London Fashion Week’s New Generation Fashion Winners Announced

The British Fashion Council has announced the designers who will receive the "New Generation" sponsorship from British high street retail giant Topshop to showcase their Spring/Summer 2008 collections during the upcoming London Fashion Week, which runs September 2007.

The recipients of New Generantion Sponsorship are Christopher Kane, Danielle Scutt, Duro Olowu, Erdem, Gareth Pugh, Louis Goldin, Marios Schwab and Todd Lynn. Whilst the exhibition sponsorship recipient designers receiving exhibition sponsorship include Borba Margo, Danielle Scutt, Emilio de la Morena, Ginta, Louise Goldin, Marios Schwab and Todd Lynn. The New Generation scheme spans both the Exhibition at London Fashion Week and the British Fashion Council's official Catwalk Show Schedule. The support is given as cash sponsorship for a fashion show at London Fashion Week and/or a stand at the event's Exhibition.

Estanblished in 1993 to give support to the most promising new talent, the Spring/Summer '08 season marks Topshop's twelfth season as a sponsor. Topshop is the single biggest supporter of young fashion designers in the industry. Topshop continues to support previous winners through housing collections in the Boutique space at its flagship store in Oxford Circus.

London Fashion Week has long been recognized as a creative hotbed bursting with forward-thinking talent, and launched the careers of Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Matthew Williamson, Julien Macdonald and Sophia Kokosalaki – all of whom have gone on to show in either Paris or New York under both their own labels and the labels of established fashion houses – Dior, Pucci, Vionnet to name a few.

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