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Lulu Kennedy and Raphaelle Moore honoured as Fashion East Marks 25 years of cultivating British talent

The British Fashion Council will award Lulu Kennedy and Raphaelle Moore a Special Recognition Award at The Fashion Awards 2025, celebrating twenty-five years of Fashion East, the influential talent incubator that has shaped the trajectory of British fashion. The accolade will be presented on 1 December at London’s Royal Albert Hall, officially...

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Fashion East to showcase films for SS21

Fashion East is marking its 20th anniversary this weekend at London Fashion Week. The talent incubator will be celebrating its four designers through virtual film premieres in lieu of a physical catwalk show. This season will see designers Saul Nash, Nensi Dojaka, and Goomheo joined by newcomer Maximilian Davis, a womenswear designer who has...

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Lulu Kennedy reveals line-up for CIFF

Founder and director of Fashion East Lulu Kennedy is once again teaming up with CIFF (Copenhagen International Fashion Fair) for autumn/winter 2017, when the event takes place from February 1-3 at the city’s Bella Center. Kennedy has also revealed that she has chosen a selection of emerging British talent that will showcased at the trade show,...

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Fashion East opens pop-up at Selfridges

Fashion East, which promotes and supports emerging design talent, has teamed up with Selfridges to open a “one-stop pop-up shop of the brightest and best in British design”, featuring its current line-up of designers and its alumni. Lulu Kennedy, founder and director of Fashion East said: “It’s a massive buzz and privilege to be calling...

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Lulu Kennedy teams up with CIFF

Copenhagen International Fashion Fair (CIFF) taps Lulu Kennedy to curate the special projects area of the upcoming Scandinavian showcase taking place August 10-12. The British designer and founder/director of London’s Fashion East and Man showcases will be curating Crystal Hall, which houses premium womenswear and menswear brands, as well as a...

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Lulu Kennedy designing M&S collection

Fashion East and Lulu & Co founder Lulu Kennedy is teaming up with Marks & Spencer to launch her first ever design collaboration with a high street retailer. Kennedy, who appeared in the high street brand’s spring/summer 2014 ad campaign, has signed up to create a 19-piece collection for the retailer’s Indigo Collection. Launching in May, the...

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Fashion East line-up announced

Fashion East, the non-profit initiative that supports emerging designers, is sticking with the same trio designers Ashley Williams, Ryan Lo and Claire Barrow for its spring/summer 2014 showcase. The three emerging design talents were once again chosen by a panel of experts, which included founder Lulu Kennedy, following the success of last...

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Fashion East reveals menswear installations line-up

Fashion East, the non-profit initiative that supports emerging designers, has named the future menswear talents that will showcase their collections at its menswear installation show during London Collections: Men. The four designers, Liam Hodges, Kit Neale, Joseph Turvey and Tom Ryling, will all showcase their Spring/Summer 2014 collections...

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Fashion East unveils AW13 line-up

Fashion East, the non-profit initiative that nurtures emerging young designers, has announced a trio of designers to its womenswear autumn/winter 2013 showcase, which will take place during London Fashion Week. Designers Ryan Lo and Claire Barrow, who both debuted with Fashion East last season, will be joined by University of Westminster...

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Lulu Kennedy among New Year’s Honours List

The Queen’s annual New Year’s Honours list has been unveiled and a number of fashion names have been recognised including Lulu Kennedy, Biba founder Barbara Hulanicki, and shoe designer Emma Hope. Barbara Hulanicki, who founded Biba in the Sixties and recently collaborated with Asda supermarket’s clothing range George, has been made OBE for...

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Lulu & Co launches first transactional website

Fashion East founder and London fashion design ‘godmother’, Lulu Kennedy, has launched her first transactional website, Lulu&Co. Having called on her most fashionable friends and leading design names to collaborate with one off collections, Kennedy said, ‘"I am so excited to launch luluandco.co.uk," Kennedy told us today. "The team and I are...

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London talent platforms

There’s a good feeling in the fashion air. London Fashion Week proved, these past few days, to be an ever developing hotbed of creative talent, and one well acknowledged by key, international bodies. Consistently strong showings from the likes of Christopher Kane, Jaeger, John Rocha, Richard Nicoll and Peter Pilotto kept the crowd in good...