LONDON FASHION WEEK 2024: The Ones To Watch
Fashion lovers from all around will soon flock to London Fashion Week this coming September to experience gorgeous presentations, memorable runways and exciting after-parties! We have a few designers and catwalk shows on our radar that we think you should keep an eye on.
12 September 2024
Omniss
OMNISS was founded in 2016 by Francisco Zhou and Asya Ter-Hovakimyan while studying at London College of Fashion. Fuelled by their passion for craftsmanship and futuristic dreams, they created unique pieces with stories to tell. They began selling clothes to friends and showcased collections around different London venues. Since then, the duo have turned their passion into a full business, endorsed by the University of the Arts London. They moved to their current East London studio space in 2020, and were chosen for the Creative Business Accelerator Program run in partnership with Google Campus.
12-13 September 2024
Pam Hogg
Pam Hogg is widely regarded as an icon of British fashion design. Her clothing has been in the wardrobes of superstars from Kylie to Lady Gaga and the walls of the world's top galleries. A champion of the underdog and the overlooked, she thrives on disorder, disruption and disarray. Pam's flamboyant and fearless work has always existed beyond its time, and is season-less and visionary. She has spent almost four decades creating unconventional clothes for confident women, surpassing most of her contemporaries from that first new wave.
13 September 2024
BUERLANGMA
BUERLANGMA is an emerging brand that highly values liberty, richness, and diversity that was established in 2020 by designer Qiqi Yuan. Since its creation, the brand has focused on the expression of creativity in fashion and wearable devices.
Yuan conveys the courage, freedom, and rights of everyone through his designs. He has introduced fashion design and diversified cultural elements. The name BUERLANGMA is a combination of “Buer", which means unique in Buddhism, and “Langma” which comes from the latter half of the word “Qomolangma”, the highest mountain in the world. This coincides with the brand’s core value: being the unique highest peak.
FASHION SCOUT CHINA
Fashion Scout is an award winning international consultancy and platform that scouts the world for pioneering talent and showcasing events at London and Paris Fashion Weeks. With 20 years experience in the industry their consultancy creates and delivers bespoke mentoring and business accelerator programmes for designers and organisations around the world enabling designers to adapt and build sustainable businesses and providing them with the opportunity to showcase their work to the international market. The team at Fashion Scout have delivered numerous bespoke projects including Graduate Fashion Week, the world’s largest showcase for fashion graduates.
14 September 2024
FJU Talents
FJU Talents is an annual platform showcasing emerging designers from Taiwan. The platform is sponsored by the Department of Textiles and Clothing, Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU), a leading fashion and textile design education institute based in Taiwan since 1970. Each year, four selected designers are supported by FJU Talents to show their collections at Fashion Scout during London Fashion Week. The designers being showcased this season are CHI AN LEE, CHI LI, DIN and SHUN AN CHEN.
16 September 2024
Zifei Wang
Zifei Wang graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the University of St Andrews in the UK. Her brand is crafted with nature inspired prints, handmade embroideries, and oriental jacquard, infusing the ancient element from the far east into a deconstructed silhouette. Zifei Wang's design concept is to break the inherent limitations of the traditional framework and continuously explore the mysterious oriental elements. The designs combine unique forms with international trends, post-structuralism, futurism and other innovative trends , and interpret oriental culture in the international context.
de Fichier
Born in 2022, de FICHIER represents completeness, one that can stand the refinement and precipitation of time. Each piece is crafted with great care and precision, as they meticulously choose fabrics and materials that meet the highest standards of quality while being focused on bringing uniqueness, elegance, and sophistication to each and every piece they create. They pride themselves on their attention to the variety of garments, ranging from chic dresses to high end ready-to-wear.
Their collection features ethically sourced, high-quality, refined natural materials such as fine lambswool, alpaca wool, leather, silk, and lace that aligns with their brand’s core value on quality and sustainability. They take pride in finding the best quality fabrics and partnering with reliable UK suppliers such as Pongee silk, Biddle Sawyer Silk, Alfred Brown, Abraham Moon, Scabal, The Lining Company, and more to create the collections. Working with London-based manufacturers such as Gosia, Forma Leather, and independent fashion studios in North London, the brand has produced coats, jackets, shirts, skirts and trousers, and sophisticated dresses locally.