The Christmas season is fast approaching, so our wish lists have naturally started in earnest.
Earlier this week Her.ie visited Life Style Sports, as it launched its exciting Christmas campaign – ‘Gift It Up’. The collection is made up of stylish apparel and footwear as well as top Christmas gift ideas for all the family.
With top brands such as adidas Originals, Nike, 7 Grand, Penguin, Converse, Vans and New Era, we found plenty to fawn over and add to the ‘Dear Santa’ notes.
Key trends across the Life Style Sports Christmas range this season include print, color-blocking and layering with the Americana/varsity and basketball trends taking centre stage. The newly launched ‘Majestic Athletic’ range, exclusive to Life Style Sports, brings this varsity styling look to life across the Life Style Sports men’s range. Choose from the Redskin Varsity Jacket (€60) or a Raiders NFL Tee (€30) to get the cool collegiate look this Christmas.
For something a little more personal, customers can opt for an instore customisation service to personalize footballs boots and Converse as well as jersey printing, with prices starting at just €10.
You’ll also have the chance to win some of the goods on your wish list, with the new Christmas social media competition - #GiftItUp – whereby fans can head over to
lifestylesports.com, check out the Christmas 2013 lookbook and tell Life Style Sports which item you’d like for Christmas to be in with a chance to win your gift of choice from the collection every day.
It's the charity initiative we’re most impressed with though. For the fourth year running, Life Style Sports will support the Irish Children’s Charity Barnardos. This Christmas, for every Life Style Sports gift box purchased in stores, a donation will be made to the Barnardos Children’s Charity. Life Style Sports are aiming to raise €10,000 for this very worthy cause. Mark Stafford, CEO, Life Style Sports said “Life Style Sports feels very passionately about supporting the work done by this incredible charity. We are delighted to team up with our customers to help Barnardos again this Christmas and look forward to supporting the charity with funds raised through this initiative’.
Fergus Finlay, Chief Executive of Barnardos said “We are very grateful to Life Style Sports for their continued support and the funds raised from the sale of their Gift Boxes this Christmas will go directly to support our work with vulnerable children and families all across Ireland. Barnardos relies heavily on support from businesses like Life Style Sports; especially at Christmas time, when many of the families we work with, need our services more than ever.”
The Life Style Sports ‘Gift It Up’ Christmas collection is available in Life Style Sports stores nationwide and on
www.lifestylesports.com 
