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Ana Paula Figueroa wins Greenwalk Awards with recycled footwear dress, securing a place at Saint Martins

The fourth edition of the Greenwalk Awards took place on September 25 at the Sant Boi and Xperience Sant Boi shopping centres in Barcelona. The event was hosted by Paloma Lago with Alejandro Gómez Palomo as its patron. It brought together eleven students from eight educational institutions across Spain. The winner was Ana Paula Figueroa, a...

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Student designers put natural materials in the spotlight at London’s Material Matters fair

Seven emerging designers from around the world are presenting sustainable innovations at this year’s Material Matters Fair as winners of the Only Natural International Student Design Competition. The contest challenges students to rethink the dominance of synthetics in fashion and design by working with renewable fibres such as wool, hemp,...

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Redress x TAL: The importance of industry collaboration in educational initiatives

It is no secret that establishing connections between emerging designers and large-scale manufacturers comes with an array of obstacles. Yet there are those trying to mitigate these challenges, bridging the gap between the young designer and the global manufacturer in order to, ultimately, push forward a new chapter in the story of sustainable...

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Bishme Cromartie takes us in the 'Batrix' for FW24 during NYFW

From the moment he began sketching his original designs and learning the basics of sewing from his aunt at a young age, Bishme Cromartie, a self-taught designer, realized that fashion was much more than a mere hobby to him. After successfully growing his brand over the last few years, the Baltimore-native designer is ready to carve out a name...

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Brand on the rise: Dāl the Label

Dana Mortada, a Lebanese-American designer based in Los Angeles, is at the helm of a luxury womenswear brand fresh off its first collection: Dāl the Label. With a philosophy on capsule wear and slow batch production, Mortada’s brand is driven by the marrying of her environmental values along with her “passion for fashion.” Though Dāl the Label...

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Cos unveils collaboration with Reece Yeboah

Cos is teaming up with London-based emerging designer Reece Yeboah to launch a limited-edition capsule collection on February 1. Entitled ‘Metamorphosis,’ the collection represents the evolution of his namesake brand Yeboah, experiences from his formative years spent in Ghana, and the drive to make his mark on the world. The result is more than...

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AZ Factory names Tennessy Thoreson as next “amigo”

AZ Factory, the Parisian fashion house founded by the late Alber Elbaz and Swiss luxury group Richemont, is to collaborate with emerging French fashion designer Tennessy Thoreson. Following in the footsteps of Thebe Magugu, Ester Manas, Club Domani, Lutz Huelle and Cyril Bourez, Tennessy Thoreson is teaming up with AZ Factory’s in-house creative...

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Paul Smith names Commission as his next mentorship recipient

Paul Smith has named New York-based brand Commission as the next recipient of its '&PaulSmith’ mentorship and collaboration programme. Following on from the British designer’s project with London-based menswear designer Priya Ahluwalia earlier this year, Smith has teamed up with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) on a...

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JCA Class of 2022: MA Graduate – Sophie Park

JCA | London Fashion Academy, MA Fashion Entrepreneurship in Design and Brand Innovation graduate Sophie Park debut the first collection of her eponymous plant-based gender-neutral footwear brand during a catwalk showcase in October. Park, the only footwear designer on the MA course, describes her footwear brand as pairing “stylistic originality...

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JCA Class of 2022: MA Graduate - Annabelle Barton

Last month, the first graduates of Jimmy Choo’s JCA | London Fashion Academy’s MA Fashion Entrepreneurship in Design and Brand Innovation course showcased their collections on the catwalk. Birmingham-born designer Annabelle Barton used the show to debut her “anti-fit” fashion label for petite women called Size-A. As a petite woman herself,...

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Iso.Poetism wins the Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize 2022

Danish menswear label Iso.Poetism by Tobias Birk Nielsen has won another accolade, adding the Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize 2022 to the Zalando Sustainability Award it picked up during Copenhagen Fashion Week earlier this year. The Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize is the Nordic region’s most prestigious and influential design award to support emerging...

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Clearpay partners with Square and BFC to support emerging designers’ e-commerce

Payment provider Clearpay has partnered with Square, a commerce tech company, to launch a programme with the British Fashion Council (BFC) that looks to help emerging designers establish their online presence. As part of the initiative, British designers that are a part of the BFC network can take part in an e-commerce mentoring package provided...