The British Council's Fashion Award nominees announced

The time has come to reveal this years British Fashion Council Award nominees, which is aimed at celebrating the industry's brightest talents within design, business and modeling. Its been a turbulent year in fashion, with a lot of attempts at comes backs and revamps, Burberry, Prada, Versace for example, and street fashion taking even further steps up the luxury ladder with designers like Virgil Abloh’s appointment to artistic director for Louis Vuitton, and Kim Jones’ for Dior. The question remains if it has paid off? It is interesting to note how many of the Moncler Genius designers are represented amongst the nominees, and as these categories usual contain some rather questionable nominations, we must say the ‘Urban Luxe’ category as they call it seems rather on point. To find who’s won, tune in on December 10th for the results, in the meantime check out the categories below and give us your predictions.

Brand of the Year: Balenciaga, Burberry, Gucci, Off-White and Prada

British Designer of the Year Menswear: Craig Green for Craig Green, Jonathan Anderson for JW Anderson, Kim Jones for Dior Homme, Martine Rose for Martine Rose and Riccardo Tisci for Burberry 

British Designer of the Year Womenswear: Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy, Jonathan Anderson for JW Anderson, Roksanda Ilinčić for Roksanda, Simone Rocha for Simone Rocha and Victoria Beckham for Victoria Beckham

British Emerging Talent Menswear: Ben Cottrell and Matthew Dainty for Cottweiler, Eden Loweth & Tom Barratt for Art School, Kiko Kostadinov for Kiko Kostadinov, Phoebe English for Phoebe English and Samuel Ross for A-Cold-Wall*

British Emerging Talent Womenswear: Matty Bovan for Matty Bovan, Natalia Alaverdian for A.W.A.K.E., Rejina Pyo for Rejina Pyo, Richard Quinn for Richard Quinn and Sofia Prantera and Fergus Purcell for Aries

Accessories Designer of the Year: Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Demna Gvasalia for Balenciaga, Jonathan Anderson for Loewe, Maria Grazia Chiuri for Dior and Miuccia Prada for Prada

Business Leader: Jonathan Akeroyd for Versace, José Neves for Farfetch, Marco Bizzarri for Gucci, Marco Gobbetti for Burberry and Michael Burke for Louis Vuitton

Designer of the Year: Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy, Kim Jones for Dior Homme, Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino and Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton

Model of the Year: Adut Akech, Adwoa Aboah, Bella Hadid, Kaia Gerber and Winnie Harlow

Urban Luxe: Alyx, Palace, Marine Serre, Off-White and Supreme

 

Stay locked to nss to see who wins on Dec 10th.