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.