I Love Manchester

You may have seen this logo spread around town, seen our "Eye Love Manchester"

t-shirt  and heard us talk of Manchester Day.

So what's it all about???

I Love Manchester Day is this Friday 26th August and exists to show appreciation for the city - your city, and what you love about it. The idea for it came from the stong community spirit that prevailed after the riots, looting and criminal damage that hit the city centre a few weeks ago. The campaign gathered steam and the council and local businesses have joined forces to celebrate the city and what we love about it.

We all know about the riots, "That was ages ago," I hear you say. Well even though we were not directly affected, the lack of confidence in the high street has affected trade for business large and small. This combined with the general downturn means little business like us and our fellow Northern Quarter shops have been struggling a little bit more than usual. Manchester Day is about supporting all the independent businesses throughout the city that make Manchester one of the most exciting and diverse cities in the world. We're also fund raising for Forever Manchester and Reclaim - two great local charities. 

So this FRIDAY 26th AUGUST come to Afflecks and celebrate with us. 

There will be live music and competitions, poetry readings and celebrity appearances      throughout the building. So if you fancy a bit of celeb spotting, want somewhere to hang out with your mates and have fun - come to Afflecks. It's what we're here for!!!!

If you can't get to Manchester - enter our "I Love Manchester" Competition and you could win an amazing prize!!!

Festival Fun Competition

Well with Glastonbury now just a muddy memory, festival season is well and truly underway.

If you're out and about in fields this summer - make sure you represent Me&Yu. Send us your pictures to info@meandyu.com or *Like* our Facebook Page and tag Lovemeandyu. The best picture at the end of the summer will win a prize.

Feel free to enter other peeps spotted in Me&Yu - check out this great snap of Adio from Kid British wearing our "Fashion Will Eat Itself" t-shirt on stage!!!

NEW COMPETITION

If you want to be in with a chance of winning this great vest - get over to our FACEBOOK page, like it, share among your friends and comment on the picture of this vest.

Winner will be drawn completely at random at the end of June and will receive their chosen size in the post!

Here's some of our previous winners modelling their FREE t-shirts!!!

We Are Five - Day One - Twitter

WE ARE FIVE!!!

Last weekend saw many reasons to celebrate - weddings and days-off work were the main ones. But here at Me&Yu we were celebrating a pretty big milestone for a small business - Our 5th Birthday!!!!

Yes can you believe we've had our shop in Afflecks Palace, Manchester for 5 years. We opened our doors on 29th April 2006 and a lot has changed - we started with a tiny little shop less than a 1/4 of the size of our current store - and we shared it!! 

  

When we first opened Gordon was working part-time as well as studying for his masters degree in Blackpool and I couldn't work every day in Manchester as well as make all the clothes. So we teamed up with Sarah Randle from Instant Fashion Happiness but Sarah lived in Liverpool and found the commute too hard so she left in August 2006 and Me&Yu as you know it know was born.

Since then we've gone from strength to strength. Gordon joined the business full-time, we extended the shop (3 times) we've lived through Nu-Rave, we loved Robots, seen a vintage revolution take over Manchester and stuck it out in Afflecks through the bad times of 2008 when possible closure was prevented by a change in management. 

We've gone from printing at home in the garage to having our own studio space in a Manchester Cotton Mill. We now have more printed garments and fabrics, more dresses, shorts, and trousers. We've introduced our UK handmade, handprinted organic tees and a more diverse range of prints.

 

We've seen our designs on celebrities such as Noel Fielding and Agyness Deyn, on Big Brother and on the back of musicians on stages all around the world. We've been to The Clothes Show, Berlin Fashion Week, Urbis, Manchester and Margin, London having our work praised by buyers, magazines and press all over the world. 

We've had help from heaps of eager and enthustastic work experience students, photographers and promoters. Along the way we've learnt (and taught) all about sewing, printing, business, profit, loss and how to make a small business work. 

We Make Clothes, We Photograph, We Sew, We Print, We Make Clothes, We Are Me&Yu

We work hard and love what we do - but without YOU we're nothing!!

To THANK YOU for your continued support throughout the years we're having Five Days of Freebies (and Discounts) starting on 5th May. We'll tell you all about the offers every day, in the meantime here's some more pics to make you all nostalgic.....Me&Yu, then and NOW!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

April's Facebook Competition

The Facebook competitions continue - you can now be in a chance of winning this great t-shirt designed by Gordon. The design uses Aleister Crowley's laws of Liber with an image of Homer Simpson. Liber AL vel Legis is the central sacred text of Thelema, written by Aleister Crowley in Cairo, Egypt in the year 1904. Its full title is Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX, as delivered by XCIII=418 to DCLXVI,^[1] and it is commonly referred to as The Book of the Law.

If you want to enter this great competition.

1. Like our page on facebook - lovemeandyu

2. Go to the photograph in the "Tag to Win" folder - here   

3. Write a lovely comment on the picture (all the tags have now been taken)

It's not compulsory but feel free to share with all your friends too by posting to your profile!!!

HAPPY APRIL!

Check In at LoveMe&Yu and get a FREE KEYRING!!

We're running a promotion to try and get more people signed up and liking our facebook fanpage.

If you have a smart phone with a facebook app please Check In to lovemeandyu and you can get a free keyring. You can only do this in store but if you're around and about in Manchester pop in, check in and get this amazing FREE KEYRING featuring our thunderheart logo. They usually retail at £2.50!!

Competition Winners

You may have seen our monthly TAG TO WIN competitions on our LoveMe&Yu Facebook Fanpage Well here's some of our lucky winners - Dan Hall and Kim Stone who won our December and March competitions. With April around the corner we'll be launching another comp soon so make sure you've 'liked' our page and you'll be the first to hear about our monthly facebook competitions!!!!!

Competition Time!!!!!

We've just launched a new competition on our Facebook Fanpage.

It's a bit of a different one this time and at first glance might be a little confusing!

Here's a simple HOW TO in 5 easy stages:

1. Follow this link to our page and click LIKE, at facebook.com/lovemeandyu

2. Go to the Competition Page in Notes or follow the link here

3. Click Share and forward to your friends or post to your profile & get them to Like our fanpage too

4. Get them to post your name in a comment under the competition note.

5. The person who's name comes up most wins a t-shirt of their choosing www.meandyu.com

Spread The Word and Win !!!

Christmas Grotto Winner

Congratulations to Genesia Meynell who won our Christmas Grotto competition, she'll now have a christmas full of loads of Me&Yu clothes and jewellery, robots and a pink christmas tree!!!!
We will be drawing our Win Me&Yu for a year online competition next week.

Christmas Grotto Winning Ticket

We we're supposed to draw the winning ticket over the weekend but all the snow chaos delayed us a day or so... but NOW all tickets have been counted and verified, folded and drawn.

We got Afflecks worker Chris to draw the winning ticket and can announce it is......number 150!

Check all your Me&Yu Christmas Cards to see if you're number has come up - the winner needs to contact us by email to angie@meandyu.com to arrange delivery / collection by 1st January. If
no-one comes forward with the winning ticket we'll draw another number!

Facebook Competition.....

You may have seen recently that we've set up a Facebook Fanpage. Our 'person' page Meandyu Afflecks has already got thousands of friends and Facebook will only let you have so many. So we've set up a fanpage to spread the word about Me&Yu and hopefully reach out to more people across the globe.

The NEW FANPAGE is the place for latest news about Me&Yu, style guides, celeb watch and best of all COMPETITIONS!!!

Every month we'll be giving away one of our latest designs to one lucky person. All you have to do to enter is:

1. Join the fanpage at facebook.com/lovemeandyu
2. Tag yourself in the photo

At the end of the month 1 lucky person will be drawn at random and will win the item in the size of their choice.

The first competition is now live - TAG TO WIN!!!!! this great Art Theft Hoodie!

This is just the beginning - we have lots more great things planned .................... watch this space!