London Fashion Week Handbook
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1 Venue For more information The Store X, 180 Strand, please visit our website: London WC2R 1EA londonfashionweek.com Opening Times For up-to-the-minute show Friday, 14th September times, call the LFW timeline 08.00–19.00 on: 020 3772 1484 Or follow @lfwtimeline Saturday, 15th September on Twitter 09.30–19.00 Sunday, 16th September Twitter @londonfashionwk 09.30–19.00 Instagram @londonfashionweek Facebook /londonfashionweek Monday, 17th September Youtube /britishfashioncouncil 09.30–19.00 Tuesday, 18th September 09.30–18.00 #LFW #PositiveFashion Partners and events from over 190 The British Fashion Council international brands, many of would like to thank the following which are emerging designers; for their support of London highlighting the best creative Fashion Week September 2018: Patrons talent our industry has to offer. Accenture Huntsman AllSaints Jimmy Choo The BFC’s mission is to harness Amazon Fashion John Lewis Partnership Arcadia Group Ltd Kering the power of the fashion industry Bicester Village LVMH Boden Marks & Spencer to create sustainable growth Burberry MATCHESFASHION.COM Capco McArthur Glen Group for the sector, while promoting Centre:mk Mulberry Condé Nast Publications Next our designer businesses in the Debenhams River Island global fashion economy. In DHL Rodial Eiesha Bharti Pasricha Selfridges & Co 2018 we continue to focus on Fenwick Limited Shaftesbury GAP Tomorrow Positive Fashion, a platform Harrods The Woolmark Company designed to celebrate diversity, Hearst Magazines Yoox Net-A-Porter Group sustainability, craftsmanship and community, encouraging fashion to be used as a platform to Official Sponsors promote global positive change. The home of LFW — The The British Fashion Council Store X, 180 Strand, hosts the (BFC) is delighted to welcome BFC's Designer Showrooms, you to London Fashion Week a curated showcase of the (LFW) September 2018. most exciting ready-to-wear London Fashion Week runs and accessories brands. Official Suppliers Official Supporters from Friday, 14th to Tuesday, Also found at the Store X 18th September 2018 and is the BFC Show Space, the this season’s packed schedule NEWGEN pop-up showroom cements London’s position as an and the DiscoveryLAB, an international hub for creativity, experiential space featuring innovation and commerce. It fashion, art, technology and features catwalks, presentations performance pop-ups. 6 Text by Kenya Hunt, ELLE Positive Fashion What does it mean to create fashion This reality has inspired a groundswell work to reduce fashion’s footprint. And agencies in response, including the decision at a time when people are collectively of activity, around the British Fashion with the help of Vivienne Westwood, to install private dressing rooms at Store X questioning the world around them? Social Council’s three pillars of Positive Fashion: London’s fashion businesses are beginning Studios to protect models and allow them media is filled with a growing wave of out- Sustainability, Equality and Diversity, to see the value in switching to green a place to change away photographers. spoken activists spanning Generations Z, and Craftmanship and Community — energy sources, as the British Fashion The Models First Initiative, organised in Millennials, Xennials, X and beyond — each pillar a direct response to wider Council works with the Mayor of London 2017 to combat mistreatment of models many of them prominent celebrities and conversations and debates in the zeitgeist, and music and film industry’s to achieve of any gender and set a framework of best influencers, while even more are little- each pillar supported by the city of London. greater, longer-lasting impact. practices, has taken on a new significance known change-makers. How can fashion It’s been difficult to discuss fashion this Meanwhile, London continues to evolve in a year in which some of fashion’s most stay relevant to their lives when consumers year without addressing its impact on the into a more diverse fashion community celebrated icons have been exposed for are increasingly concerned with the greater environment. And recent studies reveal that with the autumn/winter ’18 shows being abusing their power. Meanwhile the Model social, political and environmental good? millennial consumers are more likely to buy LFW’s most race and trans diverse season Zone, provides a safe place for models to These are the questions facing the fashion clothing from a brand with a sustainable ever. Models of colour represented 34.6 eat, seek downtime and therapy if needed world as London Fashion Week kicks off. story. This London Fashion Week, there percent of castings, a 3.6% increase over during the peripatetic London shows offers And the solutions being discussed are are many to celebrate including Johnstons the year before, while the runways reveal much needed support during the fashion rooted in optimism and a desire for change. of Elgin, steventai, Kevin Germanier, room to grow in the area of plus-size, age calendar’s most stressful period. It’s hard to overstate the transformation Richard Malone, Mother of Pearl and and disability representation. As it works As awareness and discussion around these fashion has undergone in the past decade, Teatum Jones. Each one debunking to become the most diverse fashion week, topics grows, global action will surely going from an insular, homogenous and age-old myths that sustainable fashion London’s fashion businesses and media increase. And those who hesitate, will exclusive world of luxury (with one of can’t be highly creative and wholly desirable, titles could all band together to promote the surely get left behind. Adopting sustainable the biggest carbon footprints and a high and all using innovative practices in design, greater diversity needed behind the scenes and inclusive practices is good for business. tolerance for discrimination) to an industry upcycling and textiles to create fashion to make inclusivity in fashion the norm. With a firm plan in place, a celebratory increasingly embracing inclusivity, circularity that doesn’t hurt the planet. Their work And in the year of #MeToo and the spirit and commitment to seeing it through, and social activism. goes hand in hand with the BFC’s drive centenary of the suffragettes, the campaign London, one of the world’s most diverse to promote and sustain the kind of This is a time when fashion’s biggest to promote equal treatment of women in cities, is already setting the stage for long- craftsmanship that makes London’s fashion conglomerates and brightest emerging a female-dominated industry (whether it lasting progress through the BFC. talent special and sets it apart from ideas stars are collectively beginning to recognize be models or the many mothers, sisters and of ecologically-damaging disposability. #PositiveFashion that it’s no longer enough to create daughters who work in clothing factories) britishfashioncouncil.com/positive-fashion beautiful things from within a bubble The work goes beyond the London has never seemed more urgent. Change is of isolation. A fashion industry rooted Fashion Week calendar. Earlier this afoot in many areas from the sheer numbers in social and environmental good is not year, Prince Charles, a long advocate for of models taking to Facebook, Twitter only the modern way forward, but a must environmentalism, met with designers and and Instagram to share their stories to the for all businesses that want to grow. businesses in White City to discuss their various actions taken by the BFC and model Schedule Thursday, 13th September 13.00–15.00 SPECIAL OPENING: C-POP See Invitation Catwalk by VIP.COM (Mukzin, Bailuyu, A Life On The Left, Kisscat) 18.00–20.00 JOSEPH: ‘Gingernutz Takes See Invitation Event Paris’ Book Signing 18.00–20.00 Sophie Kah Salon Show See Invitation Event and Cocktail Party 18.00–20.30 Curated Canadian Collections See Invitation Event 19.00–20.00 VIN + OMI SS19 Show P / F See Invitation Event 19.00–21.30 AISSO See Invitation Event 19.00–Late Urbanears presents Listen See Invitation Event To Yourself by Tove Lo Friday, 14th September 08.00–09.00 London Fashion Week See Invitation Event Official Opening 09.00 Richard Malone* BFC Show Space Catwalk 09.30–11.30 Emma Charles Designer Discovery Showrooms LAB 09.30–11.30 Gayeon Lee See Invitation Presentation 10.00 Jamie Wei Huang See Invitation Catwalk 10.00–18.00 Amanda Wakeley See Invitation App. 11.00 J. JS Lee M/W BFC Show Space Catwalk 12.00 Nicopanda See Invitation Catwalk 13.00 Bora Aksu BFC Show Space Catwalk 14.00 Ryan LO See Invitation Catwalk 15.00 Kiko Kostadinov* See Invitation Catwalk 15.30–17.30 XU ZHI See Invitation Presentation 16.00 Marta Jakubowski BFC Show Space Catwalk 17.00 Pam Hogg See Invitation Catwalk 17.00–19.00 KALDA Designer Discovery Showrooms LAB Sunday, 16th September P / F M/W 17.30–19.30 Johnstons of Elgin See Invitation Presentation 09.00–17.00 Jenny Packham See Invitation App. 18.00 Matty Bovan* BFC Show Space Catwalk 09.30 Victoria Beckham See Invitation Catwalk 19.00 Xiao Li See Invitation Catwalk 09.30–11.30 MARRKNULL Designer Discovery Showrooms LAB 20.00 Ashley Williams See Invitation Catwalk 20.30–22.00 Katie Ann McGuigan See Invitation Event 09.30–11.30 minki BFC Presentation Show Space 10.30 Victoria Beckham See Invitation Catwalk Saturday, 15th September 11.30 Preen by Thornton See Invitation Catwalk Bregazzi 09.00 Eudon Choi See Invitation Catwalk 12.30 Roland Mouret See Invitation Catwalk 09.30–11.30 Anya Hindmarch See Invitation Presentation 13.15 Margaret Howell M/W See