Fran and Jane Ladies Fashion designers & fashion boutiques

November 2nd, 2010 Fran & Jane Loves

Tatler Magazine Businesswomen of the Year

The Fran and Jane team are extremely proud to announce that our Creative Director Laura Nolan and owner Fran Nolan have been deservedly nominated for the Tatler magazine businesswomen of the year award.

This nomination brings us to end of possibly the most exciting and challenging year for the brand since its establishment in 1974. At the helm of a turbulent retail year, Fran and Laura have continued to successfully adapt and develop the brand to meet the needs of a changing marketplace. The experience and astute commercial awareness of Fran combined with daughter Laura’s ambition for the business has seen it become established as an international retailer in 2010. This was achieved by expanding the brands international wholesale accounts, the opening of our first London boutique and online growth. The move towards e-tailing has been a conscious and strategic investment for Fran and Jane aimed at further opening up the brand to an international marketplace, while also building relationships with existing customers by offering improved services such as ‘shopping on the go’ via their Fran and Jane iPhone/iTouch application.

Already established as one of Ireland’s most prestigious titles, the annual Tatler businesswomen of the year awards 2010 will be held on  November 19th at the Four Seasons Hotel Dublin. We here at Fran and Jane HQ have all fingers and toes crossed for Fran and Laura and wish them the best of luck at this year’s ceremony!!!!

Lots of Love,

 The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

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July 15th, 2010 Fran & Jane Loves

Style Wars

Fran and Jane HQ have been abuzz this week with excitement due to our feature in episode 3 of TV3’s hottest new show ‘Style Wars’.

The fashion industry’s answer to ‘The Apprentice’, the show has been a major hit to date with Irish viewers, largely due to its famous judges Caprice, Ian Galvin and Peter O’Brien. Given their vast experience and influence within the fashion industry, the opinions of these well known judges are no doubt crucially important to the hopeful contestants as they compete for a senior creative role at Aurora Fashion’s international offices and the chance to co-create the next ByCaprice fashion line.

Episode 3 was explosive and saw contestants for the first time working individually and competing against one another.  The task assigned by mentor Angela Woods was to create an advertorial for Lipton Tea, by styling a look using pieces from Fran and Jane and inspired by the colour palette of one of seven different Lipton tea variants, from Pink Citrus to Peppermint Green.

The contestants spent a day at Fran and Jane HQ in Fashion City trawling through rail after rail of stock, stacks of shoes and piles of accessories. Spying on the contestants as they worked and having seen the various items which they pulled out on the day, we were all so intrigued to see the final looks on this week’s show and what they came up with was no less than incredible! Each contestant styled a look completely unique of the next, with every look getting quirkier and more and more inspired!

Miss Ireland's Wearing Fran and Jane for a Style Wars Shoot

This winner from this week’s episode was David Green who created a sensational look inspired by Lipton Tea’s Forest Fruits flavour. David styled his Fran and Jane outfit using a mix of purples including our Carli 10 dress, Cutie shoe boots and Mars 9 coat. Although all looks styled were great David was the outright winner for this week’s task and we here at Fran and Jane absolutely LOVED what he created! Although we are disappointed that our episode has come and gone we cannot wait for next week’s episode to see what challenge faces the remaining contestants!

Lots of Love, 

The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

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June 15th, 2010 Fran & Jane Loves

Wispa Frill Dress is Famous!

Fran and Jane loves that our beautiful Wispa Frill Dress, from our Spring Summer collection has become an overnight superstar Following its recent feature in Grazia’s fashion charts at no.7 the very same dress has now also been featured on TV3’s Xposé Star Buy. See the link below to the feature:

Gossip, Fashion, Celebrity News, Reviews and Interviews with music and movie stars from the TV3 Xpose team Glenda Gilson; Aisling O’Loughlin; Karen Koster; Lisa Cannon; Sean M3

Available to buy online or in store, this gorgeous little number comes in both black and fuchsia pink, is 100% silk and is priced at €169. This dress has literally been flying off the rails but there are still a few left in stock so make sure you get shopping today to enjoy a little bit of our new found fame!

Lots of love,

The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

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June 15th, 2010 Fran & Jane Loves

Fran and Jane iPhone and iTouch Application!

Fran and Jane are so proud of our brand new iPhone and iTouch application available for download now from iTunes, or directly from our website homepage!! We like to think that our app has that little something special versus other fashion apps out there and think it’s a great feature to help our shoppers to stay fabulous while on the go : )

Fran and Jane iPhone / iTouch Application

Not only does the app allow you to keep up to speed through our blog and with notifications on our constant new arrivals into store, but it also enables you to email looks to friends and family if you need that vital second opinion, or if you spot something that you know would just look great on a friend! To add that extra little bit of sparkle to your iPhone or iTouch all looks and also our cute Fran and Jane logo’s can be set as wallpaper – we love it!

Well if we haven’t convinced you yet how great this new app is, there is one key exclusive iPhone / iTouch feature we know none of our shoppers will be able to resist! Having downloaded our application every shopper is entitled to present the VIP screen in store and will then receive 10% off any Fran and Jane purchase each time they are in store!!! We would love to hear our shopper’s feedback on what you like or dislike about our new app – so please do download today and let us know what you think!

Lots of love,

The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

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June 11th, 2010 Fran & Jane Loves

Football gets Fabulous!

Fran and Jane just loooooves the custom made 18ct gold travel case designed by Louis Vuitton to hold the famous FIFA World Cup trophy until it is handed to the winning team in July.

The fabulous piece was unveiled last week by the French design house and supermodel Naomi Campbell. A spokesperson for Louis Vuitton said, “This exceptional commission truly honors Louis Vuitton’s 150- year tradition of craftsmanship and savoir-faire. We are also delighted to be part of the great festival of football that the 2010 FIFA World Cup promises to be, and to renew our ties with the host country South Africa, with which we have had for many years a very special relationship.”

We here at Fran and Jane HQ suddenly have a new found appreciation for the fabulousness of football!!!

Lots of love,

The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

Football gets Fabulous

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