ANNOUNCEMENT| Fashion Scout Selection Panel AW14

The Fashion Scout Selection Panel for AW14 will take place on Wednesday evening at Beach Blanket Babylon, Shoreditch. With nearly 200 international designer applying, our reputation as the leading platform for global design talent in the industry is growing from strength to strength!

Key industry experts will be joining us to choose the designers for Fashion Scout's AW14 showcase at London and Paris Fashion Week, which will be taking place on February 14-18 2013 and February 27-March 4. In addition, the panel will be making the tricky decision of who receives the coveted Merit Award and who will take place in our prestigious One's To Watch showcase.

We are thrilled to announce exclusively, the Selection Panel for Fashion Scout AW14: 

Martyn Roberts - Fashion Scout Director and Co-Founder

Jessica Bumpus - Fashion Features Editor at Vogue.com

Hilary Alexander - Graduate Fashion Week trustee and legendary journalist

Debra Hepburn - Founding Member of Young British Designers

Georgia Hardinge - Designer & former Fashion Scout Merit Award Winner

Rebekah Roy - Renowned stylist

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for exclusive behind the scenes snaps of the Selection Panel event - the countdown to Fashion Scout AW14 has officially begun!

By Cass Gowing, Editor @CassGowing

DAY ONE| Fashion Scout Kiev SS14

Fashion Scout have landed in Kiev! It's Day One of the SS14 showcase for Fashion Scout at Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days. Showcasing today as part of Mercedes-Benz and Fashion Scout Kiev is Katerina Kvit, Nikolay Legenda and A-Z at 5pm and Comme Des Fuck Down at 8pm (GMT+2). In addition, Fashion Scuot Director Martyn Roberts will be running at mentoring session at 5pm. 

Make sure you stay up to date will all events via Twitter, @FashionScout #FashionScoutKiev and Instagram.

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.

PARIS SHOWROOMS| Dioralop SS14

The Croatian duo behind Dioralop Andreja Bistricic and Maja Merlic; met in Zagreb, which lead to the launch of their label.

Andreja’s Central Saint Martin’s textile degree and Maja’s architecture degree from Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Zagreb have combined to create an up-and-coming label that has been awarded The Best Yound Designers Elle Croatia award.

Paris Showrooms will be presented with a brand that showcases print and textile manipulation and ambiguous fabrics, proportions and silhouettes.

by Emily Black, @emilyy_black
Photos from Dioralop AW13 lookbook

PARIS SHOWROOMS| Apu Jan SS14

Apu Jan’s oversized knit pieces and draped fabrics made an impression at SS14 LFW. The Taiwanese designer is hoping to do the same this PFW as he is presenting ‘Signals’ again at Paris Showrooms.

The manner in which signals affect our daily lives directly as well as subconsciously is the inspiration behind this collection.

Expect crocheted hats, extreme hat hair, and a unique aesthetic of interesting knitwear. 

by Emily Black, @emilyy_black

Photos by Jean-Luc Brouard @jeanlucbrouard

PARIS SHOWROOMS| Anna October SS14

Anna October’s family name was given to her Grandfather after he served in The Great October Revolution in 1917. Growing up in the industrial city of Zaporozie with a strict military family, it was near enough impossible to achieve her teenage dream of becoming a fashion designer. Anna escaped to Odessa at the age of seventeen as she moved to study fine art at Art College Named After M.B.Grekov. 

Just one year after moving to Odessa Anna launched her womenswear label so she could spread the world with her ideas. This seasons Paris Showrooms will help the young designer to do so.

Anna October will be showing her skilled tailoring through her light and sparking garments with a touch of irony. Her timelessly elegant feminine silhouettes will no doubt be a hit at PFW SS14 . Look out for the 'OTRADNOE' collection at Paris Showrooms. 

By Emily Black, @emilyy_black
Photos from Anna October AW13 lookbook

PARIS SHOWROOMS| Alessia Prekop SS14

Born and raised in Italy and studying in Florence- Alessia Prekop has been exposed to art and architecture from an early age. Her literature studies and her surroundings have heavily influenced her work.

After graduating with a literature degree, Alessia decided that she wanted to be in the fashion industry and studied fashion design at the Instituo Maragoni in London. Her artistic flair was then able to flourish and London allowed her to cultivate new ideas.

This PFW Alessia will be showcasing her work at Paris Showrooms. Expect a dark and sullen adventure with a “touch of light” peeking through the melancholia. 

by Emily Black, @emilyy_black
Photography by Tracy Asslanian @TracyAsslanian

PARIS SHOWROOMS| Aika Alemi SS14

SS14 Paris Showrooms will showcase twenty designers to a large amount of buyers, press and bloggers. This season Aika Jaxybai will show her latest collection from her label 'Aika Alemi'. The Kazakhstan based designer has made a name of herself in her country and has been labeled as the country's "first designer with the talent and tenacity to make it big". Aika purchased her first sewing machine just two years ago and previous to that played the role of high-flyer with many executive roles for multinational companies around the world. 

Her past does show that she has a passion for the arts as she has also worked as a film producer and held many other artistic roles. Such diverse experience must be helping her fashion career as she has proved to be quite a hit with many buyers. 

At Paris Showrooms Aika will be presenting her 'White Plenty' collection. Complex reversible patchwork strips, quiltep texture and nonchalant pieces in shades of white is what to expect from this designer this PFW.

By Emily Black, @emilyy_black
Photos from Aika Alemi SS14 lookbook