MANGO opens new concessions with House of Fraser, John Lewis and Tempest in the UK

Fashion brand MANGO is opening five new concessions in the UK at the House of Fraser department stores in Northampton, Wolverhampton, Worcester, High Wycombe and Solihull at the end of September/beginning of October, and two new concessions at John Lewis in London’s Oxford Street store and in Kingston. For the first time, it will open five concessions with the Tempest department store in Northern Ireland in Lisburn, Omagh, Craigavon, Coleraine and Bangor. These new openings will bring the total number of MANGO stores in the UK to 64 and reflect MANGO's commitment towards this market. In addition to its presence in stand-alone stores in the high street and concessions in department stores, MANGO is also present in the travel retail sector in the UK with a company store at Gatwick and Manchester airports.

Mango, Shakira and Unicef collaborate for World Cup charity t-shirts

Mango, Shakira and UNICEF have launched a collection of Solidarity t-shirts. This initiative, to coincide with the FIFA World Cup, will raise funds for the Barefoot Foundation, to be donated to the South African Elementary School. The capsule collection of solidarity t-shirts is inspired by the official FIFA World Cup anthem ‘Waka Waka’. The designs represents the spirit of South Africa, the host of the FIFA World Cup, and profits from the sales of the t-shirt will be donated to initiatives for elementary education in South Africa. A total of four t-shirts, two models for women and two models for men, bearing the printed slogans ‘Waka Waka’ and ‘This Time for Africa’, have been exclusively designed for the occasion. The models will go on sale at all Mango stores, and via its webpage www.mangoshop.com from 10 June. They will be priced at £22.90 for the women’s model and £24.90 for the men’s model.

Finalists of 2010 Mango Fashion Awards announced

Mango has selected the 10 finalists of the third edition of the ‘El Boton’ Mango Fashion Awards, an event aimed at supporting new international talent. The candidates will compete for a prize of €300,000, the largest sum awarded to date in an event like this. The Jury was made up of five international design schools (Central Saint Martins, the Institut Francais de la Mode in Paris, the Istituto Marangoni in Milan, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and the Escola Superior de Disseny, Barcelona) and representatives from Mango. Finalists include: British design duo Matthew Cunningham and John Sanderson, fellow Brit Jean-Pierre Braganza, Michael Sontag from Germany, Italian Rocco Iannone, Harvey Bouterse and Helena Lumelsky from Belgium, Spanish duo Javier Zazo and Clara Bull, Austrian Isabelle Steger, Motonari Ono from Japan and Italian duo Fabio Sasso and Juan D. Caro. Over 200 designers entered, and the final 10 were announced during the Autumn/Winter 2010 catwalk show held in Madrid on 26 May. The finalists were awarded a cheque for €18,000 to start designing their collections. The winner will be announced in October. Pictured is Mango Chairman Isak Andic with the 10 finalists.

Mango “el Botón”-MANGO Fashion Awards

Mango has launched the third edition of its “el Botón”-MANGO Fashion Awards, a competition which aims to promote the international projection of talented young fashion designers. Participants will have the opportunity to present their collections before a prestigious jury and compete for 300,000 euros in prize money, the largest sum offered to date in a competition of this type. In late April, the jury will select the 10 finalists from all the applications presented. The finalists will then receive 18,000 euros to produce their collection, with the winner being announced in November. In the previous editions, the jury of the “el Botón”-MANGO Fashion Awards had two chairmen, the acclaimed designers Valentino and Oscar de la Renta. Respectively, they awarded the prize to the winning Belgian duo Sandrina Fasoli & Michaël Marson and, last year, to the South Korean designer, Lee Jean Youn.