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The Coats X GFF Sustainability Competition challenged GFF member graduates to create an upcycled garment where the stitching is a key feature. After much deliberation, industry judges for the Coats X GFF Sustainability Competition reached a decision on the UK and International winners! We’re pleased to share them with you today.
The GFW21 Catwalk Schedule is here! This year, we’re doing things a little differently, having three dedicated days of catwalk shows during our inaugural event at Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross, London.
We’re super excited to announce that we’ll be partnering with Tu for the sixth year running, this year as Headline Partner for Graduate Fashion Week 2021.
We’re really excited to share GFF Alumni Mariah Esa’s second collection with iconic fashion retailer Browns! she’s part of an incubator called Browns Focus, which just relaunched with a roster of emerging men’s and womenswear designers who are shaking up the industry.
Graduate Fashion Week couldn’t happen without the help of our amazing partners. Alongside returning Headline Partner Tu, this year sees the return of size?, L’Oréal Professionnel, YKK, TikTok and ASOS to the partnership roster, as well as Gymshark, Illamasqua, Cass Art, Delicate Rebéllion & Visualist.
To celebrate our 30th anniversary year, we set GFF graduates a challenge: to get creative and come up with ways to celebrate this huge milestone. From photography to branding, graduates submitted their innovative ideas that communicated who we are and what we do. We’re excited to share the four winners from the competition and a bit more about their work!
A unique experience for three aspiring menswear designers. MR PORTER FUTURES is a global designer mentorship programme for undiscovered talent. The MR PORTER FUTURES programme will guide three selected applicants through the process of designing, manufacturing and delivering their very own responsibly sourced and produced collections, which will then debut exclusively on MR PORTER
It’s Fashion Revolution Week, and we’re celebrating this important week of action by bringing you the information you need to know about the world of sustainability. Our resident sustainable fashion journalist, Megan Doyle has created her ultimate go-to list of resources to learn and develop your knowledge about sustainability. From interesting Instagram accounts, books you can buy to newsletters, apps and podcasts, there are so many ways to get into the world of sustainability.
If you’ve ever dipped your toe into the world of sustainable fashion, you’ve probably come across Orsola De Castro’s words of wisdom before. Orsola is a leading voice for a more fair and slow fashion industry. She co-founded Fashion Revolution, now a global movement, that was launched in response to the Rana Plaza factory disaster in 2013. To celebrate Fashion Revolution Week, we sat down with Orsola to learn more about this year’s Fashion Revolution Week, greenwashing, practical solutions to change the way we wear and mend our clothing, and more.
The Graduate Fashion Foundation are delighted to announce that they are evolving their support of FACE, Fashion Academics Creating Equality, to include a new prize that will make visible, the spectrum of Black excellence within a framework of diverse Black and Brown creativity.
We’re delighted to announce the launch of our debut innovative digital platform, featuring graduate portfolio profiles, fashion university pages and bespoke live streaming of the annual GFW event. You can find it at www.graduatefashionweek.com.
Graduate Fashion Foundation announces the continuation of the successful Graduate Fashion Mentoring Programme, this year supporting the Class of 2020 who graduated in June whose studies were greatly affected by the pandemic. The mentoring programme is aimed to provide support as they enter into the fashion industry and as they transition into the next step of their career by pairing them with a long-term experienced industry mentor.
How exciting is this? GFF Alumni, Sarah Louise Koessler from the University of Brighton, has had one of her designs chosen for Swarovski’s new campaign “Wonderlab”. As part of the Swarovski rebrand, Louise’s design worn by British model Adwoa Aboah in a film campaign directed by Giovanna Engelbert.
Check out the GFF Designer Profile with content created in partnership with Visualist App, the new productivity suite for fashion creatives, over at LondonFashionWeek.com. Six exciting emerging designers were selected to be featured on the platform that is for both trade and consumer audiences, enabling the Graduate Fashion Foundation to spotlight these incredible talents as they seek to establish themselves in the fashion industry and build their brands.
Graduate Fashion Foundation is excited to announce it will be returning for the fourth season this February to London Fashion Week, working in collaboration with Visualist, the new productivity suite for fashion creatives, to further elevate some of the exciting talent that was discovered at Graduate Fashion Week 2020 to a global audience.
We are excited to announce Graduate Fashion Week the world’s largest showcase of BA Fashion talent, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year in 2021 and will take place from Saturday 12th – Friday 18th June 2021. During this anniversary year, Graduate Fashion Week will move its event to a new home at Coal Drops Yard in King’s Cross, London.
The International Range Plan Award has been created to celebrate and showcase the creative practice of a range plan illustration and recognises the value it holds. We are keen to support International graduates communicating their planned final collection vision of garments and outfits through a line up or a range plan image. Meet the nominees below!
The GFF 2020 jury will identify three winners each to receive awards in the following areas of innovation: fashion product design, concept and materials & embellishment. Meet the nominees below!
The winner of the 2020 International Digital Fashion Portfolio Award will be given to the graduate who presents a well-executed, contemporary and professional digital fashion portfolio that demonstrates an individual and creative identity, whilst communicating a thinking process from the concept ideas, through their development to the final presentation and layout. Meet the nominees below!
Technical flat lay digital drawings play a huge part within design and manufacturing roles in the fashion industry. Graduate Fashion Foundation is proud to support the important skill and recognise the value it holds. Ensuring a Technical Drawing is correct, to scale and featuring all components is incredibly important to ensure another team member, or factory can manufacture the garment correctly. Meet the award nominees below!
