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LFW SS25: Tolu Coker talks the struggles of being an emerging designer

One of the hottest emerging talents at London Fashion Week has to be Tolu Coker, a West London-born, British-Nigerian designer and multi-disciplinary artist who is part of the British Fashion Council’s NewGen programme. Coker, a graduate of Central Saint Martins, acquired experience in the design studios of J.W. Anderson, Maison Margiela and...

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Chinese designers spotlighted at London Fashion Week

As London Fashion Week continued its 40th-anniversary celebrations this season, Chinese designers, including Huishan Zhang, Consistence, and Mithridate, utilised the global fashion showcase to bridge the gap between the West and Asia to highlight their spring/summer 2025 collections. Consistence SS25 Credits: Consistence Consistence ‘Useless But...

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S.S. Daley wins digital engagement during LFW

New data from social media management platform Dash Hudson has revealed that London Fashion Week (LFW) continues to drive engagement for fashion brands, and this season the clear winner was British designer S.S. Daley, who recently won the 2024 Queen Elizabeth II Award. Dash Hudson states that LFW designers saw a surge of activity on Instagram,...

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London Fashion Week: Burberry gives the trench coat a streetwear edge

London, Sept 16, 2024 (AFP) - With a Spring/Summer 2025 collection reinventing the iconic trench coat with a streetwear edge, English designer Daniel Lee brought a breath of fresh air on Monday to fashion giant Burberry, hit by financial troubles. The designer, who has been at the creative helm of Burberry for the past two years, departed from...

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LFW: Kent & Curwen redefining British preppy style

Kent & Curwen, the menswear heritage brand that started out making Eton school ties, is banking on preppy style becoming the new streetwear as it looks to reposition itself as the British answer to Polo Ralph Lauren. Established in 1926, the brand began as a maker of club and college ties for Oxford and Cambridge universities and creating sports...

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British politics and fashion collide at London Fashion Week

London — Canadian-British designer Edeline Lee presented her latest spring-summer 2025 collection at London Fashion Week (LFW) on Monday with a loyal customer in attendance — Victoria Starmer, the wife of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The label, with the fitting tagline "Clothing for the Future Lady," has dressed some of Britain's most...

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Yaku brings the Afrofuturism movement to LFW

London Fashion Week is renowned as being a hotbed for emerging talent and this season St Albans-born and London-based designer, Yaku Stapleton, a graduate of Leeds Beckett and Central Saint Martins, became the standout NewGen talent with his immersive SS25 Afrofuturism presentation. Following the success of his MA collection, which won the L'Oré...

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Nensi Dojaka unveils Calvin Klein collaboration at LFW

Albania-born, London-based emerging designer Nensi Dojaka, who has won the LVMH Prize and the BFC Foundation Prize, unveiled a collaboration with global fashion powerhouse Calvin Klein during her London Fashion Week spring/summer 2025 show. Against the Gothic Revival backdrop of the St Pancras Renaissance hotel, Dojaka merged her intricate and...

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The hidden costs of Fashion Week: A barrier for young designers

As London Fashion Week (LFW) reaches its final days before the calendar moves to Milan, there is no doubt the city’s fashion week stands as a beacon of creativity and innovation. Yet, beneath the surface lies a stark reality: the prohibitive costs of runway presentations are increasingly pushing young designers to the margins of this influential...

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Going green? British fashion struggles with sustainability

London — In an industrial underground space in central London, models in contrasting period dresses and playful streetwear strutted down a brightly lit London Fashion Week (LFW) runway. But unlike most other shows, all the floral dresses, trending workwear, and double-denim outfits were second-hand at the event by charity Oxfam and online used...

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London Fashion Week goes 1960s... with a twist

London – The first full day of London Fashion Week kicked off with a nod to the Swinging Sixties by Irish designer and LFW veteran Paul Costelloe and Turkish designer Bora Aksu. 1960s-style Mod dresses and workwear in pastel linens, floral silk jacquards, and understated tweeds abounded in Costelloe's Spring/Summer collection, "Le ciel est...

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JW Anderson dreams big with the mini dress at London Fashion Week

London — From leather tutus to unstructured knitwear, the mini dress is the centrepiece of the spring-summer 2025 collection by JW Anderson, the label of Loewe artistic director Jonathan Anderson, presented Sunday on the third day of London Fashion Week. Under the glass ceiling of Old Billingsgate, a former Victorian fish market in London's City...