About Style Insider
Style Insider is brought to you by a dedicated and style savvy bunch of people based at River Island. Our Style Insiders are out and about bringing you the latest news from River Island HQ and the fashion world.
With daily blogging about everything from high fashion to the hottest high-street trends, tips to help you break the fashion industry and the word on the style street; our River Island Style Insiders have got it covered. Plus, when they’re lucky enough to get invites to exclusive parties and ‘glamorous’ fashion shoots, they make sure you get front row access too with Insider-TV.
And if that wasn’t enough to keep our Style Insiders busy, every fortnight they are thinking-up creative Style Challenges so that you can show us your River Island style and stand a chance of winning £100 worth of River Island vouchers! Check out our most recent entries here and get voting for your favourites.
About River Island
With nearly 250 stores nationwide and a hugely popular website we are known for our stylish and affordable fashion and we think we always look different to everyone else.
Our customers love us for our great going-out looks, amazing denim and fabulous shoes and bags, as well as being the perfect place to pick up everything else you could possibly need to finish off your outfit.
Here’s a little taster of what you can find in-store and online this autumn
At River Island we try really hard to bring new and original fashion to the high street, design is at the heart of absolutely everything we do.
River Island Design Studio — this is where it all begins
We always want to offer our customers something different. Our huge In-house design team of over 80 (many of whom were recruited at GFW) ensure we have fabulous new products arriving in store and online every week. This makes River Island a very fast paced and exciting place to work. It’s one of the reasons why our partnership with Graduate Fashion Week is so successful.
We work here! (clockwise from top left): Louise — Marketing, James — Design, Mez — PR, Josh — Human Resources, Liam — Buying, Tom — Buying
River Island and Graduate Fashion Week
Clockwise from top left: Richard Bradbury (CEO of River Island) with one of the Gold Award Judges, Claudia Schiffer; Award presenters - Agyness Deyn and Henry Holland; Host for the evening Caryn Franklin and Award Presenter Gok Wan; More Award Presenters - Pixie Geldof and stylist Mark Heyes
Graduate Fashion Week is unique in that it celebrates the very best in new and up and coming design talent in the UK and abroad (Incidentally GFW is the biggest fashion education event in the world!) We are thrilled to be involved as title sponsor for the 4th year. Working with GFW gives us the opportunity to put something back into the fashion industry and it gives all the graduates a fantastic opportunity to showcase their work to the best of the whole fashion industry.
The UK has the largest creative sector in Europe and here at River Island we employ new graduates every year into a variety of creative roles across all areas of our business. From design to visual merchandising and marketing to buying, GFW gives us the chance to find the best talent around.
When you join River Island you are joining a very creative team.
We're a bit like a family, so here is our family tree...
If you are visiting interested in working at River Island then find out more online at www.riverisland.com/infocareers or email human.resources@river-island.com
Graduate Fashion Week (GFW)
Graduate Fashion Week was launched in 1991 as a forum to showcase the very best BA Graduate fashion design talent in the UK. As always, the event attracts fashion scouts from the UK and overseas, all looking for that unique quirky Britishness that has helped to make some of the worlds most famous design houses the success they are today.
The culmination of Graduate Fashion Week is the prestigious Gala Show where the most outstanding collection is awarded the River Island Gold Award. The lucky winner will receive an impressive £20,000 prize. This is the only Award of its kind within British fashion education.
The River Island Gold Award Winner, GFW 2008 — Jessica Au (photo – Eddie Blagbrough)
Over the years Graduate Fashion Week has launched the careers of talented British designers such as Stella McCartney, Julien Macdonald, Antonio Beradi, Hussein Chalayan, Giles Deacon and PPQ.
The talent on show including designers, illustrators, merchandisers, buyers, PR officers, journalists, and marketeers has been snapped up by many of the world’s most prestigious brands including Donna Karan, Gucci, Levi Strauss, Calvin Klein and Reebok. Previous winners of Graduate Fashion Week include Christopher Bailey (Winner of the first GFW Collection of the Year Award), Rachel Gurney knitwear designer for Donna Karan and Vikki Wittering who became accessory designer at Calvin Klein.
Graduate Fashion Week is totally unique. No other country in the world invests in fashion graduates on such a scale!
This year’s event was hosted at the iconic Earls Court 2 in London and our biggest GFW yet. To find out more about GFW go to .
Find out more and how to get tickets to both GFW and the Education Day at www.gfw.org.uk.