Bandit Fox
We know you are all wondering how on earth we all stay sane working in garment production... well here’s how!
…Meet little Bandit Fox our team mascot!
Super cute and fluffy, loves cuddles, sleeps most of the day, will want to sit on your knee for cuddles when you meet him and occasionally likes to wee under Chloe’s desk.
Cath Ashton
Cath taught Fazane a lot of what she knows today and has been instrumental in her success.
They both worked together at High Fashion with Cath as a Garment Technologist and Fazane as Account Manager and they worked closely together on many top brands such as Marks & Spencer, Whistles, Boden and many more.
When Fazane started her own brand in 2011 whilst still working at High Fashion, Cath helped her with tech packs and fitting. Fazane left in2012 and Cath retired a number of years later.
She now works for us on a freelance basis and has done so since our company started, filling in for us as a garment technologist. More recently she has worked for us as a pattern cutter exclusively and also through one of our factories in Leicester. We have also worked together on the launch of her world famous DJ partners clothing brand GThreadz and she even helped Fazane get into DJing in 2021.
Paul Goldman
Paul came into the business in early 2023 after Fazane’s illness in 2022 to talk about how she could sell our agency and run off into the sunset.
He saw something in Fazane and over the course of the next few months gave her the confidence and expertise to come back fighting and grow the business again, giving her back the spark she lost.
He is the brains behind our re-brand and re-launch bringing on board both Liselle and Danielle as well as a new all-female accountancy firm that have worked wonders with Fazane on the financial side.
On a day-to-day basis Paul supports Fazane in running the business and our growth plan, always at the end of the phone or over lunch. He is the partner she has always needed but rejected for years as she “could do it all herself” It takes a village and TEAM FOX needs Paul as part of that.
Danielle Eldridge
Danielle from The Gather Creative is our wonderful website designer and has a bachelors degree in graphic design. She is an experienced designer who produces intelligent, engaging and effective multi-channel content. Having emigrated from New Zealand in 2002, Danielle brings international experience and her curious kiwi humour to Team Fox. She has over 15 years’ experience in a London agency, and experience working with household names including Volvo, JohnLewis, Isabella Oliver, Holland & Barrett and Boots.
Danielle just got TEAM FOX and we are so happy with what she creates for us as a brand.
You can find our more about her wonderful business HERE
Lindsey Newman
Lindsey from Passion Marketing has been working with TEAM FOX for a number of years now and has been instrumental in our growth.
Lindsey and Fazane first met in covid on a peer-to-peer network group that she facilitated and has been working with us since then.
She is a mentor, coach, speaker, marketing and innovation consultant, trainer and facilitator. She loves to bring out the best in TEAM FOX and helps us navigate the marketing maze.
She is also a wife and mum of two music mad young men so you will often find her at gigs and festivals… she’s even made an appearance as Fazane’s gigs once or twice!
You can find our more about her amazing business HERE
Liselle Barnsley
Liselle from Tailored Marketing Solutions has, like Fazane a wholly unique name (google her….she’s the only Liselle Barnsley in a world of 7 billion people!).
She has been obsessive about marketing forever 25 years now and to say any more would give away her age!
She learned her marketing skills with some of the largest blue-chip companies in the UK and now freelances to bring her expertise to TEAM FOX and many more.
We chose Liselle to run our marketing campaigns as she has unique marketing expertise, understands our needs quickly and offers deliverable solutions that fit in our budget and timescales.
Liselle was also the lady who came up with our new name in 2023!
She loves a marketing challenge so if you want to find out more you can check here out HERE
Antonio Barros
As a company we try to keep our carbon foot-print as low as possible, so it made sense for Fazane to have a man on the ground to quality check all of our production runs in Portugal before shipment.
Antonio has over 30 years of experience in supplier sourcing, product development, price negotiation, production planning, quality controlling, in-line inspections, final AQL inspections, monitoring shipment logistics, and post shipment support.
Having worked with the likes of Nike, Fred Perry, Adidas and numerous other brand and suppliers, Antonio is a very important and valuable part of our team.
Finalist – Creative Entrepreneur of the Year 2023
Finalist – Fashion & Beauty Entrepreneur of the Year 2021
Finalist – Fashion & Beauty Entrepreneur of the Year 2020
Finalist – Business Woman of the Year 2020
Runner Up – Entrepreneur of the Year 2014
Winner – Independent Designer of the Year 2013
We Care About What We Build
Whether it is smarter materials, better fit, adaptive design, sustainability, performance or a genuinely useful product idea, we care about the people behind the brand and the people the product is made for.
Basically, if it matters to you, it matters to us. And yes, we will probably care too much.
Quality Has To Mean Something
We help founders build quality into the process from the start, before small issues turn into expensive production-shaped headaches.
Because “that’ll do” is not really our love language.
Purpose Meets Commercial Sense
We help founders balance vision with commercial reality, so clever product ideas can become production-ready, margin-aware and genuinely viable.
Lovely concept? Brilliant. Now let’s make sure it does not bankrupt you by sample three.
Honest, Even When It Is Awkward
If something is too expensive, too complicated, too risky or likely to cause chaos later, we will tell you early, kindly and properly.
Our job is not to nod along while you walk into a production trap wearing nice shoes. It is to help you make better decisions before they become expensive ones.
Better Systems, Better Outcomes
They need clear specs, realistic timelines, proper suppliers, good communication, strong QC and someone keeping an eye on all the moving parts.
We bring structure to the chaos, helping founder-led brands build better products, better systems and better outcomes, with fewer frantic WhatsApps along the way.
We are not here to pretend sustainability is solved because someone used a recycled swing tag and called it a day.
We know product development and manufacturing have an impact, so we try to make better choices wherever we can, from sourcing more responsible fabrics and trims to working with suppliers who care about how things are made.
We are always learning, always improving and always open to better ways of doing things. Because building products with purpose means asking harder questions, not just adding a leaf icon and hoping nobody notices.
Ethical production is not a nice-to-have for us. It is the bare minimum, frankly.
We expect the people making our clients’ products to be treated properly, paid fairly and working in safe, respectful environments. Wildly radical concept, we know.
We ask our suppliers, subcontractors and manufacturing partners, both in the UK and overseas, to work in line with the principles of the Ethical Trading Initiative, because better products should not come at the expense of the people making them.
It is not about ticking a box so everyone can sleep at night. It is about building supply chains with more care, more accountability and fewer “let’s not ask too many questions” moments.
1.0 Employment is freely chosen
1.1 There is no forced, bonded or involuntary prison labour.
1.2 Workers are not required to lodge “deposits” or their identity papers with their employer and are free to leave their employer after reasonable notice.
2.0 Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining are respected
2.1 Workers, without distinction, have the right to join or form trade unions of their own choosing and to bargain collectively.
2.2 The employer adopts an open attitude towards the activities of trade unions and their organisational activities.
2.3 Workers representatives are not discriminated against and have access to carry out their representative functions in the workplace.
2.4 Where the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining is restricted under law, the employer facilitates, and does not hinder, the development of parallel means for independent and free association and bargaining.
3.0 Working conditions are safe and hygienic
3.1 A safe and hygienic working environment shall be provided, bearing in mind the prevailing knowledge of the industry and of any specific hazards. Adequate steps shall be taken to prevent accidents and injury to health arising out of, associated with, or occurring in the course of work, by minimising, so far as is reasonably practicable, the causes of hazards inherent in the working environment.
3.2 Workers shall receive regular and recorded health and safety training, and such training shall be repeated for new or reassigned workers.
3.3 Access to clean toilet facilities and to potable water, and, if appropriate, sanitary facilities for food storage shall be provided.
3.4 Accommodation, where provided, shall be clean, safe, and meet the basic needs of the workers.
3.5 The company observing the code shall assign responsibility for health and safety to a senior management representative.
4.0 Child labour shall not be used.
4.1 There shall be no new recruitment of child labour.
4.2 Companies shall develop or participate in and contribute to policies and programmes which provide for the transition of any child found to be performing child labour to enable her or him to attend and remain in quality education until no longer a child; “child” and “child labour” being defined in the appendices.
4.3 Children and young persons under 18 shall not be employed at night or in hazardous conditions.
4.4 These policies and procedures shall conform to the provisions of the relevant ILO standards.
5.0 Living wages are paid
5.1 Wages and benefits paid for a standard working week meet, at a minimum,national legal standards or industry benchmark standards, whichever is higher. In any event wages should always be enough to meet basic needs and to provide some discretionary income.
5.2 All workers shall be provided with written and understandable Information about their employment conditions in respect to wages before they enter employment and about the particulars of their wages for the pay period concerned each time that they are paid.
5.3 Deductions from wages as a disciplinary measure shall not be permitted nor shall any deductions from wages not provided for by national law be permitted without the expressed permission of the worker concerned. All disciplinary measures should be recorded.
6.0 Working hours are not excessive
6.1 Working hours must comply with national laws, collective agreements, and the provisions of 6.2 to 6.6 below, whichever affords the greater protection for workers. Sub-clauses 6.2 to 6.6 are based on international labour standards.
6.2 Working hours, excluding overtime, shall be defined by contract, and shall not exceed 48 hours per week.*
6.3 All overtime shall be voluntary. Overtime shall be used responsibly, taking into account all the following: the extent, frequency and hours worked by individual workers and the workforce as a whole. It shall not be used to replace regular employment. Overtime shall always be compensated at a premium rate, which is recommended to be not less than 125% of the regular rate of pay.
6.4 The total hours worked in any seven day period shall not exceed 60 hours, except where covered by clause 6.5 below.
6.5 Working hours may exceed 60 hours in any seven day period only in exceptional circumstances where all of the following are met:• this is allowed by national law;• this is allowed by a collective agreement freely negotiated with a workers’organisation representing a significant portion of the workforce;• appropriate safeguards are taken to protect the workers’ health and safety;and• the employer can demonstrate that exceptional circumstances apply such as unexpected production peaks, accidents or emergencies.
6.6 Workers shall be provided with at least one day off in every seven day period or,where allowed by national law, two days off in every 14 day period.* International standards recommend the progressive reduction of normal hours of work, when appropriate, to 40 hours per week, without any reduction in workers’ wages as hours are reduced.
7.0 No discrimination is practised.
7.1 There is no discrimination in hiring, compensation, access to training,promotion, termination or retirement based on race, caste, national origin,religion, age, disability, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, union membership or political affiliation.
8.0 Regular employment is provided.
8.1 To every extent possible work performed must be on the basis of recognised employment relationship established through national law and practice.
8.2 Obligations to employees under labour or social security laws and regulations arising from the regular employment relationship shall not be avoided through the use of labour-only contracting, sub- contracting, or home-working arrangements, or through apprenticeship schemes where there is no real intent to impart skills or provide regular employment, nor shall any such obligations be avoided through the excessive use of fixed-term contracts of employment.
9.0 No harsh or inhumane treatment is allowed
9.1 Physical abuse or discipline, the threat of physical abuse, sexual or other harassment and verbal abuse or other forms of intimidation shall be prohibited.
WrapKind upcycles our deadstock fabric into easy-to-use, affordable wrapping solutions, helping reduce both textile waste and the need for single-use wrapping paper.
It is a simple, clever way to give leftover materials a second life and make gifting feel more thoughtful, more reusable and a lot less “crumpled paper shame mountain” after Christmas morning.
Because sustainability does not always have to be complicated. Sometimes it starts with using what already exists, wrapping it nicely and not sending perfectly good fabric to landfill.
Studio Fox was born from a very Fazane problem: too many beautiful pieces, too many production samples and absolutely no sensible reason to let them sit around gathering dust.
It is our curated collection of vintage finds, designer pieces, studio samples and one-off treasures from the FFPA world, including personal finds from Fazane Fox herself.
With years of industry access, a slightly dangerous love of unique clothing and a mountain of samples from the production agency, Studio Fox gives standout pieces a second life instead of sending them into the great wardrobe graveyard.
Find us on Vinted, drop us an email to be invited to our very popular VIP studio sample sales, or come and see us at The Ethical Atelier twice a year.
As part of our commitment to giving back as we grow, FFPA proudly supported Philibert, a talented young creative in Uganda, through two years of art college.
He has now completed his studies, which makes this one of those lovely full-circle moments that reminds us why building a business with purpose matters.
For us, success is not just about the products we help bring into the world. It is also about using what we can, where we can, to support creativity, opportunity and brilliant humans doing brilliant things.
Founded by Emma, the organisation was created from a very simple, very human idea: every child deserves to feel thought of, celebrated and a little bit magical, especially when life has not handed them the easiest start.
FFPA has supported Gifts from Fairies by donating new and pre-loved childrenswear from our production agency, helping give good quality clothing a second life and supporting a cause that puts kindness into action.
Because sometimes doing better is not complicated. Sometimes it is making sure perfectly good pieces end up with little humans who genuinely need them.
They have been part of the community since 1977, helping people referred through services such as social care, police, domestic abuse support and job centres, as well as those simply trying to make safer choices for themselves and their families.
FFPA has supported Salcare by donating our time to help produce flyers for one of their charity fundraisers, which we also attended, because apparently we cannot resist a good cause and a room full of lovely local humans.
We were also proud to donate funds on the night, supporting the brilliant work they continue to do for people in our community.
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Get in touch to discuss your needs today! Whether you’re a startup or an established designer, we can take your ideas and make your designs a reality.
Emily / founder / spirit & grace
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