Mark Bage is an accomplished, award winning Fashion Director, with experience spanning retail, buying, e-commerce, fashion film, branded content and creative direction. Founder of Coggles.com.
Successful in identifying fashion e-commerce opportunities and creatively marketing to these emerging marketplaces. He has built and rebuilt teams, utilising his business acumen and wealth of industry contacts to capitalise on such opportunities. As such he was voted 47th on ‘The Top 100 most Influential People In The Fashion Industry’.
As CEO / Ecommerce Director at Coggles, he founded Coggles.com an online fashion lifestyle website from start-up to 8m turnover, using innovative marketing strategies which included social media and digital campaigns to create a community of over 300k users. Coggles as a business achieved over 100 million in sales over it's first 30 years and trained over 2,200 staff. Coggles was sold to the Hut Group.
As Buying Director he oversaw the buying strategies for Grazia and Coggles, his branded buying experience spans, contemporary, catwalk, denim, branded, sportswear and high street. He was awarded 'Buyer of the Year'.
As Retail Director he created the franchise systems for French Connection, Coggles and Paul Smith. He also introduced the Spanish high street brand Mango to the UK.
If you have an enquiry or need help with a fashion project, please contact him at his agency Not Studio
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