Fashion

“Our partnership with ASPIRE is a huge step forward for our brand, within product licensing but also more generally,” said Ben Gunn, Brand Director at Lyle & Scott.

“We’ve been long-time fans of Amber and her bold, colourful and modern designs,” said Beth Hooker, VP Licensing at Jewel.

The design of the James Bond egg will boast the most technically advanced opening mechanism that Fabergé has ever produced.

“It was such an honour to put our own spin on such an iconic shoe in collaboration with our longstanding tailoring partner Manchester United,’ said Paul Smith.

‘This is our way of celebrating the incomparable show and all the delightfully bizarre and scary characters – looking at you, Bob – of the original line-up,’ read a statement from Dedicated.

“Our partnership with Mattel is reaching new heights,” said Mike O’Connell, Managing Director for Rubies.

“My first experience with fashion was dressing a Barbie doll and collaborating with them on a full collection will definitely be the highlight of my career,” said Sabaji.

Start Licensing’s Ian Downes takes a look at HomeLess Made, a company whose greetings cards, tees and badges showcases artwork from creatives that have experience of homelessness or a mental health condition.

“The wealth of assets makes this the perfect property to build a meaningful, impactful and fun consumer products programme,” said Rob Corney, Managing Director of Bulldog Licensing.

Start Licensing’s Ian Downes looks at how a recent partnership between jewellery firm Clogau and design Julien Macdonald highlights the benefits of smart, design-led collabs.