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Graduate Fashion Week teams up with F&F Clothing

Graduate Fashion Foundation, the charity behind the largest showcase of BA fashion talent in the world, has announced a strategic partnership with Tesco’s clothing brand F&F to mark the 35th anniversary of Graduate Fashion Week (GFW) in June. In a statement, GFW, which takes place at the Truman Brewery from June 15 to 18, 2026, said the move...

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Graduate Fashion Foundation names first-ever managing director

The Graduate Fashion Foundation (GFF), the charity behind the world's largest showcase of BA fashion talent, Graduate Fashion Week, which takes place annually in London, has named Nicola Hitchens, previously communications and special projects director, as its first-ever managing director. In a statement, GFF said the move represents a “new...

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Graduate to Watch: Alicia Bambury from Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts

Graduate Fashion Week (GFW), which ran from June 13 to 16, showcased the best BA degree design talent from across the country, spotlighting talent across 26 different fashion disciplines, including fashion and textile design, styling and creative direction, as well as photography and marketing. This GFW also spotlighted the best talent in...

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Graduate to Watch: Sarah Ajayi from Manchester Metropolitan University

Graduate Fashion Week (GFW) has been showcasing BA degree design talent for more than 30 years and kickstarting the careers of many successful designers, including Christopher Bailey, the winner of the first-ever Gold Award, Stella McCartney, Giles Deacon, Matthew Williamson and Julien MacDonald. At this year’s GFW, Sarah Ajayi from Manchester...

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Debenhams’ Dan Finley: GFW “future fashion starts here”

Britain’s online department store Debenhams was this year’s headline sponsor for Graduate Fashion Week (GFW), the annual event showcasing graduate talent from the UK and international schools. The retailer has a long-standing history with the Graduate Fashion Foundation, the charitable organisation behind the world’s largest showcase of BA...

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Graduate to Watch: Kitty Carr-Lake from Leeds University

This week the 34th edition of Graduate Fashion Week, the world’s largest showcase of BA degree talent, took place in London, celebrating the work of more than 3,500 of the very best fashion graduates. One of those graduates honoured at the annual showcase was Kitty Carr-Lake, a graduate from the BA Fashion Design Innovation course at the...

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Manchester Met’s Sarah Ajayi wins GFW Gold Award

Graduate Fashion Week 2025 drew to a close on June 16 at The Truman Brewery in London with a celebration of the best graduate talent with a curated catwalk showcase featuring this year’s award-winning designers, including Manchester Metropolitan University’s Sarah Ajayi, who scooped the coveted Gold Award. Ajayi was presented with the Best of...

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Graduate Fashion Week names Debenhams Group as a headline sponsor

Graduate Fashion Week (GFW), an annual event showcasing graduate talent by the charitable Graduate Fashion Foundation has named Debenhams Group, home to Debenhams, Karen Millen, Boohoo, BoohooMan and PrettyLittleThing, as its headline sponsor for the 2025 event. The sponsorship deal builds on Debenhams Group’s long-standing partnership with the...

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Pure x JATC continues partnership with Graduate Fashion Foundation

Trade show Pure London x JATC is reinforcing its commitment to supporting the next generation of fashion innovators by teaming up with the Graduate Fashion Foundation to provide graduate designers with catwalk shows and exhibition space. For the upcoming Pure London x JATC show, which runs from July 14 to 16 at Olympia London, Graduate Fashion...

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Graduate Fashion Week 2024: Tomorrow’s fashion visionaries celebrated in gala finale

Graduate Fashion Week is the host of the world’s largest showcase of BA fashion talent and this year it took place from June 10 to 13 at the heart of London’s creative scene at The Truman Brewery in Shoreditch. Now in its 33rd year, Graduate Fashion Week continues to bridge the gap between graduation and employment by highlighting the talent of...

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Graduate Fashion Week 2024 opens in London

The 32nd Graduate Fashion Week begins today, June 10 in London, where students from across the UK will showcase their final-year collections across 26 different fashion disciplines. The four-day event, organised by charitable organisation the Graduate Fashion Foundation is taking place at The Old Truman Brewery in East London and marks the...

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GFF and Kornit launch UK Printed Fashion Textile Competition

The UK-based non profit organisation the Graduate Fashion Foundation (GFF) and Fashion technology company Kornit have teamed up on a new competition for students of GFF member universities in the UK. The GFF x Kornit Digital Printed Fashion Textile competition is open to all final year fashion students, graduating in 2023, that are currently...