Fashion Designer Harriet Scott, currently a student at the Birmingham Metropolitan College has been given the opportunity to showcase her evening wear collection at the Midlands Fashion Designer Awards in the Young Fashion Designers category. Harriet said “I am interested in making one off garments that are well produced and make women look and feel good, I am so looking forward to showcasing at this year’s show”.
Inspired by architecture, colours, shapes, embroidery and beading, Nottingham based designer Anna Ashantwa has been selected to showcase her collection at this year’s Midlands Fashion Designer Awards.
With the motto of ‘Fashion favours the brave’, Melissa is inspired by designers such as Alexander Wang, David Koma and Richard Nichol. She is also influenced by ecclectism, especially global street style including Japanese street fashion, Seoul street fashion and fashion from the UK. Like many artists and designers, she sleeps with a sketchbook to enable quick capturing of any ideas that she may have at any given time. This routine of capturing the moment is reflected in her scrapbooks where she has collected images of her favourite images from magazines and fashion blogs. Currently studying for her Higher National Diploma at City College Birmingham, she has learned invaluable skills which she hopes to apply in the future as a successful, innovative but also affordable designer selling both in department stores as well as her own premium range.
STUNNING NEW, CUSTOMISABLE COLLECTION COMING FROM ESTABLISHED DESIGNER ELEPHTHERIA XENOS
After graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in Fashion Studies from Derby University, Eleptheria Xenos debut her collection at the Midlands Fashion Designer Awards 2009 in Birmingham.
Now an established fashion designer, Midlands based Print and Fashion Designer Eleptheria has achieved success within the fashion industry producing a collection for shops based in Burton and London and has had designs sold in Japan and America.
Elephtheria has launched a new, ready-to-wear cotton based collection with a range of new garment designs and new vintage fabric prints. She has also designed a jewellery range to compliment the garments that will be available shortly which will include necklaces, earnings, headbands and bracelets featuring her signature floral design in the same, vintage-inspired prints.
Her collection is based on an innovative new idea of allowing the customer to modify each garment to their liking before purchase, creating their own bespoke garments without the haute-couture price tag.
Elephtheria has a growing customer- and fan-base and was recently selected to exhibit at the popular Clothes Show Live in Birmingham. With her increasing popularity, beautiful designs and unique customisation feature, this is really one designer to take note of.
Eleptheria Fashion Couture clothing, available online via her website at
Midlands Fashion Awards winners and finalists were selected by Alexis Knox, Fashion Stylist to showcase their collection in the Fashion Theatre Catwalk at the Clothes Show Live, NEC Birmingham. Winning designers Ravinder Matharu, Mellisa Boyer and Victoria Bramwell together with finalists Shara Johnson, Rachel Faye Brown, Nicole Gill Lingerie and Dancing Dolls by Paulinah Eboh-Sampson showcased their collection over a period of 8 days http://www.clothesshowlive.com/highlights/fashion-theatre/fashion-theatre-designer-profiles
Last week we were bursting with excitement waiting to find out who would win the Midlands Fashion Designer Awards. After a spectacular awards evening on Saturday 23rd October at the Birmingham Conservatoire, the winners were announced.
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We’re mere days away from finding out who will be crowned as the top regional designers during this year’s Midlands Young Fashion Designer Awards (MYFDA)
http://69-247.com/2010/10/midlands-young-fashion-designer-awards/
More than 20 young fashion designers will be hoping to follow in the the footsteps of Julien Macdonald and Vivienne Westwood by clinching a top fashion prize… http://birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2010/10/23/young-fashion-designers-battle-for-midlands-fashion-awards-in-birmingham-97319-27528129
Exciting London based designer ‘Nigina London’ has now established her clothing range in her hometown of Birmingham and is choosing the MYFDA 2010 to showcase her new collection.
Nigina has an extensive background within the fashion industry graduating from the London College of Fashion in 2000. She was soon appointed with the crème de la crème of the fashion market Emporio Armani, which shaped Nigina’s love for fashion. The Birmingham-born fashion guru has produced many fashion shows in her career and was selected with a panel of judges as one of the most fashionable people in London and archived for the next 25 years at the Museum of London, which was celebrated with guest host Alexandra Shulman editor of Vogue.
‘Nigina London’s’ mission statement is to “give every woman the confidence to look beautiful, bringing out your alter ego and illuminating your individuality- through power – an unforgettable experience for love and beauty in timeless accentuated glamourous clothing.”
OK Magazine quoted Nigina London’s brand as – “Beautiful”
The Sun Newspaper quoted – “Delectable”
Nigina London clothes have been worn by the likes of Laila Rouass, Jeremy Irons, Rebecca Hazlewood, Jennifer Ellison, Pooja Shah, Sonia Deol, Bollywood actress Mahima Choudhry to name a few.
Loughborough based designer Michael James Gilfillan; creative head behind ‘MJG’ is set to showcase his Evening wear collection at MYFDA 2010. Speaking to MYFDA about his design inspiration, Michael said: “The inspiration for my collection has been driven forward by my interest in medieval armour. The castle of Robin Hood in Nottingham, particularly the museum; home to past armour uniforms is where floods of design ideals began and the start of my collection was formed.”
After completing a fashion studies degree at Lincoln U\niversity, Michael has designed and manufactured several collections. “I love to see my designs made up and presented on models and having no boundaries; creating what I believe to be a wearable art.” Michael believes studying A-Level art helped him keep an open mind and look at fashion design and garment construction from a various perspectives. This fluidity in his approach has been visually translated into his unusually captivating collection.
Michael will be showcasing his Evening wear collection alongside 24 other finalists at the Birmingham Conservatoire on 23rd October 2010.
