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BRITISH FASHION COUNCIL ANNOUNCES THE NOMINEES OF THE BRITISH FASHION AWARDS

This year, the British Fashion Council (BFC) approached over 300 members of the fashion industry, including international retailers and key opinion formers to vote for this year’s accolades.

Established in 1989, the British Fashion Awards celebrates the contributions of British designers, creatives, models and style icons that are renowned for their ability to set the global fashion agenda.

To recognise the ever growing globalisation of the fashion industry the British Fashion Awards 2013 has added an International Designer of the Year category to celebrate an influential international designer making waves on the global fashion scene. The winners will be announced at this year’s award ceremony to be held at the London Coliseum on Monday 2nd December.

The nominees for the 2013 British Fashion Awards are:

EMERGING TALENT AWARD - WOMENSWEAR

An innovative and directional designer who is emerging as an influential force in British womenswear.

Nominees: Marques’Almeida, Simone Rocha, Thomas Tait

EMERGING TALENT AWARD - MENSWEAR

An innovative and directional designer who is emerging as an influential force in British menswear.

Nominees: Agi & Sam, Christopher Shannon, Craig Green

EMERGING TALENT AWARD - ACCESSORIES

An innovative and directional designer who is emerging as an influential force in British accessory design.

Nominees: Dominic Jones, Mr Hare, Sophia Webster

ACCESSORY DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

A leading British designer of shoes, jewellery, millinery or other accessories within the past year.

Nominees: Anya Hindmarch, Charlotte Olympia, Nicholas Kirkwood

RED CARPET AWARD

Gives recognition to a British designer who is creating global awareness of their designs in the media.

Nominees: Antonio Berardi, Erdem, Victoria Beckham

MODEL OF THE YEAR AWARD (UNISEX)

A British model who has contributed most to the international fashion scene in the past year.

Nominees: Cara Delevingne, Edie Campbell, Sam Rollinson

BRAND OF THE YEAR

A leading British based designer brand that has excelled and made an impact on the international stage over the past year with multiple stores, integrated manufacturing, dynamic campaigns and an e-commerce platform.

Nominees: Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Victoria Beckham

INTERNATIONAL DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

Recognising a non-British internationally acclaimed, leading designer who has directed the shape of fashion in the past year both in the UK and internationally.

Nominees: Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada (Prada), Raf Simons (Dior)

NEW ESTABLISHMENT AWARD

The New Establishment Award recognises a British womenswear, menswear or accessory designer that is taking the industry by storm.

Nominees: J.W. Anderson, Mary Katrantzou, Peter Pilotto

MENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

A leading British designer of ready-to-wear or bespoke tailoring who has been instrumental in enhancing men's fashion in the past year.

Nominees: Christopher Bailey (Burberry), Kim Jones (Louis Vuitton), Tom Ford

WOMENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

A leading British designer of ready-to-wear who has been instrumental in enhancing women's fashion in the past year.

Nominees: Christopher Kane, Phoebe Philo (Céline), Sarah Burton (Alexander McQueen)

In addition, the British Fashion Awards will celebrate the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator, which recognises a British stylist, make-up artist, photographer, art director or producer whose creativity has been a major inspiration and influence in the past year; the BFC Outstanding Achievement Award, which recognises someone whose work has had an exceptional impact on global fashion; and new to this year’s ceremony, the Best Creative Campaign Award which recognises the creativity behind the most innovative and dynamic piece of advertising in the past year. Winners for these awards are selected by the BFC press committee.

This year’s awards will also recognise today’s most influential British style icon, as voted for by the public through the British Style Award, brought to you by Vodafone.

Caroline Rush, CEO British Fashion Council, commented “On behalf of the British Fashion Council I’d like to congratulate all the nominees and thank the incredible people behind this year’s nominations. Their support, expertise and involvement in the British Fashion Awards really shows the tremendous enthusiasm to recognise and celebrate the talent that defines and sustains our British fashion industry.”

With special thanks to American Express, Canon, M.A.C, TONI&GUY and Vodafone.

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For more information, images from the evening and highlights videos, please visit

www.britishfashionawards.com

Tickets for the British Fashion Awards are on sale now. For more information and your chance to

be there on the night, visit www.britishfashionawards.com/tickets

To see the full voting panel for the British Fashion Awards 2013, please visit

www.britishfashionawards.com/votingpanel2013

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For press enquiries please contact: Will Rowley or Sophie McElligott, +44(0)20 7759 1968 / +44(0)20 7759 1986 will.rowley@britishfashioncouncil.com / Sophie.mcelligott@britishfashioncouncil.com

Editors Notes

2012 Winners: Emerging Talent Award – Ready-To-Wear J.W. Anderson Emerging Talent Award – Accessories Sophie Hulme Emerging Talent Award – Menswear Jonathan Saunders Model Cara Delevingne Designer Brand Stella McCartney Menswear Designer Kim Jones for Louis Vuitton British Style Award Alexa Chung Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator Louise Wilson OBE Red Carpet Award Roksanda Ilincic BFC Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Manolo Blahnik CBE Accessory Designer Nicholas Kirkwood New Establishment Erdem Moralioglu Designer of the Year Stella McCartney

The British Fashion Council (BFC) was set up in 1983 to promote British fashion internationally and co-

ordinate this promotion through fashion weeks, exhibitions and showcasing events. The BFC now supports

designers beginning at college level and extending to talent identification, business support and

showcasing schemes to help British designer businesses develop their profiles and business globally and

promote British fashion and its influential role in Creative Britain and Creative London. The BFC Colleges

Council offers support to students through its MA Scholarship, links with industry through Design

Competitions and Graduate Preview Day. Talent identification and business support schemes include the

BFC Fash/On Film sponsored by River Island; BFC Rock Vault; BFC Headonism; BFC/Vogue Designer

Fashion Fund; Estethica; Fashion Forward sponsored by eBay Fashion and the Mayor of London;

NEWGEN sponsored by TOPSHOP and NEWGEN MEN sponsored by TOPMAN. Showcasing initiatives

include London Fashion Week, London Collections, LONDON show ROOMS, the BFC/Bazaar Fashion

Arts Foundation, International Fashion Showcase and the annual celebration of excellence in the fashion

industry: the British Fashion Awards.