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FOAH – Flower of an Hour



FOAH Flower of an Hour, is the fruit of the friendship between two flowers who met on a bench of the Parisian Sorbonne university, one from the Indian Ocean, the other from the Balkans.

One is Myriam Cazal, a fashion designer from Reunion Island, trained at the ESMOD International School of Paris. The other is Simona Stoeva, a young French-speaking and French-loving Bulgarian girl seeking to create bridges between dancing and architecture, and developing commercial skills working as part of the DIM company.


With a degree in Art History and a solid professional experience, the two friends come together with a common will to stand on their own feet. The love of style and their complicity add up, to give birth to an ambitious, joyful project.

The French designer and the eastern-European ambassador weave their web with determination and decide to create their brand, with their diverse cultures and inspirations, to bring every woman of this world with a glamorous, elegant and sexy product, at a reasonable cost.

FOAH Flower of an Hour debuted their range at the recent Fashion Exposed Sydney.

For more information and stockist inquiries, email Simona Stoeva; [email protected]

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VM EXPOSED: Attract, Engage & Motivate Sales


Fashion Exposed chats with Megan Tregilgas to re-discover the art of visual merchandising and discover how to attract, engage and motivate your customer to maximise sales.

Megan Tregilgas of Visual Metier presents the key principles of VM at Fashion Exposed, shares common mistakes and shows how to execute stimulating VM displays on a tight budget, based on her own fashion retail background.


Her are her top tips;

1. Know your brand – Ensure you and your team understand the brand and it’s message and Visual Merchandising will come easily.

2. Plan – Planning your windows and store layouts in advance will allow you to put together a marketing calendar and make the most of seasonal events.

3. Educate and motivate you team so they are confident in changing displays to maximise sales

4. Customer Service – Visual Merchandising is good customer service. Clean well laid out stores, clear signage and pleasant looking accessorised displays all act as silent salespeople. Not only is it effective, but it can be cheap! Present your merchandise in a pleasing way and customers will be more tempted to spend.

5. VM 101 – Less is more – keep displays simple. Find a system that works. Use odd numbers opposed to evens. Even numbers cause symmetry which causes the eye to stop and not take in the whole picture. Repetition using identical elements repeatedly creates a powerful display.

6. Texture – Contrasting materials and interesting props stimulate your display into life. Attention to detail is key.

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BUSINESS EXPOSED: Engaged staff sell more


Marguerite Bell of Retail Doctor chats with Fashion Exposed on how to build a great sales force, establish goals, train a team and develop effective selling techniques.

Here are her top tips:

1. Celebrate success – Tell your team what they’re doing right, not what they’re doing wrong. Reward your staff for high achievement with prizes for sales, average sale, items per sale and conversion rates.

2. Communicate – Make it clear that you have an `open door’ policy and welcome your team to come to you with any problems or concerns.

3. Lead by example – We see truly `fit’ retail CEO’s visiting stores and speaking to customers. How can you expect others to follow your rules, if you don’t follow them yourself?

4. Be positive – The positivity of your team will be felt by your customers and generate results so have fun in store and be positive at all times!

5. Empower them – Staff who are given responsibility will step up to the mark. Keep them trained and informed to empower them to make decisions on the shop floor.

6. Promote continuous improvement – Staff training should be an ongoing process linked to individual and team KPIs and measured by sales results. Coaching your staff is the key to improvement. Help them grow with your business and lift the cycle of continual improvement.

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TRENDS EXPOSED: Global Retail Trends with Westfield’s Jack Hanrahan


Westfield Retailer Relations Manager, Jack Hanrahan uncovered the latest trends in retail from enticing shop windows, unique installations and inspiring visual merchandising techniques from an international perspective at Fashion Exposed, Sydney.

In this chat, we discuss why customer service is crucial to the new retail experience, training your staff to become part of the retail `family’, and the power of visual merchandising.


Here are his top tips.

Implications for retailers

1. Have a reason for Being – why buy from me
2. What is your Sustainable Competitive Advantage
culture; experience; curating; value; people; product
3. What are the consumer trends
first; newness; customisation; authenticity; value
4. Experiential retail – total immersion
5. Congruence with the virtual/physical
6. Retail technology – critical success factor
7. Service as a product – great opportunitites for differentiation too

“EST Retailers – all retailers should be at least 2 of the following;

Lowest prices
Highest quality
Best value
Easiest to get to
Hottest fashions
Broadest assortment
Fastest service
Friendliest Associates
Nicest layout and design

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BUSINESS EXPOSED: Case study – Le Black Book & Her Fashion Box


Online retailing is now a mainstream sales channel with new technology changing daily to meet the needs of the competitive consumer.

Discover how online entrepreneur, Kath Purkis of Le Black Book & Her Fashion Box used regular data analysis and sell-through reports to continually adapt and change her e-tail model to exceed consumer expectations and flourish in a highly competitive market

Kath Purkis top tips:

1. Know your customers – Do your research and know what problem you are solving.
2. Be your brand – Be the face of your brand, have all employees as brand ambassadors & create a positive company culture.
3. Be the trend setter – Set the trends and take a risk, lead the pack and don’t follow the crowd.
4. Minimal clicks mean maximum sales – keep it clean and simple, don’t over-complicate the conversion funnel to sale.
5. Disrupt or be disrupted – Don’t get left behind, take risks and create as opposed to replicate.

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DIGITAL EXPOSED: Connect with your customer


Tim Kortitis of Social Media Servants spoke at Fashion Exposed Business Seminar today about the power of social media and the ways in which you can connect with your customer using the facebook, blogs, instagram, twitter and pinterest platforms.

How to connect with your customers using Facebook, Blogs, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest

1. Decide on your brands strategic position
2. Use each different platform to reinforce this position for customers and your community
3. Pre-plan all social media updates and content a month ahead of time
4. Avoid using social media as just a selling tool (build high trust first)
5. Build relationships with other networks to leverage reach

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TRENDS EXPOSED: WGSN Spring Summer 2013


Jen Sherrin of WGSN uncovered the key trends for Spring Summer 2013 at Fashion Exposed Sydney today.

We chat further on the key shapes, colours, fabrics and silhouettes that will influence the Australian fashion industry.

The must have list:

The Duster coat
The Blouson jacket
Tailored & cropped
60s A-Line Shift
The Fit and Flare dress
The new longer skirt
The Wrap pencil skirt
Soft sports pant
Half-sleeve button-up
The woven tee top
Aerated knits
Yachting jacket
Baseball jacket
Coordinated sets
XXL tee
Knitted polo shirt
Sports style shirt

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DIGITAL EXPOSED: Social Media 101 Top Tips


Social media continues to dominate the online realm. So how do you incorporate SM into your business plan?

We took five with Elana Harari of The Digital Aviary to demystify social media and help you understand the full capabilities of each channel.

Learn how to develop a social media strategy, what to consider before setting up accounts, what content to share, how to build a fan base, and other practical take-aways.

Here are her top tips;

1. Before you begin online make sure you establish who your target audience is
Know who they are, understand their lifestyle and figure out what they are interested in.

2. Developing a digital strategy is key for your social media success
You have the opportunity to speak to billions of people every single day… make sure you plan what you want these people to know about you.

3. Four key elements to your social media strategy
Objectives, key messages, target audience and content.

4. Your social media strategy put very simply
You must develop content that is relevant to your target audience and achieves your objectives while sharing your key messages.

5. Social media is no longer about your business
It is about understanding your audience and why they connect with your business, and then tailoring your online presence to suit them and give them more of what they want.

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Sporty classics with a European edge


The Mistral range combines casual classics with a European edge that is fresh and on trend.

The Mistral story begins in 1976 when the Swiss company begins designing Windsurfers. Mistral quickly becomes the world number 1 brand supplying the Olympics and sponsoring countless world champions.

Today Mistral has diversified into Stand Up Paddleboards and brings its uncompromising quality to this rapidly growing sport further cementing its reputation in the active lifestyle industry.

2013 sees the global launch of the apparel ranges. Mistral rapidly secures more than 550 stores throughout Europe and North America on the back of its classically styled, high quality design.

Krites is the exclusive distributor of Mistral in Australia and New Zealand and are proud to present the summer 2013 range at Fashion Exposed.

Please visit stand 1422 in menswear during Fashion Exposed from 10-12 March at the Sydney Exhibition Centre to view the collection.

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Onto a fur thing



Discover your Wild Side in the lush fur print hoods with paw gloves from Wild Hoodz.

Looking for innovative apparel that doubles up as more than just clothing?

Wild Hoodz are the next big thing! They incorporate a hood with scarf and mittens, creating a functional, comfortable and stylish item of clothing.

Each Wild Hood product is made to the highest standard from premium quality synthetic furs that are an incredibly soft acrylic/polyester blend.

They are lined with a soft fleece and have embroidered paws with a pocket in the sleeve deep enough for a phone. They also boast a button and loop feature enabling the wearer to wear the hood in a scarf fashion.

Each product comes packaged in its own custom-designed reusable backpacks, eliminating unnecessary landfill.

They also have matching leg warmers and short hoods and will be expanding the brand into handbags this year.

Wild Hoodz Australia was formed in July 2012. With years of experience in the retail, fashion and marketing industries, this business became a natural progression for founder Christine Gradinger. After seeing similar types of products overseas, she saw great potential in creating the Wild Hoodz range for the Australian market.

Wild Hoodz made its debut with a range of animal print faux fur hoods and then expanded the range from 10 to 20 styles and also included short hoods and leg warmers.

Winter 2012, she took Wild Hoodz products down the East Coast of Australia to a number of Trade, Royal and country shows, receiving an overwhelmingly positive response. Wild Hoodz products exceeded sales expectations and forecasts, with many of our customers being NRL Supporters.

Wild Hoodz celebrates ones inner wild side and provides a practical and refreshing twist in design to rugging up for the cold. This year will see further additions to the collection including our new range ‘Illuminate’, led lighted hoods.

Each item is subject to stringent quality control before being dispatched from our warehouse on the Gold Coast and we currently have the capacity of supplying over 20, 000 hoods per month.

Currently Wild Hoodz products are being stocked in several stores in Queensland and New South Wales and have orders from more stores in Tasmania, Victoria and New Zealand for the coming winter. They also have an online store.

At the heart of Wild Hoodz’ vision is the commitment to promoting creativity and delivering the highest level in design, service and quality to each of their customers.

See the Wild Hoodz range on stand 4438 during Fashion Exposed from Sunday March 10-12 at the Sydney Exhibition Centre.

For more information or to register, visit fashionexposed.com

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