As part of Westminster City Council’s ongoing pop-up strategy, the organisation has announced the opening of a new store, The Collect, focused on inclusive and sustainable fashion. Open until January 24, the new store is to be the “biggest and boldest pop-up yet”, following the opening other pop-ups located in the area linked to the scheme...
29 Nov 2021
Smart device brand Oppo has named design talent Rosie Southerden from Falmouth University as the winner of its New Designers ‘Lens of Inspiration’ print challenge. The Oppo competition challenged ten up-and-coming fashion and design talents to fuse nature and technology to create a new iconic print. Each designer used the Oppo Find X3 Pro...
23 Nov 2021
Luxury department store Harrods has launched its inaugural pop-up focused on young Chinese designers, featuring looks from 2021 Yu Prize winner Chenpeng. Located on the first floor of its Knightsbridge flagship, the concept space looks to promote emerging designers as a follow on from its Shanghai Fashion Week ‘The Harrods Hive’ concept....
8 Nov 2021
Sustainable design competition, Red Carpet Green Dress, has named UK-based Yuriko Fukuda and Singapore-based Zhi Hong Benjamin Koh as this year’s winning duo. The global competition, held in partnership with Tencel and 3D garment design software Clo Virtual Fashion, challenged designers to submit a digitally designed, sustainably produced red...
2 Nov 2021
The Drops, an outdoor fashion and lifestyle market that debuted at King’s Cross over the summer, returns for fall. From Friday October 1st to Sunday October 3rd the fashion market will also showcase a mix of lifestyle and homeware brands, including new additions One Essentials, a circular lifestyle brand reinventing underwear, Bryder, a...
29 Sep 2021
Luxury menswear e-commerce platform Mr Porter has selected Saif Ud Deen, Kat Tua and design duo Messrs Ryan Edmonds and Julian Canda as the first recipients of its Mr Porter Futures mentorship programme in partnership with Klarna. The successful menswear designers were selected from thousands of entries from 77 countries around the world,...
16 Sep 2021
Talent incubator Fashion East is supporting five designers for spring/summer 2022 at the upcoming London Fashion Week and has announced an all-new multimedia partnership with luxury retailer Browns. Fashion East will return to a physical showcase for the first time since the easing of lockdown with a live event at the Institute of Contemporary...
10 Sep 2021
Matchesfashion has added three new designers to its Innovators talent-support programme for 2021-2022, including Nensi Dojaka, the latest winner of the LVMH Prize. Dojaka will be joined by menswear designer S.S. Daley and Maximilian, who celebrates Black history and identity in his work. All three were chosen for their “unique DNA and compelling...
As well as cementing itself as the fashion centre for sustainability, Copenhagen Fashion Week is becoming a hotbed for new talent and this spring/summer 2022 season saw three designers impress - upcycling Danish brand (Di)vision, conceptual knitwear label A. Roege Hove and Louise Lyngh Bjerregaard, a Central Saint Martins graduate who places a...
17 Aug 2021
Sportswear brand Ellesse has launched a new global design programme to showcase three emerging designers in the fashion industry. Ellesse Tailors will provide a platform for three designers selected from the UK, Germany and France to create an exclusive capsule collection for the sportswear brand with a focus on sustainability. The three...
6 Jul 2021
Luxury boutique retailer Browns is relaunching its emerging talent spotlight, ‘Browns Focus,’ with Series One featuring Conner Ives, Maximilian, Mariah Esa, Commission, Bianca Saunders, Labrum, Lueder, Saul Nash and Tsau. The initiative aims to celebrate not only new talent but also to highlight Browns’ legacy at nurturing innovative designers...
6 May 2021
Sustainable fashion competition, Redress Design Award has opened applications for 2021 and has announced career-changing prizes including an opportunity to collaborate with Timberland on a design project, as well as win 50,000 Hong Kong dollars. Organised by environmental charity Redress with Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong...
1 Mar 2021
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