound Agency, Diamond Supply Co, Urban Originals, Uzi, and Z-Boy amongst many others.

Margin has welcomed key stores to the exhibitions since first launching in 2002; from department stores, such as Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Liberty, House of Fraser, Psyche, Fenwick, El Corte Ingles, Saks 5th Avenue, Galleries Lafayette, & Engelhorn Trendhaus; online players like ASOS, My-Wardrobe, and Urban Industry; multiples such as Ark, Joy, Beams, Ships, and Westworld; as well as the key independents Margin is renowned for, including Colette, Hip, Sakis, Wood, Souvenir, Royal Cheese, Natterjacks, 90sqm, Coggles, Market, Atoo, Remixx, My Yard, Donuts, Ace, Lunacy, Savage, Fortyfive, Bread & Honey, American Retro, Bespoke, Wallace, and Cutie, to name a few.

Margin has welcomed numerous stylists and fashion editors from magazines including Vogue, Wad, Super Super, Elle, Wallpaper, Arena, i-D, FHM, Esquire, Vice, Amelia’s, DJ, Flux, WWD, Drapers, Sportswear International, and Sport & Street; as well as contributors from directional blogs such as BNTL, Coolhunting, Hypequest, Slamxhype, Hideyourarms, and Hypebeast.

MARGIN LONDON +   
T: +44 77 1033 0805
F: +44 20 7900 6214
E:   info@margin.tv
W:   www.margin.tv

ADD DATES TO YOUR OUTLOOK CALENDAR +
www.margin.tv/MARGINLONDON.vcs

IPHONE USERS + ADD DATES TO YOUR iPhone CALENDAR +
www.margin.tv/MARGINLONDON.ics

MARGIN NEWS & BLOG + www.margin.tv/blog

MARGIN @ MYSPACE + www.myspace.com/marginlondon
MARGIN @ TWITTER + www.twitter.com/marginlondon
MARGIN @ FACEBOOK + www.facebook.com/marginlondon

See you down there people!!!!

POSTED BY: DANIEL F2D

ASK YOUR GIRL Presents “360”

Fashion, Styling, Music, Beauty, Lifestyle

Westbourne studios 11am- 8pm
November 1st 2009

Ask Your Girl presents “360”, a lifestyle brand and service event featuring the best in fashion, beauty, customization, styling, body art and entertainment. The all day event will take place at the Westbourne Studios in London’s, Notting Hill on November 1st 2009.

“360” is the work and efforts of young entrepreneurial Londoners joining their talents in a bid to grow and expand their business ventures individually combating the current market and in turn creating a unified “hub” for their efforts. “360” is a fully independent step to increasing their reach and offering a new experience to highly valued customer.

The event is brought to you by the fashion brand Ask Your Girl, and includes brands and collectives such as Jhamal the stylist, Crook Street Ink, Gliffix, Sports Dimension, Complex Simplicity London, Lyrics 4 Lyrics and Ask You Girl.

All brands involved will be providing their unique services on the day headlined by ASK YOUR GIRL Clothing debuting the NEW AW09 collection featuring new exclusive designs and colors ways plus brand favorites.

Jhamal the Stiylist, one of London’s most sought after barbers will be opening his books on the day on a first come first serve basis his clients include Bashy , Theo Walcott & Ledley King

ComplextSimplicityLondon a creative collection headed by Simone Karma Rae will be providing Beauty Treatments consisting of mini facials, Nails- Extension & Nail Art, Henna Tattoos & Eyebrow Threading. In addition to make over and style consultations

Sports Dimension, West London based stockists of exclusive sneakers and streetwear will be offering a selection of rare sneakers and new era caps from their collections.

South west London based Crook Street Ink will be providing body art a tattoos during 360 and providing music throughout the day from artists Suga Dzl, Suarve-i, Dj SL, Amy and Gizla

East London based printers Gliffix Printing will be providing an on the spot printing and Swarovski customization service, with such clients as JLS, George Sampson, Youthology and Askyourgirl.

& Lyrics 4 lyrics will be offering their unique take fashion accessories in the form of their plastic Lego Jewelry which fast becoming a must have for every season.

The event is free to enter and will feature be catering to all ages with entertainment, Computer game tournaments (Fight Night and Fifa10) music Pool, & chess to name just a few activities.

For any questions or for further info please contact

Info@askyourgirl.com

POSTED BY: FRESHBOY DAN

What’s up everyone, it’s Fresh 2 Def Clothing’s boy Emz  and I caught up
with Daniella the founder of Talent 2009.  I met her at her apartment to ask
her a few questions about her show.

Emz F2D: Can you tell us who you are and a bit about yourself?

Daniella: I’m Daniella, I’m from Nottingham but I’ve been living in
Birmingham for six years and I’ve been doing Talent  for five years so this
will be the fifth one in 2009.  I run an organisation called Aspire for you
which is a social enterprise basically dedicated to providing development
showcasing training opportunities for young people. We also run an event
management company alongside that and we provide work experience for young
people.

EMZ F2D:  What is Talent 2009?

Daniella:  Talent 2009 is the ultimate entertainment extravaganza; Basically
we’ve got young people, students and non students from across the midlands
and some of them from beyond. Were giving them training in event
management, project management marketing, so we’ve had twenty volunteers
doing all of the event management side, we did that with a company
called ‘Smarty Pants marketing’.  We’ve got the rest of the young people
doing catwalk fashion design, Vocal coaching, chorography, performance
coaching and music industry training.  This basically comes together in talent 2009 where the volunteers can put there new found talents to use and the performers can perform and show what they can do. So
there will be singing, dancing, poetry, rapping, and MC’in,  theres also going to be a series of fashion shows with models that are students and young people and fashion designers that are student’s aswell, basically they are
all going to be competing to be crowned Talent 2009.  There will be a winner within each category, singing, dancing etc and they will all win industry prizes. We are going to have a judging panel which include DJ Gchild from
1extra, Reggie Curve, Def Jam, Daneo Tanya Anderson who’s a dance choreographer from Birmingham and Richard Costello who managed Jamelia and N-Dubs etc.  And they will win different prizes which include the chance to
perform with Doneo in a music video and free membership to Mahogany models and  a variety of
other big prizes.

EMZ F2D: How did you start?

Daniella:  When I was at uni i was the president of the African Caribbean
society I went to UCE and there was nothing going on so we decided to do a
talent show for Aston, Birmingham and UCE so we could get to see who the
other people were at the uni’s and at that point coz I thought I was a
singer and a dancer and I wanted to perform so i put my own show on and I
performed in it. It sold out and we had it at the drum so we decided to do
it every year we got good sponsors the first year and we thought that it
could be a good money making kinda thing and it just got bigger every year

 
EMZ F2D:  Who’s your show for and aimed at?

Daniella:  It’s aimed at everyone, it’s kind of got and urban slant coz
that’s the kind of music I’m into mainly and a lot of the people i work
with also and it’s hosted by Slim.  Its going to have rapping, its going to
have the  MC’ing so people who kind of love black music, black culture the
designers are quite cross cultural we’ve got people from Poland, people from
Greece so with that its open to all cultures.  It’s a multi cultural
event.  And in terms of age groups  its a family
event  so people can come with there grandmothers and kids.

EMZ F2D: What do you, and what can people gain from Talent 2009?

Daniella: Well the fact that it’s a entertainment extravaganza as I like to
say, its going be a night of fun there’s going be a whole load of give
always from a whole loads of organisations coz freebies is always good. You
get to see local talent, national talent, get to see comedy and dance, there’s
not really any other event that has everything. Its a good networking
thing, this is something for everyone in whatever community your from to
kind of get together and celebrate the positive achievements of young
people.

EMZ F2D:  Where do you see yourself and your show in the future?

Daniella:  Well the plan is to have it as a national event,  have regional
heats west midlands, east midlands, go around the country and do a tour and
have the main event in Birmingham to find the overall talent of whatever
year it is, with big prizes, big PA’s with the artists who are in it
having the chance of being in the charts, coz at the moment with urban
music you’ve got your Chipmunks and your Bashy’s but in terms of RnB
artists there’s not really that much going on. So i’m just trying to give
people more opportunities in the future just from being in the show.  Me
myself I want to take Aspire 4 you to on a national level, doing events in
different cities, training young people in different cities aswell and
training in different areas with this is event management but we also want
to do photography, we want to get in to fashion design, and want to get into
marketing and PR anything that young people want to get involved in we just
want to be the number one training provider for that.

What do think massive??

BIG BIG shout out to Danielle, keep doin it big for the 09 and us at FRESH 2 DEF CLOTHING wish you all the success for the future.

We are going to have a stand at the event selling some of our latest summer 09 collection so get down there and support the big show and come and meet us.

For more info on ASPIRE 4U check http://www.aspire4u.com and http://www.myspace.com/aspire4uk

EMZDON!!