Amazon Fashion Welcomes Young Creatives to its new London Photography Studio for the inaugural 'Dazed Fashion Forum' July 8, 2015 A day of talks and workshops to inspire fashion students and young creatives London, 7th July 2015: On Saturday, 25th July, Amazon will open the doors of its new fashion photography studio for fashion students to experience a series of live talks and workshops. The event includes talks from guests including Jefferson Hack, Nicola Formichetti, Gareth Pugh, Susie Lau, Matthew Stone and Zowie Broach alongside interactive workshops with some of London’s most renowned creatives including Gary Card and Ryan Lo, a live publishing studio from Ditto Press and a portrait studio with fashion designer and illustrator Claire Barrow. The event also offers the opportunity to watch a fashion shoot with photographer Rankin, who will be capturing portraits of attendees styled by Dazed Senior Fashion Editor Emma Wyman in Amazon’s new multi-million pound studio. Talking about the event, Dazed and Confused co-founder Jefferson Hack explained, “Dazed Fashion Forum is open to all young creatives who want to break into fashion and media. It’s about leftfield thinkers, sharing radical ideas, opening up new possibilities and showing how youth can break into the industry and make a mark. It’s taking our experience and sharing it openly, with insight and demonstration to unlock the potential of the new generation coming through. This is about all our futures; the future of creativity, the future of our industry and the future of cultural diversity relies on it.” “Amazon Fashion is proud to be partnering with the Dazed team to bring this event to life” said Juliet Warkentin, Director Brand and Creative at Amazon Fashion EU. “This is a unique opportunity to bring creative role models together with young people just breaking into the industry. We believe in nurturing emerging talent and this is an inspiring project to be involved with.” Speakers at the event include Jefferson Hack, editorial director and publisher of Dazed Group, Diesel Creative Director Nicola Formichetti, fashion designer Gareth Pugh with AnOther Magazine fashion director and collaborator Katie Shillingford, founder of Style Bubble Susie Lau, creative director and set designer Shona Heath, Somerset House curator Shonagh Marshall, artist Matthew Stone, composer and producer Frederic Sanchez, Royal College of Art Head of Fashion Zowie Broach, make-up artist and creative Isamaya Ffrench, Sang Bleu editor Reba Maybury, fashion technology company Studio XO and artist and model Phoebe Collings-James. Workshops hosts include designers Ryan Lo, Claire Barrow and Richard Malone, set designer Gary Card and publishing house Ditto Press. Tickets cost £15 for full day entrance to the event and all proceeds will be donated to a local Hackney (London) charity. Visit https://billetto.co.uk/dazedfashionforum for ticket information . -ENDS - About Amazon Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire phone, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. ABOUT DAZED For more than 20 years, Dazed magazine has been at the forefront of youth culture. Defining the times, each issue showcases agenda-setting editorial and pioneering fashion photography. Based in London but created by an international collective of writers, image-makers and stylists, Dazed and its website dazeddigital.com is read in print and online by over 1.7m style leaders. It is quite simply the most influential and successful independent magazine title on the planet. Luxury biannuals AnOther Magazine and AnOther Man are also part of Dazed Group, along with the websites dazeddigital.com and anothermag.com..