The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
The prize, which will be awarded annually, aims to spotlight individuals from all disciplines at any level who are pushing to make positive change within the fashion industry. Entrants will be nominated by their peers for contributions across the BFC’s Institute of Positive Fashion’s (IPF) three different categories: Environment, People or Craftsmanship and Community.
A panel of judges will determine nine finalists. Of them, the three winners — one for each IPF category — will receive a cash prize of £5,000 as well as a specialised mentorship programme supported by the BFC, SWA and selected judges to support individuals in their changemaking achievements. Winners will also be awarded a Swarovski crystal trophy and be listed on the BFC website.
This year’s judges include BFC chief executive Caroline Rush, Swarovski creative director Giovanna Engelbert, British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, editor in chief of Dazed Ib Kamara and model and activist Munroe Bergdorf, among others. Applications for entrant nominations open today.
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.