Archive for October, 2011

London Showrooms New York

October 27, 2011

Centre for Fashion Enterprise, in partnership with the British Fashion Council,  is taking London’s leading emerging fashion designers to New York to showcase their S/S12 collections, for the fourth consecutive season. The Showroom will take place in Soho Grand hotel on the Wednesday 9th November  and Thursday 10th November, 9am – 7pm daily

LONDON show ROOMS are supported by the European Regional Development Fund and UK Trade and Investment.

Designers selected to participate are either part of the CFE Venture programme or have received sponsorship through the BFC’s designer support scheme NEWGEN, supported by Topshop.

Designers at LONDON show ROOMS:

Christopher Raeburn
Craig Lawrence
David Koma
Dominic Jones
Felicity Brown
Holly Fulton
James Long
J.JS Lee
J.W.Anderson
Jordan Askill
Katie Eary
Lou Dalton
Louise Gray
Michael van der Ham
Nasir Mazhar
Palmer//Harding
Sister by Sibling
Thomas Tait
Tim Soar Woman

image from www.londonfashionweek.co.uk

Fashion and Textile Export Award winners revealed

October 13, 2011

The annual UK Fashion & Textile Export Awards took place at the at Banqueting House in Whitehall on Tuesday 11th of October 2011.

CFE alumni designer “print master” Mary Katrantzou was named winner of the Designer Business category and CFE Venture designer Christopher Raeburn was named winner of the Rising Star category for his meteoric success in exports.

The awards, which are run by the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), were set up to recognise excellence in selling overseas. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the competition and entries reached a record level.  More than 300 industry guests attended the awards lunch at which the trophies were presented by HRH The Princess Royal, president of UKFT, and hosted by TV’s Claudia Winkleman.

Among the guests were Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman, British Fashion Council chairman Harold Tillman and Dragons’ Den investor Deborah Meaden, owner of Fox Bros, the UK manufacturer behind the West of England tweed brand.