Behind the scenes at “Liberty’s Open Call”

Posted on 09/02/10, filed under News | No Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liberty’s press girl Kate gives us her day-in-the-life of Liberty’s Open Call!

 

 7.30am

I arrive to find 100 hopefuls already queuing outside the Liberty back door! I pop inside and get ready with the rest of the Liberty judging panel and the Maverick production crew (an independent TV production company who were filming a BBC 2 documentary called “The Buying Game” which centres on Liberty’s Open Call! Also on our expert panel was our very own Director of Buying Ed Burstell, fashion doyenne Sarah Mower, David Nicholls; design editor of the Saturday Telegraph who worked with the furniture buying team and Danielle Proud the craft queen who gave her opinion on home-wares and haberdashery items.

9.30am

The queue had swelled to gargantuan proportions and wound round the whole building. We flung open the doors and designers of all walks of life surged into the store to show examples of their work to our panel. The team ended up seeing a grand total of 569 designers! The calibre of products blowing last time’s Open Call out of the water.

 5.30pm

By 5.30pm all potential and interesting designers were earmarked for round two so Ed Burstell our “Messiah of Buying” could give his final yes or no!

9.30pm 

Wrap up! Ed Burstell and the buying team finish up for the day. Final decisions about the 40 designers who were put through to the final round are still being finalised so check Liberty blog again later in the week for details of our hottest finds.

  

Stay tuned for the forthcoming BBC 2 documentary called ‘The Buying Game’ which has Liberty’s open call as it’s lynch pin. It will air this autumn so watch this space for further details!

The Buying Game

Posted on 08/02/10, filed under Behind the Scenes | 1 Comment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For those of you not able to make Liberty’s Open Call this Saturday here is a peek of all the action… and if this snippet isn’t enough, stay tuned this September for more insight into Liberty’s Open Call and The Buying Game. We were caught on camera by BBC2 and Dragon’s Den star Theo Paphitis, who as part of a new series about the UK’s most prestigious retailers, went behind- the-scenes of the phenonomen that is Liberty’s open day! In the meantime we will  showcasing some of our most exciting finds and fabulous designers from Saturday, tomorrow. Ya’ll come back now…

Guess who?

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You can’t mistake that iconic trademark sole and that distinctive floral print! Guess who is collaborating with yours truly?? Watch this space…