Days 4&5 - Coming Up!

Although the weekend might be over, Fashion Scout are still showcasing designers and presenting catwalk shows. To make sure you’re fully clued up on all that’s going on, we have put together a comprehensive run down on each scheduled event.

L’Amitie

After graduating from University of the Arts London in 2014, designer Amitie Zeng founded her brand ‘L’Amitie’. Tailored towards what Amitie describes as the L’Amitié Women, “hard working, and enterprising". Zeng hopes every female can "feel extremely confident, independent and sexy" when wearing her collection. The main aesthetic vision for this designer is chic classic lines and use of current and forecasted colours and has already made a big impression in China.

CJ Yao

Shanghai designer CJ was awarded the 1^st Runner up of Asian Young Fashion Designers Contest in Singapore, and debuted in China during 2014. CJ Yao is a womenswear designer who regularly presents heavily layered designs and tailored shapes.

Marko Mitanovski

As seen in Dazed, Vogue.co.uk, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Grazia, L'Officiel, Cosmopolitan, Vision, Time Out, Q Magazine, and Hello! among others publications, Marko Mitanovski has partnered with Fashion Scout previously in both 2009 and AW15. Also collaborating with a jewellery designer and sculptor for his most recent showcase, his designs are extremely dramatic and notably gothic in style.

Belgrade Fashion Week

This was the first fashion week in Eastern Europe to promote Belgrade Design & Creativity. Contributing designers consist of Ana Ljubinkovic, Budislava: George Styler, Ivana Pilja, and Vlada Savic. They form the non-profit BFW collective, which has the end goal to develop and improve their local fashion sector. From graphic geometric designs to highly conceptual couture, the BFW encompasses it all.

FAD

An organisation, which looks to help support and promote the partnership of young people and fashion, it's described as “an undeniable springboard” by Vogue.com.

This season they have chosen twenty young finalists to exhibit in their SS16 show for Fashion Scout, which is inspired by Korea and Japan. 

Fashion Scout for London Fashion week runs from 18th - 22nd September 2015 at the Freemasons' Hall, WC2B 5AZ.

Remember to follow our Instagram, and Twitter to keep up with the shows as they happen, and use the hashtag #FashionScout


Writer: Paris Richardson 
Editor: Fiona Nicholls 

Recharge at Fashion Scout with The Body Shop's Spa In The City

Three days into Fashion Week and running from show to show, living off a diet of canapés and prosecco is probably starting to take its toll? Fear not! The Body Shop are stationed in the Exhibition Space at Fashion Scout's Freemason's Hall to aid recharge between shows. Guests can choose to pamper themselves with a choice of massage, manicure, makeover or facial or indulge in the full set for the ultimate #SpaInTheCity experience.

The Fashion Scout blog team were lucky enough to attend Spa In The City for a pampering session ahead of a busy day covering shows.

The first spa experience is the massage room, treating weary guests to a revitalising 15 minute treatment. Guests receive a choice of aromatherapy oils: Lemongrass (to stimulate the senses ahead of a busy day of shows), or Lavender (to unwind before heading home in the evening). The seated Chinese accupressure massage works out tension built up from hours of sitting crammed on benches and craning your neck to get the best view of the latest designs. Featuring oils from The Body Shop's Spa Of The World range guests feel recharged and relaxed, ready to continue their day.

The Body Shop nail station offers manicures to compliment show goers outfits. Beginning with a hand massage, guests are then treated to a shape and polish from an array of beautiful colours, ranging from classic tones to seasonal colours. Using natural products, which are perfect for sensitive skin, nails are painted using polishes from the Colour Crush collection. The Body Shop recommends colours to compliment AW15's autumnal palette, such as 'Crazy For Blue 610',  'The Body Shop Green 510' and 'Gorgeous Grey 720'. Hands made dry from the cold September weather are then moisturised using The Body Shop's hand cream and cuticle oil duos in a choice of Wild Rose or Almond.

Long days and dehydration taken a toll on your skin? The Body Shop's skincare experts are on hand to provide an antidote with a personal skincare consultation demonstrating the best products for your face. Their simple steps will help you to perfect your cleansing routine, whilst also providing an on-the-go quick fix to reawaken skin between shows. The Body Shop's Nutriganics range is on hand do reanimate dull skin. Their best selling Drops of Youth Concentrate, provides innovative skin cell technology, stimulating the skin's natural plumpness. With at least 98% organic ingredients, the Drops of Youth Concentrate sells one unit every 20 seconds, so if you want to get your hands on one you can nip around the corner to The Body Shop's Covent Garden store. Suitable for all skin types and enriched with Wheatgerm Oil, the Vitamin E Aqua Boost Sorbet can be applied to keep skin moisturised throughout the day. With spherical aqua particles that burst naturally over time, it'll keep your skin looking beautifully hydrated for up to 24 hours.

To add the finishing touches to your Fashion Week look, The Body Shop's make up artists are on hand to beautify guests with this seasons beauty trends. Debuting their Fresh Nude Foundation that will be available in stores in October. With a light yet hydrating feel and medium coverage, it's the perfect foundation for the colder weather and suitable for all skin types. To compliment this season's autumnal tones, The Body Shop recommends using their Shimmer Cube in 'Warm', and Shimmer Waves No.4 for a rosy glow. 


Living up to it's name, The Body Shop 'Spa In The City' experience makes for an excellent escape away from the hustle and bustle of London Fashion Week with Fashion Scout. The quiet enclaves in the Exhibition Space paired with the indulgent experience provide a moment of serenity to reflect upon the day's events. With a multitude of great products to try and with The Body Shop's experts on hand, guests are sure to be reminded of old favourites and introduced to a host of new must have products.


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Words: Elizabeth Renfrey @erenfrey
Images: Stefania Porcu (@StefaniaPorcuPhoto)
Editor: Fiona Nicholls (@fifinicholls)

Backstage at Fashion Scout: Day One

Exploring the upcoming hair and makeup trends for SS16, Fashion Scout headed backstage to the first shows of the day, Jamie Wei Huang, Angel Chen and Gyo Yuni Kimchoe. With a plethora of emerging beauty trends, beauty sponsors The Body Shop and Toni&Guy created innovative looks to compliment each of the designers' collections.

Jamie Wei Huang and Angel Chen showcased the standout hair trend for SS16, braids. Angel Chen's look kept hair back of the face and textured using label.m Sea Salt Spray, with models wearing intricate braids individually styled to flatter their faces natural contour. Strands of hair were undone to reflect the rebelliousness of the younger generation in the late 1960's USA. Continuing the braided trend, Jamie Wei Huang used two intertwined fishtail plaits created with messy textures for a natural look.

Gyo Yuni Kimchoe created a similarly natural tousled look with a rockabilly inspired twist using label.m Volume Mouse to construct a square quiff. The volumised front of the style lead into a sleek ponytail, emphasisng that updos are in for SS16.

Makeup looks appeared to showcase all or nothing, with Gyo Yuni Kimchoe and Angel Chen displaying bold, rebellious models opposing Jamie Wei Huang's raw, natural look.

Gyo Yuni Kimchoe used The Body Shop Honey Bronze to create a sunkissed base with the Shimmer Block in bronze highlighting the models' features. Eyebrows were filled in with dark mascara with contrasting red and green eyeshadow above the brow line to hint to Native American connotations. Angel Chen also displayed strong brows using transferrable barbed wire tattoos to create a defiant look. Over a matte bronze base, models were adorned with personal transferable tattoos and faux facial piercings, rejecting conformity.

Exhibiting a raw, youthful look, Jamie Wei Huang showcased the SS16 bare faced trend, with sunkissed models adorned with a base of The Body Shop Moisture it and Colour Crush eyeshadow in coconut. The model's flushed appearance was accentuated with a touch of blush to their cheeks.

With contrasting makeup trends and an exciting insight into SS16's updos, Fashion Scout can't wait to see what the talented teams at The Body Shop and label.m Toni&Guy create over the coming days.

Words: Elizabeth Renfrey (@erenfrey)
Images: Maja Jankowska (@babypolsky)
Editor: Fiona Nicholls (@fifinicholls)

FashionScoutAW15 Kicks Off!

Fashion Scout AW15 has Begun!

Fashion Scout is back! With innovative designers and fashion forward thinkers this looks to be our most exciting season to date.

Featuring Merit Award Winner James Kelly and Ones to Watch Angel Chen, J Moon, Kim Stevenson, Minju Kim, our exhibition designers AND emerging designer showcase we can't wait for the models to hit the catwalk.

A huge thank you before the madness kicks-off to our amazing sponsors: Toni & Guy, The Body Shop, Vita Coco, Propercorn, Fashion Monitor, Disorder Magazine, Snog and ProPress.

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The Body Shop x Fashion Scout London

The Body Shop are back for AW15 as Fashion Scout London Sponsors.

The Body Shop's cruelty-free, sustainable makeup will be used to create every catwalk look at Fashion Scout during London Fashion Week this February from the 20th - 24th February. Led by head make-up artist Lan Nguyen-Grealis, The Body Shop will continue to create beautiful make-up looks that have defined the shows of Fashion Scout designers over the past few seasons.

The Body Shop will also be returning to our exhibition space to offer complimentary makeovers, manicures and newly for AW15 skin care consultations for all guests at the event. Head over to the Tower Entrance for your Body Shop experience from the 20th - 23rd February.

Stay tuned to the Fashion Scout blog to be the first to discover the new seasons beauty trends direct from backstage.

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INTERVIEW| Lan Nguyen-Grealis, Head Make-Up Artist at The Body Shop

Nestled behind the show are those who create, enhance and essentially complete a work of art. Through the blistering heat of what we call the backstage we met a team of dedicated Body Shop artists who continue to create the faultless finishing touches to a collection. Today we met with Lan, head of makeup, to discuss the Merit Award Show. 

She spoke to us about key SS15 makeup trends, the looks for the show and the work behind the final look.

What are the looks based on for The Merit Award show today?

The looks for this season are based on military, camouflage, gardening - it's about being strong and bold, quite confident.

Can you explain the inspiration?

The designer's inspiration was quite strange, it was based on weeds and gardens- "this is what you wear when you're in the garden," camouflage. It has some sort of bearing with the war as well and what's happening around us. It's a whole military, anti-war combination. Colours, the meanings and all that texture.

What are the key looks for the show?

When we originally tested the makeup look, they had loads of ideas for camouflage makeup. We thought there was a bit too much 'anti-war' style, so to counter balance that we went for blocks on the eyes- keeping the look quite androgynous and quite military. The difference however is the different tones of colours, there's an emerald green, a dark metallic grey and a copper- three different versions that work really well with the collection.

What are the key trends you've noticed overall for the SS15 season?

For spring summer trends I've seen glosses and lots of beautiful skin with highlighting. It's not so much a makeup look that will trend, but more of a statement look. It's really nice to see that there's a bit more colour- your oranges, pastels, your earthy tones and the vibrant colours like hot pink. They've been quite fun looks, I think they've had quite young streak. All the looks are quite attainable and wearable. You can really work with them.

How important is it the work with the designer before the season starts - in terms of thought process, bouncing your idea off theirs etc.?

Our process starts weeks before the show, we reference our ideas and test the looks. I usually prepare a few different versions of what I think should work on a beauty level and we combine it together to what they want. Eventually the whole team on a test day decide on the final looks.

Be sure to check back for the Merit Award winner Gyo Yuni Kimchoe's catwalk report after their show today at 12.30 in The Gallery.

NEWS| Body Shop at Fashion Scout London

Back for another season with Fashion Scout, longtime make-up and manicure sponsors The Body Shop talk nude nails, strong brows and Instagram-ready skin as their go to beauty looks both on and off catwalk. Offering complimentary mini-makeovers and manicures to guests, Jasmin Keers from The Body Shop Newcastle and celebrity nail artist Glenis Baptiste use new-season Body Shop launches to offer a taste of upcoming catwalk looks.

Keers cites a contoured face and wash of blue or purple on eyelids as this season’s most referenced look, as well as a bold lip for added drama. In terms of beauty hangovers from AW14, strong brows are still going strong; ‘full brows will always be on trend,’ she tells us, while graphic eyeliner continues with a modern update. Perfectly winged herself, The Body Shop are well-placed to provide the tools, tips and tricks to a flawless liquid eye look.

New products being used include Instablur primer for both skin and eyes, creating a photo-perfect finish to your daily make-up, as well as the newly released Colour Crush range for lips, eyes and nails. Juicy brights are joined by sleek dark hues, taking you from season to season.

Nail artist Glenis Baptiste praises nail art’s love of ‘anything goes’, allowing her to choose a different Colour Crush shade for each nail to show off all the great colours out there. Nail transfers, dots, stripes and marbling prove nail art is still a strong trend, but nudes are experiencing a resurgence on the catwalk - especially at Fashion Scout SS15. Colour Crush nudes are more vibrant and suit a variety of skin tones, unlike in previous years.

Glenis believes that younger designers bring more flair to fashion, especially in terms of their inventive and experimental beauty looks. Talking about Fashion Scout as a platform for these emerging talents, Glenis believes Fashion Scout is an absolutely fantastic platform; ‘you can’t ask for anything more to launch your brand on, or get your name out there’.

Head to the Media Lounge at Fashion Scout for a complimentary mini-makeover and manicure!

By Isabella Silvers, Contributor, (@izzymks).

Photos by Anai Bharucha, (@anai014).

NEWS| The Body Shop Return As Sponsors To Fashion Scout SS15

We are thrilled to announce that The Body Shop are returning as sponsors for the Fashion Scout London SS15 season.

Led by head make up artist Lan Nguyen, The Body Shop are returning to continue creating the beautiful make-up looks for many of the Fashion Scout designers as they have for the past number of seasons. With The Body Shop hosting pop-up stalls and on-site makeovers in the past, we look forward to having them back with us this season.

Check back to the blog in between now and September, as well as during Fashion Week to keep up with what The Body Shop have lined up throughout the five days. 

In the meantime, see The Body Shop mash-up video from AW14 below!

Images by Jamike-Latif, (@JamikeLatif) and Oliver Savage, (@OliSav).

SPONSOR| The Body Shop Stand at Fashion Scout London AW14

   

As part of Body Shop sponsoring Fashion Scout this season, we were thrilled to have two make-up stands located in the Media Lounge for guests to engage with throughout the week. Make-up artists chatted with guests whilst they reviewed the popular products for the season and makeovers took place daily. We chatted with Head of PR, Zoe Cook for Body Shop earlier today who shared her thoughts on the success of Body Shop this season at Fashion Scout.

What’s The Body Shop stand all about?

The Body Shop stand is all about showcasing our fabulous make-up collection, which is used on the models backstage, and encouraging Fashion Scout guests to have a makeover by one of our store make-up artists and try the products for themselves. The reaction to the Colour Crush™ Eyes and Lips ranges has been amazing, as has the All-In-BB Creams and primers. Guests have been delighted with the colour intensity and pay-off and the results that can be achieved.

What’s it like it being back for another season?

Being back at Fashion Scout London is fantastic; it’s a partnership that celebrates and supports new talent - for The Body Shop that takes place backstage with a talented team of make-up artists headed up by Lan Nguyen-Grealis. It’s wonderful to see their creativity come to life and the stunning looks produced to complement the designers’ collections.

How has the response been?

The response to The Body Shop Make-up collection has been amazing. Guests have been bowled over by the looks that head make-up artist Lan Nguyen-Grealis and her team have created for the shows, as well as the makeovers that have been taking place by our stand. The latter has been hugely popular and extremely busy with queues over the first three days.

Interview by Joanna McCutcheon (@JoannaMcc_)
Images by Oliver Savage (@Olisav) and Hannah McGee (@HannahMcG3e) taken on the fashion forward LumixGM1, (@PanasonicUK)
Videos: youtube.com/TheBodyShopUK