Customise your own pashmina!

Workshop - Saturday 22nd May 2010, 2pm - 5pm

Create your own unique customised pashmina with help from a professional designer in this entertaining workshop.

Many of Candice Wren's beautifully customised clothes have been for sale in the Shop @ FTM, but this is your opportunity to pick up some of her tips and ideas, and end up with a beautiful embellished, totally unique pashmina that you won't see anyone else with!

Pashminas will be supplied in a range of colours and prints and you will get the opportunity to customise them to reflect your own style.

Venue: FTM

Price: £55 including materials and exhibition entry

To book: Call 020 7407 8664 or book online from We Got Tickets

Places are limited therefore advance booking is strongly recommended

Image of pashminas from Candice Wren http://www.candicewren.co.uk/

Business Support Programme for London Based Accessory/Jewellery Designers

The FTM is pleased to announce the launch of its 2010 business support programme.

Successful eligible participants will receive the following:

• 8 hours of business mentoring from industry specialists including one to one and group workshop sessions.*

• 12 hours of business planning support from Price Waterhouse Coopers

• Your products featured on the FTM website

• Free membership to our new designers networking club - Hub@FTM

• The opportunity to sell your product in the prestigious Shop@FTM

The Fashion and Textile Museum(FTM) is a cutting edge, exhibition and visitor centre for contemporary fashion, textiles and jewellery; providing a focal point at the heart of the industry, offering inspiration to a wide audience within a vibrant, creative and professional environment.
Owned and operated by Newham College, the FTM offers access to business support for people working or wanting to work in the fashion sector. The Shop@FTM is a must for anyone interested in contemporary fashion and is committed to supporting young design talent with a great range of products from some of the best up and coming accessory and jewellery designers you will find anywhere in the capital. The FTM attracts over 7,000 visitors to each exhibition and 12,000 hits monthly to the ftmlondon.org website.

Programme Cost: £400+VAT*

London based designers are invited to apply for the programme. You must have proof that you are either self employed, a partnership or a Limited company and that your business is registered at a London address. If you are short listed you must be available to attend our selection day on 23rd February 2010.

*Including bursary - successful applicants may be eligible to register on the London Style project and receive a bursary. Non-eligible applicants are welcome to apply for space in the Shop@FTM. If you would like to take advantage of this exciting opportunity, please contact Alison Lewy on 0207407 8664 or alison.lewy@newham.ac.uk for an application form.

Application deadline 17th February 2010.

83 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3XF

, 020 7407 8664, http://www.ftmlondon.org/

Holiday Opening Hours at the Fashion and Textile Museum

Please note the Fashion and Textile Museum will be closed for the holiday season on the 24th, 25th and 26th December 2009 and 1st January 2010.

Make sure you make the most of your holidays by visiting the Fashion and Textile Museum on the 29th, 30th and 31st December 2009 or stop by before Christmas Eve to pick up your last minute Christmas gifts from the Shop@FTM

Please note the Fashion and Textile Museum will be open again on the 2nd January 2010 with opening hours as usual.

Tonight - Start your Christmas Shopping with a 10% Discount!

Don't miss the exclusive late night shopping event at the Fashion and Textile Museum this evening. With an exciting array of young design talent, glossy books, crafts and a wide selection of 'gift-shop goodies' available with a 10% discount, this is a perfect opportunity to get stuck in to your Christmas shopping.

The Shop@FTM will be open from 6pm-9pm this evening Friday 4th December 2009 and includes a complimentary glass of wine.

Also at the Fashion and Textile Museum this evening, Iain Webb, authour of 'Foale and Tuffin - The Sixties, A Decade in Fashion' will be giving a talk exploring his journey into the world of Foale and Tuffin and why the timing is so right for such a book. Webb will be signing copies of his work which is available for sale in the Shop@FTM.

'In Conversation with Iain R. Webb' is held at the Fashion and Textile Museum from 6:30pm - 8pm this evening, Friday 4th December 2009 and costs £12 (£9 Concessions) including a glass of wine.

An Evening Out at FTM

On Friday 4th December the Fashion and Textile Museum will be hosting a special late night Christmas Shopping event at the ever popular Shop@FTM, with a 10% discount for one night only! Come and enjoy a glass of wine and get a head start on your gifts before the Christmas rush.

Also that same evening will be an inspiring talk from the author of 'Foale and Tuffin. The Sixties. A Decade in Fashion' Iain R Webb, make sure you head down to the FTM for this fabulous evening!

Late night Christmas shopping – Shop@FTM

Friday 4th December / 6 - 9pm
Including a glass of wine.

After the popularity of its late night shopping evening last year, why not join us to get an early start on finding those perfect Christmas gifts with a special 10% discount in the Shop@FTM?

In conversation with Iain R Webb
Friday 4th December / 6.30 - 8pm
£12 / £9 concessions / including a glass of wine.

Renowned fashion journalist and lecturer Iain R Webb will be in conversation about the timeliness of his new book Foale and Tuffin. The Sixties. A decade in fashion. He will explore the journey he went on in putting this book together, conversations with Foale and Tuffin’s many friends and collaborators and why the timing was so right for such a book. He will also be signing copies of his book which is for sale in the Shop@FTM

Today – ‘Foale and Tuffin – Made in England’ is open!

Last night saw a fantastic crowd at the Fashion and Textile Museum for the official opening of the FTM’s newest exhibition ‘Foale and Tuffin – Made in England’.

With the spirit of the swinging 60s in the air, guests were thrilled to see the exhibition officially opened by Sir Paul Smith who, with lighthearted prompts from Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin, recounted his awe as a young man from Nottingham, meeting the two talented designers for the first time at their boutique in Marlborough Court where his “girlfriend from London” Pauline, now his wife, was then working. “[Foale and Tuffin] were such pioneers. It was so revolutionary what they were doing” praised Smith.

There was much admiration for the inspired layout of the new exhibition, which recreates both the Foale and Tuffin boutique and their original workroom, right down to their original rolls of fabric. On the ground floor, a signature red and blue Foale and Tuffin sign illuminates the way for rails of fun and flirty dresses in bright pop colours, whilst upstairs old workbenches boast swatches, buttons, sketches and magazine cards charting their success.

To the right on the top floor, we are brought back to the present day with Marion Foale’s stunning, on-trend hand knitted garments, hats and scarves and Sally Tuffin’s striking hand thrown vases. Guests were thrilled to find many of these items also available to purchase in the popular Shop@FTM which did a roaring trade all evening.

Today, Friday 23rd October, the exhibition opens to the public – head down and get inspired!


all images courtesy of Kirstin Sinclair
filed by Rebecca Kingsland, blog editor