As the lights went down around the catwalk at Somerset House, the months of hard work, passion and determination of the three finalists came down to the next hour. Three collections were about to walk the runway in front of an audience including Burberry‘s Chief Creative Officer and Fashion Fringe’s chair, Christopher Bailey, who would [...]
With only a matter of days before the London Fashion Week show, Teija talks through her Fashion Fringe collection, from it’s challenges, right to it’s heart. What inspired the collection? When I started with the idea of having my own label, I loved having great clothes. So rather than starting from a conceptual perspective, I [...]
With her collection showcasing on the Fashion Fringe catwalk at London Fashion Week show in less than a week, Vita tells the story and inspirations behind her pieces. What’s the story behind your collection? I started off looking at this image of Paul Poiret‘s wife at the 1002nd Night party he had in 1911. It [...]
In a conversation involving architecture and Daphne Guinness, Haizhen delves into the inspirations behind his collection, just days before it’s set to bring the catwalk to life. What inspired your collection? The starting point was architecture and the Spanish born architect Santiago Calatrava. The garments are based on his structures, the clean lines, the shadows, [...]
Throw three Finalists into a room with hair stylists and make-up artists, three models and a photographer, and you really see a collection come to life. With a minimum of 36 looks to shoot in just one afternoon, the Academy of Freelance Make-up (AOFM) Soho studio was transformed into a hive of hustle and bustle [...]
There’s nothing quite like entering the workspace of a designer. A focus of inspiration and dedication, the studio is where it all happens and it’s no different with our Finalists. With their collections almost complete, the look book shoot just hours away and their London Fashion Week show around the corner, the designers’ LCF Curtain Road [...]
As part of their business mentoring programme, the Fashion Fringe Finalists were recently invited to attend a series of mentor talks hosted by Shopstyle at the atmospheric, beautiful Shoreditch House. In an inspiring and informative morning, Tamara Sender, Senior Fashion Analyst of Mintel, Julian Whitehead and Debra Hepburn, founders of Young British Designers, and Sarah [...]
We have some exciting news for all you budding Fashion illustrators out there! ShopStyle.co.uk, Fashion Fringe Partner and the UK’s leading fashion shopping site, is looking for the best young illustrator to showcase their sketching skills in front of the fashion elite at our Final Catwalk Show, taking place on September 18th during London Fashion [...]
If there’s anyone who knows the in’s and out’s of developing an identity, it’s John Rushworth. An experienced graphic designer and partner of the internationally renowned Pentagram, he’s a mentor for the Fashion Fringe Finalists in the creation of their brand identity. Sitting in the sleek, stunning London offices, the creative hub of Pentagram seemed [...]
Time ticks on and as I start to tick more and more tasks off the massive white list on my pin-board, and more and more garments are finished and hung on the rail, there is a palpable excitement as the collection comes together – you can see the transformation on the rail and it’s exciting [...]
For almost nine years now, Fashion Fringe has been dedicated to unearthing the most promising talents in fashion and offering them an industry-recognised platform from which to transform their passions into a viable business. We recently re-launched the Fashion Fringe blog, bringing it front and centre of our sparkly new website, in a concerted effort to [...]
The heat of the summer has taken it’s hold of the studios at LCF, and the past few weeks have been filled with intensive studio work and mentoring sessions. Being a Fashion Fringe Finalist has really taught me such valuable information about the industry that I am so blessed to have had the opportunity to learn. A [...]
I can’t believe we’re half way through. It feels like time has sped past and each day that finishes, we’re one step closer. The schedules on my ‘scheduling corner’ (RIGHT) are filling up with red dots – finished patterns, toiles, and final samples. I feel on-track although there is still a mountain of things to [...]
Finding your own fitting model is one of the first steps for creating a collection. She is really the mirror of the show to come. Putting things on her will be the first sign of either ‘oh no, this design is not working…’ or more often, ideally, ‘Yes! It’s working. She looks great in it!’. [...]
We’ve recently finished two weeks of business mentoring at Burberry, an experience I’ll take forward as such a privilege and honour. It’s truly been amazing. Shadowing each department and observing how they all interact with such open transparency, in such an organic process, has been fascinating and a real pleasure. It’s been a real insight [...]
After running my own label for the past two years, the idea of being selected as a Fashion Fringe Finalist is something quite surreal. I have dreamed of such an opportunity my whole life. The days before the final selection were incredibly nerve-wracking; the possibilities floated through my mind and left me quite overwhelmed. We [...]
I almost didn’t apply for Fashion Fringe, but thankfully I pushed through and really went for it – and what an experience this has been! I couldn’t be happier about the way it’s all gone so far. The application process, intense and soul-searching, had me asking really important questions about how I see myself as [...]
In the morning of the Fashion Fringe technical day, I sat in a cafe opposite to LCF. I wanted to gather my thoughts and so ended up sitting there trying to spot the other Semi Finalists from their description on Fashion Fringe website. There was a girl with a great pout and sunnies sitting outside [...]
Last Monday the great and the good of the British Fashion industry congregated at the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow for the annual Scottish Fashion Awards. We were absolutely delighted to see three Fringe Alumni nominated in different categories: Corrie Nielsen (Winner 2010): Best Use of Scottish Fabric by International Designer Alice Palmer (Finalist 2010): Scottish [...]
Today saw the announcement of our ten Semi-Finalists, shortlisted by Christopher Bailey for the 2012 Fashion Fringe award. Exciting times for us, but even more so for each of them. Our exceptionally talented ten are, in alphabetical order: Cornel Bolt (Cornel Bolt) Dobrowolski Af Rosenborg (Heta Dobrowolski & Caroline af Rosenborg) Dejan (Dejan Agatonovic) Fischer [...]
We’re going back to University! Because we know that some of the best and brightest fashion stars in the UK emerge from towns and cities far beyond London’s borders, we will be embarking on a regional tour of Britain between the 12th and the 20th of March. Like in previous years, Colin McDowell will be [...]
The journey through SS12 has been absolutely incredible.The highs, the lows and the in-betweens seem to unite and I am left with a warm feeling in my heart. Through the help and support of Fashion Fringe and the endless support of the panel including, to name a few, Claudia Schiffer, Anne Pitcher and Angela Quaintrell, [...]
This insane trip feels like it just started yesterday but now it is all a part of our history. Fyodor: I remember being sixteen years old in college in Latvia, burning with desire to somehow contact Colin and talk about fashion, show him my work and listen to what he would say. And now being [...]
The Saturday of the show was a surprisingly calm day for me. I just felt happy at the thought that I could shut off my brain from making garments for a while and just see the accumulation of all the work and intensity I’ve experienced in the last two months. The funny part was unpacking [...]
Legend of the pop scene, Lady Gaga, renowned for her outlandish style choices and experimental fashion, chose none other than Nabil Nayal when giving a feature interview to France’s ‘Sept à Huit’ lifestyle show on TF1 this weekend. Gaga’s styling team pulled a selection of looks from Nabil’s SS12 collection, ‘All the Riches She Deserves’, [...]
