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Photo Credit: Photo by Zhou Yu on Unsplash There’s no doubt about it, Fashion Marketing is one of the top career goals for every fashion graduate who comes into Directory. New graduates are eager to get their academic career behind them and start gaining some real-life experience. But with graduate level roles in fashion marketing being rare and hard to come by, what are the...

Did you know Pop Up shops are now a $50 billion dollar industry? No wonder everyone you know is popping up in every nook and cranny. The trend of opening up spaces for short-term sales first started in Los Angeles but the practice of pop-ups dates back to 1920’s Vienna. Today - brands use pop up shops for collaborations, new product drops, building brand awareness and to fig...

Image: The Parlour at Fortnum and Mason via Fortnum & Mason Forget about Eat, Pray, Love… today’s shoppers are spoiled for choice when it comes to food and beverage. As the ongoing chatter continues around the impending retail apocalypse confronting brands, customers can take some comfort in a number of London’s most eponymous cafés as they eat, pray, shop. It was in the ear...

Photo by Olu Eletu on Unsplash As an agency with a primary focus on fashion retail, but also providing customer service roles in hospitality, health & fitness and events & hosting, it’s common for the Directory team to have screenings with a variety of individuals. This blog is going to focus on those who are coming in for service roles that don’t directly align with the vac...

Photo of David Beckham via Pinterest Last week London showed menswear collections for London Fashion Week Men’s. A highlight of that week was the Kent and Curwen collection in partnership with David Beckham. Arguably the most famous and widely accepted tattooed man on the planet currently. Once the sign of a fringe demographic and then rebellion, tattoos are the new normal. ...

Photo: Brooke Lark via Unsplash A recurring topic of conversation between retail clients and Directory agency founders Javid Pathan and Younus Desai is the changing landscape of the relationship with brands and their employees. Whether it be placing candidates into permanent, fixed term contract or temp positions, candidates today are more vocal about what they want and what...

Image Credit: @belart84 via Unsplash As the academic year winds down students are excited about some well deserved time off from having their head down in books, projects and final exams. Whilst its natural to dream of wearing cute summer rompers and sitting on sandy beaches watching the waves roll in, the reality is, many students need summer work. If you’re one of the hund...

Image: Neil Hall/Reuters With our news feeds flooded with Royal Wedding pics this week, it seemed timely to write about wedding style. I tapped one stylish newlywed from the Directory team for her insider tips on what brides are always hoping for from their guests but don’t always say. Summertime always comes with a heavy social calendar. In between weekend city break getawa...

Photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash As you can imagine, recruitment agencies receive A LOT of online applications. However, personalisation still wins. As candidates apply for jobs online and are filling out pre-formatted forms there are a few tips to increase your chances of getting noticed and standing out from the hundreds of online applications. Most notably, follow up and s...

Image Credit: Getty Images This year’s Met Gala theme Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination brought out both spectacular and spectacle making headpieces. Has there ever been a Met Gala where an accessory has been such an integral part of the dress code? And while some seemed to be reaching for the heavens with their sky-high halos and headdresses, some opted ...