Event details
Innovative businesses thrive in Nottingham's creative climate
| Time: | 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start |
| Date: | Thursday 13 November 2008 |
| Venue: | Nottingham Playhouse |
We heard from two business leaders and designers who have both made their mark on Nottingham’s fashion scene.
Daniel Hanson, Founder, Daniel A Hanson
A designer by choice and a manufacturer by default, Daniel has managed his brand since 1989. Trading as a partnership, he works with his original financial partner and his wife on the maintenance of their small but highly prestigious company. It has unbroken relationships with luxury stores worldwide and a list of private clients that reads like Who’s Who.A trained clothing designer and formally principal lecturer/course leader in fashion design at Nottingham Trent University, Daniel opted out of the education system to focus his energies on his own work and products. Quick to succeed in the early 90’s the company was sold into a larger textile group; only to be offered back to him, ‘broken’ some 5 years ago.
Re-established in Nottingham where its roots lie the company is thriving once again.
Simeon Hartwig, Founder, Bantum Clothing
For his A-Level Simeon wrote a business plan for ‘Smallz’ clothing, a skater fashion label, and seven years later established Bantum Clothing for the shorter man. Named after the small spirited and aggressive Japanese chicken, he launched Bantum with an ‘I love Notts’ T-shirt and sold 800 locally. Bantum is now stocked in ten boutiques throughout the UK.Simeon has been twice nominated for the Paul Smith NBV award and this month became a winning finalist for the British Council’s Young Fashion Entrepreneur Award. This flagship programme recognises the best young rising stars making waves in the UK fashion industry and offers them a specially tailored tour of India’s fashion industry later this year.
Facebook: Berny Bantum; myspace.com/bantum; http://www.bantum.co.uk/