Fashion Fringe Presents Britain's Next Top Designers?
Fashion Fringe is an annual project, launched to find and nurture undiscovered British designers. This past May, 10 semi-finalists were invited to London to have their abilities tested in a technical day at the London College of Fashion before being interviewed by a panel of fashion industry heavy-weights and business experts (the advisory panel includes Anna Wintour, Miuccia Prada, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and John Galliano, among others). Erdem, Basso & Brooke and Sinha-Stanic are all Fringe alumni; so far the five year-old project is achieving what it intended.
Four finalists were chosen, and they spent the next 3 months working on their collections, with the support of Fashion Fringe, to create 12 looks for their Fashion Fringe capsule collection to show in London as part of the official September Fashion Week.
Here are selected looks from the winning designers at the Fashion Fringe show, beginning with Eun Jeong Hong, of the label Go By A Secret Path (and above):
Print designer Sarah Easom:
Elizabethan costume-inspired LF Markey:
and, William Tempest:
Will we see them again? Watch this space!
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