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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...

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JCA Class of 2022: MA Graduate - Noon Khouri

Earlier this month the first cohorts of Jimmy Choo’s JCA | London Fashion Academy’s MA Fashion Entrepreneurship in Design and Brand Innovation course showcased their debut collections. Noon Khouri opened the show with her nomadic, inclusive and upcycled denim brand, Angels Wear Nada, described as the “new eco-friendly alternative, battling the...

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Fred Segal launches Madelen Nyau's debut collection

Los Angeles-based retailer Fred Segal has launched the first collection from Madelen Nyau, winner of the second annual Season Zero design contest presented by Mastercard to support emerging Black designers and artists. Zambian-born and Queens-raised Nyau, who is now based in Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of the Pratt Institute and impressed...

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Patrick McDowell takes Marie Antoinette to Liverpool

On Monday night, London Fashion Week 2.0 kicked off with Patrick McDowell and his debut designer-in-residence collection at Jimmy Choo’s JCA | London Fashion Academy, which saw the sustainably conscious designer merge the world of Marie Antoinette with his own Liverpudlian roots. The show, postponed from September due to the Queen’s death, took...

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LFW SS23: Susan Fang ‘Air Light’ collection

If there was an award for best spring/summer 2023 venue and concept, it would have to go to Susan Fang for her debut catwalk showcase during London Fashion Week. The Central Saint Martins graduate, who was shortlisted for the LVMH Prize, presented her collection at the Marshall Street swimming pool, which dates back to the 1930s. Where models...