British Fashion Council

The British Fashion Council (BFC ) is a nonprofit organization with headquarters in London, which was founded in 1983 for the purpose of promoting British fashion design. The current chief is Caroline Rush.

Tasks

The British Fashion Council cares in many areas around the development of fashion in Britain. However, these are probably the three most important tasks of the BFC:

Aligning the annual British Fashion Awards

The BFC honors at the British Fashion Awards, the people who have accomplished over the past year in a dismal performance in the fashion industry. The awards cover all areas that are to be found in the fashion industry, such as the award of the British Accessory Designer of the Year. However, the top category is the award for Designer of the Year, the erhielten.Sponsoren famous personalities such as Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney as Canon, American Express, and Vodafone support the BFC in the alignment of ceremonies.

Organization and hosting of London Fashion Week

With the help of various sponsors, the BFC has the London Fashion Week for the first time organized in 1984 and managed since then that the London Fashion Week, held twice a year, in addition to the shows in Paris, New York and Milan at the Big Four, the most important fashion shows to be heard. The BFC has created through digital live broadcast of the shows also a program that fashion enthusiasts from around the world will benefit.

Promotion of fashion universities and young designers

The BFC provides an improvement of teaching at universities in British fashion and tries to bring together industry and universities closer to create a lesson in business economics. In addition, the BFC competitions and offers scholarships for students. Once a year also the Fashion Fund is awarded a support to a young designer in the amount of 200,000 pounds. This action subsidize large organizations such as Burberry, Topshop and Vogue.