Saturday 3rd December -Fashion Forum is a free event aimed at fashion students, graduates and professionals who are new to the industry.
Blick Studios has invited a panel of fashion professionals from London and Northern Ireland to head a forum, which will address the core issue of how to establish yourself and sustain your business within the fashion industry in 2011 and beyond.
Saturday 3rd December 2pm - 5pm
The panel consists of:-
fashion journalist and acting editor of Let Them Eat Cake, Ashley Mauritzen;
ASHLEY MAURITZEN is a freelance journalist and editor.
Since graduating from Oxford University, she has worked in film, photography
and fashion. She completed an MA in Fashion Journalism and won the London
College of Fashion’s ‘Off Catwalk Media Award’. Mauritzen is acting editor of Let
Them Eat Cake, whom she represents at the Fashion Forum. Launched in 2006,
Let Them Eat Cake is a magazine for up and coming photographers, stylists and
writers in the fashion industry who are ‘masked behind the role of an assistant’.
Its aim was to create a magazine for a new generation and it has now become a
benchmark for the industry. See www.cakeit.net
designer for House of Fraser, Mary Rose McGrath;
MARYROSE MCGRATH is a multi award winning womanswear
& bridal designer based in Belfast. She worked in London for 12 years for high
street and international brands such as Oasis, Jasper Conran and Matthew
Williamson prior to her move back to Ireland, where she consulted for Brown
Thomas and A Wear. McGrath is House Of Fraser's in store designer. Her
designs have been seen in fashion magazines including Vogue, Elle and Marie
Claire. See www.maryrosemcgrath.com
fashion consultant and former buyer for New Look and the Arcadia group, Jo Appleton;
JO APPLETON is a freelance fashion consultant based in
London. Over the past sixteen years she has been a fashion buyer, working in all
product areas, for New Look and the Arcadia group, which includes Top Shop,
Dorothy Perkins and Evans. After graduating in Retail Management at
Bournemouth University, Appleton worked in London as a Buyer’s Admin
Assistant before being promoted to Assistant Buyer and moving to Top Shop.
After a year of travel, Appleton returned to Evans where she was promoted to
Buyer.
stylist, designer and editor of Neu HQ Magazine, Britt Cormac;
Originally from South Africa and now based in London,
BRITT CORMAC is the editor of the Neu HQ Magazine and blog which covers
underground art scenes. Since 2002 she has been a freelance fashion stylist
working within the fashion and film industries for clients such as the BBC and
Channel 4 and styling fashion editorials for magazines including; Wound, Tank
and One Small Seed. Cormac was the head of costume and design on Anja
Kirschner’s Polly II: Plan for Revolution at Docklands, which screened recently at
the QFT as part of the Belfast Festival at Queens. In 2004, Cormac founded the
Young Designers Workshop - a non-profit organization for underprivileged
young African fashion designers. See http://neuhq.blogspot.com
editor of online fashion magazine, Sugahfix, Katrina Doran;
After a career in Fashion & Beauty Marketing KATRINA DORAN
set up Sugahfix.com in 2008, which is a NI-based online style source for
fashion, beauty, entertainment, lifestyle and style. Doran has combined her
marketing expertise with a parallel career as a fashion and beauty creative
director, stylist and writer - working for ELLE UK in London, and beauty writer
for the Irish News. Sugahfix.com won the award for Best Blog at this year’s
Northern Ireland Social Media Awards. See www.sugahfix.com
and designer and director of the pop-up boutique Proof, Gráinne Maher.
GRÁINNE MAHER is currently NI Fashion Designer of the Year
as awarded by the Ulster Tatler Magazine. Known primarily as a couture milliner,
Maher studied in Dublin and London under milliner Ian Bennett. Maher brings
together an array of interests and inspirations that feed her work. Pluck &
Devour is a jewellery and accessories label, launched at Belfast Fashionweek in
2011. It won first place in the West Coast Cooler Citra Showcase competition.
Maher’s most recent venture is setting up a pop-up boutique called Proof which
stocks NI design talent. See www.grainnemahermillinery.com
Email info@blickstudios.org to register for a place
