The Lily and Lionel Blog: FBC's Interview with Matthew Williamson's CEO- Joseph Velosa 27.05.10

Matthew Williamson greets the audience at the Fall 2010 runway show.

Apologies for not being in touch for a while-it's all been a bit of a whirlwind couple of weeks.

We've been out and about networking and last Thursday trotted along to the Fashion Business Club's interview with Joseph Velosa, CEO of the label Matthew Williamson.

Interviewed by Imran Amed (founder of 'The Business Of Fashion'), Joseph came across charming, bright and most of all real. The interview touched on subjects such as; how they found the best investors , when to take the plunge and get backing plus huge leaps they made as a company when they felt the energy and time was right.

All in all it was an insightful take on how to handle one of the most increasingly successful British fashion labels of the past decade. I felt truly hoonoured to be sitting in the audiende. The really sweet thing was that Matthew (Williamson) was sitting in the front row showing full support to his partner and associate Joseph (they met at Manchester University, Velosa was reading philosophy whilst Williamson was studying fashion).

When asked at the end of the interview what the best piece of advice he could give was, Joseph promptly replied with "Good Luck"!

So, without further ado here are some photographs of people at the event-Obviouisly we had to put a few up of MW's Fall 2010 collection first (courtesy of Style.com)!