Kit Neale + NEWGEN

Former Ravensbourne student Kit Neale has been chosen to receive funding from NEWGEN (New Generation, created by the British Fashion Council). NEWGEN is a talent recognition scheme, and helps to promote new businesses. Other recievers of the NEWGEN award are Nasir Mazhar and Agi & Sam. 

LFW SS14

London Fashion Week this year will be running from September 13th until the 17th, and will showcase the spring/summer 2014 collections. This year, the British Fashion Council has announced nine of London's greatest up and coming designers who will be sponsored to have their spot in Fashion Week. The designer support initiative is called NEWGEN, which is currently sponsored by Topshop and is one of the worlds most internationally recognised talent identification schemes. 

These are the lucky designers who have been picked to be sponsored this year:

Catwalk Sponsorship

J. JS Lee

AW2013

Men's Fashion Week SS14

London Collections: Men is taking place from Sunday 16th June - Tuesday 18th June and will showcase over 70 menswear designers. The men's fashion week emphasises the importance of established British brands as well as emerging talented individuals. The event contributes to the changing perception of menswear.

British Fashion Council's Fashion Forward initiative is recognising up-and-coming design talent, and this years winners are Christopher Raeburn and Sibling join Lou Dalton in receiving business and financial support from BFC in order to show their collection either through catwalk or presentation. I think these are going to be the ones to watch this season for the new talent.

Other well-established designers which will show their Menswear collections are Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, JW Anderson, Paul Smith and Topman.