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Rei Kawakubo honoured during London Design Festival

Rei Kawakubo has been honoured at the London Design Festival with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Medal, an achievement recognising the Japanese designer for her “significant and fundamental contributions to the design industry” throughout her career. Alongside three other medal recipients, she was selected by a panel of designers, industry...

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Anthropologie collaborating with Kaffe Fassett

Fashion and lifestyle retailer Anthropologie have announced that it is collaborating with world-renowned artist and designer Kaffe Fassett on a new exhibition as part of this year’s London Design Festival. ‘The World of Kaffe Fassett’ will transform Anthropologie’s King’s Road Gallery with the textile designer’s “instinctive, playful and organic...

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London Design Festival

The London Design Festival starts in less than a fortnight and this year celebrates its tenth birthday. The festival brings the worlds of fashion and furniture together, but more importantly the annual event promotes London as the design capital of the world, and as the gateway to the international creative community. This year the London Design...

Design

Fashion Diversity returns

This September, will see the return of Fashion Diversity to London Fashion Week and The London Design Festival. The event will showcase and celebrate creativity from a cross section of cultures. Now in its third year, Fashion Diversity will be held at the Islington Metal Works. Several designers will join the showcase with catwalk shows and a...