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 – more updates

Monday we had posts and tweets a-plenty from the guys we took along to Jasper Garvida’s London Fashion Week Show. Among them were Style Slicker, Fashion Slant, Park & Cube and Diamond Canopy who especially loved the front row seats Miele provided,

“I can’t believe we were given front row, it was amazing. It might never happen again so I definitely didn’t take it for granted. […] I was quite impressed by [Jasper’s] newest collection. I really loved the twenties theme, art deco prints and the make up.”

As you can from the photo; certainly making the most of her prime position.

Vanity Fashionista and Everything Cherry Chan108 have both posted on their experiences too. Vicky of Vanity Fashionista was a competition winner who, although not overly familiar with Jasper’s work, was eager to attend a fashion week show. And now she has, as well as getting her self right up to date with JG’s A/W 2010 collection,

“The collection, the catwalk show, Jasper Garvida was AMAZING! I loved every single one of his pieces.”

There are a selection of pictures from the show in her post, only a slection mind as Vicky did confess to taking a shot of every single outfit! She also managed to snap a picture of Beverly Knight and Liz McClarnon (she also spotted Sophie Anderton). The celeb attendees were also spotted by Cherry of Cherry Chan108 who also took a picture.

Being a fan of Jasper’s work Cherry expected to have a good time, but was surprised by just how much of a good time,

“I feel like everything was on point; the music, the models, their walks, the timing, the atmosphere and I was particularly touched when Jasper came out at the end for his final bow. My first cat walk experience was extremely satisfying.”

We’re really pleased everyone enjoyed it so much :). If you’d like to get involved more with Miele and Forever Better, then don’t hesitate to get in touch with Claire [@] ForeverBetter.co.uk.

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.

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…

Win tickets for Jasper Garvida’s LFW catwalk show

If you’d like to attend Jasper Garvida’s catwalk show at London Fashion Week we might be able to help. Courtesy of Miele we’ve been given five pairs of tickets to give away!

The show is taking place on the 20th February and begins at 6:30pm with the doors opening an hour before, which means you can arrive early and take in the surroundings. All you have to do is send us an email with the subject line,

“I’d love to attend Jasper Garvida’s LFW show because…”

And then finish the sentence in the main body of the message. Remember to include your name and phone number, so if you’re picked as a winner we can get in touch. There’s also a permanent page for the competition here – we look forward to reading your entries!

*Update - 04/02* Miele are also launching the Miele Fashion Prize again this year! The winner of which will be working with Jasper to create a dress that will be modelled at an exclusive fashion event during the summer. If that wasn’t enough they’ll also recieve £1000 worth of Miele appliances for their home! You can see the dress from last year’s winner here, worn by Camilla Dallerup of Strictly Come Dancing fame. We’ve got more coming soon on the 2010 Miele Fashion Prize so be sure to check back.