La Mode Model Advice Limited (07709922): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2013-03-01
- Administrators
- Simon Robert Thomas, Nicholas H O'Reilly
- Administrators' firm
- Moorfields
- Incorporated
- 2011-07-19
- Location
- London
- Industry
- 74201 Portrait photographic activities
Why it went into administration
- Sustained trading losses
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- HMRC / tax arrears
- Weak consumer demand
- Property / lease costs
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated on 19 July 2011 with its head office at Sterling House, Langston House, Loughton, Essex, IG10 3TS and initially traded from a studio at 134146 Curtain Road, London As at the date of appointment the Company was trading from a studio at their head office in Langston House
The Company has been trading since July 2011 with Helen Smith as sole director and shareholder Helen Smith ts also the sole director and shareholder of two other corporate entities, La Mode London Limited (“London”) and La Mode Academy Limited (‘Academy’) There are no formal agreements between the three entities and no records of any intercompany accounts
The Company's core business ts the provision of advisory services to prospective models, assisting in collating portfolios and creating individual websites so models can manage their own affairs as opposed to being reliant upon agencies to source their work
Administrators' statement of proposals (2013-04-23) · Companies House register