The Fashion Award Will Return to Royal Albert Hall This Year – WWD

LONDON – After moving digital last year as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, the British Fashion Council Thursday mentioned that the Fashion Awards will return to a bodily format and happen once more at London’s Royal Albert Corridor on November 29.

“The Trend Awards is a landmark occasion, the one international occasion of its form,” mentioned Stephanie Phair, British Fashion Council chair. “It’s a privilege to have the ability to host the worldwide vogue business in London at such an iconic venue.”

This 12 months’s occasion will hand out Designer of the 12 months, and the BFC Basis Award, in addition to honoring and celebrating worldwide and British leaders of change who excel of their discipline and created constructive change inside the vogue business over the previous 12 months.

They are going to be judged underneath 5 classes surroundings, folks, group & craftsmanship, creativity, and tradition. Winners will probably be voted on, beginning in September, by a panel made up of over 800 members of the worldwide vogue business.

Different awards on the evening embrace the Excellent Achievement Award, the Isabella Blow Award for Trend Creator and Trend Icon.

“We’re excited to carry the dwell occasion again and are engaged on a brand new format that can put leisure on the coronary heart of the present whereas utilizing digital platforms to increase the attain of the occasion,” mentioned Phair, including that extra plans and a few surprises on the evening will probably be revealed over the approaching months.

Launched because the U.Ok.’s reply to the Met Gala and the CFDA Awards in NIew York, the Fashion Awards is an annual fundraiser occasion for the BFC Basis, which has helped 33 designers and various college students via monetary assist grants and mentoring in 2020/21.

Tickets will probably be out there to most people from September 21. American Specific members can entry presale tickets from September 6.

Final 12 months the British Trend Council launched a 30-minute YouTube clip to disclose the winners, who included Samuel Ross, Priya Ahluwalia, A Sai Ta, Kenneth Ize, and Christopher Raeburn.