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Chemena Kamali, John Galliano, Jonathan Anderson (for JW Anderson and Loewe), Miuccia Prada (for Miu Miu), Pieter Mulier and Rick Owens have been nominated for Designer of the Year at the 2024 Fashion Awards, the British Fashion Council (BFC) announced on Tuesday.
The award recognises British or international designers whose collections have had a notable impact on the industry and “shaped the shape of global fashion”, according to the BFC. Last year, Anderson was named Designer of the Year.
The Fashion Awards – launched in 1989 to raise money for the BFC Foundation, which provides funding and business advice to emerging British brands – take place on December 2 at the Royal Albert Hall in London and are sponsored by Pandora.
The nominees for British Menswear Designer of the Year are: Craig Green, Grace Wales Bonner, Anderson, Kiko Kostadinov, Kim Jones and Martine Rose, who won the category award last year. In the running for British Womenswear Designer of the Year are: Erdem Moralıoğlu, Anderson, Maximilian Davis (last winner), Roksanda Ilinčić and Simone Rocha.
Nominees for New Establishment Menswear, which the BFC has reinstated as a category in 2023, are: Aaron Esh, Foday Dumbuya, Nicholas Daley, Priya Ahluwalia and Stefan Cooke and Jake Burt (jointly for Stefan Cooke). Nominees for New Establishment Womenswear are: Dilara Fındıkoğlu, Emma Chopova and Laura Lowena (jointly for Chopova Lowena), Jawara Alleyne, Laura and Deanna Fanning (jointly for Kiko Kostadinov) and Marco Capaldo. Bianca Saunders and Chopova Lowena won in the men’s and women’s fashion categories respectively last year.
Martine Rose, winner of the British Menswear Designer Award and Jonathan Anderson, winner of the Designer of the Year Award, behind the scenes at the Fashion Awards 2023.Photo: Dave Benett/Getty Image
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