- Jackie Mallon |
Supporting emerging designers and promoting creativity inspired by Chinese culture and aesthetics remained a priority even during a pandemic year. But, this year, China Institute’s Fashion Design Competition introduced a sustainability component to promote socially conscious and environmentally friendly […]
- Danielle Wightman-Stone |
Red Carpet Green Dress, a women-led global change-making organisation, has named two winners of its global design competition, which challenged designers to submit a sketch of a red carpet-worthy gown or suit that advocates sustainable fashion. The competition, conceived in 2009 by Suzy Amis Cameron […]
- Danielle Wightman-Stone |
The Graduate Fashion Foundation closed out London Fashion Week with a socially distance ceremony to celebrate the ‘Talent of Tomorrow’ with its 2020 awards. The graduate awards, which were revised to a full digital criterion to reflect the Covid-19 situation, featured 19 awards, covering each fashion […]
- Ole Spötter |
The British fashion designer, Grace Wales Bonner, has taken over the artistic direction of the fashion class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.Wales Bonner is taking over the position of Jil Sander duo, Lucie and Luke Meier, a spokeswoman told FashionUnited. The couple, who have been creative […]
- Jackie Mallon |
What makes a winning project? This is a question on the minds of many faculty members of design programs across the US as they welcome a new batch of junior students into their fall semester. Competitions and scholarship contests are a big deal within the culture of fashion degrees. Some are international […]
- Danielle Wightman-Stone |
Redress, the environmental charity working to reduce fashion’s waste, has named menswear designer Le Ngoc Ha Thu from Vietnam and womenswear designer Juliana Garcia Bello of Argentina as winners of the Redress Design Awards 2020. The largest sustainable fashion design competition, now in its 10th year, […]
- Danielle Wightman-Stone |
The Graduate Fashion Foundation has confirmed that it will hold a physical showcase for the ‘Class of 2020’, featuring graduates from the UK and International universities during London Fashion Week later this month. With one goal to support talented graduates, the Graduate Fashion Foundation is setting […]
- Jackie Mallon |
OPINION Fashion educators are paid poorly. I don’t believe this is stated enough. Of course, all educators are paid poorly, but fashion happens to be the world’s third largest industry, worth an estimated 2.5 trillion dollars globally, and counts among its ranks the world’s third-richest person in Bernard […]