I had an email via Facebook today from a friend I was at university with doing Fashion Design to let me know she had just launched her new website.  After checking out her new site I just had to give her a plug on Latemag as "the lass done good"!

The last I heard Jenny had just been made redundant from her job in Sri Lanka. Fast forward about a year and Jenny Hardcastle has launched herself on the international fashion stage as a designer in her own right. Her first collection comprising of beautifully draped and sculpted ladies eveningwear was launched in February 2008. Not long after the collection earned her the accolade of “New Designer” in the Midlands PIN fashion competition netting her £10,000 towards her business. Her success steam rolled on from there and in April she won the Talent De Mode international fashion competition in France. Part of the prize was a year’s free rental of her own boutique in Lyon, France, due to open it’s doors 1st September 2008.

The picture directly below shows Jenny’s new boutique and the bottom picture shows Jenny herself (in the middle with the pink tights) surrounded by models wearing her first and uber-successful collection.

To check out the rest of Jenny’s collection and for more information on UK stockists visit her new website www.jennyhardcastle.com