The Park - Aug 07 (UK contemporary streetwear tradeshow held in London and Manchester)

LATEST NEWS

17-Aug-2007
Ruse76 - the legend
WOW!!! The August shows were fantastic and we are taking a very quick breather before filling you in on all the details next week. But in the mean time take in a bit of action from our close friend ruse76 while he got busy at the Manchester show………This guy doesn’t stop painting!!!!!! [...]

10-Aug-2007
Catching a breather!!!
Wow!!!! The London Park went off!!!!!! What do you think hazy Insight boys???? We got up to lots of BIZ NIZZ - order writing, fun and games, beer and laughs!!! Check it!!! Now we are in Manchester, the capital of England. Getting ready to Rock The Park - Manchester on Sunday, catch you then!!!! hope you have your [...]

02-Aug-2007
Party Time!!!!
There are rumours of a shindig happening on Monday night (6th)!!!!! Keep your ear to the ground, this ones not to be missed!!!! Wamp Wamp.

02-Aug-2007
Anon
The Nice people at Anon sent us a picture showing that their shades work especially well with a hat, snake and muscle T combo!!!! Yeah!!!! But on a serious note their shades are fantastic, make sure you take time out to check them at the shows…..Here comes the science!!!!! The Anon product offering includes unique stylings driven [...]

01-Aug-2007
Looking for some High Speed action this weekend????
Come and check out what we have planned in the way of extra curicular activity on Sunday!!! With help from our good friends at Vans we are putting on something special in the overhang outside the exhibition hall. Can’t really tell you what’s going on so you’d better come down and see for yourself……but here [...]

31-Jul-2007
2 Snippets of info this morning!!!!
Firstly Arcus have confirmed for both the London and Manchester shows and secondly a little heads up to let you all know that Howies will have their AW07 range on the stand for both shows, so those without a forward order can still get an order placed for AW07. 3 days left until the London web registration [...]

27-Jul-2007
Dark Disco!!!
With the word spreading throughout the UK about Obey Clothing, now would probably be the time to sneak a peak at both the mens and womens ranges and get them locked down. Add to this the rumoured huge gallery that Shepard Fairey is planning for November in London this year and that one of the [...]

26-Jul-2007
Register here on the Site!!!
Registration is still open on the site!!! fill in the form in the registration section…(down to the left!) and your free passes will be awaiting your collection at the designated show. See you in London!!!!

25-Jul-2007
What?s up!!!
It’s been sooooo busy this past week at Park HQ we have barely had time to count the pre-registrations coming in. But what we do need to tell you is that there have been a number of exhibitor confirmations that you may have not spotted in the exhibitor sections of the site yet. So here’s the [...]

24-Jul-2007
ZOUP
Did you catch Insight’s last ad campaign ‘Dead Modern’?? The creative heads at Insight did good, turned heads and walked away with the SIMA Campaign of the Year prize. A month in Bali and they are at it again!!! You should head to their website to see what’s going on. Buried in the site there is also ‘making of’ [...]

The Park is a contemporary streetwear trade show where the environment reflects the true music, art and fashion personalities of the exhibiting brands.

More than this The Park is set up as an appointment led order writing show and is a venue where directional streetwear retail buyers can work and network with the best in new and existing board sports related fashion brands in a relaxed working atmosphere.

We created the The Park in Feb 2003 and four years on we have 9 seasons under our belt and the shows are slowly growing to profile the best in established streetwear brands from the US, Europe and the UK while at the same time championing the new and upcoming.

The Feburary 07 shows were the best so far. The biggest development was our successful move to our new London home at the Truman Brewery which allowed a spacial upgrade of the London show to 6350sq ft. The move gave us a more controlled exhibition area and enabled us to introduce technical hardware and outerwear brands to the London line up.

The brand mix included;
Adidas, Alpinestars, Altamont, Ambiguous, Analog, Anon, Arcus, Atticus, Colonel Kilgore, Elleven, Emerica, es, Etnies, Etnies Girl, Ezekiel, Foursquare, Forum, Fox, Gentle Fawn, Gravis, Howies, Hurley, Idiom, Insight, Jedidiah, KR3W, Lowlife, Neff, Mada, Macbeth, Obey Clothing, Odyssey 20/20, Oxbow, RVCA, Special Blend, Split, Supra, The Realm, Volcom, Volcom Snow, WESC and Zimtstern.

Not shy of taking on new creative projects and pushing the trade show concept we also put together an amazing London event that showed that we are firmly backing the snowboard community. On Sunday 11th February, outside the London venue stood a 5 metre snow drop-in structure with a selection of C box, 7 metre straight rail and a 4 metre boxed down rail sections together with 26 tonnes of fresh snow ready to go. At 7pm a crowd of over 250 strong industry friends had gathered and were working their way through 150 litres of mulled wine while watching a ‘Dirty Dozen’ of the finest UK rail slaying riders tackle some of the most technical tricks in the book. Add fresh artwork from D*Face and Matt Sewell and you can understand that it was a great event. Check out the Rail Jam section in the Gallery and see the footage for your selves!!

In Manchester we pushed on with our seasonal art projects introducing ruse76 into the mix. Working solid for 3 days and dismissing repetitive strain in his fingers ruse76 had created a fantastic 10m*3m piece that still turns heads. His work can be found in the artists section of the website and if you missed it in February it will be on display at the Manchester show this Summer.

We deliver two shows in August 07.

London 5th-7th August 07
And
Manchester 12th-14th August 07

As the Park continues to grow we want to add to the original concept, exploring and pushing ideas that extend The Park’s form in order to help retailers, distributors and brands.

For August 07 we remain in the 2 London and Manchester venues that have given us the biggest exhibitor space and visitor footfall. In London we have once again been working closely with the organisers of TBC to co-ordinate shows that we all feel will make things easier for exhibitors and buyers of both shows alike. TBC themselves are moving to a new bigger venue within the Truman Brewery/Brick lane and now our show entrances are even closer to each other. Add this to rumours of a beach, a party and a big Park artist project and the stage is set!!!!

The brand contacts are listed on the exhibitor pages. Diaries tend to get full very quickly and appointments are already being pencilled in. Please make sure you contact the brands you want to see as soon as possible.

Have a great buying season and we will see you in August!