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Browns Focus announces Series Two line-up

Luxury boutique retailer Browns has unveiled the line-up for Series Two of its emerging talent platform, ‘Browns Focus,’ featuring seven design talents including Ahluwalia, Bethany Williams, Feben, Namacheko, Nicholas Daley, Selasi and Wales Bonner. The initiative relaunched last year to celebrate not only new talent but also to highlight Browns...

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Design Museum opens Bethany Williams exhibition

London’s Design Museum has unveiled a new, free exhibition celebrating sustainable emerging designer Bethany Williams exploring her “alternative vision” for the fashion industry by using waste materials and forging community collaborations. The ‘Bethany Williams: Alternative Systems’ display opened today, February 22 and will run throughout...

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Browns launch conscious T-shirts with five designers

Luxury retailer Browns has teamed ups with Bethany Williams, J.W. Anderson, Martine Rose, Phipps and Robyn Lynch on an exclusive capsule of conscious T-shirts inspired by what they are grateful for. Entitled ‘Gra-T-tube,’ the exclusive capsule collection is part of Browns conscious edit, and each designer highlights a different way for fashion...

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Bethany Williams joins 2022 exhibition line-up at The Design Museum

Clothing designer Bethany Williams has been revealed as part of the exhibition line-up coming to London’s Design Museum, in 2022. Scheduled to arrive in spring, Williams’ exhibition will explore her socially and environmentally aware work, featuring pieces from collaborations with community projects and items composed from recycled materials....

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Bethany Williams wins BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund

The British Fashion Council has announced London-based fashion designer Bethany Williams as the 2021 winner of the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. Williams wins a cash prize of 200,000 pounds, alongside bespoke mentoring to help take her business to the “next level”. Edward Enninful, editor-in-chief of British Vogue, European editorial director...

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Video: Bethany Williams at LFW

In this video, sustainable fashion designer Bethany Williams has presented her gender-neutral capsule coat collection at London Fashion Week (LFW). Watch the video below. Do you want to see more FW21 clothing collections? Click here to view the FashionUnited Marketplace. Video: Bethany Williams via YouTube Photo credit: London Fashion Week

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LFW AW21: Bethany Williams presents capsule coat collection

This London Fashion Week, sustainable fashion designer Bethany Williams used her on-scheduled slot to share her new gender-neutral capsule coat collection, exclusively for Selfridges. The short film was less of a fashion presentation, and more of a look at how the British designer works, with Williams personally introducing the collection and...

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BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund announces 2021 shortlist

The British Fashion Council has announced the shortlisted designers for the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund 2021. This year’s shortlist includes Alighieri, Asai, Bethany Williams, Chopova Lowena, Completedworks, E.L.V. Denim, Halpern, Kwaidan Editions, Olubiyi Thomas, Richard Malone and Supriya Lele. Established in 2008, the BFC/Vogue Designer...

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Video: Q&A with British designer Bethany Williams on Earth Day

British fashion designer Bethany Williams joins Somerset House for a live stream Q&A video to discuss her creative practice on Earth Day. Williams and Somerset House curator, Karishma Rafferty discuss the designers' creative practices, fashion's duties to the environmental and social responsibility. Source: Somerset House

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London Fashion Week Men’s AW20 - Five standout collections

The first major fashion event of 2020 took place in London from January 4-6, London Fashion Week Men’s, and while some were concerned over the lack of big-name designers opting for Paris and Milan and the sparse schedule, the creative force of the London menswear scene prevailed and FashionUnited has selected its top five collections. This...

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Bethany Williams awarded Queen Elizabeth II Award at LFW

London-based designer Bethany Williams has been presented the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design at London Fashion Week by Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, on behalf of the Queen. Williams was awarded the coveted prize on Tuesday for her sustainable approach to fashion, and has become only the second person to receive the award -...

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Bethany Williams to receive Queen Elizabeth II Award

Emerging British fashion designer Bethany Williams will be the second winner of the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, following in the footsteps of Richard Quinn, and will be presented with the honour at her London Fashion Week show by the Duchess of Cornwall on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen. The Queen Elizabeth II Award for British...