CFE names Fashion Pioneer Programme winners
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Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE), a fashion business incubator, has chosen six-London based designers to join its New Fashion Pioneer programme, starting this month for six months.
The London-based designers selected are: LVMH Grand Prix scholarship winner Richard Malone; womenswear designer Min Wu; Lei Sihan of jewellery brand LionStudio; sustainable design duo Gyo Kim and Yuni Choe of Gyo Yuni Kimchoe; activewear designer Charli Cohen; and Fashion East menswear designer Grace Wales Bonner.
The programme will support the designers with regular one-to-one mentoring sessions as well as expert workshops on subjects including business planning, finance, accounting, legal, production, marketing and PR, as well as branding and digital.
Wendy Malem, director of the CFE, said: “These Pioneer designers represent a new crop of talent who are breaking the mold. They redefine what a fashion business is, and illustrate that today’s new designers can explore design, fashion and product from a range of different angles with sufficient talent to lead new markets.”
Previous fashion labels that have been assisted by the CFE’s initiatives
include Erdem, Thomas Tait, Marques’Almeida, Mary Katrantzou