How to find a sponsor and get sponsorship for your fashion show

Sponsors love fashion designers. They want to be associated with glamour. Just look at London Fashion Week, sponsored by  the likes of Blackberry, Coutts and British Airways. Or New York Fashion Week, sponsored by Mercedes Benz and others. Sponsorships are a great way to finance your brand’s fashion show.
How do you get someone to pay [...]

Roundup of news about World on a Hanger

Despite a pause from blogging, we’ve not been idle here at World on a Hanger. If you’ve been following the What’s New section you will have seen regular updates. Our vision is simple: to provide fashion designers with the best tools possible to manage their production and sales.
It’s been an exciting year for World on a [...]

Fashion Competitions that can help you grow your business

As the number of emerging designers in Europe grow, private companies and fashion-focused institutions are keen on developing new talents. Below is a list – in no particular order – of nine fashion competitions that could be useful in helping you grow your label.
Let us know in the comments if you spot any omissions!
1. NewGen. [...]

World on a Hanger makes it to Seedcamp final!

We’re very excited that World on a Hanger has made it into the final for Seedcamp 2009!
This means that we’ve been selected from over 1,500 applicants to take part in a one week event where we’ll have access to  “400 mentors from a top-tier network of company builders; including seed investors, serial entrepreneurs, product [...]

Websites that can boost your fashion business

The Internet is positively one of the smartest, most convenient options for acquiring information these days. It has evolved so impressively in the past decade that almost everything has been made possible for us not only in terms of learning but also in trading.
Established fashion labels for instance, are marketing themselves on social networks such [...]

The art of pricing fashion

Pricing can be very tricky. Go too high and no one buys. Go too low and you sell yourself short. Get it right and you will sell more and keep tidy profit margins.
But how do you figure out the best price for your products?
New eco friendly denim label Reco Jeans did an interesting experiment: They [...]

London Alternative Fashion Week ‘09

If you’re in London remember to pop by Alternative Fashion Week, which is being held in Spitalfields from today 20 April until Friday 24 April.
This is a top place for seeing what young designers from all over the world are doing. I’ve been told it’s more vibrant and edgier than London Fashion Week.. It’s billed [...]

News of the World (on a Hanger)!

The last months have been very exciting for us here at World on a Hanger. In the course of  building a web-application that promises to help fashion designers and small labels with the business side of things we come across all sorts of wonderful things.  That’s why we’ve decided to set up a blog where [...]

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World on a Hanger is a start-up developing software to make life easy for small fashion labels. We help you with sourcing, production and handling orders - leaving you free to create!

Our goal is to take the pain out of administration, allowing you to focus on the fun stuff. See our website.

Here we share our thoughts on fashion, business and technology. We'll also keep you updated as we race towards getting our application to you at the beginning of 2009.

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