Jonathan Anderson wins Designer of the Year at British Fashion Council’s star-studded 2023 Awards
With tributes to Dame Vivienne Westwood and Joe Casely-Hayford, the celebrity-filled evening saw Taika Waititi and Rita Ora, Pamela Anderson, Gillian Anderson, Jodie Comer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Andrew Garfield, Barbara Palvin and many others on the red carpet […]
Web3 platform Syky launches luxury fashion incubator for digital design
The rising Web3 platform, which closed a funding round earlier year, pushes ahead with training designers for the future world of luxury digital fashion […]
The Fashion Awards 2022: Pierpaolo Piccioli named designer of the year
A full list of winners from the year’s most prestigious fashion event in the UK, raising funds for the BFC Foundation […]
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard to be honoured at the Fashion Awards 2022
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard will receive the Outstanding Achievement Award on December 5 at the British Fashion Council’s annual gala event at the Royal Albert Hall […]
The Fashion Awards 2021 make a splash, returning to a live format at the Royal Albert Hall
Gareth Cattermole; Joe Maher The British Fashion Council (BFC) partnered with TikTok this year on the Fashion Awards. Though an unexpected duo, the Fashion Awards this year changed its format to evolve into a global entertainment platform in order to grow with the times and merge fashion with our growing technological advancements. The award […]
Top: A close-up of an Amehra design. Centre row and above: Images from Neiman Marcus’s fall 2021 campaign. Amehra is a luxury creative footwear brand created by the visions of Persian-American brother and sister, businessman Arash Arabian and creative director Mehrnoush Arabian. Amehra’s designs are carefully designed through distinct silhouettes, vibrant colours and intricate details. […]
Institute of Positive Fashion Forum aims to make real change for sustainable development
The Institute of Positive Fashion Forum will take place digitally on June 10, and runs from 9 a.m. to a final event with Stella McCartney commencing at 6.10 p.m. The thought leadership event is designed to galvanize the fashion industry—one of the planet’s major contributors to environmental harm—into action, ahead of COP26. Tickets […]
British Fashion Council announces the Fashion Awards 2020, with Beijing, Shanghai screenings
With the UK continuing to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the British Fashion Council’s Fashion Awards (formerly the British Fashion Awards) announced its 20 winners with a digital film première. The 30-minute film went live at www.fashionawards.com today and on YouTube on the BFC’s account, and was screened in selected cities, including Beijing and […]
British Fashion Council opens second round of applications for BFC Foundation Fashion Fund
The British Fashion Council has raised £500,000 for its BFC Foundation Fashion Fund, and is now receiving applications for a second round to help businesses through the COVID-19 crisis. The Council had already distributed the first £1,000,000 of grants from its emergency fund in May to 37 designers. It was always intended that once […]
British Fashion Council, Bags of Ethics team up to offer designer face coverings for charity
The six designs, in order: Halpern, Julien Macdonald, Liam Hodges, Mulberry, Raeburn, and Rixo. In another sign of the times, the British Fashion Council and Bags of Ethics have launched a campaign dubbed Great British Designer Face Coverings: Reusable, for People and Planet, to manufacture and retail sustainable and reusable non-medical face coverings designed by […]
