BUY YOUR TICKET FOR FASHION WEEK WITH JEFF BANKS!

Tickets for this year’s Fashion Week with Jeff Banks are now on sale. You can purchase your ticket for just £7.50 at the Information Desk on the upper level of The Mall.

Show Programme

Wednesday 17th September
Shows at 12.30pm and 6.30pm

Thursday 18th September
Shows at 12 noon, 1.30pm and 6.30pm

Friday 19th September
Shows at 12 noon, 1.30pm and 6.30pm

Saturday 20th September
Shows at 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm

This year’s event is bigger and, in our opinion, better than ever before – 12 spectacular fashion shows over four days!

For the first time the shows will take place in our stunning Fashion Marquee outside the main entrance of The Mall. This gives us room to have a professional full-length catwalk and seating for 300 people and we’ve decorated the interior in shocking pink, black and silver to give a really glitzy and glamorous feel.

Marks & Spencer will offer you wine and nibbles on arrival and over the next 40 minutes you’ll enjoy a kaleidoscope of colour and style as our models sashay up and down the catwalk in a mouthwatering selection of some of the best fashions here at The Mall.

There are plenty of fashion ideas for the men too and children from the Stagecoach group will model some truly delicious kidswear from the likes of Monsoon, Gap and Next.

You’ll also get the opportunity to see the winning designs in our Student Fashion Design Competition. All 12 final outfits will be modelled in each show. You can view all 12 designs and vote for who you think should win this prestigious competition on this website.

Goody Bags!

Another new touch this year and something we’re particularly excited about is the Goody Bag! Everyone who buys a ticket for one of our shows will automatically receive a Goody Bag packed with £37 worth of really good goodies!

From our principal sponsor Estée Lauder, there’s a Pure Color lipstick worth £14 and a sample of their new fragrance Beyond Paradise.

You’ll also receive the October issue of Prima magazine, a £5 Mall Gift Cheque, a Free Coffee and Cake on Monday voucher from John Lewis worth another £5 (yes, John Lewis will be open every Monday from 1st September!) and a £10 Day Pass into Fitness First at The Venue where you can use all the facilities including exercise classes, the steam room, the sauna room and the aromatherapy room.

Lots of Free Prize Draws and Discount Vouchers.

Everyone attends one of our shows will also be able to enter our Free Prize Draw to win a variety of prizes, including a luxurious Estée Lauder hamper, Swarovski jewellery, Guess watches and Boots Professional Haircare hampers including products from Beverly Cobella, Trevor Sorbie, Toni&Guy, Charles Worthington, John Frieda, Umberto Giannini, and Lee Stafford. A number of fashion retailers will be offering special discounts and further competitions during the 4 day event.

Ticket Sales to support our Fountain Charity Fund.

All the proceeds from ticket sales will go to The Mall’s Fountain Charity Fund which supports charities and voluntary organisations within a 25 mile radius of The Mall. So as well as having a thoroughly good day out, coming to our Fashion Week will help some very worthwhile causes. You can find out more about The Fountain Fund on this website.

Other additional activities include a special guest appearance by Bristol songstress Katie Lewis who came to prominence during Fame Academy and top international designer Paul Costelloe whose beautifully cut clothes are available from John Lewis.

The photograph above features Lucy Ratnett Stagecoach Dance Coach and some of the Stagecoach children rehearsing for Fashion Week in September. Eighteen children between 6 and 12 are involved with the event and will be modelling kidswear from Monsoon, Gap and Next.

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CAN YOU SPOT A FASHION DESIGNER OF THE FUTURE?

Vote for your favourite design! Here's your chance to vote on who you think should win The Mall's Student Fashion Designer of the Year Competition 2003.

The students were asked to design an outfit for a social occasion - anything from a high society wedding to a restaurant opening. Over 100 students from colleges across the region took up the challenge and entered the competition. This has been whittled down to 12 finalists who are now busy producing their outfit for the final judging session at The Mall's Fashion Week in September.

All 12 outfits will be modelled for the judges during the opening Fashion Show on Wednesday 17th September. The judges will be looking at the students' creativity, innovation and imaginative use of materials, as well as sensitivity to production and consumer needs. The winners will be announced during the Fashion Show by judging panel chairman Jeff Banks. But who would you choose to win? Whose outfit do you think shows the most promise? Would you wear it?

UPDATE - FASHION STUDENTS CELEBRATE AT THE MALL

The winners of The Mall at Cribbs Causeway's Student Fashion Design Competition were Maurizio Grioli from the University of the West of England and Sally Davey of GLOSCAT.

The winners, both 22 years old, each picked up a £1,000 cheque, a crystal trophy and a work experience placement with either Jeff Banks or Planet on the opening day of The Mall's annual Fashion Week event.

Click Here to View Maurizio's Design

22 year old Maurizio, who is originally from Sicily and studying Fashion Textile Design at the University of West of England in Bristol, won the Higher Education award for his Belle Epoque red organza one-sleeved corset and tight-fitting brocade skirt.

Watched by his family who had flown in from Italy especially, Maurizio was very emotional as he said: "I'm so happy, it means so much to me to win. I'm looking forward to the work experience placement and will spend the prize money on my final university collection."

Sally Davey was the winner of the Higher Education category. Sally is studying Fashion and Creative Studies at GLOSCAT in Gloucestershire. Her design was a pale blue strapless evening gown inspired by moving water, designed for a charity ball in support of Water Aid - and she is generously donating her prize money to the charity.

Click Here to View Sally's Design

As well as her design, the judges were impressed that Sally had created her own material for her dress, heat-treating the synthetic blue fabric to alter its form and create a shimmering effect with luxurious beading and a fishtail.

She said: "I can't believe I've won. I didn't think I would as the others were so good. I'd love to have my own fashion label one day, so I'm really looking forward to the work placement."

After the show, Jeff Banks said: "The standard was incredibly high and for the winners to already be this good at such a young age - watch this space."

The Mall's marketing manager Sue Boor was one of the judges. "The variety and quality of the finished outfits was just amazing and proves why the UK offers the best fashion education in the world," she said. "There were influences from punk to gothic, tweed tailoring to evening glamour and our audiences have really enjoyed seeing the outfits here on the catwalk."

Nearly 100 students from Higher Education and Further Education establishments across the region entered the competition with a brief to design an outfit for a social occasion. Twelve students were selected as finalists and invited to create their outfits for the final round of judging on the catwalk at The Mall's Fashion Week.

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CHILL OUT IN THE MALL’S SUMMER PLAY ZONE!

Friday 22nd – Sunday 31st August 2003 Take the strain out of back to school shopping with a visit to The Mall’s Summer Play Zone event!

From now until 31st August, you can stock up on all those school essentials while the children enjoy themselves in our Summer Play Zone Marquee. Inside are some of the very latest LEGO and Early Learning Centre games and toys just waiting to be played with!

LEGO has brought two of its new games from its exciting Sports range - LEGO basketball and ice-hockey. When the children have tried out the games, they can see how their real sporting skills measure up by competing in a basketball or ice-hockey shoot out!

LEGO’s popular Make & Create range will also be there and offers endless creative opportunities as well as helping to develop children’s building skills.

There’ll be plenty for younger children too thanks to Early Learning Centre who will have lots of creative games such as face painting, designing cards and drawing as well as traditional play toys like hopscotch, Thomas train sets and Happy Land toys. There will be lots of hands-on activities and competitions with fantastic prizes so plan your back to school shopping at The Mall and everyone will have a great time!

The Mall’s Summer Play Zone is a free but unsupervised event and runs from Friday 22nd to Sunday 31st August. It will appeal to children aged between 4 and 10 years old and takes place in the Summer Play Zone Marquee near the Boots entrance on the north side of The Mall.

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