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The Access Group launches workwear design competition

The Access Group, which provides business management software to small and mid-sized organisations, has launched a workwear design competition with Loughborough University. The competition forms part of the fashion design and technology students' first-year degree course and challenges them to design a new capsule workwear wardrobe that...

TikTok launches fashion design competition in the UK

Social media platform TikTok is searching for the next generation of fashion innovators in the UK with a new design competition where the winner will showcase their looks during London Fashion Week in February 2024. The #TikTokFashion design competition is looking to discover the UK’s next fashion talent and is asking for wannabe designers,...

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Lukhanyo Mdingi wins the 2023 Amiri Prize

Cape Town-based designer Lukhanyo Mdingi has been named the winner of the 2023 Amiri Prize, an annual fashion award and incubator, which was open to international designers for the first time. The South African designer established his eponymous fashion line in 2015 and collaborates with local artisans in the region to offer playful...

Fashion

The Amiri Prize names 2023 finalists

The Amiri Prize, the annual fashion award and incubator launched in 2021, has announced the finalists for the 2023 edition after receiving nearly 1,000 applications worldwide. There are nine emerging designer brands in the running for the 2023 Amiri Prize, launched by Mike Amiri, founder and creative director of the LA-based brand to spotlight “...

Retail

Westfield launches competition to find sustainable retailers

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has expanded its retail competition ‘Westfield Grand Prix’ to the UK, France, Spain, Germany and Austria focusing on sustainable retail concepts and businesses. The competition first founded in 2007 in France, aims to help entrepreneurs open their first stores to test their concepts and forms part of Westfield’s broader...

Business

JCA and Saïd Business School announce winners of design competition

The JCA | London Fashion Academy and Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford have named Valeria Peeva and Maxi Purton as the winners of its student design competition to create new staff uniforms for the institution. The winning looks by Peeva and Purton were inspired by Oxford’s architecture and will be rolled out across Saïd Business...

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Tom Ford names Plastic Innovation Prize winners

Material science competition the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize, created by the fashion designer in partnership with Lonely Whale, has named three winners who will receive investment from its 1.2 million US dollar prize purse to help scale their marine-safe and biologically degradable alternatives to traditional thin-film plastic made from...

Fashion |In Pictures

PrettyLittleThing unveils collection with ‘Designer of the Year’ winner

PrettyLittleThing and its US creative director Teyana Taylor have unveiled its collaborative collection with Ines Hadara of SoulofDesigner who won its ‘Designer of the Year’ 2022 competition. The annual competition gives young designers a platform to showcase their creativity and Hadara has worked with Taylor to create a capsule collection that...

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Tommy Hilfiger announces five finalists for Fashion Frontier Challenge

Tommy Hilfiger, owned by PVH Corp, has named five finalists for the fourth edition of its Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge ahead of the finale on February 9, 2023. The challenge aims to accelerate inclusivity in fashion, amplifying historically marginalised entrepreneurs, including Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC),...

Business |Jewellery

Moda Jewellery and Watch launch bursary for emerging jewellery designers

Jewellery and Watch (J&W), the UK’s biggest returning jewellery showcase taking place at Moda, has announced a New Jewels Bursary in collaboration with the National Association of Jewellers (NAJ) and sponsored by Curteis Creates to offer an up-and-coming jewellery designer access to invaluable advice and support. The inaugural New Jewels Bursary...

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Woolmark announces winners of 2022 Performance Challenge

The Woolmark Company, together with Salomon, has announced the winners of its 2022 Woolmark Performance Challenge, an initiative dedicated to backing concepts within the sports and performance market. For this year’s theme, participating students were asked to invent next-generation running gear for long-distance runners in mountainous...

Fashion

Fashion District names shortlist for Design Futures 2022

The Fashion District has named nine emerging designers on the shortlist for its Design Futures 2022 - Innovation Challenge Prize to find a new sustainable solution that will develop design for circularity and revolutionise the fashion industry. The nine sustainably driven fashion designers are using “innovative approaches to circularity” to...