The Miele Fashion Prize Competition

Miele have launched the Miele Fashion Prize competition 2010.

The competition gives a chance to those with aspirations of designing a fashionable and creative couture outfit the chance to do so. From The Guardian,

“The annual Miele Fashion Prize competition launched this week at Project Catwalk winner Jasper Garvida’s London Fashion Week show. The German manufacturer, Miele, is challenging UK fashion talent to design an outfit responding to a gentle garment care brief. The winning design will be chosen by a panel of experts including Jasper Garvida, who will personally make the outfit and unveil it at an exclusive event later this year.”

Have you got an idea for a garment to put forward? A style or shape in mind that’ll blow the panel away? If so, all the details you need to enter can be found at the Miele Fashion Prize page. From there you can download the entry form and read the finer details on submitting a design.

Last year’s winner Nathan Jones says of the competition,

“The Miele fashion prize has given me a platform for my work, the resources to realise my design and the added confidence to pursue my goals even more intensely.”

You can see an image of Jasper’s realization of Nathan’s winning black gown modeled by Camilla Dallerup in this Forever Better post thanks to Kit Lee of Style Slicker. There is more information in the press release about the partnership between Jasper and Miele, along with information on the launch of the Miele Fashion Prize at Miele.co.uk.

If you’re interested in entering get in touch as we’d love follow your progress or, if you know someone who might like to enter, share the story by using one of the buttons below.

Jasper Garvida’s LFW show - we were there!

Yes, Forever Better was dressed to impress and in attendance for Jasper Garvida’s London Fashion Week catwalk show. And we were not alone; we’d got bloggers and competition winners with us, all of whom were eager to enjoy the show.

Kit Lee of Style Slicker covered the event and illustrated it with photos (see below) that, dare I say it, challenge the efforts of our very own Roxy ;).

Twitter saw her herald the day as ‘fantastic’, along with showing off her ‘very handy’ freebie, and she wasn’t alone in getting involved with the micro-blogging. Winnie of Diamondcanopy loved being on the front row with Park and Cube’s Shini, who also tweeted this little gem of an image via twitgoo.

Also with us were Fashion Slant (who noted shoulders are back), Chic in Town and Cherry Chan108, so keep your style hungry eyes in their direction for more of Jasper’s work.

Finally though, I’m going to point you in the direction of the delightful 40 Not Out, who loved the experience – before, during and after,

“Am still high on the Jasper Garvida show. I love fashion. That is all.”

We concur.

The calm before the fashionable storm

Tomorrow evening the Forever Better team and a group of lucky bloggers (and competition winners!) are off to Jasper Garvidas catwalk show, which will be showcasing his 2010 Autumn/Winter collection.

Jasper is a familiar name to many, having won project catwalk in 2008 and previously being employed by a string of well known high street stores to design fashionable clothing for their range.

As many of you may know, Miele are the official sponsors of Jasper Garvida, who appreciates how important good garment care really is!

Here at Forever Better, we’re all feeling quite ecstatic about seeing Jaspers beautiful creations up close, a feeling that is shared by one of our guests, from 40notout, who has written a post detailing how excited she is -

“This is a big deal for a girl like me and just like a certain fellow fashion blogger who has also received some invites and hasn’t told anyone, I was shocked and overwhelmed to actually receive them. It’s the stuff that dreams are made of, well my dreams at least and to say I’m excited would be the understatement of the year!”

Stay tuned for a write up of the event and lots of pictures early next week.

Jasper Garvida competition update…

Our competition to win one of five pairs of tickets to Jasper Garvida’s London Fashion show courtesy of Miele has been running a week and we’ve already had some inspired entries.

To stand a chance of claiming a pair of the tickets all you have to do is complete the sentence, ‘I’d love to attend Jasper Garvida’s LFW show because…‘,

Charlotte – “…I am a self taught dressmaker and I adore Jasper’s unique and exquisite designs, he inspires creativity and I would savour every second of his breathtaking show!”

Jordanna – “…he inspired me to leave my job in Marketing at a bank and pursue my dream of becoming a fashion designer. I watched Jasper on project catwalk and was in awe of my fellow Canadian making his way through the competition by staying true to his design philosophy and staying true to himself.”

And the more excitable Danielle,

“…he combines fashion forward edginess with utter femininity, enough to make any girl go Ja-Ja-Garvidaaaaa!!”

Are these good enough? You, and they, will have to wait and see. Winners will be announced next week so there is still time to submit an entry if you think you can do better. All the details on how to get involved are here…

DustFluffGrit meets the Miele Hybrid S4812

DustFluffGrit got to meet the Miele Hybrid S4812 at Miele’s new London gallery,

“Based on the design of their mid-range S4 canister, it’s the first cleaner to utilise Miele’s patented new ‘Hybrid’ technology, which allows the user to vacuum with the cleaner in either corded or cordless modes.”

In his post, EXCLUSIVE: Miele Hybrid S4812 and Eco Line S4212, he goes into all the details you’d want to know – from the lithium-ion batteries to how it coped with the pick-up assault course that had been set over a small set of carpeted stairs and featured among other debris, drawing pins, beads, porridge oats and cotton wool.

DustFluffGrit’s first impressions are positive, but he is looking forward to getting a trial version to really see what the hybrid is capable of. For now though,

“The Hybrid technology offers much more power, runtime and reach than a traditional hand-held cleaner, although obviously, it’s not as compact or lightweight, either! It’s one of those great ideas that begs the question, ‘why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?!’”

As you can tell from the title of the post there is also some investigation into the S4 Eco Line, which will only use 1300w of power, but has the same level of ‘pick-up power’ as a 2200w model.

For more click through to the DustFluffGrit, but before you do, have a look at his video below taken from his YouTube channel - vintagehoover.