On Monday 1st December 2025, London’s Royal Albert Hall becomes the heart of global fashion! The Fashion Awards 2025 presented by Pandora celebrates creativity, culture, and the people shaping the future of our industry. More than an award show, #TFA is a vital fundraiser for the #BFCFoundation, spotlighting the visionary talent and boundary-breaking ideas defining our time. Get your tickets today to join us in celebration of the year’s biggest and best fashion moments via https://lnkd.in/d9U8ZCva.
British Fashion Council
Retail Apparel and Fashion
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About us
The British Fashion Council (BFC) is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to further the interests of the British fashion industry and its designer businesses by harnessing and sharing collective knowledge, experience and resources of the sector. Formed in 1983, the BFC is funded by industry patrons, commercial sponsors, and the government including the Mayor of London and the ERDF. It leads the industry through creative influence and is strategically repositioning British fashion in the global fashion economy. The BFC showcases the best of British fashion design to an international audience. London Fashion Week is a gender neutral event showcasing the latest collections every January, February, June and September. Each season, LONDON show ROOMS takes emerging designers to Paris giving them the opportunity to promote themselves overseas. The BFC also organises The Fashion Awards, the UK’s annual celebration of excellence within London and the global industry. The BFC helps designers at various stages of their businesses through its support initiatives. These include the BFC Colleges Council and its menswear and womenswear talent identification schemes: NEWGEN, and the BFC/GQ Designer Menswear Fund. The BFC also runs and owns charities including the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund, BFC Foundation.
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http://www.britishfashioncouncil.com
External link for British Fashion Council
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- Retail Apparel and Fashion
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1983
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Somerset House
London, WC2R 1LA, GB
Employees at British Fashion Council
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2024 NEW WAVE Yi Tuo is a photographer working in Shanghai. Tuo crafts visual stories through the unique language of images, specializing in still life photography. With a distinctive and pioneering style, Tuo animates objects through his lens, situating them in romantic and unique visual universes of their own. Discover 2024 NEW WAVE: Creatives, a list of the 50 most innovative and inspiring young creative talents who play a critical role within the fashion industry globally, via https://lnkd.in/dqQEmQi9.
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Our Circular Fashion Innovation Network (CFIN) and Clarasys are pleased to launch the new playbook "Customer Centric Growth: A Playbook for Scaling Repair and Resale in Fashion." The playbook is built on insights from industry experts and provides a practical framework for fashion leaders to launch and scale repair and resale circular services effectively. This playbook makes the case that CBMs represent a critical pathway to business resilience, a powerful engine for customer loyalty, and an essential lever for achieving net zero ambitions. Earlier this week, as part of London Circular Economy Week, we hosted a webinar with a panel of organisations leading the charge on repair and resale services today, you can revisit the webinar here https://lnkd.in/dFhMK_uc. Discover the playbook via https://lnkd.in/e6gynx4b
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CALLING ALL FASHION #DESIGNERS! Don’t miss your chance to showcase at #LondonFashionWeek February 2026, taking place 19th - 23rd February. The schedule celebrates the best of the UK's fashion talent, with opportunities to showcase across both physical and digital formats. Applications are now open for the Main Schedule (catwalk and presentation), Digital Schedule, DiscoveryLab, and LFW Designer Profiles. #Apply now - https://lnkd.in/e7b_Mcg3. Criteria and deadlines vary.
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The BFC is saddened by the news that visionary stylist and fashion editor Melanie Ward has passed away. Melanie taught us that true style is felt, not forced. Melanie forged a visual language which will continue to shape creativity. Her legacy is indelible and her passing is an immeasurable loss to the British fashion community. Our thoughts are with Melanie’s loved ones. Image credit: Sebastian Kim for Interview Magazine
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#BFCommunity designer #GraceWalesBonner has been appointed creative director of Hermès Menswear. Wales Bonner is previous reicipient of BFC/ Vogue Designer Fashion Fund (2019), BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund (2022) and BFC/Fashion Trust (2021 and 2022). Bonner's talent has also been recognised numerous times at The #FashionAwards, awarded with the British Menswear Designer of the Year Award (2024), Independent British Brand Award (2022) and Best Emerging Designer Award (2015). Read more about her debut for the French maison in January 2027 via https://lnkd.in/dx-KiNRV
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#BFCNEWGEN designer #AaronEsh has been appointed BFC Patron AllSaints' chief creative officer. AARON ESH is part of the 2025/26 BFC NEWGEN cohort of designers, supported by our longstanding initiative championing the best emerging fashion design talent. Esh, who will still remain at the helm of his eponymous label, "is set to oversee the British premium brand’s women’s and men’s collections and steer overall creative direction, including marketing campaigns." Read in full via The Business of Fashion https://lnkd.in/dQDn85rB
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DELPHINE ARNAULT TO BE HONOURED WITH A SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD AT #TFA 2025 The Special Recognition Award will honour Arnault’s outstanding contribution to the fashion industry and longstanding commitment to championing emerging talent. A passionate advocate for the next generation of designers, Arnault spearheaded the launch of the LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers. Arnault will be presented with the accolade at The #FashionAwards 2025 presented by Pandora, Monday 1st December at the Royal Albert Hall.
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“Supporting talent and helping build a more inclusive, global fashion community has been one of the great privileges of my life.” - Tania Fares Our BFC Foundation Initiative, BFC Fashion Trust, will be recognized with a special award at The #FashionAwards, with co-chair of the BFC Foundation Fundraising Committee, Tania Fares collecting the award. The accolade recognises the programme which has raised 6.8 million pounds over the last 15 years. WWD reports via https://lnkd.in/df5fiJic.
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2024 NEW WAVE Yao Yuan is a non-binary artist born in Sichuan, China, currently living in Paris. Their investigations through the photographic medium explore the queering of storytelling and dramaturgy, rethinking the binary framework of prevailing paradigms, particularly in relation to gender and sexuality. The focus of Yuan’s work touches on topics of non-normative narratives surrounding motherhood, nature, queer representation and intimacy. Meet the 2024 NEW WAVE: Creatives cohort via https://lnkd.in/dqQEmQi9.
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