The British Fashion Council has announced the three winners of the “Fashion Forward” 2013 award for womenswear. David Koma, Holly Fulton and Michael van der Ham are the lucky three designers–and if you don’t know their names yet, now’s the time to get familiar.
The British Fashion Council has just announced the shortlist of designers up for the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund and it’s quite a talented group.
Congratulations are in order for J.W. Anderson and Simone Rocha today.
The British Fashion Awards–essentially Britain’s answer to our CFDA Awards–took place at London’s Savoy Hotel tonight and the winners are in. Read on to see who took home awards–and who missed out.
Regarding Vogue‘s new model guidelines, Cindy Crawford feels that the fashion industry is “in the consumers’ hands– If you don’t like what you see, don’t buy it.” {Jezebel}
Following that random bar brawl in February, Pierre Casiraghi, who, you know, is a Prince and all, went on disability for a month–for chin scratches. {NY Mag}
Philip Lim thinks Kate Middleton has “a body of death”… which is a good thing, apparently! {Grazia}
Poor, poor Mrs. Zuckerberg: Experts estimate that the Facebook founder gave his new bride a ruby ring worth only $25,000. We’re sure she’s crying into her piles of money right now…{NY Post}
If you, like us, and Derek Blasberg, have missed beloved catwalk queen Karlie Kloss this week, she’s finally made an appearance! We don’t think the below video, which was shot in early January, is directly linked to Kloss’ reason for skipping NYFW, but it sure is a nice treat at the end of an otherwise Read more →
It’s shocking to think that English menswear, famed for its Savile Row tailoring, is just now getting a dedicated menswear week. The London mens’ shows have traditionally been squeezed in on the last day of London fashion week, which was one of the factors in the scheduling debate between New York, London, Milan and Paris. Because that day coincided with the first day of Milan’s women’s shows, the London guys often got the shaft in terms of editor attendance. Starting in June 2012, that’s going to change.
A big congrats to Henry Holland, Louise Gray, Mary Katrantzou and James Long (the sole menswear designer) who have just been announced as the recipients of the British Fashion Council’s Fashion Forward scholarship. Long is the first menswear designer to receive the award. Each designer will receive financial and ‘business’ support for two consecutive seasons to show at London Fashion Week. Last year Peter Pilotto, Meadham Kirchhoff, and Todd Lynn took home the prize.
New Fashion Week calendar shakeups are forcing fashion capitals to battle it out.
Earlier this season, reports surfaced that regular fashion week schedule conflicts were causing problems (or “model crises“) for London Fashion week, with models not making it to London or being summoned to Milan early. While it seemed London Fashion Week’s fate was the least certain, Milan is also now in trouble with Condé editors threatening to skip it altogether because of a broken pact.
While most of our attention was admittedly on last night’s resplendent CFDA Awards, we can’t forget about the fashion talent across the pond–some of which has just been selected by the British Fashion Council for NEWGEN, an important showcase for emerging British Designers that is underwritten by Topshop. The winning designers, who are chosen each year in the categories of menswear and womenswear, receive sponsorship for their next runway show at London Fashion Week. And the winners are…
We know it can be tough to choose favorites in fashion. So we understand why, for the first time, the British Fashion Council chose to award not one, but three promising labels under its Fashion Forward sponsorship scheme. Congratulations to Peter Pilotto’s Christoph and Peter, Meadham Kirchhoff’s Edward and Ben, and Todd Lynn’s…Todd Lynn.
We caught Todd on the phone to ask him about his triumph.
Get it While You Can: Chloe Sevigny’s latest collection for Opening Ceremony is available to pre-order until December 20 on Opening Ceremony’s website. There are handbags, sunglasses, t-shirts, adorable dresses and many to die for shoes. One item we don’t quite understand, however, is a lookbook on sale for $65. If you want something from the collection, which you do, pre-ordering is probably your best bet for actually getting it, as these collections tend to sell out pretty quickly. {Opening Ceremony}
Jen Brill’s Makeup Routine: Photo/Styling agent Jen Brill is the latest to be featured on Emily Weiss’ beauty blog Into the Gloss. She divulges her simple yet well thought-out beauty routines in its entirety. We’ve definitely learned a few tricks. {Into the Gloss}
Hanneli’s Winter Picks: Street Style Blogger Hanneli Mustaparta has an amazing eye for others with great style as well as her own. Check out what she has her eye on this winter. Coming from someone who pretty much always looks perfect, we’d definitely take note. {The Moment}
Snooki’s Shilling Slippers: Remember those huge, dirty-looking slippers Snooki wore both in and outside the house throughout Jersey Shore? It was only a matter of time before Snooki endorsed her own line of slippers. They’re bizarrely huge, come in leopard and pink and have shoelaces for some reason. To be honest though, they do look kind of comfy. {Blackbook}
