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Vanish partners with the British Fashion Council to highlight throwaway fashion

Garment care brand Vanish has unveiled a Rewear Edit high-fashion shoot in partnership with the British Fashion Council as part of London Fashion Week made entirely from discarded clothing to raise awareness of the 3.5 tonnes of clothing thrown away every five minutes in the UK. The thought-provoking imagery is shared alongside new research...

23 Feb 2021

Fashion

London Fashion Week AW21: what to expect from the digital showcase

Pre-2020, the day before London Fashion Week would see buyers, press and influencers organising their tickets and schedule for the week ahead, however, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic means that this season’s autumn/winter 2021 collections will be showcase entirely digitally. In September, a handful of designers staged socially distanced catwalks...

18 Feb 2021

Fashion

London Fashion Week names Clearpay as principal partner

The British Fashion Council has confirmed that buy-now-pay-later payment service Clearpay will be the new principal partner of London Fashion Week, starting from this up-coming season kicking off on February 19. On a Zoom call, Caroline Rush, chief executive of the British Fashion Council, explained that Clearpay would be partnering with London...

10 Feb 2021

Fashion

British Fashion Awards winners to receive trophy from recycled plastic

Next week will see the British Fashion Awards take place via a digital format instead of its usual glamorous ceremony. Despite London coming out of lockdown on December 2nd, the event will announce the winners via a short film expected to document the fashion industry in an extraordinary year of unprecedented times. Award winners will not take...

25 Nov 2020

Retail

BFC announces new format for The Fashion Awards 2020

The British Fashion Council (BFC) has announced a new digital format for The Fashion Awards 2020, due to the restrictions imposed because of Covid-19. The award show will celebrate brands, creatives, designers and individuals who have created positive change within the fashion industry, and will take place 3 December. There will be 20 awards...

15 Oct 2020

Fashion

BFC announces Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee

The British Fashion Council has announced the launch of its Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee as part of its “long-term plan to fight prejudice and discrimination and galvanise the industry into action”. The committee is made up of industry and British Fashion Council representatives and its role will be to address "key challenges...

17 Sep 2020

People

BFC announces executive board appointments

The British Fashion Council has announced four new appointments to its board of directors following its annual general meeting that took place on September 4. Jamie Gill, chief executive of Roksanda, June Sarpong, director of creative diversity at the BBC, Scott Morrison, founder of The Boom!, and Sian Westerman, senior advisor at Rothschild and...

14 Sep 2020

Fashion

London Fashion Week teams up with Amazon Fashion

The British Fashion Council is joining forces with Amazon Fashion during London Fashion Week to support British fashion designers impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic with a new designer digital storefront. The Amazon Fashion x London Fashion Week digital boutique will support and enable small and medium-sized British fashion designers to showcase...

14 Sep 2020

Fashion

London Fashion Week gives further details on physical showcase

With two weeks to go until London Fashion Week, the British Fashion Council has published the provisional calendar for the gender-neutral September 2020 showcase, which includes both digital activations as well as physical events. The schedule features more than 80 designers including 40 womenswear, 15 menswear, 20 menswear and womenswear and 5...

4 Sep 2020

People

BFC announces first-ever LFW ambassador in South Korea

The British Fashion Council has appointed Yun-Kee Jeong as its first-ever London Fashion Week ambassador in South Korea. The South Korean celebrity stylist, creative director and president of talent and communications agency InTrend will join the British Fashion Council for an initial two-year period and act as the in-market spokesperson for...

2 Sep 2020

Video

Videos: Celebrating the talents keeping London Fashion Week alive

The British Fashion Council sits down with the many players that are keeping London at the level of the "big four" fashion weeks. In this series titled 'Voices of London Fashion Week', BFC asks some of the week's participants to answer a series of questions on what the iconic fashion week means to them. Featuring familiar fashion faces...

28 Aug 2020

Fashion

BFC reveals provisional line-up for London Fashion Week

The British Fashion Council (BFC) has revealed the provisional line-up for the upcoming London Fashion Week (LFW) taking place between 17 and 22 September. The co-ed event will be a mix of digital and physical events and feature the likes of Burberry, Richard Quinn, Matty Bovan, Emilia Wickstead, Rixo, Phoebe English and Bianca Saunders. Like...

24 Aug 2020