Pre-Blackpool 2006
For us the event started much earlier, with preperations.
We all jetted to Hong Kong for 5 weeks around April time to support the final push of our efforts to produce Espen Salbergs 2006 dance wear collection, a huge learning curve. It was introduced to the public at Blackpool to great satisfaction, which shows that “Made in China” can be of excellent quality. Fiona and Katie played an essential part of keeping everything on track and everybody sane.
A new dance wear collection takes a lot of work aside from the dance wear itself. Photoshoots, advertisements, banners and not least catalogues need creating. So Sam found himself diverted from his project of computerizing/barcoding the retail and admin operation of the Hong Kong shop, tying in with its redecoration.
Along with training a new full-time staff member, it turned out to be the busiest Far’s has ever been.