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Glenn Martens (for Diesel and Maison Margiela), Jonathan Anderson (for Dior and JW Anderson), Martine Rose, Miuccia Prada (for Miu Miu), Rick Owens and Willy Chavarria have been nominated for Designer of the Year at the 2025 Fashion Awards, the British Fashion Council (BFC) announced on Thursday.
The award recognises British or international designers who have made an impact on the industry. Anderson was named the winner last year for the second year in a row.
The winner will be revealed at a ceremony, which will take place on 1 December at the Royal Albert Hall in London, sponsored by Pandora.
The Fashion Awards raises money for the BFC Foundation, which provides funding for the various grant and education programmes the BFC offers to British designers. Founded in 1989, this year marks the first awards ceremony under the leadership of new BFC CEO Laura Weir.
The nominees were shortlisted by a jury of 19 key critics, editors and buyers including GQ deputy global director Adam Baidawi, Vogue chief critic Sarah Mower and Machine-A founder and buying director Stavros Karelis. The shortlist will now be presented to a voting committee of leading industry members.
The British Womenswear Designer of the Year nominees are Charlotte Knowles and Alexandre Arsenault for Knwls, Simone Rocha (who won last year), Emma Chopova and Laura Lowena for Chopova Lowena (who won the BFC Foundation Award last year), Erdem Moralıoğlu, and Sarah Burton for Givenchy. Among the British Menswear Designer of the Year award nominees are Craig Green, Foday Dumbuya for Labrum London, Grace Wales Bonner (who won last year), Kiko Kostadinov, Stefan Cooke and Jake Burt for Stefan Cooke, and Nicholas Daley.
The Vanguard Award (a new category replacing the New Establishment awards for womenswear and menswear) recognises a designer at the forefront of a new wave in British fashion who demonstrates creativity, cultural leadership and global influence. The nominees are Aaron Esh, Dilara Fındıkoğlu, Feben, Steve O Smith, Tolu Coker and Torishéju Dumi. Earlier this week, Smith won the LVMH Karl Lagerfeld Prize and Dumi took home the Savoir-Faire Prize (Coker was among the finalists, too).
The BFC will announce the nominees of the other award categories in the coming months.
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