notjustalabel.com

>>“Fashion finds its freedom in the art of individuals; NOT JUST A LABEL is a place for those who find their way off the beaten track, allowing them to express themselves in a community where everything goes...break the mould, redefine the expected, re-colour the palette, inspire and be inspired.”
NOT JUST A LABEL ("NJAL") is the leading global business directory for showcasing avant-garde fashion designers of today, nurturing the upcoming talents of tomorrow. It provides an outlet for talent to blossom; a place where visionaries meet collaborators dedicated to the creative spirit of fashion. The platform targets the most exciting avant-garde fashion designers, providing a stage where collections are showcased online. Numerous designers have already been discovered by international press and recruited by renowned retailers and prestigious fashion houses via the NJAL website.

Through an unlimited global showroom, matching demand and supply with individuality, creativity, diversity and talent, NOT JUST A LABEL provides a free tool that can be used by designers to present themselves along with their collections and sell them on a global basis. This is a unique way for industry participants and fashionistas alike to access the ideas of tomorrow’s designers.

The use of NJAL is completely for free for designers. NJAL's focus is to support designers and to spark a rethinking in the industry. The online shop revolutionises the way retailing works, giving designers the opportunity to cut out expensive middlemen. NJAL takes a commission off the retail price for all sales made through our platform; taking care of all administration and security NJAL sells on a global basis connecting end consumer and creator, providing designers with a flexible sales opportunity and a way to increase earnings due to a higher profit margin.

As a unique network of like-minded individuals with a profound sense of trendsetting, NOT JUST A LABEL also offers a rare opportunity to reach and interact with a global community of opinion makers. They offer a wide range of cooperation opportunities for companies, schools and media, both on our site and at related fashion events.

net-a-porter.com

"where women can have whatever they want overnight"- W Magazine

NET-A-PORTER.COM is the world's premier online luxury fashion retailer.
Our award-winning website, presented in the style of a fashion magazine, offers the style-savvy customer exactly what she wants - unprecedented access to the hottest looks of the season from international cutting-edge labels via worldwide express delivery.
Since launching in June 2000, NET-A-PORTER has successfully established itself as a luxury brand, with impeccable packaging and unrivalled customer care.
The pages of NET-A-PORTER feature high fashion editorial, updated weekly with new content and product, which is viewed by over 2.5 million women each month.
Company Information:

NET-A-PORTER LTD
1 The Village Offices
Westfield London
Ariel Way
London
W12 7GF

Farfetch.com

	-"Fancy scouring the best boutiques in Paris, London and Milan without even needing your passport? farfetch.com is the answer."		>PHILOSOPHY farfetch.com unites the world´s best independent fashion boutiques, so that you can buy from the most interesting designer fashion brands globally in one easy-to-shop website. Our aim is to provide an exciting range of designers and labels, while maintaining the personality of unique, independent boutiques. This new concept means you can shop from boutiques in Paris, London, Como, Copenhagen, California and New York  in just a few seconds, all from the comfort of your own home or office. >PARTNERS The boutiques we work with are a carefully chosen collection of the most respected and loved fashion emporiums, like L'Eclaireur in Paris; b Store, Beyond the Valley and Feathers in London; Henrik Vibskov's The-V-Store and Paristexas in Copenhagen, Tessabit in Como, Anastasia and Amercian Rag in California and Bblessing in New York. Each of them has a very individual and distinctive buying style. They may buy from emerging and niche labels or more luxurious and established designer names, but all the brands are bought with care and real skill. We don't partner with just any boutique, only the very best. >SIMPLE SHOPPING You can shop on farfetch.com in a variety of ways. To make it easy to find the designers you like, the collection is split into three departments; Luxe – for high-end designers, Lab – for experimental or new designers and Cult – for diffusion lines, premium denim brands and unique labels with an inventive take on fashion. You can also shop by men's or women's fashion, designer, boutique or simply by fashion category. Whichever way you choose to shop, you can be sure you're shopping from the most comprehensive and exciting selection of designer fashion anywhere on the web. There is just one checkout and payment process, no matter how many boutiques you choose to shop from. We deliver worldwide and will ensure you receive that personal touch you only get from your favourite fashion boutique. >EDITORIAL farfetch.com is more than just a shopping website. Our editorial section provides you with need-to-know style inspiration through a variety of weekly features. Respected journalists give you their trend predictions, buyers from our partner boutiques let you in on their favourites for the season, while we talk direct to the designers themselves to make sure you're absolutely in the know.

Oki-ni.com

Oki-ni online is designed to be a globally gallery offering online shopping and supply of fashionable upcoming products. Link: www.oki-ni.com

>history

oki-ni was born in September 2001.
Originally both a global gallery space and online destination, oki-ni worked with estabilished brands and upcoming designers to offer innovative colloaborative products to knowledgeable fashion consumers.
Exclusive, limited edition, oki-ni designed products were produced in partnership with adidas, Levi's, Paul Smith, Honda and Motorola to name a few.
Pieces were displayed in beautifully designed spaces that could be found at the Savile Row flagship store, as well as leading fashion destinations across the UK and Japan. Here customers were able to touch, feel and try the product before ordering online either with the help of a gallery assistant or in their home or office.

today

Nearly a decade on, the concept of oki-ni has evolved but our ethos has remained. The drive to discover and break the most inspiring products available, while them in an enviroment true to us, is still our main focus.
oki-ni is group of young, enthused, product focused individuals led by three directors with over 50 years combined expeience.
We love product, music and style.

future

As a team we are working to create the most interesting and forward-thinking retail/lifestyle website around, continually evolving to keep our customers interested and informed.
oki-ni will continue to globally source product with integrity - the rare, the niche and the premium. We are committed to supporting young talent and nurturing partnerships with established labels whilst curating our groundbreaking online retail space.

Diverse, Earlham gr, London

Diverse store provides a new range of original and new designers' products in order to create a more diverse new looks and new taste in the market.

Absolute vintage, london

The store is recognized as the one of the world famous "must visit" store for vintage clothing and products collection especially is shoes and bags.

Start, Rivington street

Start has the concept to promote a cutting edge, high end haven of branded products produced by pre-eminent designers and its emphasis is based in the heart of Shoreditch.

The convenience store, 1a hazelwood tower

This store offers innovative, unpredictable and limited number of products in a non-conformist environment and it takes a totally unconventional approach yet highly desirable approach to high fashion retail.

 >The Convenience Store focuses on housing purely key styles and exclusive pieces from some of the most sought after and challenging design talent around today. With a nod to the traditional convenience store, items are limited in number concentrating on hand-picked, niche and somewhat unconventional products unavailable elsewhere. Extraordinary, sought after pieces are retained for loyal customers, unveiled only on special request.

Opening times:

Sunday/Monday: by appointment only
(email for appointment)
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday: 11am-6pm

Bluebird, Kings Road

Bluebird has the philosophy to be ab ever evolving concept store selling everything from home designer products for men and women to home accessories, gifts, books and music. They even have spa and beauty section. Their stock are ever changing to meet contemporary demand.

>The Shop at Bluebird was launched in 2005 and trades from an iconic Art Deco building on the Kings Road in London. It is very much an ever evolving concept store, selling everything from designer womens wear, menswear and accessories through to furniture, home accessories, gifts, books and music. Our Spa and Beauty areas were added in 2007.

The shop marks a return to the spirit of the Kings Road in the Sixties and Seventies, when the area was a melting pot of styles and fashions. Stock is constantly changing, as is the retail space, which is large enough to accommodate exhibitions and performance art.

Topshop, oxford street

Topshop promotes itself as the number one or top on the list of fashion style designed house that caters the needs of all individuals with its teams of contemporary designers.

HISTORY
Since it launched in 1964, Topshop has become a major style authority and one of fashion’s biggest success stories. Capturing the zeitgeist every season, its brave and irreverent approach to style has captured the imaginations of fashion-conscious shoppers and industry insiders alike.

With around 300 stores in the UK, and over 100 in international territories - including our US flagship in New York - Topshop’s triumph has been all the more remarkable considering its humble beginnings. Topshop began in the basement of Peter Robinson department store in 1964 and less than a decade later became a stand-alone retailer. In 1994, the iconic Topshop flagship was born, as the brand took over the entire 90,000 sq ft space at London Oxford Circus. It remains there today, and is considered the world’s largest fashion store on the high street, attracting over 200,000 shoppers each week.

Part of the long-standing retail force the Arcadia Group, it is Topshop’s individuality that has earned it worldwide respect. A staunch supporter of young British design talent, it has sponsored the globally recognised New Gen scheme since 2002, which has bolstered the careers of fashion heavy-weights such as Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders, Marios Schwab and Louise Goldin.

As an early pioneer of high street and designer collaborations, Topshop’s partnerships with some of history’s most iconic fashion names such as Celia Birtwell and Kate Moss, have further cemented the brand’s reputation as a fashion leader.

In 2005, Topshop showed its own in-house designed collection, Unique, as part of the official London Fashion Week schedule. The only high street brand to show on schedule, Unique’s fun and irreverent approach to style has made it a first choice for those who like to stay ahead.

Since 2000, Topshop’s covetable collections have also been available beyond the high street thanks to the award winning topshop.com, which now ships to over 30 international destinations and offers customers in the United States the opportunity to shop in US currency and sizes on the dedicated site, us.topshop.com. Updated 5 times a week with over 300 new styles, Topshop.com is the ultimate fashion fix! Find out How to Topshop here.

With an attitude that is accessible to all and a bold product range, Topshop has won a legion of loyal fans and has cemented its place on the international style map.

ARCADIA GROUP LIMITED
With seven of the high street's best-known fashion brands as well as the shopping concept Outfit, each with its own distinctive identity and market segment, Arcadia Group is the UK's largest privately owned clothing retailer with more than 2,500 retail outlets.

Matches, Ledbury road

Matches match the individual taste, individual style, the way displaying product is simple but there has a cheaper wearing cater for art market/niche, as the name of the shop 'matches' the concept denoted to match the needs of the customer and individual task.

>Since the first Matches store opened near Tom and Ruth Chapman’s home in Wimbledon in 1990, it has become a brand in its own right – an iconic retail experience, trusted by London’s most fashion literate clientele, offering the best of the best in established and new international labels.

Thirteen stores across Notting Hill, Richmond, Wimbledon, Mayfair and – most recently opened in March 2008 – Marylebone High Street, cater specifically to the unique style characteristics of their customer: each has its own fashion profile while at the same time a dip into each, results in sound knowledge of the season’s spectrum of trends. From the hand-sanded, parquet flooring of the Marylebone store to the elegant shop furniture in Richmond – also for sale to the right buyer – Matches upholds a dedication to creativity, personality and attention to detail as much to the advantage of the product it offers as to the customer buying it.

Promising a fashion education within the capital’s most elegant retail experience; every season sees the best designers in the world collaborate with Matches to create the most talked about fashion exclusives: Burberry Prorsum, YSL, Diane Von Furstenberg, Azzedine Alaia, Sophia Kokosalaki – the list is endless – it’s the first place to buy the key pieces every season as well as a guaranteed introduction to your favourite labels of the future, from Roksanda to Joanna Sykes.

Online, the Matches experience is as unique and exhilarating as any of the stores: cutting-edge fashion literally at your fingertips with an unprecedented, personalised customer service promise. It’s also a good excuse to fill your house with our gorgeous marbled delivery boxes as the most stylish storage available.

Oxfam boutique

The shop in Westbourne Grove, west London, will stock designs made from second-hand clothing and fabric by a team of young designers.

The charity is due to open a further two new boutiques in Chelsea and Chiswick later this summer.

To mark Saturday's opening seven one-off recycled pieces will be sold in an online auction in aid of Oxfam.

Seven UK designers used fabric from old evening gowns to duvet covers to make the clothes which went on sale on eBay on Thursday.

The new shops will sell items created out of donated goods, Fairtrade clothing and accessories made by volunteers as well as the more traditional second-hand clothing.

The rebranding has been overseen by former Topshop director and long-term Oxfam supporter Jane Shepherdson.

She said: "These boutiques are all about creating a great shopping experience.

"Oxfam has always been a place where stylish people hunt for interesting items to create their look, the boutiques are set to make that even easier."

Oxfam's chief executive Barbara Stocking said they were responding to customer demands for a more "contemporary shopping experience".