Bandit Fox
We know what you are thinking.
How does anyone stay sane working in garment production?
Meet Bandit Fox, our tiny Morale Manager.
Bandit is super cute, very fluffy and takes his role in the business extremely seriously, mostly by sleeping through meetings, requesting cuddles and keeping everyone emotionally regulated during production chaos.
If you come to visit us, there is a strong chance he will want to sit on your knee.
He may also occasionally cause a small HR incident under someone’s desk, but we are working on his professional development.
COULD THIS BE YOU?
We are currently looking for our next Product Development and Production Coordinator to join Team Fox.
This role will support Fazane and the wider team across product development, sampling, production admin, supplier communication, critical paths, client updates and all the tiny moving parts that keep projects heading in the right direction.
In true Fazane Fox style, we are looking for someone organised, proactive, commercially switched on and calm enough to help wrangle product development without being personally victimised by a spreadsheet.
Our Product Wrangler will help us support more founder-led brands through the development and production process, especially those creating purposeful, technical and fabric-based products that need a little more care, structure and communication behind them.
Because good production does not happen by magic.
It happens through clear communication, strong systems, careful follow-up and someone making sure the wheels stay firmly on the wagon.
Cath Ashton
Cath Ashton is part of our trusted freelance technical team and our go-to pattern cutting pro.
Cath and Fazane first worked together at High Fashion, where Cath was a Garment Technologist and Fazane was an Account Manager. They worked closely across major brands including Marks & Spencer, Whistles, Boden and many more.
Cath also played a big part in Fazane’s own journey, helping with tech packs, fittings and technical development when Fazane launched her womenswear label in 2011.
After retiring from her full-time technical career, Cath joined us on a freelance basis and has worked with Fazane Fox since the company began. She supports us with pattern cutting, garment technology and technical problem-solving.
She has also worked with us on the launch of GThreadz, the clothing brand founded by her world-famous DJ partner, and was partly responsible for getting Fazane into DJing in 2021.
So really, we can blame Cath for quite a lot.
Paul Goldman
Paul Goldman joined the business in early 2023, shortly after Fazane’s illness, when the original plan was to help her explore selling the agency and running off into the sunset.
Paul had other ideas.
He saw something in Fazane and, over the months that followed, helped her find the confidence, clarity and commercial direction to come back fighting. He played a key role in helping her rebuild the business, rediscover the spark she thought she had lost and turn Fazane Fox into the agency it is today.
Paul is also one of the brains behind our rebrand and relaunch, bringing in key support including Liselle and Danielle, as well as our all-female accountancy team, who have worked wonders on the financial side of the business.
Today, Paul supports Fazane with the running of the agency, business strategy and our growth plan. He is usually at the end of the phone, over lunch, or gently reminding her that she does not, in fact, have to do everything herself.
He is the business partner, advisor and sounding board she probably needed years ago, but rejected on the basis that she could “do it all herself.”
It takes a village.
And Team Fox definitely needs Paul in ours.
COULD THIS BE YOU?
We are currently looking for a Studio Assistant and Social Media Manager to join Team Fox.
This role will support Fazane and the wider team across day-to-day studio life, social media content, behind-the-scenes storytelling, client project updates, website content, admin support and the many tiny things that keep the Fazane Fox world moving.
In true Team Fox style, we are looking for someone creative, organised, proactive and confident enough to help capture the chaos without being swallowed by it.
Our Studio Storyteller will help us share more of what actually happens behind the scenes, from product development and sampling to fabric finds, fit sessions, factory updates, founder stories and the occasional appearance from Bandit Fox, our very professional Morale Manager.
This is a role for someone who loves content, understands brand voice, can spot a good story in a pile of fabric swatches and does not panic when Fazane says, “This would make a good post,” approximately 19 times a day.
Because Team Fox has a lot going on.
And we need someone brilliant to help us show it.
Danielle Eldridge
Danielle Eldridge is the founder of The Gather Creative and the Website Wizard behind the Fazane Fox website.
With a bachelor’s degree in graphic design and over 15 years’ experience working in a London agency, Danielle brings a brilliant mix of design thinking, brand understanding and digital know-how to Team Fox.
She creates intelligent, engaging and effective multi-channel content, helping brands show up clearly, beautifully and with an actual strategy behind the pretty bits.
Danielle has worked with household names including Volvo, John Lewis, Isabella Oliver, Holland & Barrett and Boots, bringing that big-brand experience into our not-so-average little production world.
She also designs and builds websites for many of our clients, helping founder-led brands create the digital home their products deserve.
Originally from New Zealand, Danielle moved to the UK in 2002 and brings both international experience and curious Kiwi humour to the team.
Which is handy, because building a website around Fazane’s brain requires both.
Lindsey Newman
Lindsey Newman from Passion Marketing has been working with Team Fox for a number of years and has been instrumental in our growth.
Lindsey and Fazane first met during Covid through a peer-to-peer networking group that Lindsey facilitated, and she has been part of our extended team ever since.
She is a mentor, coach, speaker, marketing and innovation consultant, trainer and facilitator, helping both Team Fox and our clients find clarity, direction and confidence when the marketing maze starts looking a bit too maze-like.
Lindsey has a brilliant way of bringing out the best in people, helping founder-led brands shape ideas, sharpen their messaging and move forward without disappearing into a spiral of “should we post this or is it weird?”
Outside of work, Lindsey is a wife and mum to two music-mad young men, so you will often find her at gigs and festivals. She has even made an appearance at Fazane’s gigs once or twice, which is very much above and beyond the usual marketing brief.
Liselle Barnsley
Liselle Barnsley from Tailored Marketing Solutions is one of the marketing brains behind Team Fox.
Like Fazane, Liselle has a wholly unique name. Google her. She is the only Liselle Barnsley in a world of over 7 billion people, which frankly feels like excellent personal branding.
Liselle has been obsessed with marketing for over 25 years, although saying much more than that may give away her age, so we will remain professional and mysterious.
She developed her marketing skills working with some of the UK’s largest blue-chip companies and now brings that experience to Team Fox and our clients, helping turn big ideas into clear, deliverable marketing campaigns.
We chose Liselle because she understands what we need quickly, brings proper strategic thinking to the table and creates solutions that fit real budgets, real timelines and real businesses.
She also came up with our new name in 2023, so we can officially blame her for Fazane Fox.
Liselle loves a marketing challenge, especially when there is a strong idea, a slightly chaotic founder and a brand that needs pulling into shape.
Antonio Barros
Antonio Barros is our man on the ground in Portugal and a hugely valuable part of Team Fox.
As a company, we try to keep our carbon footprint as low as possible. So, rather than flying back and forth unnecessarily, we work with Antonio to support our Portugal production runs locally before shipment.
With over 30 years’ experience across supplier sourcing, product development, price negotiation, production planning, quality control, in-line inspections, final AQL inspections, shipment logistics and post-shipment support, Antonio brings serious production know-how to the team.
He has worked with brands including Nike, Fred Perry, Adidas and many other international names, giving him a brilliant understanding of both product standards and factory reality.
For our clients, Antonio helps add another layer of visibility and control to the production process, supporting us with inspections, quality checks and on-the-ground communication before goods leave Portugal.
Because nobody wants to discover a production problem after the stock has already travelled halfway across Europe.
Antonio helps us catch things earlier, communicate faster and keep Portugal production moving in the right direction.
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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