We’re always excited by Graduate Fashion Week each year. It’s a comforting marker that the industry is vibrant, an annual celebration of the future of fashion. Once the catwalk has been packed away, though, there is reality to contend with. Thousands leave university with a degree in fashion or textiles in their hot hands, […]

Are we all going to be replaced by robots in the end? Perhaps, but for the time being, we can confirm that no robots are used in the making of our uniforms, nor do we have any robots on staff, that we know of. We feel compelled to point this out, as some of the […]

Hands up who remembers their school uniform! A straw poll of the Fashionizer office has revealed that the colour might have varied – navy, bottle green, red, burgundy and an emotionally damaging pea green – but we are united by the fact that we rolled up our skirts at the waistband to make them shorter. […]

International Women’s Day is cause for celebration and interest for us here at Fashionizer. Not least because 85% of our workforce are women. A whole year has passed since Ruth Cadbury mentioned us in the House of Commons on International Women’s Day 2016, as an example of a company that has a creative approach to employing […]

What a start to 2017. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the world looks…well, a little on the gloomy side. As a business we have been looking at rate and rent rises and currency fluctuations in 2017. In politics too, it seems that the rule-book is being ripped up, what with Brexit rumbling on and […]

When Alexandra Shulman announced that she was stepping down after 25 years as editor of Vogue, we decided to ask our team to choose their favourite covers. We love Vogue at Fashionizer, so we needed no excuse to delve into our own collection. Here are our picks: October 2011: Adele A close-up of shot of […]

Itchy Uniforms: The Reputation of Wool at Stake   Itchy uniforms; it is a uniform designer’s worst nightmare! A client launches a lovely new wool uniform with a huge fanfare – then the staff wearing it come out in hives. This is what American Airlines and their uniform suppliers are currently up against. With 1,600 […]

Despite all the things that happened in 2016 worldwide, it wasn’t such a bad year for Fashionizer. Considering we’re well into 2017, it’s time to reminisce about our 2016’s “Best Nine”. Here are Our Best Nine 1) One trade show in the UK Our sales team attended the Independent Hotel Show in London, for the first time in 2016 […]

Happiness is one of our favourite subjects. We’ve looked with envy at the Happiness Index of the happiest country in the world, Bhutan, and we have even made our own compilation of happy hits. One big reason why we have a happiness fascination is because it is completely bound in with wellness. Feeling good, both […]

Will Creative Industries Benefit from a Nissan-style Deal? Dear Mr Clark, Fashionizer, as a luxury uniform designer, is very firmly in the creative industry sector, so we were delighted to hear you say “The creative industry is very important,” on Andrew Marr’s show at the weekend. The context of your comments were around the car […]