Fyodor Golan, Phoebe English and Agi & Sam: International Woolmark Prize

The Woolmark Company announces Fashion Scout alumni Fyodor Golan, Phoebe English and Agi & Sam are nominated for International Woolmark Prize (IWP).

Established in the 1950's as part of the International Wool Secretariat, early winners of the coveted prize include Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld. Today the competition, which holds finals across The British Isles, Shanghai, Sydney, Antwerp, Dubai and New York, sees its semi-finalist picking up an impressive AU$50,000 donation towards their new collection, in addition to an invitation to the finals in Florence (Menswear) and New York (Womenswear).

When the winner is announced later in the year, they will receive an enviable AU$100,000 to aid in marketing and fabric sourcing, in addition to distribution at London's regarded Harvey Nichols department store.

Good luck to all Fashion Scout alumni!

Full information on the International Woolmark Prize can be found here. 

By Lewis R Waters

NEWS| Phoebe English for Dover Street Market New York

Our previous Merit Award winner Phoebe English has been invited to re-imagine the ground floor event space of Dover Street Market in New York City. 

Displaying a selection of pieces from English's AW14 collection, the installation delves into the themes of chaos, control, gravity and temporality - all elements which feed and have fed into her design aesthetic. With white collapsed cliffs and rails of her suspended pieces, the Dover Street Market setting she has created is as dynamic as it is effective.

"I wanted to convey a light, surreal and poetic shopping environment, a small piece of drama to come across whilst wandering around the incredible emporium that is Dover Street Market New York," English told AnOther Magazine in a recent interview.

English was awarded our Merit Award during the AW12 season and has since gone from strength to strength. Now, she has appeared in a range of international publications, on platforms among the likes of SHOWstudio and is stocked in Dover Street Market.

See more of Phoebe English's work here.

By Josh Walker, Editor, (@josh_walker_).

Image, courtesy of Phoebe English.

EXCLUSIVE| SS15 Selection Panel

As Fashion Scout London and Paris's September season approaches, a group of leading fashion professionals joined Fashion Scout’s Director Martyn Roberts to decide on the exciting new line up of designers for the upcoming season. As well as selecting those who would showcase on our catwalk, it was decided who would be awarded Fashion Scout’s prestigious Merit Award, as well as our Ones to Watch.

Renowned fashion journalist Hilary Alexander commented that the overall quality of designer's pieces, describing them as “really interesting,” being sure to comment on the “ingenious craftsmanship” of some of the collections on offer. Alongside Hilary Alexander was Judith Tolley from the CFE, stylist Rebekah Roy, Not Just A Label’s Robert Cavell-Clarke and previous Merit Award winner, Phoebe English.

“Really original, you can tell they have really enjoyed making it, really lovely.” Phoebe English.

Since winning the coveted Merit Award, Phoebe English works closely with CFE London and has grown her business into a staple name in the fashion industry. Next week, English will be flying to New York with her latest collection for an exciting new launch event in Dover Street Market's new US branch. 

                               

The event was covered live on our social media platforms with quotes and photos during the selection process for which the winners will be announced shortly. 

Alongside the selection of designers applying for Fashion Scout September, the panel also viewed a collection of the best fashion design graduates work from this year. From these collections, the panel then curated a collective of the 10 best UK fashion grads. 10 graduates who will comprise to create the Graduate Showcase, which will be shown at our Freemason's Hall venue in Covent Garden for the fourth year this season. 

Fashion Scout London will take place from 12th - 16th September 2014. 

Images by Hannah Farrell 

Writer: Lauren Slater + Lauren West 

NEWS| Phoebe English SS14 film and Dazed Digital interview

Following the stunning garments she presented this season, Phoebe English has captured her SS14 collection, from its concept to completion, through film. Shot by Joe Ridot, the film documents the work process of former Fashion Scout One to Watch and Merit Award Winner, offering a rare glimpse into the designer's hauntingly beautiful and creative world. Having recently showcased her SS14 collection in an intimate setting of coal and neon lights at London Fashion Week, as well as displaying in the Fashion Scout Paris showroom, the film guides us from the earliest sketches right up to her LFW presentation. 

Phoebe shared with Dazed Digital the desolate references that inspired her SS14 collection, view the post here. 

By Josh Walker (@josh_walker_)

PARIS SHOWROOMS| Phoebe English SS14

One of the Ones To Watch winners for SS12. Merit Award winner for AW12. Central Saint Martins graduate and L'Oreal Professional Creative Award winner Phoebe English, a true Fashion Scout veteran will return to the Paris Showrooms this season with her post-apocalyptic SS14 collection.

Her strong metamodern aesthetic has been wowing onlookers from the start and a strong media following has led to a collaboration with ShowStudio and a Dover Street Market window installation. This season her nude and onyx heavy colour block multi texture line up was inspired by travel, empty space, gravity and suspended movement; expect raw edge sheer detailing and boxy silhouettes .

English will be showcasing her collection 10:00AM to 7:00PM from the 26^th to the 1^st October at the Fashion Scout Paris Showrooms; 23 Rue Du Roi Sicile, Paris 75004.

Madeleine Ayers, contributor, @MadeleineAyers.

NEWS| Phoebe English's AW13 collection shot by Hunger Magazine

Former Merit Award Winner Phoebe English's AW13 collection has been featured by Hunger Magazine. Shot by Max Montgomery, the editorial is accompanied with an interview with Phoebe who talks through her 'Made in England' ethos, her career highlights and future plans. 

In addition, Phoebe English has been mentioned in a recent Business of Fashion article on boutique Hostem whilst her AW film has been featured on Wallpaper Magazine's website. 

NEWS| Phoebe English AW13 film exclusive to Dazed Digital

Former Fashion Scout Merit Award winner Phoebe English takes us to new worlds with a short film featuring the designer’s AW13 collection.  Focusing on shape, shadows bring a spellbound atmosphere to the collection where movement interacts with light.

Collaborating with director Marie Kristiansen and music by Golden Hum, Phoebe English showcases parts of her collection throughout the film featuring her signature monochromatic style. Flashes of dark visuals contrast with a serene mood, where the viewer is invited to see the multidimensional aspects of the collection.

Featured on Dazed Digital as an exclusive, the film highlights the importance of textures in Phoebe English’s work and pulls forward the garments themselves, whilst the model remains passive, face half covered.

“Whilst obviously displayed to us, the model is simultaneously removed or hidden by the masking of her eyes” says English explaining the film-making process she says “x-ray and spectre like transparencies, slide show layering and the voyeuristic plinth exhibit of the model protagonist.”

The designer showcased her collection at Fashion Scout in February earlier this year using this film to expand ideas on aesthetics seen on the catwalk.

Vanessa Omoregie (@wewearblack)

NEWS| Phoebe English joins CFE London's New Fashion Venture Programme

This week Fashion Scout alumni and Central Saint Martins graduate; Phoebe English has moved from the Centre for Fashion Enterprise New Fashion Pioneer program to the New Fashion Venture programme.

Aside from this accolade, Phoebe has also previously won the L'Oreal Professional Creative Award, the Ungaro Bursary and the Chloe Award; alongside her July 2011 English Easton Limited partnership, which involves Phoebe's amalgamation with Rose Easton, who is both the creative collaborator for the brand, whilst being responsible for the business side of the label.

Phoebe English and Rose Easton agreed that "The CFE has been an invaluable asset to the development of our knowledge and business. The New Fashion Pioneer Programme addressed our specific need and we will be forever grateful to the wonderfully kind and patient team". You can read more on the CFE website here. 

In relation to this, the CFE New Market Entry programme, specifically created for 'start ups that need the tools to grow'  is now exclusively open to Fashion Scout designers, who are registered to a London address with 1-2 stockists. There are 30 spaces available and the mentoring events take place on the 6th & 7th of July. More information here. 

By Brooke McCord, @BrookeMcCord

Images from CFE London and @PhoebeEnglish's Twitter

NEWS| Former Merit Award winner Phoebe English in The Independent

Open up today's Independent or i paper today and you'll see Fashion Scout designer and former Merit Award winner Phoebe English looking back at you. 

The feature, which focuses on Phoebe's new window installation which launches at Dover Street Market this Friday, interview Phoebe in her studio in her East London studio. 

"For her window display English, whose studies focused on knitwear and textiles, has created a large orb of blue glass beads that will be suspended from the ceiling by a single wire. “I wanted something that looked as though it was floating or hovering – a lunar orb. The textiles we're using are all glass and we found that during the [spring/summer 13] show you got a really great reflection of the show lights while the girls were in motion. We're hoping that the light will sort of sparkle across the surface.”"

You can read the full piece online here. View Phoebe English's A/W13 collection review here, as showcased at Fashion Scout in February.

Written by Editor Cass Gowing, @CassGowing

ILLUSTRATION| Phoebe English FEB'13

Illustration by Josh Osborn

Illustrations by Vivien Chan

CATWALK| Phoebe English FEB'13

Images by Christopher Dadey
www.christopherdadey.com

COLLECTION| Phoebe English

Onlookers huddled around a wooden structure in our Freemason's Hall, Phoebe English's AW13 collection was an intimate one. An investigation into sightlessness seemed a fitting description for the pieces as eyeless models walked minimal pieces cut to precision around the wood frame.

Structured, layered and uniquely textured clothing contrasted with hard shapes that flirted with fragility, giving an essence of 'feeling' rather than 'seeing' that the designer wanted to achieve. Using a nude, navy and black colour palette, fringing, layering and an exploration of silhouettes all featured. Being a former Fashion Scout One to Watch and Merit Award winner, English's work has never been short of impressive and her attention to finish and textiles she has become known for was as clear here as ever before.

A contemporary and innovative display of garments, emphasised by the distorted growls and beeps of the disturbing soundtrack composed especially for the show made for a beautifully dark collection.

By Josh Walker (@josh_walker_)

Images Max Barnett (@MaxBarnettPhoto)  

BACKSTAGE| Phoebe English FEB'13

Backstage at Phoebe English both the Toni & Guy and The Body Shop teams have been hard at work creating a concept to accompany the AW13 Collection.

Efi Davies from Toni & Guy has opted for a messy but structured hair style in order to complement the conceptual structures and shapes that will be showcased on the Phoebe English catwalk; telling us that “the only way to describe it would be as a knotty knot, not so much of a top-knot but more of a mid-knot. It’s utterly free and flyaway”.

Whilst make-up artist Thomas De Kluyfer created an ethereal, alien-esque aesthetic, using The Body Shop Moisture Foundation to fabricate pearly skin contrasted with dry matte nude lips.

Words by Brook McCord (@BrookeMcCord)

Images by 
Lauren Marsh (@laurenalicia24) 
Max Barnett (@maxbarnettphoto)

NEWS| Phoebe English in Oyster Mag for 2-Times

An editorial shoot for 2-Times that includes the work of Phoebe English has featured on Oyster magazine. The shoot, titled 'A I R less', sees the previous Merit Award and One to Watch winner's pieces paired with Maison Martin Margiela, Comme Des Garcons and Haider Ackermann. 

In a collection of images that pay homage to female stylists and photographers the shoot embodies the beautiful, texture focused aesthetic the Central Saint Martins graduate has become known for. 2-Times is an Australian luxury concept store and shot the editorial to mark a new retail installation they'll be bringing with the new year. Since winning the Merit Award, English's reputation has been nothing but on the rise and her stunning SS13 show during London Fashion Week was one of the most anticipated of the season.

By Josh Walker (@josh_walker_)

Images from Oyster Mag

NEWS| Phoebe English 'i-N Conversation' with i-D

Vauxhall Fashion Scout alum Phoebe English has recently been featured as part of i-D magazine's 'i-N Conversation' series. Speaking with business partner Rose Easton, the Autumn/ Winter '12 Merit Award winner unraveled the important- but often overlooked- dynamic between a designer, and their partners, highlighting how their working-relationship is integral building 'Phoebe English' the label.

Tracing the roots of their partnership from a dress of acrylic hair to exploring the medium of fashion film, English and Easton tell-all to i-D here.

Image Source: i-D

PhoebeEnglish.com (@PhoebeEnglish)

NEWS| Phoebe English in Trendland

Phoebe English's interview with Dossier Journal has been featured on Trendland. The conversation, in which the designer discusses her experience with VFS, her SS13 collection, influences and signature style, is a real insight into her feelings and thoughts. Since her graduation from Central Saint Martins in 2011, English has made herself known to the fashion industry, featuring in publications among the likes of i-D, Vogue and Dazed and Confused.

On their website, Trendland call the designer "the new it Brit," and explain how "English, who designs alongside creative director Rose Easton, clearly understands the visual over stimulation of the times, adding subtle theatricality to her clean looks through fabrication and texture." A go-to source for many in the industry, Trendland has gained a significant following and reputation internationally for their discovery of fresh, stand-out talent.

By Josh Walker (@josh_walker_)

Editorial shoot from Trendland

NEWS| Vauxhall Fashion Scout, the Home of New Talent; scouting the next generation of British Design Talent

Merit Award Winner Heohwan Simulation

Raffaele Ascione

Zeynep Tosun 

Manuela Dack

Leutton Postle Backstage

Leutton Postle 

Sabina Bryntesson

Sabina Bryntesson

Myrza De Muynck

One's To Watch Designer Hellen Van Rees

Phoebe English

Phoebe English

Supporting, nurturing and showcasing new talent is what Vauxhall Fashion Scout is all about; bridging the gap between mainstream media, press and industry and emerging, new and even graduating designers. 

Hand-selecting designers each season, and scouting the Graduate Showcases from across the country make VFS a personal and intimate showcase to be a part of. With help from esteemed members of the industry- including Vogue.co.uk, Browns, Avenue 32, Not Just A Label, Selfridges and POP magazine, S/S13 saw an amazing array of new talent for our off-schedule London Fashion Fashion Week. 

The Vauxhall Fashion Scout One's To Watch showcase is always.. well, one to watch, however this season Hellen Van Rees, Charlotte Simpson, Hana Cha and Ming Pin Tien brought a series of collections that produced a wave of appreciation for the sheer magnetism of new talent in the industry. 

Last season's Merit Award Winner Phoebe English brought in the crowds, including Front Row Guests from The Shop Bluebird, Dover Street Market, CSM & Susie Bubble- who also visited One's To Watch designer from last season, Myzra De Muynck, backstage and Manuela Dack who has been featured many a time on Stylebubble.com. 

Long standing Vauxhall Fashion Scout designers Leutton Postle are often featured in mainstream media and press, impressing the industry with their attention to detail and use of bright and vivid colours to produce an eye-catching, slight tongue-in-cheek but completely wearable collection; a stark contrast to this season's Merit Award winner Heohwan Simulation- who's sharp lines and clean aesthetic are some-what of a calling card for his unparalleled blend of menswear tailoring and femininity in his collections.  

This season, however, saw the celebration of the Graduate designer. With Kingston University showing their MA collection as part of of our off-schedule line up, and debut catwalk collections from Sabine Bryntesson and Zeynup Tosun- the industry can't get enough of these fresh and young-minded designers. Having received attention from Vogue, Sabina Bryntesson's collection did not disappoint, with Zeynup Tosun being highlighted by Susie Bubble as a highlight for the season.

Vauxhall Fashion Scout, unparalleled for the appreciation and support of next generation designers, showcase every season with a new line-up of hand-picked emerging designers. For more information on VFS and the designers themselves, head to the new-look website- www.vauxhallfashionscout.com