Exciting news people.

As koodos gears up for London Fashion week, it was with great success that Vauxhall Fashion Scout held a salon evening last night, with the organisers John Walford and Martyn Roberts working closely with koodos, for up and coming fashion designers, a number of whom are going to be showing their collections at VFS during London Fashion week next month.

As part of our presence at London Fashion Week in September as a sponsor of the off schedule catwalk event Vauxhall Fashion Scout, koodos  has established a mentoring program, again working closely with VFS, for young designers and last night was the first furor into the the new initiative.

Our hugely experienced CEO, Miriam Lahage, was the guest speaker at the evening, held in the beautiful Craft Central building in Clerkenwell, speaking to the assembled designers about her experience within the buying arena.

Miriam gave some invaluable tips and hints on how a young designer can prosper in a very challenging market. Not only did she offer advice on how to deal with buyers, but also how to deal with the current economic downturn, insight into how designers get stuff out there and more importantly get seen.

A cosy event, with Vauxhall Fashion Scout designers (and a few designers just after some advice) in attendance, all said how helpful and insightful the evening was.

We are all super excited about our mentoring scheme and as a result we will be announcing which designers we will be featuring in a special Boutique on the koodos website.

The Boutique will be open during London Fashion Week and in Miriam’s own words “It isn’t easy for young designers to break into new outlets and also money is tight for them. We have created the Boutique to help the designers as well as enable the fashion loving public to access some breathtaking collections that wouldn’t otherwise be available to them.”

More exciting news about Vauxhall Fashion Scout, the Boutique and London Fashion Week coming soon - watch this space.

Photography by Nick Stovey

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