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Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
The list spotlights over 50 emerging creatives across disciplines including image-making, styling, makeup artistry, hair styling, set design and casting. Among the people on the list are Issac Poleon, Amber Pinkerton, Quil Lemons, Scandebergs, Elizaveta Porodina, Ola Ebiti, Flora Huddart and Rafael Pavarotti.
This year’s voting system to determine the final list was divided into two steps. Artists on last year’s New Wave: Creatives list were asked to nominate peers, while a newly-formed Steering Committee, which is comprised of prominent industry voices including Carlos Nazario, Olivia Singer, Paloma Elsesser and Adut Akech among others, determined the final 50.
This year’s New Wave creatives will featured in a film by The Fashion Awards, which is set to premiere on Thursday 3 December. The 50 emerging creatives will also benefit from to a year-round programme advocating their work and have access to the British Fashion Council and the Steering Committee.
Designer Carly Mark sparked conversation about what it takes to make it as an emerging designer in New York when she announced she was shutting her ready-to-wear line and moving to London. On Thursday she held her last sample sale.
To stabilise their businesses brands are honing in on what their particular consumer wants to buy, introducing new categories and starting conversations.
That’s the promise of Zellerfeld, a 3D-printing partner to Louis Vuitton and Moncler that’s becoming a platform for emerging designers to easily make and sell footwear of their own.
With a new heavyweight backer in Italian firm Style Capital — which helped Zimmermann secure a billion dollar valuation — the French contemporary womenswear brand has ambitions to go global. But it sits in a competitive and hard-to-crack category.