Graduate Fashion Week Announces George Gold Award

                         Eileen-Pang Liv., modelled by Amber le Bon, Photo: JOHN WRIGHT

As the biggest-prize in British Fashion Education, Graduate Fashion Week Gold Award has become one of the most anticipated and coveted on the fashion calendar. Graduate Fashion Week is delighted to announce that the panel of judges for this year’s award will be Amanda Wakeley, Patrick Grant, creative director Norton & Sons and E.Tautz, Lucy Yeomans, editor-Harpers Bazaar and Fiona Lambert, design director, George.

Date: June 5-8, 2011

Venue: Earls Court 2, London

Amanda Wakeley launched her signature label in 1990 and over the last two decades has developed an international reputation for designing stylish, supremely luxurious, womenswear and accessories. Amanda was awarded an OBE for her services to the fashion industry on 16th February 2010. She is also the winner of several awards including-three British Fashion-Awards for Glamour.

Luxury Brand Fendi launches New fashion line on Seoul floating island

Brushing off controversy over its use of fur, luxury brand Fendi launched its fall and winter fashion line-on a large man made island in Seoul to highlight its--creativity.
Models showing Fendi's new collection, including-the Italian fashion house's signature fur items, strutted down the catwalk as hundreds of celebrities, guests and journalists watched what was only Fendi's second ever show in Asia.
"We don't do shows just-to do shows. We don't do shows to repeat what we showed in Milan," said Fendi CEO Michael Burke of the Thursday event.
"If we're going to do a fashion show, it has to be something noble, innovative, creative and sometimes risky. We like-that. There's no creativity without risk."


But Fendi's journey to-the launch on the world's largest artificial "floating island," itself unveiled less than a month ago, was far from easy.

Royal College of Arts Graduate Fashion Show 2011

Cross dressing, neon rubber and fur feature at the College's annual showcase of fashion's newest design-talents.

Philipp Schueller Photo: GETTY

Impatient foot-tapping usually sounds out the summer - a season that fatigues those in the industry for its lack of sartorial fodder until the September shows. But something always momentarily-halts those bored taps in the interim: the graduate fashion collections. After Central Saint Martins kicked things off earlier this week, it was-the turn of 36 young designers at the Royal College of Art to stir the fashion-crowd.