Franc Sarabia 2016 collection

Following our appearance at London White Gallery Exhibition I have now got the full set of style pictures for next year. 
I say next year but I believe that orders placed early will be delivered towards the back of September. 
The styles are superb in looks and quality. These aren't cheap fashions, they are top quality, made from exquisite materials and compete with other top couture collections. They would be at home in any shop where quality and style are the keywords. Too many shops are selling the same sort of things from the usual suppliers and end up being caught in a price war. Competition is cruel when you have a shop full of stock all bought on forward order the previous year.

I must remind you that Franc Sarabia, as well as other collections we sell, are available on a low order value initially then just topped up as the season progresses. You keep control of the business finances easier as a result.

Anyway, without further ado here we go with pictures.
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A day at Battersea with Franc Sarabia

As promised I'm updating the news on the Franc Sarabia collection. 
Battersea White Galleries Exhibition is more of a bridal exhibition than anything else. No-one else had a stand that showed any mother of the bride or evening wear styles so the Sarabia stand was unique in that way.
While they also had the most fantastic collection of wedding gowns on show, it was the mother of the bride and evening wear that we are agents for. 
So on attending the stand it was apparent that a good lot of imagination and careful design had been put into their offerings.

The collection is pretty much half and half from long dresses, evening gown styles and the shorter styles more akin to the mother of the bride market.

I hesitate to put some of the pictures I took from their lookbook on this post as I'm terrible at doing photo'[s on a mobile phone and the lighting was poor with shadows, light glare on the pages et al.

However, I think it important to at least give a flavour of the styles showing. Some are better quality photo's than the others as well so you may be able to get a decent idea from them.

My personal favourite is the one below:

The delicate pink, almost a pale coral, is delightful and the dress is overlaid with the most intricate of lace detail. For the lady who doesn't want boobs on show, the bustline to the lower neck is covered by the lace for a modesty covering. This is a really gorgeous style and the most expensive in the collection, I believe anyway. However price apart, any lady looking for class will be sure to drawn to it. This will be a real winner.

Closely following that is this one.

The colours aren't really showing well on these photos and you can see the glare from the overhead lights as well but if you click on the pictures you'll be able to see the fine detailing of the style.

I'll add one word on the lengths though. The model was on the stand at the white gallery and she must be a good 6'3" so the dress length is very much knee or lower on a normal woman.

Next is this style:

For women wanting cover on the arms this is an ideal dress. The same attention to detail is given on the fine lace. Oh, some of the styles are in different colours as well as those shown and you can often take a jacket from one style to put with another to make up an outfit with your own personal touches.

Talking of delicate and different aren't those just lovely too. Once again there's upper bustline cover, long detailed sleeves with a superbly styled bottom to the dress for a different look to the more formal fit.


I'll just add others and leave you to consider each of them for how they look to you.

The next one has a pretty, well..... shite picture as it's taken at an angle and doesn't give a true proportional representation. The colour is out of this world though.

The sweet little bolero type of short jacket goes extremely well with this style. It can also be used to go with other styles such as dresses depicted without a coat or jacket.

Those are just a few styles from the shorter ones but then you have the long evening wear that are equally as well designed and using the same sort of quality materials. I won't bore you with details on them but show just a couple here for you.

I'm going to leave it at that for now but as soon as I get the proper pictures from a disc I'll be back to place them in another gallery.

I hope these have caught your imagination in the meantime and if there's any you need information on such as when they can seen, where they can be bought from (if you happen to be an end customer) please let me know.

Franc Sarabia is going to be BIG here and now is a good time to get aboard this collection before territorial areas are set.

Apart from existing retailers there will be no shop nearer than 20 miles from any other allowed to have the collection as this is a really exclusive collection with a high price point. Even that distance may be greater if the situation demands.

Up and coming

A funny thing happened in Scarborough on Tuesday. We were showing the Antonio D'Errico collection at a shop when a lady who was looking in the window came in to buy one of the styles we we showing on the rails.

I believe in fate now.
This is the one she saw, but with the dress all patterned instead of half and half

Anyway, we were already writing an order. so it just highlighted our chosen favourites advice.

We are getting where we want to be with this collection now. We haven't visited a single shop that has turned us down. In fact we often find that they buy extra from the other collections as well.

Franc Sarabia had a slow start. Not that it isn't really good and stylish; just that with only 5 sample styles to show it's difficult getting an opening order. This situation won't change much for some time either but we are still committed to it. We go to London this weekend to the White Gallery Wedding Exhibition where they show their unique Spanish wedding gowns as well as a good selection of the mother of the bride and special occasion styles.

We really want to work with the company and hope to increase interest down there, not with the wedding gowns as we don't have a contract for those.

Pictures will be appearing here of those at the exhibition when we come back so keep watching. I expect there to be some really lovely outfits among them in a mix of evening-wear and mother of the bride styles.

Apart from that we are only a week away from going to Milan to see the new Antonio D'Errico 2016 collection. This is our main collection and we are already on notice from a friend who saw the collection at the Barcelona Bridal Exhibition last week that it's fantastic. More pictures to come from there when we get back then.

MODA is also creeping up on us now. August isn't a kick in the backside away and Antonio has a large stand along the bottom of the catwalk where he'll have all of the 2016 styles. I think it will be a show stopper from all the things I've heard about the new styles.

Unottavo is also now starting to gain interest. Catherine's of Partick and Lady G from East Kilbride are the latest buyers and they just love them; not all of them mind you. No one collection has a full set of styles that does everything for everyone.

Moncho Heredia was showing at Barcelona Bridal too and my Irish counterpart says it's really good. Not having any past experience of the label I can'tr wait o get my hands on the samples. They look lovely and the price is exceptional.
The one below for instance sells out to shoppers at around £325. It can't be purchased now though as the order books closed for this collection some time ago.

The sister company for the Moncho Heredia already has a set of pictures for the autumn. These are in a better price range than the Moncho but I didn't get the contract to the label until after the autumn orders were finished so won't bother showing them. They are available to see on their website though if you want to view them. Or at least they will be showing there shortly as I see the summer styles still on the website at this time.

I already have advance interest in these so am looking forward to receiving the samples.

So, that's it. Up to date for now.