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GSC launches Marine Serre x Skinvaders collaboration

GSC were delighted to launch the newest collaboration between fashion-forward house Marine Serre and the world-leading next-generation platform for in-game branded skins and digital clothing, Skinvaders. Launched in 2020 by specialist fashion tech group PlatformE, Skinvaders is a next-generation platform for in-game branded skins and digital clothing. It aims to integrate luxury fashion into the metaverse, utilising these brand connections as an aspect of in-game customisation to elevate the gaming experience.

This collaboration served to digitise Marine Serre’s Hard Drive collection alongside the physical line and was a groundbreaking next step for both parties involved within the Metaverse fashion sphere.

The announcement was strategically targeted towards hand-picked fashion and tech press to ensure optimal coverage across the leading publications that are currently championing the metaverse fashion conversation. 

This resulted in dedicated pieces across Fashion United and Fashion network plus features within the Vogue Business and Jing Weekly newsletters.

Total reach: 14,434,680

GSC has launched a new TikTok Channel

Gabrielle Shaw, GSC Founder, To Publish Regular Column in Stellar Magazine

GSC launches the new Ladurée X Château D’Estoublon Collaboration

GSC awarded Hermes Creative Platinum Award for COCOON strategic campaign

We are delighted to have been awarded a Hermes Creative Platinum Award for our work with COCOON. The Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals. Each year, the competition judges assess the creative industry’s best publications, branding collateral, advertising, marketing and communication programmes. This year we were lucky enough to receive the award for Strategic Campaigning, Public Relations and Communications for our submission: The Rise of Rental, with COCOON.  

The award recognised our strategic campaign which managed the announcement of a brand new investment round, with luxury goods group Kering taking a stake, positioning COCOON as a handbag authority and a pioneer in the circular economy whilst also driving profile for Co-founder and CEO Ceanne Fernandes-Wong.  We generated over 67 pieces of international coverage secured in 2 months, with key titles include Business of Fashion, WWD, Vogue Business and Bloomberg) and a total global reach of 299,860, 737 spanning nine markets: UK, US, Italy, Russia, Netherlands, China, Hong Kong, Ireland and Spain.  

Post the investment, we secured interview and speaking opportunities for Ceanne positioning her as a thought leader and her business at the centre of the luxury circular economy conversation. This strategy was bolstered by a targeted seeding campaign: we secured trials with top fashion editors and influencers at key fashion calendar moments, generating feature coverage across leading national newspapers and morning broadcast shows; we produced organic street style content and social tagging on Instagram amongst ‘press-influencers’. This culminated in 77 pieces of brand coverage for COCOON, over 30 media trials and loans.

GSC Welcomes 360 Content Partnerships Manager Kate Bray to Expand Influencer Practice

Twig announce funding – a strategic partnership with Global Blue

GSC are thrilled to announce that our client Twig, a fast-growing UK-based fintech provider has received further funding from Global Blue as part of a strategic partnership with Global Blue, which sees Twig joinits network of next-generation RetailTech innovators. 

Global Blue’s investment in Twig is the latest in a line of collaborations with innovative, fast-growing companies that offer disruptive new technology solutions to retailers. This investment was facilitated by Global Blue Ventures and will allow Global Blue to expand its RetailTech offering and advance its ambition to become the strategic omnichannel partner empowering retailers to improve their performance. As part of our sustainability practice, we love to champion fintech pioneers that are changing the way we live and are delighted to see Twig go from strength to strength.

See the full press release here.

Five with the Founder: The Little Loop’s Charlotte Morley

We were so delighted to watch our client, Charlotte Morley, founder of thelittleloop, on Dragon’s Den last night. And what a fantastic result for the UK’s first children’s wardrobe rental platform!

The platform was launched as a sustainable response to the nature of the children’s clothing market, in which fast fashion and clothing wastage is the inevitable result of a frequent need to rework children’s wardrobes.

Charlotte has answered our ‘Five with the Founder’ questions to shine a light on this revolutionary, eco-conscious brand:

How did you come to set up The Little Loop?

When I first had children I would get a knot in the pit of my stomach every time I had to refresh their clothes when they grew or the seasons changed. I hated the process of sorting through their outgrown clothes…it always seemed so expensive to buy new ones from the ethical brands I preferred. And more importantly for me I never knew what to do with the old ones. I felt so guilty at the thought of throwing them away but had noone to hand them on to and no time to sell them.  It felt like the current system needed a complete overhaul to consider how we could access childrenswear temporarily when we needed it and then keep it in circulation for someone else to have it next.  And so the idea of a shared wardrobe was born.

What skills did you rely on in setting up your business? 

Of all the many, many skills it takes to set up a business, when that business is breaking entirely new ground resilience and tenacity are undoubtedly the most frequently drawn upon.  This is a true rollercoaster of incredible highs and spirit-breaking lows.  To keep going through that needs the hide of a rhino and an unbreakable belief that what you’re doing is the right thing. For me that’s made easier by the fact that my business is built on values which I hold so dear. If ever I’m having doubts I remind myself of those – of the why – and it keeps me on track.

How do you focus on the environmentally friendly side of the business?

We have four values which sit at the heart of the business. Heroism, empathy, futurism and authenticity. Every one of those brings us back time and again to the sustainable goals of the business because if we aren’t true to those, we can’t possibly be true to our values.  Sustainability is baked into our business model – by its very nature it’s designed to keep clothes in circulation and so reduce their carbon and water footprint.  However, on top of that we do everything else that we can to multiply that effect.  For example, we use reusable packaging, ship clothes from a central location to reduce on shipping footprint, use only soy inks and recycled papers for our packing materials.  And, through our unique brand partnerships, we have an incredible feedback loop to help them improve the performance and quality of the garments they manufacture.

How do you maintain a work/life balance?

With two small children I have little choice but to take time away from work.  I had children so that I could raise them and be their mother, not leave it up to someone else. It isn’t at all easy, but I make sure that I’m always there for bedtime, and that I spend quality time with them at weekends. It means I don’t have much time for just me, but that’s ok…that time will come…and for now I feel very privileged to be able to spread my time between my three babies (thelittleloop being the third).

What are your future plans for The Little Loop?

There are so many ways we could take thelittleloop and planning too far ahead means we might miss out on an opportunity which we haven’t even thought of yet.  Suffice it to say we have big plans for rental to become the go-to alternative for modern parents. Which means we need to expand our ranges, location (we’d love to go to Europe next), and possibly even move away from just childrenswear.  We will also soon launch resale on the platform as we believe rental and resale complement each other beautifully and we want to make life even easier for parents – offering them a one stop destination for all of their children’s clothing needs.

Gabrielle Shaw Communications Announces Account Win: thelittleloop is the First Shared Children’s Wardrobe

Gabrielle Shaw Communications is delighted to add a new client to the agency’s sustainability and circular fashion practise. Charlotte Morley and her innovative brand thelittleloop join GSC on their start-up accelerator programme just prior to Charlotte’s exciting appearance on Dragons’ Den, which airs on 27^th January 2022.

thelittleloop is a revolutionary rental platform giving members access to beautiful, stylish childrenswear. The brand was launched by Charlotte Morley in 2020 in answer to what she perceived as a major issue in the children’s clothing market – as children grow quickly, it’s often necessary to upgrade their clothes every three to six months. thelittleloop offers an alternative to frequently purchasing inexpensive, poorly-crafted clothes that are disposed of after a certain number of wears. The service provides children aged from 12 months to 10 years with a selection of highly stylish clothes from brands that share their eco-values. These clothes are put back into circulation once they no longer fit.

GSC’s brief is to build Charlotte’s profile along with promoting the brand’s sustainable credentials and wide range of stylish clothes for children.

Gabrielle Shaw, CEO and founder of GSC comments: “We love working with entrepreneurs and, in particular, female founders! This is such a fantastically clever idea with a fabulous range of beautiful clothes and a brilliant sustainable offering – it’s a great opportunity to fill a gap that really needed to be filled!”

Charlotte Morley’s episode of Dragons’ Den will be televised on 27^th January 2022 at 8.00pm GMT on BBC1.

Twig raises $35M Series A round to fuel Web 3.0 green payment infrastructure

GSC were delighted to announce to the press that our client Twig raised $35M Series A funding.

The investment will help the company accelerate delivering its Web 3.0 green payment infrastructure and boosting the roll out of its current suite of financial products.

The Series A investment round is led by the UK-based fintech specialist Fasanara Capital, supported by
undisclosed strategic investors, a group composed of current and former executives from LVMH,
Valentino, Balmain, Tod’s, Swarovski, L’Oréal, Barclays, Goldman Sachs and Scalapay

Twig continue to disrupt the fintech and resale sectors and are leading the way with innovative services that serve Gen Z’s needs and aspirations, whilst supporting the circular economy.

This is an exciting time for our sustainability practice client and we can’t wait to see what they do next.

See the full press release here.

About Twig

Twig is a London, UK based new generation fintech, rooted in circular economy principles, founded by
Geri Cupi in 2020, listed as Forbes ‘30 under 30’ for his contribution to Retail and Ecommerce in 2020. A
serial entrepreneur, Geri founded Twig consequentially, after gaining expertise in blockchain,
re-commerce, and circular economy-driven practices.
Twig’s central mission is to empower consumers to value, unlock, and enjoy wealth they never knew
they had. Users have instant cash access while deposing goods they no longer want- in addition to
enjoying traditional banking service benefits (debit card, domestic and international bank transfers).
Vis-a-vis this activity, Twig powers the circular economy, making Twig a positive and compelling
environmentally conscious choice for the consumer.

Spears 500 2022 Edition: Gabrielle Shaw

We are delighted to announce that our CEO and Founder Gabrielle Shaw has been included in Spear’s 500 for the 5th year in a row, with the release of their latest Spear’s 500 2022 Edition.

Spear’s 500 is Spear’s magazine’s indispensable guide to the top private client advisers and service providers to HNW individuals worldwide. Gabrielle Shaw Communications has been positioned among the reputation managers index, showcasing the best reputation managers and lawyers for matters of privacy, defamation and the protection of private information.

Through our Brand Desire Framework, Gabrielle Shaw Communications has not only helped brands grow, but also positions individuals and families as leaders and innovators within their industry. Building personal profile, as well as company profile, investing time in philanthropic work, legacy and succession planning, and cultivating a strong corporate reputation.

With our Accelerator Programme, Gabrielle Shaw Communications has always worked with entrepreneurs, family offices as well as brands and clients in the HNW sphere. Our experience lies within the luxury sector, and we are delighted to continuously provide a service that leads our clients to success. 

We are looking forward to continuing this work, ‘placing a positive-impact narrative at the core of communicating brand messages’, in Gabrielle’s words.

We would like to congratulate all other individuals and brands who have also been listed in the 2022 Spear’s 500. If you would like to find out more about our experience in the HNW sector, get in touch here.

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