SHOWROOM AND STORE PROFILES
STUDIOZETA
Founded in Florence in the early 1980s, Studiozeta finds and grows new brands and connects them to the most important stores on the planet. Many of the big names in the fashion business began and grew up in Studiozeta, including Martin Margiela, Neil Barrett, Antonio Marras, Giambattista Valli, Francesco Scognamiglio, MSGM, Au Jour Le Jour and others. Studiozeta’s clientele is made up of the most important and prestigious department stores, concept stores and specialty stores around the world. Every season more than 1,500 buyers visit its two showrooms in Milan and Paris. www.studiozeta.org
DUO NYC
DUO NYC is a store that features an edited selection of vintage and modern independent designers. Co-founders and sisters Wendy and LaRae Kangas focus on gender-neutral womenswear and handpick go-to wardrobe staples concentrating on natural fibers and modern silhouettes. Located in New York’s East Village since 2008. www.duonyc.com
PARISA ENGEL
Parisa Engel is a fashion showroom based in Salzburg that sells to the Austrian market. The agency focuses on womenswear, especially cashmere, silk, tops and pants. It represents herzen'S angelegenheit, rosemunde, Marella, Josephine & Co and iBlues. The agency’s customers include Strolz, Einwaller, Mondial and Steffl. www.parisaengel.com
MFASHION
Since 2004, Mfashion has been an exclusive distributor of premium and luxury European and American brands of clothing and accessories in Russia and the CIS. The company’s portfolio includes brands such as Paige, 5Preview, Eton, Two Women, Two Men and others. The Mfashion team is constantly monitoring the market in a bid to anticipate the trends of both business processes in general and fashion in particular. www.mfshowroom.com
OLDSTROM
After several years of managing a fashion distribution company, Caroline Ekstrom founded the Oldstrom agency in 2012. Focusing on Scandinavian fashion, but not exclusively, it strives to find brands that deliver quality, value for money and a point of difference. Oldstrom is based in the heart of the hip and bustling Shoreditch neighborhood in London – currently the center of UK fashion wholesale. It represents brands including VK Cashmere, Kennel & Schmenger, Dea Kudibal and others. www.oldstrom.com
CUCCUINI
Livorno (Italy), 1967: Gianni Cuccuini and Gabriella Billi open their first accessories boutique. Within a few years, they gain access to the most important fashion shows and showrooms of Paris and Milan. Nowadays their Group is a member of the Italian Chamber of Fashion Buyers and one of the country’s luxury retail leaders. The Livorno shop serves the city’s high-flying inhabitants and the cosmopolitan travelers who arrive on European cruise ships. The Cuccuini Group has further expanded with the opening of five boutiques in Livorno, three in Punta Ala, one in Forte dei Marmi and one in Massa. www.cuccuini.it
KOMET UND HELDEN
With showrooms in Munich and Dusseldorf, Komet und Helden has a strong reach in the German market. Its rich and diverse brand portfolio spans ready-towear, denim, outerwear, footwear and hat collections from the likes of 7 For All Mankind, Baracuta, Barena Venezia, Blauer USA, Diemme, Save The Duck, Deus Ex Machina, Woolrich and others. www.kometundhelden.de
LOVE BRANDS
Love Brands is an award-winning fashion distributor with showrooms in London, Manchester and Dublin. For over twenty years, it has been directly managing or acting as a regional distributor and agent for some of the biggest internationally recognized apparel brands in the fashion industry, such as GUESS, Joop!, Nü Denmark and others. www.lovebrandsuk.com
NOB
Paris-based NOB stands for ‘not only black’, as well as ‘not only conventional, not only commercial, not only for business’. This strategic and creative multibrand agency/showroom presents cutting edge, innovative and responsible brands to international fashion retailers. NOB offers brand development consulting and communication to designers; in addition, it helps retailers to refine their buying strategy. Its brand portfolio includes Dhruv Kapoor, Red September, Adult. and others. www.nobshowroom.com
ASHOWROOM
ashowroom was born from the meeting of a fashion business consultant and a designer. It presents selected brands in a curated environment where excellence and originality are a common thread. An organization based in the three fashion capitals of London, Milan and Paris, it continuously searches for the best talent globally. Brands include Rohka, Marieke Jaeken and others. www.ashowroom.org