Win tickets to Jasper Garvida’s LFW catwalk show

Calling all bloggers! Whether you’re a professional blogger or it’s just a hobby – we’ve a special competition just for you. To enter you must have an up and running blog that you update regularly and be available on the 20th of September. You must also be able to make your way to and from London.

Pictures courtesy of Park and Cube

This is an exciting chance to win a backstage pass to the Jasper Garvida catwalk show at London Fashion Week in partnership with Miele, manufacturers of the ultimate laundry appliances. You will also have the opportunity to see Jasper in action, spend some time back stage with the fabulous Hannah from Push PR and watch the show from front of house. It will be an opportunity to experience fashion week first hand and get a view of what a catwalk show is all about. Great for your blog too!

To enter simply write an 150 word seasonal rundown about the AW10 Jasper Garvida. You can be as creative as you like. Once finished, please email it to the lovely Roxy@foreverbetter.co.uk.

All entries will be reviewed after the closing date, with the winner being  contacted via email. Deadline for entries is the 13th of September 2010 and the winner will be announced on the 15th of September.

Good Luck!

A night with Jasper Garvida and Miele

On the 29th of March we’re going to be spending the evening with fashion designer Jasper Garvida.

Image courtesy of Stylist Stuff

Jasper will be talking about his latest collection and discussing garment care. We’ve already got a full guest list and the night promises to be one of quiet glamour among the sparkling surroundings of the Miele Gallery in London.

We’ll make sure we capture as much as we can and relay it all back to you through our Flickr account and here on Forever Better. We’ve got, among quite a few others, ThatGirl39 from Forty Not Out, Kavita from I Heart Vintagex and Reena from Fashion Daydreams attending, which means style is going to be in abundance – and we can’t wait.

There’s also sure to be conversation on the Miele Fashion Prze 2010, the chance for an aspiring designer to see their design made real by Jasper and shown in an exclusive event later in the year. Full details are here.

Although the guest list for the meet and greet with Jasper is full, Forever Better will be doing more events like this throughout 2010. If you’d like to be involved just send us an email telling us why and we’ll get straight back to you. Right, we’re off to start picking out our outfits.

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.